The hero is irresistible, but the heroine still tries to resist. Classic Linda Howard. Very good plot line and historical backround. Takes place in present time, though. (Not a historical romance) The characters are pretty well written, and it's main characters sexual tension (especially the male) is so thick you could cut it with a steak knife. Good backround info, nice climax, steamy sex scenes, thrilling and life threatening situations, and a wonderful happy-ever-after ending. Very nice, even if it is rather predictable. Like I said, Classic Linda Howard.

The characters are complex and the plot was very interesting. Inventive sex scences:-) Not your average romance novel fare. The leads are exceptional. Their witty dialoge captures your mind as well as your heart. This book is perhaps one of the best investments I have made, in terms of both time and money. Excellent!

"Heartbreaker" is worth the the purchase. John Rafferty is a strong sensual character; good strong story line (a typical Linda Howard quality). Rafferty showed up in "Diamond Bay" briefly and his story is great!!!!

This is a reprint of "Heartbreaker", but since I never read it before, I got to enjoy it as well as the other stories. Good story and a great plot. The fine line between hate and love is what starts this story in the beginning, but then things change, and it goes beyond the line.

Since I'm an avid Linda Howard fan, I couldn't resist buying this book. Heartbreaker is a sequel to Midnight Rainbow and Diamond Bay, and was written in 1987. Diamond Bay fans may remember a rancher named John Rafferty who helps Rachel Jones and Kell Sabin fight off the bad guys. Heartbreaker is about Rafferty and a desperate socialite-turned-rancher who proves irresistable. While Heartbreaker lacks the sophistication of Linda Howard's later novels, it's good entertainment. The other two books in the anthology can't hold a candle to Ms. Howard's contribution, but the book is worth buying just to read Heartbreaker.

I agree with the reviewer who said read Lake of Dreams and ditch the rest. I've never been fond of Linda Lael Miller and her short story in this just reaffirmed that for me. Also, for the Lake of Dreams story, buy it in the Everlasting Love Collection. It's cheaper.

This is a short story that speaks louder than many full length novels. Beautiful fiction. Read and enjoy!

The others were good too, I suppose, yet the main lure of the book was Linda Howard. She again delivers a strong and moving performance with her "Lake of Dreams", though I would advise her fans who would purchase this book solely due to Linda's legacy to not procure the book as the story is the same one in "Everlasting Love". However, u definitely have to read one or the other, meaning "Everlasting Love" or "Heart's Desire: A Colle..". "Lake of Dreams" is an incredible story of a man and woman who have had 12 lifetimes together and still fail to make it in love. The story is about their last chance and how they learn that only through trust can their passionate and lustylove survive. Incredibly moving and touching. It's definitely a Linda keeper. The other authors are OK but are not yet in Linda's league and do not hold a candle to her incredible, yet touchingly romantic love story.

I am the premiere Barbara Delinsky fan - and she was fabulous as always. I enjoyed Tess Gerritsen's story; but I LOVED the Linda Howard story, Midnight Rainbow. Haven't read Howard in years, but have already put in an order for more! Read and enjoy! Great combination of stories.

Nothing new by Howard, it is Midnight rainbow, the story that first introduces Kell Sabin (later Diamond bay) to the readers. The original story is about an old agent who goes to his last mission to saving a pampered lady from the terrorists. The scene is jungle where everything is possible.

I liked especially the end of this story. It showas that when a lady has chosen her mate the guy simply walks after.

Story is about the head of a secret orgaization who take's a rare vacation and falls prey to a trap set by someone in his organization, he's wounded and found by a widow and her dog who heal him and try to help him, they fall in love but he feels that because of his position in the agency she would be a target, but love has a way of making the impossible happen.

I had already read Linda Howard's book, originally out in 1994, (they got me with the new title and I did not read the copyright dates carefully enough!) but I was pleasantly surprised to read Allison Leigh's book One More Change. She shows great promise and I look forward to other Turnabout Island books.

I liked both stories quite well! Howard's was better, i'm a big fan of hers! I've never read a allison leigh book before...she's not half bad!! I'm pretty skeptical about chosing new authors to try out, but her's was worth it. enjoy

I always read Linda Howard and Loving Evangeline was as great as expected. Not expected was the equally enjoyable story by Allison Leigh; now I'll be looking for more stories by her, too!

