Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: A Little Blackmail by Helen Conrad

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 14 comments

On tour with Prism Book Tours

Welcome to my tour stop for the
A Little Blackmail
Destiny Bay Romances: Sweet Editions
by Helen Conrad

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A Little Blackmail

Destiny Bay Romances - Forever Yours

(Sweet Edition #2)

by Helen Conrad
Adult Romance
Paperback & Ebook, 172 pages
March 28th 2014 by Doorknock Publishing

Sometimes you have to break the rules to right a wrong.

Janet Cardona is usually a by-the-book good girl–but when Matt Carrington won't give her cat back, she sees red. Rules mean nothing when there's an animal to be saved. So when she's caught in a burglary and blackmailed for it, she finds she can't refuse. Matt only needs her to pretend to be his wife for a day or two so that he can run a scam he's involved in. But once the pretense gets going, he begins to yearn for the real thing. Now Janet has to decide if she can let herself fall for a con man.

Recipes for Crab Open-faced Sandwiches and Basic Asian Soup included.

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My Review

A Little Blackmail starts off with Janet getting herself into quite a predicament when Matt finds her in his room late one night trying to steal back her cat. The cat Matt picked up from a shelter not realizing that it already had an owner. Matt strikes a deal with Janet to have her play as his wife while he cons Mavis into thinking he's her nephew. Thus follows two days where both characters attempt to play their roles for some purpose that only Matt knows.

The whole scenario didn't quite work for me on this one because rationally it just felt unrealistic that something like this would happen and that the characters, Janet and Matt, would act as they did. I wanted Matt to be a little more knowledgeable for the role he was playing and Janet not to be constantly almost ruining things. There is also immediate and undeniable attraction between the two characters and pretty much insta-love. However, if you can just accept the story as is, then it is rather humorous in parts, serious in some, and sweet in others.

I liked how the couple from the first book in the series, Reid and Jenny, are mingled in this story a little and we get to read about a big event of theirs. Matt was also a fun male protagonist with all the usual charming personality (when he wanted to be charming) and good looks. There was definitely plenty of romantic tension between him and Janet.

If you enjoy Adult Romance and are looking for something quick and light, then you may want to give A Little Blackmail a try.
Content: There is some mild swearing and plenty of innuendo.
Source: From the author, which did not affect my review in any way.

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About the Author

Helen Conrad is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than 90 romances (over 15 million copies sold) published under various pseudonyms with Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, and others. She is currently revamping and rewriting much of her backlist—mainly into the Destiny Bay Romances Series. The first six, the Forever Yours Series, are being rewritten as Sweet Editions.

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A Little About the Destiny Bay Romances: Sweet Editions

From Author Helen Conrad

"The Destiny Bay Romances take place in the sort of beach town I've always loved--and now I live in one! But writing about beach towns came first and this series is centered on the rich, influential Carrington family living along the California Coast, and in Hawaii. These are good-looking, fast-driving, hard-hitting men and women whose impulses lead them into trouble every time--and inevitably to fall in love.

The original series includes language and love scenes that aren't, for the most part, especially harsh and explicit--but some of my readers from my years writing sweets for Harlequin as Raye Morgan have asked if we couldn't have sweet and clean versions--and I thought--what a good idea!

These are basically the same stories...but with the conflicts softened a bit, the language cleaned up, and no explicit love scenes. There are still a few adult situations, but they're muted. Consider these the PG versions.

I hope you enjoy them!"

Tour-Wide Giveaway

- US Grand Prize: $20 Amazon gift card and paperbacks of Run Run Runaway, A Little Blackmail, and Moving Too Fast
- INT Grand Prize: $20 Amazon gift card and ebooks of Run Run Runaway, A Little Blackmail, and Moving Too Fast

- 2 sets of ebooks of Run Run Runaway, A Little Blackmail, and Moving Too Fast (INT)

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Run Run Runaway

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May 13

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Christy's Cozy Corners

Kelly P's Blog
My Ereader and Me

May 14

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