"Will meeting face-to-face ruin their phone sex relationship?"

Entrepreneur Kirby Prescott is relatively content with her life the way it is. She owns a cosmetics company, catering to a special niche market. Her twin sister Kristin is happy and about to be married. Now, if Kristin would just stop fixing her up with men who don't suit. Especially men who are shorter than Kirby (at least when she's in her high heels) and hair-challenged. Besides, Kirby has a very satisfactory phone sex relationship with a salesman who lives on the East Coast. When Jack mentions an upcoming business trip to San Francisco, she's afraid to meet him in person. What if it ruins their phone relationship?

VP of Sales Jack Taylor has wanted Kirby from the first time he heard her voice on the phone. After one year of a customer/supplier relationship, they foray into the world of phone sex. Jack has laid plans in motion to win over Kirby. He knows Kirby's soul through their afterglow conversations. From everything's he's gleaned, Jack knows that Kirby needs a forceful man whom she can't walk all over all of the time. Will Kirby be his at the end of the weekend as he's planned?

The sexual tension between Jack and Kirby is as strong in person as over the phone. Jack's appearance is not quite what Kirby expects, but he's all man. They get in a battle for control of their sexual activities, with both acceding a little. When Kirby learns that Jack has planned out their future, she fears that he will take over her life as a former lover did. Will Kirby learn to look beneath the surface to see Jack's heart? Will all strong men be forever branded as manipulators in her mind? Will Jack learn from his mistakes and finally win over Kirby?

Ms. Haynes first introduced Kirby and her twin sister in her story "Double the Pleasure" in BUSINESS OR PLEASURE...OR BOTH? We learn more about Kirby's past and the reasons for her fierce insistence on control. SKIN DEEP is a wonderful novel that has a less than picture-perfect hero whom I'd go for any day. Try this one -- you won't be sorry.

Sensuality: Explicit sex, phone sex, public sex, bondage; sexually explicit scenes: 9.

Reviewed by Denise Powers
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted September 21, 2003

Summary

You met Kirby, Kristin Prescottıs ball-busting twin, in Double the Pleasure, part of the anthology Business or Pleasure...Or Both, with Rae Morgan. Now Kirby has her own story to tell.

Kirby Prescott is a woman in control of her life. She owns a thriving company, has her pick of gorgeous escorts, and no one to tell her what to do. And she has Jack Taylor, a man sheıs never met but who knows her more intimately than almost anyone. Only a phone call away, Jack feeds her deepest desires with hot phone sex. Afterwards, all she has to do is hang up. No fuss, no mess, no entanglements. Just the way Kirby likes it.

Jack Taylor isnıt staying long distance anymore. He knows what he wants, and he plans on showing Kirby that having him in her life doesnıt mean giving up her independence. Turning a simple business trip into a sensual journey, Jack is determined to win her over, body and soul.

Will taking the long distance out of their relationship ruin the perfect thing they have going?