This is a great book! Earthy, sexy, and fast reading. Jaine Bright and three of her co-worker women friends sit around a restaurant table and wonder what each thinks would be "Mr. Perfect". They make up a list which includes personal traits and also physical traits! This is a joking matter to them and becomes known as "The List". Although they had wanted to keep it private, the list is inadvertenly leaked and the four women are suddenly thrown into the public spotlight including tv appearances. However, there is one twisted mind that seethes at these women making up such a list. This mind believes they must pay for the disgusting things found on this list. The list then no longer is a joke, but a deadly game with a murderer on their track. Quick witted talk between Jaine and her hunky next- door -neighbor cop, Sam, is delightful. Of course, Sam becomes involved in the case and Jaine drools over the day when they can hop into bed together!. A must read for all Linda Howard fans.

Jaine Bright is a very unlucky lady with love. With three broken engagements she has definitely given up men, except for her annoying neighbor, FBI Detective Sam Donovan, for whom she develops a very intense attraction.

Jaine's problems begin when she and three other friends create a list about the perfect guy and the attributes he should have; by mistake the list ends in the media hands and spreads all over the country getting the attention of a very peculiar killer.

I've read a lot of Mrs. Linda Howard books, and I must say that this one is pretty good, the plot is very intriguing and at first when you start reading you think you know all that's happening but at the end you just realize that you didn't have the slightest idea. I really liked the relationship between the main characters; at first all they wanted was sex, but then, they discover just how intense their feelings are.

If you are a frequent reader of LH's books you'll love this one, and if you're not, you'll love it as well.

I picked up Linda Howard's Mr. Perfect, because the title of the book caught my eye. Having been a fan of the mystery genre for quite some time now, I was looking for a new author to discover. Mr. Perfect combines the three elements that I like in a novel: comedy, suspense and a love interest. I had never read any of Ms. Howard's novels before but I intend to go back and discover this author. I liked the chemistry between Sam and Jaine. I particularly liked Sam's character: roughneck but very caring and sensitive. Jaine reminds me a lot of myself. I often have to put a quarter in the cuss can at work for swearing. As for the plot of the story I couldn't decide whether I wanted to read more about Sam and Jaine or find out who the killer was. I found myself taking Mr. Perfect to the bathroom, to the kitchen and even got caught reading it while I was supposed to be working. I couldn't put the book down. I hope to see more of Sam and Jaine in the future and look forward to reading more Linda Howard.

Former Viet Nam vet Dexter Whitlaw kept a book filled with secrets that he mails to his wife and daughter abandoned by him two decades ago. His daughter Karen, mourning the death of her mother, receives the package from her father, a person she prefers to forget exists. Rather than deal with him now, she buries the package amidst other possessions of her mother.

Meanwhile in New Orleans, someone kills Dexter and CIA agent Rick Medina who trailed after him. Police Detective Marc Chastain investigates the homicide of the John Doe street looking individual that he quickly learns is Dexter with a family living in Ohio. Upon learning that she is now officially an orphan, Karen goes to New Orleans to see to the remains of her father. However, his past written in the notebook contained in that package he sent to her leads from the Nam jungle to the congressional jungle with an unknown assailant trying to kill Karen. Only Marc keeps her alive though safe is another story as they uncover the truth of political power and love.

Already a highly regarded author, Linda Howard has written her best book to date with the incredibly exciting KILL AND TELL. The story line is fast-paced, filled with action, and very plausible due to a dynamite lead couple and a reliable believable support cast. Twists and turns aided by red herrings and cleverly drawn and placed clues lead to a wonderful reading experience. Suspense and romantic suspense fans will relish this powerful tale.

Harriet Klausner

Past reviews on Linda Howard's latest book Kill and Tell have been less than enthusiastic. I don't get it. This book is as good as any other Linda Howard offering I've read--and I've read them all. Just because she has written a different type of story, doesn't mean she hasn't written a good story. I thought the characters were well defined and the story absorbing. Keep it up Linda.

If you're new to Linda Howard, or even a hesistant-romance reader, this is definitely the book to cut your teeth on! Howard pays great attention to detail in describing her characters-- the dark world of an ex-sniper, the life of an ER nurse, the nuts and bolts of being a detective, and she brings to life the steamy atmosphere of New Orleans. If you're not a romance reader you can still appreciate the suspense and mystery. I gave it to my husband when I finished reading it (he disdains romance) and even he enjoyed it. The main characters are both admirable and people you cheer for to get together, and when they do the smoke wafts from the pages! Once into this book I did not put it down until I was finished-at 2:20 am!

I will read anything Linda Howard writes but All the King's Men left me feeling let down, cheated, irritated, cranky, out-of-sorts and mad. I didn't thrown it against the wall, but I was tempted. Oh yes, I was tempted.

