"Julie shines bright in this sexy romp!"

In LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, author Julie Elizabeth Leto has the chance to use both the Bad Girl and Good Girl as the focus of stories. Twins, they are raised by their grandmother, an overly repressive woman determined to see that Rory and Micki not follow in their mother's footsteps. Mama was the "bad girl" of the small Southern town; hurt by this shame, strong-willed Nanna is determined to make sure her granddaughters remain "nice" girls. As often happens, the harder you try to prevent something, the more you drive that person to rebel, and that is what happens to Rory Carmichael's twin sister, Micki. She ran away from home when they were fifteen, leaving Rory to be the "good girl". Rory loves her grandmother, and willingly stepped into the "good girl" mold to please her, but she is twenty- five now and she wants to have so fun in life. Rory knows cutting loose from the nice girl image in the small town would be impossible, so she takes a stand and moves to the big city where she can be a little wild without poor Nanna having a heart attack. Rory might be out of sight, but not out of mind as Nanna is still trying to control her life. She arranges for Rory to get a new apartment with the son of her doctor, thinking this will keep her in a safe spot. Only, Nanna had not locked eyes with Dr. Alec Manning!

Never been one to stand back from the invitation in a woman's eye, Alec is a to-die-for hunk. However, having lost his job because of an indiscretion with his Dean's wife, he has taken a vow of celibacy to prove to himself there is more to life than one woman after another. He did not count on Rory turning up to live under his roof. To kick off her new life, Rory tore two pages from a book called Sexcapades: Secret Games for Wild Adventures for Uninhibited Lovers. The book is housed where she gets her new job and it is 1001 exciting ideas to jazz up a steamy romance. Created so you cannot tell what the fantasies are beforehand, they are sealed in plastic and you're instructed to open them only when you are ready to put them to use. Rory's were called STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT and SLIPPERY WHEN WET. Determined to kick loose from that nice girl image, she cannot imagine a better target on which to hone her feminine wiles than her new sexy landlord. Alec's vow is suddenly having a hard time standing up to the breathy sighs, tight jeans and come-hither looks of sexy Rory.

Julie sets up the good girl/bad girl flip of the coin in a brilliant study of twins - women who are the same outside, but are polar opposites in lifestyles.

I don't think there is a writer anywhere better than Julie Elizabeth Leto at touching the cord of women long told that good girls don't, but knowing secretly in their hearts and fantasy THEY DO!! She gives the reader an empowering okay to indulge in being the aggressor - not that the males she creates are wimps, quite the contrary - but Julie's newly liberated females push the envelope. As you might've experienced, often the envelope gives paper- cuts, but what the heck...they heal quickly! It's the challenge and the risk, that skating on the razor's edge, which makes her books so sexy and distances her from the pack of other Harlequin writers. She creates very down- to-earth females, flesh & blood women who jump off the pages and introduce themselves. Whether the bad girl who is sooooo GOOD or the nice girl cutting loose, Julie believes in GIRL POWER TO THE MAX!

Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted August 10, 2003

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Summary

An innocent looking for adventure.

A bad boy trying to change his image.

And a book of sensual invitations that will make them forget everything but each other ...

Rory Carmichael is finally free! Free from her suffocating small town, free to experience what the world has to offer...and free to experiment with all the sensual fantasies that have been teasing her, tempting her, tormenting her, at night.

And when she discovers 'Sexcapades,' a book of naughty but very, very nice scenarios created for lovers, she realizes she has exactly what she needs to turn all those fantasies into reality. Especially since her new landlord, sexy Alec Manning, looks like he would be very nice to be naughty with...