Game for Anything - Cara Summers

Game for Anything, by Cara Summers was released in January 2003 and is number 71 of the Harlequin Blaze line. It's the first work by Ms. Summers I've had the pleasure of reading, and I found myself enjoying the book.

Tracker McBride had saved Sophie Wainwright's life a little over a year ago, and since that time she'd been left with dreams of his touch, his lips, their shared passion. Not a night had passed, not even when she'd been dating someone else, that she wasn't tormented by his presence. But that's all he was. A dream that filled her mind and her nights. But she's become tired of dreaming, she needs the real thing and when Tracker is once again assigned to watch her every move, Sophie decides enough is enough. She's not going to wait for him any longer.

He's the man she wants, and she's not going to take no for an answer.

Tracker isn't entirely happy with his new assignment. He wants Sophie, he knows that, but he's hired by her brother to look after her. He's long since decided that the woman he sees as a spoiled princess is well out of his league.

Except she's not spoiled. She's become a canny business woman running her own shop. She knows what she wants in her life, who she wants and how. And it's time to act on those desires instead of sitting back and hoping that the dreams will end.

Set against the background of stolen goods, dead bodies and the risk of Sophie ending up dead, this story and the romance that burns through it, threatens to sizzle off the pages. Tracker is a strong, alpha male who balances between asshole and knight protector. Sophie is anything but a spoiled princess. Just because she comes from a rich background it doesn't mean that she's used to getting her own way because of her money.

Ms. Summers has written a delicious, quick read that I enjoyed a great deal. Sophie is a lovely character, who has been through hell. The way Tracker and Sophie met, with him rescuing her a year before the story begins, sets the scene beautifully. The characters are meant for each other, well matched in many ways. They aren't perfect, and they have issues they work out, for the most part, through the story. Though Ms. Summers hasn't made my must read list, I enjoyed the story and wouldn't turn down another chance to read her work again.

ISBN 0-373-79075-9