A lot of stuff in this book irritated me but I think the main problem was that *none* of the scenes in France rang true to me. The sex scene(s) didn't strike me as hot & sexy but as irresponsible & stupid. Then there were all the little jarring details that pulled me out of the story, such as people staying in Paris and flying to Lyon rather than taking the TGV. Come on, would you fly from DC to Philly or would you take Amtrak? And despite some people's misconceptions (probably due to watching too many Pink Panther movies), France does have a competent national police force and it's inconceivable to me that John Medina could steal two cars and drive south through the Rhone valley and across Provence to Nice without having to deal with the police, even once, routinely. Where were the random traffic road blocks on back roads that are a part of daily life here in the south of France? What about the surveillance traffic cameras positioned on the major routes? What about the police stationed at toll booths on the autoroutes?

And it didn't stop there. The descriptions of old town Nice and the old harbor were totally unrecognizable to me. Maybe Howard was fictionalizing Nice for the sake of her story and actually describing somewhere else in the Cote d'Azur?

But the ending was what really made me mad. The stupidity of John and Neima leaving their "safe boat" to go sight seeing in this fictional Nice moved them right into the "too stupid to live" category as far as I was concerned. And after the shoot-out every one just walks away? No international diplomatic incident? No unpleasant repercussions with the local police -- who once again are conspicuous by their absence? No CNN, BBC, LC1, FTV1 broadcasters or "Nice Matin" newspaper reporters chasing after what would be the local story of the year -- a shoot-out in the densely populated and hyper touristy old town section of a major resort town (Nice) in a country (France) that has strong gun control laws? Excccuuuuuseeee ME?

You see, I live in France and if any American CIA agent were really so personally and sexually irresponsible that he/she opted to steal an innocent local's car, drive cross country jeopardizing his mission (stealing another local's car in route); and then having reached safety, stupidly compromised that safety again and further endangered other innocent folks lives rather than pausing at the first village he reached, using the first phone he saw, to request a quick, quiet pickup and flight out of the country, then I would want that CIA agent *LOCKED UP*.

So you see, this book really did not work for me. For someone just discovering Howard, I would say forget this one and pick up one of her other books. For me, I'll keep reading her, but I hope that in future she sticks to the U.S. for her book settings...

Ever since Kill And Tell, I've desperately wanted John Medina's story. And Linda Howard delivers it; John & Niema are deep, complex characters who don't always do what we want them to do, but they do stay in character. I know a few readers felt John stayed too cold, but you have to remember how long he's been unable to trust anyone, but himself and few others.

I would've liked to have revisited Marc and Karen from Kill And Tell a little more, but that's the only complaint I have. And since "Eric's" name was thrown in for good measure towards the end of the book, could his story be far behind? I hope not! Something tells me his could be an interesting story also.

And, too, you have to wonder if Louis Ronsard will make another appearance someday; I hope so. He's a wonderful, emotional and complex character - not your cookie cutter villian. I thoroughly enjoyed his characterization and would love to read his story.

I know some readers feel Ms. Howard is becoming too mainstream, but I don't think she's let us down and I will continue to buy every Linda Howard book, hardcover or not. Her characters still have that deep, emotional, "hot" energy unlike writers like Iris Johannsen, who IS an author I feel has let her readers down lately.

Give this book a try and I don't think you'll be disappointed.

After I read " Heart of fire ", I bought a few books by Linda Howard. And I found they were good in average. I find every reader has diffterent taste , so has different point of view on the books. In my taste, "All the queen's man" is quite entertaining in every way. Speedy, exciting and very romantic. I like John Medina character. He is cold, controlled and he is a superman. When you read the scene describing his test for SEAL training, you couldn't call him otherwise. He is a kind of man who can exist only in fictional world. But it's no harm just enjoying his super power for a few hours fun reading. Capable and strong heroin is another good thing on this book. Story is not so plain and not so dirty . Love scene is quite convincing. Their relationship is well developed along with their job. For five years John has pressed his feeling for Niema , but finally he claims his love for her. Desprite his cold, controlled character, he couldn't resist her and lost control. It's very typical romance plot, but author's ability makes difference. When author is good enough to give us pleasure to read her/his book , it doen't matter whether the plot is typical. Linda Howard is one of that kind romance author. And I really enjoyed this book. I'm looking forward reading another Howard book.

This was my first Linda Howard book and you can bet I'll be reading her again. This book had everything I was looking for ... an easy read, page turning, and fun. Of course this is a murder mystery so there were a few pages when her employers were murdered that were just a little graghic.

