Heat of the Moment - Softcover

Jessica Hall; Aka S. L. Viehl; Aka Lynn Viehl; Aka Gena Hale

3.9

157 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451411587 ISBN 13: 9780451411587

Publisher: Onyx, 2004

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A serial arsonist has struck again, torching a New Orleans bar and killing fifteen people, including the wife of a Mafia crime boss. His next victim is a beautiful socialite set aflame in her Mercedes. Detective Teresa Vincent is assigned the case and she teams up with Fire Marshall Cort Gamble, the sexy creole who is tops on the list of New Orleans most eligible bachelors. Cort is rumored to have mob connections, but it's his connection to Terri that's too hot to forget-a past as sultry as a Louisiana summer night. Now they're shadowing a killer with an unfathomable motive of revenge: to finish off every woman Cort ever loved in a trial by fire.

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Hall returns to New Orleans with a great story involving Cort Gamble, brother of policeman J. D. from Into the Fire [BKL F 15 04]. J. D.'s partner, Terri Vincent, is forced to work with fire marshal Cort, the last man she wants to see after a night of passion both would like to, but cannot, forget. But there's no escape once Terri is transferred to the organized crime unit, where the unit commander wants to use her to nail Cort for suspected Mob activity. Soon they're dealing with a vicious serial arsonist who deliberately targets women, and not only is Terri tapped to play Cort's girlfriend as bait, worse yet, she has to look like a society debutante. Hall's latest is an irresistible, if dark and violent, story of tormented protagonists from opposite sides of the tracks with an overwhelming sexual attraction, an action romance featuring a wildly implausible but thrilling sex scene involving a speeding motorcycle. Hall leaves readers wanting more as fast as she can write them. Mary K. Chelton
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Review:

Jessica Hall has something magical -- Linda Howard

Soul-deep...and wild. -- Catherine Coulter

Steamy. -- Lisa Jackson

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