"Leto burns the pages in the sizzler in peak form"

Julie Elizabeth Leto loves with what she writes. You can feel her devotion to the genre in every book but she loves to push the envelope. In a market where female leads often run from their sexuality, Leto embraces it giving you 'good girls do' with panache. Jillian Hennessy is a good girl. She saved herself for marriage, only to have the louse not value her gift. Since, then she has ruthlessly suppressed her wants and desires, ignored the long lonely nights, giving all to her job as a Private Investigator, with the desire to one day assuming control of The Hennessy Group, her uncle's firm. Her whole life was geared to becoming good enough to take over the reins of the Hennessy Group, and as her uncle tended to slide in his elder years, she spent time covering for his small mistakes.

But suddenly, Jillian's brother Patrick retired from the police force and joined the Hennessy group with intention of assuming control. Her last chance to prove she deserved what she has worked for her whole life comes with the stakeout of Stanley Davison. Davison sued the Tampa Police Department for millions of dollars when he received injuries during a police chase. Nearly everyone involved believed he was faking his injuries but no one could prove it. Jillian lands the assignment to stake out Davison's home with all sorts of high tech snooping gear.

As she is moving in next door, she spies her drop-dead gorgeous neighbor, a distraction she can live without. However,after a little mistake, she can hardly ignore the man. Instead of wiring Davison house with hidden cameras, the tech people wire Cade Lawrence's house. Giving in to more than a little curiosity, JIllian watches Cade move about his house.

Only, Cade has been watching the sexy redhead next door. So when a basket of lemons and a box of sugar cubes are left on his door by mistake (so he thinks), he is more than delighted to play delivery boy. In quick time, they are shooting sparks off each other. Jillian is tempted into an affair with him, but soon begins to suspect her sexy neighbor is more than he pretends after observing him observing Stanley with spy gear!

However, as Jillian falls hard for Cade, she feels a wee bit guilty about spying on him, so she thinks turnabout is fair play and give him a chance to live out his fantasies as well. Leto turns up the steam and does not pull back from that envelope.

In a series of sexy, spy vs. spy, Leto leads you on a merry chase of fantasies, giving into secret desires and finding what is most important in life. This is her best book to date, her most daring, her most delightful!

It is great to see talent coming full bloom--and that is what Julie Elizabeth Leto is doing. She is without doubt one of the strongest writers in the Harlequin Blaze series. I used to read these regularly, but got away from them because good writers have moved on and newer writers were just not thrilling me. Then something made me pick up one of Leto's first books and WOW was I impressed. She is a strong writer, full of quirky wit, sizzling hot when it comes to her sexy scenes, but she never fails to understand romance is the foundation. Her characters are so vivid they leap off the pages, full flesh and blood but I think she reaches perfection with JUST WATCH ME.

Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted September 8, 2003

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Summary

Jillian Hennessy is supposed to be watching a man suspected of insurance fraud. But when wires get crossed and she ends up watching Cade Lawrence, a sexy undercover cop on a similar assignment, the watching soon turns to wanting...and more!