I enjoyed the strong, independent nature of the chartacter ... Sarah. BUT even though she was strong there was a balance of softness and vunerability to her....

The only flaw I could find in the storyline was with security systems in Sarah's employer's home. My question would be ... if they are so wealthy, why couldn't they afford video security camera's? Ms Howard spoke a lot to how secure all the homes were. so it didn't make sense that the murder was not on film and could me caught sooner. You would think with past death threat to the Judge, this would be a must.

In any case ... the book was enjoyable. I couldn't put it down.
I would definetly read "Dying to Please."

Sarah Stevens is a butler extrodinaire, but her current employer also hired her for her secret body guarding abilities. One night, she thwarts a robbery and gets her "15 minutes of fame" on the network news. Problem is, someone who sees the interview becomes obsessed with the need for Sarah herself; and he doesn't care who he has to eliminate to get her in his employment.

Now Sarah's 85 year old employer is murdered but her new romance interest, Dectective Thomas Cahill, assures her she is no longer suspect. However, her new employers are also murdered and it really looks like "the butler did it".

This is a great new book from Linda Howard. The love scenes were hot. I especially enjoyed the strip wrestling game. The book is definitely raunchy, fun, suspenseful. Both the hero and heroine are sharp. It was great to see a relationship where both partners are equally capable and protective of each other.

For those of you who have enjoyed Linda Howard in the past, this will be a great read for you. Read on!

Make sure you start reading this book on a weekend or have some sick time at work, because you won't want to put it down! The chemistry between these characters will make you ache to see if they can overcome their obstacles and make their relationship work, and the suspense will keep you turning the pages with vigor!

Sarah is a butler extraordinaire for a retired federal judge. The judge is very sweet and he and Sarah have forged a tight bond during the three years she has worked for him. Sarah is also trained in martial arts and, along with her butler duties, she also serves as a bodyguard for the judge.

After foiling a robbery attempt at the judge's house, Sarah is solicited to do a human interest spot on the evening news, outlining her butler duties. Little did she know the publicity would lure a madman and change the course of her life forever.

Detective Cahill is an investigator on the case, and the chemistry between he and Sarah is too hot to ignore. He has been burned in a recent divorce, and is wary of trusting a woman again. I was anxious to see if he could overcome his she-demons and let himself love and trust Sarah.

Once again, Linda Howard delivers with steamy love scenes, raw emotion, and bittersweet betrayals. I highly, highly recommend "Dying to Please"!

I was so excited when I received my new Linda Howard book. I started reading it immediately and didn't put it down until I was finished. However, when I put it down, I was left wanting. There was no depth to the story. I agree with several others who reviewed the book -- it felt more like a short story. You didn't get to know the characters; this could have been a story told in passing. Linda has written several great books, "After the Night", "Son of the Morning", "Dream Man" and "Shades of Twilight". I think anyone that picks up one of these books to read will be a Linda Howard fan for life. I am and can't wait until she writes another one. But I hope the next one has more to it.

Now You See Her is only my second book by Linda Howard, my first being Dream Man. I felt this book didn't have good characters and I didn't really feel for them.

A year ago, Sweeny began seeing strange things, dead people. Also, other strange things began happening, lights would turn green all the time, she would know the answers to Jeapardy before the questions was asked. Just strange things.

Then recently, Sweeny would wake up in the middle of the night and "sleep paint". In the morning she'd wake up to find she had painted a murder scene. The scary thing was, she knew these people. One day she woke up to find that she painted shoes only, in order to find out who was murdered she had to complete the painting.

I found this book to be lacking (see, I can't even figure out what to write in a review for it!). The love story between Sweeny and Richard seemed thrown together just to have a love story. Although not terribly bad, I'd pass on this one

Linda Howard - you certainly have not lost your touch! This book grabbed me from the very first page (or I grabbed it!) and I polished it off in a day and a half! It was FANTASTIC!! It was so easy to picture Sweeney physically.She was so cute and vulnerable. Her relationship to Richard was very well done: I could feel the electricity from the two of them jump right off the page. Howard always has been good at sex scenes and she certainly does not disappoint! The suspense was taut and exciting. The paranormal was a great element - it reminded me of SON OF THE MORNING, which I believe was her finest effort. Even though that novel was about time travel, this one had the same kind of "supercharged, supernatural suspense" to it. Gosh! I loved it!! My heart is still racing from the excitement. (I just finished it half an hour ago!) Excellent and highly recommended.