Then He Kissed Me (Three Kisses Series #2)

by Christie Ridgway

Overview

The three Baci sisters are on a mission to save the family winery by transforming it into a wedding destination.

When Stevie Baci playfully names her own side business Napa Princess Limousine, she never dreamed she'd be driving a real prince around Napa Valley. Jacques Parini, aka "Jack", is looking to expand his family's wine interests. But after kissing Stevie, he finds this California girl in a black chauffeur's hat does more than drive him crazy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101476888
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Series:	Three Kisses Series , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	831,953
File size:	440 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christie Ridgway has never lived east of the Pacific Ocean, north of San Francisco, or south of San Diego. To put it simply, she's a California native who loves to travel but is happy to make the Golden State her home. She began her writing career in fifth grade when she penned a volume of love stories featuring herself and a teen idol who will probably be thrilled to remain nameless. Later, though, after marrying her college sweetheart, Christie again took up writing romances, this time with imaginary heroes and heroines. In a house full of males one terrific husband, two school-age sons, a yellow dog, and tankfuls of fish, reptiles, and amphibians Christie makes her own place (and peace) writing the kinds of stories she loves best.

Editorial Reviews

This character- and plot-heavy sequel to June 2010's Crush on You delivers a very sexy hero, a frustratingly stubborn heroine who doth protest way too much, and a messy tangle of voices and story threads. Tomboy Stephania "Stevie" Baci avoids responsibility for the family vineyard–cum–wedding destination until she is forced by circumstance to coordinate the nuptials of her ex-fiancé and his new flame, a bona fide princess. Luckily, the bride's princely, very alpha male brother, Jacques "Jack" Parini, helps Stevie save face by posing as her new fiancé. Abundant plot elements add depth but muddle the story arc, and the multicharacter head-hopping detracts from the hero and heroine. While the protagonists' challenging, determined venture into love and lust is touching, stiff prose and pronoun confusion keep this romance flatly earthbound. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

When Stevie (Stephania) Baci's ex-fiancé and his royal bride-to-be decide to have their wedding at Tanti Baci, the family winery and newly launched wedding destination, and she ends up in charge of the event, she doesn't think things could get much worse. But when the bride's notorious, fast-living brother, in town with the express purpose of keeping Stevie from sabotaging his little sister's big day, averts a social disaster by announcing his engagement to a stunned Stevie, she realizes just how wrong she can be. VERDICT A sassy tomboy heroine with her own limousine company and a footloose playboy hero in search of a life set the pages aflame with their sexy antics and outspoken banter in this bubbly, easy-going sparkler that nails its Napa-in-January setting and touchingly continues the "Three Kisses" trilogy. Ridgway (Crush on You) lives in California.

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