Read 50 books in 2009.

Beauty’s Punishment is the continuation of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice’s erotic retelling of the popular fairy tale.

Lieutenant Colonel Chad Cassavetes has just been promoted…to the rank of single father. With his two daughters in tow, the daredevil fighter pilot is trading the open skies for the dusty plains of Oklahoma. But when his trailer breaks down, Chad doesn’t expect to be rescued by an angel in pink cowboy boots.

With her riot of red curls and roots deep in Okie soil, Kelbie Montgomery isn’t your ordinary savior. She’s also a single mom who’s sworn off military men. Until Chad starts changing her mind…

Falling for the feet-on-the-ground widow is risky business for a man whose heart has always been in the skies. But Kelbie and her daughter are tempting Chad and his two girls to combine forces. Because he has a new mission. To make Kelbie fall in love with a certain top-gun dad.

The third book in the trilogy. I really enjoyed these stories and hated to finish because they were good and I want more.

Three short holiday romances. Quick and fun reads.

There were a few “facts” that I thought were inaccurate, and most of the information in here was easily found via google searches, etc but otherwise not badly put together.

Smart

Great Sense Of Humor

Hardworking

Kind To Children And Stray Dogs…

Did she mention handsome? Mind-bogglingly sexy? Single mom Lisa Kincaid doesn’t want to be attracted to Kevin Decker. She knows the sexy, caring construction-company owner will always be there for her, and up until now friendship has suited her just fine.

But suddenly she isn’t looking at her husband’s former boss in the same way…and neither is a certain four-year-old Cupid.

For the past three years Kevin has felt responsible for Lisa. He knows the accident that left her a widow wasn’t his fault, but that doesn’t stop him from wanting to help. Except his feelings go beyond mere friendship. And her little boy thinks Kevin and his mom are perfect for each other.

Now, if Kevin can only get Lisa to believe it, too

Did you ever want to know just what waiters and waitresses go through on a daily basis? What they think of us, the customer? Then this is the book to read.

Loaned to me by my daughter, who is a waitress, its an interesting guide to what not to do when eating out. At the back of the book are tips such as “40 ways to be a good customer” and “50 ways to tell you’re working in a bad restaurant”. The author maintained a website called WaiterRant.com where he anonymously kept a blog on his insights as a waiter. Interesting reading.

I really enjoyed this. At first I was sure I knew who did it, but as the book went on, it changed a couple of times.

Three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a Nantucket native home from college for the summer. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women, two sisters and one friend, make their way to the sisters’ tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They’re all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, learned her husband was having an affair, and then discovered she’s pregnant; Brenda embarked on a passionate affair with an older student that got her fired from her prestigious job as a professor in New York; and her sister Vicki, mother to two small boys, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Soon Josh is part of the chaotic household, acting as babysitter, confidant, and, eventually, lover.

Josh Goldin’s happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms her baby. As each of them is forced to confront a reality that has become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are pushed to their breaking points.