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NOBODY BUT YOU - Francis Ray St. Martin's Press March 2009 |
SYNOPSIS: NASCAR star Cameron Dunlap is poised to win this year's Sprint Cup. But being a successful race-car driver comes with a price: His own life. Cameron knows that his profession puts him at high risk. Thankfully, his latest visit to the hospital left him intact. That is, until he bumps into Caitlin Lawrence...and is thrust back into his painful past.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE |4| Patricia Sykes-Brown
REVIEW:
Caitlin
Lawrence had it all—beautiful, sexy, a successful career as a journalist,
personality, and engagement to a handsome, sexy and powerful man. When Caitlin
met Cameron McBride, she did not know that he was a successful NASCAR racecar
driver. After experiencing the death of her father to a NASCAR accident and
living with the resultant bitterness of her mother, she was petrified of making
the same mistake by marrying Cam. On the day of their wedding, Caitlin runs
away, jilting Cam as he waits before friends and family at church. Years later,
a chance meeting in the emergency room of an LA hospital throws Caitlin and
Cameron into each other’s path. Are they destined to be together despite her
secret, his anger, pain, and embarrassment, or will they fall victim to the
McBride curse?
Cameron “Cam” McBride is an incredibly handsome, powerfully built, fearless hunk
who appears to have achieved it all--his life long dream of becoming a racecar
driver and marrying the love of his life. Despite being in a high-risk,
dangerous profession with the odds being stacked against him, his father and
brother falling victim to the McBride curse, his woman pulling a disappearing
act leaving him embarrassed, hurt, depressed and angry, Cam remains fearless.
For years, the former star fell into a slump and was the joke of the circuit,
just as African Americans had gained prominence in NASCAR. But as his career
makes resurgence, he has a shocking encounter with the woman who turned his
world upside down. When Cam sees Joshua, who is the spiting image of him with a
fearless persona and determination at an early age, he admirably does the right
thing. Cameron stakes his claim to a family he is determined to make his own as
the tenacity unique to the Grayson’s clan shines through.
Francis Ray is an expert at creating colorful, creative, and realistic love
stories featuring sweet spirited multidimensional characters that are prolific,
professional, but mysterious. The female characters are intelligent,
independent, yet with tender, compassionate and loving natures. The men are
strong, intelligent, powerful, and progressive with the ability to give love and
protection to their women and children. So much unconditional love—romantic and
erotic, platonic and familial--is threaded throughout
NOBODY BUT YOU.
NOBODY BUT YOU
is a fast-paced, sensual, but predictable romance that takes the reader from the
east coast to the west coast of the U. S. with NASCAR, which first site was in
Charlotte, North Carolina. The tremendous amount of enlightening research
enhances the artistry of this master craftsman as she weaves a tale that gives
you hope and faith. Reading this novel will inspire you to go and get the one
that got away because
NOBODY BUT YOU
can make amends and evoke that warm fuzzy feeling in spite of any adversity.
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 1st April 2009