Edison Lone, DC's best code breaker, wonders if he should talk to the Center for International Information Control though he lacks evidence. Edison knows that someone is leaking sensitive information from the Internal Bureau of Information (IBI). However, he is set up to think it is IBI assistant Selena Silverwood, whose diary contains heated fantasies he believes hide a code that to his chagrin he cannot break.

The reason he cannot break her code is that there are no secret messages to decipher. Instead Selena is writing a novel using the office computer. Edison, who is already falling in love with her based on her passionate secrets, courts her to obtain her code. As Selena and Edison begin to forge a permanent relationship, there remain those individuals illegally releasing information and whose preference is to eliminate Edison anyway possible so they can freely leave the country when the time is right.

NIGHT PLEASURES is an enticing romantic suspense loaded with action but emphasizes the sexual tension between the lead characters that heat up the novel's pages. Edison and Selena are an ardent duet whose fervent desires burn through the plot of going undercover to find the information leak. The audience might question Edison's skills that he misreads Selena so badly in spite of the mole that sends him down the wrong path. Readers still will find NIGHT PLEASURES lives up to its title as Jule McBride purveys a fervid romantic suspense.

Harriet Klausner

Cryptologist Edison Lone's always has been more interested in what people don't say than what they do. He's been following classified ads that someone uses to make contact and sell information from the IBI. Before he can take his suspicions to the CIIC, Edison's reassigned to investigate Selena Silverwood. Surveillance cameras have recorded her working on a personal diary during work hours, leading to the possibility that she's encoding secrets into her prose, and then selling that information. Despite the attraction between them, Edison would never allow himself to fall for a traitor.

The contrast between Selena's outward shyness and her inward heated fantasies haunts Edison. When he invites her to dinner and she transforms from ugly duckling to stunning siren, Edison's hooked. He can't help wondering if she's ready to make her fantasies a reality. For a man who loves puzzles and secretive communications, reading Selena's fantasies provides the most stimulating puzzle he's ever had. The question remains if they can learn to share more than just night pleasures.

Fantasy rules the night in NIGHT PLEASURES by Jule McBride. This sensual romance makes the pages sizzle with its erotic delights. The characterizations are complex with a constant question as to loyalties. Further, the underlying plot of selling information lends the novel fascinating intrigue, keeping the tempo quick as new information is revealed. Moreover, the deft interweaving of the fantasy and reality through excerpts from the diary proves to be quite titillating. Scintillating and seductive, NIGHT PLEASURES comes very highly recommended.

_The Baby Maker_ has quite an interesting premise, to say the least. At first it seems a bit far fetched, but after a while you do get caught up in the magic and the romance of two lovers who were destined to be together. Though it gets off to a slow start, about midway through the book the action picks up and things start falling into place and making sense. The only thing I had trouble with was the fact that there are quite a few scene changes that aren't indicated by anything but a new paragraph -- these made for some very confusing moments. It's a fun, quick read, though not quite as good as some of the other 'More Than Men' books.

I found this book to be very light hearted and wonderful. Unlike many romance novels, it was not boring and it didn't drag on. It was sweet without dripping and it held my attention (so much so that I stayed awake until 2am!). I would recommed this book to anyone who enjoys light, romance reading. Enjoy! From J

"A Way with Women" is a decent read, with steamy scenes. Unfortunately, I didn't find the characters or their romantic relationship all that believable. They seem to have an irresistible sexual draw, but I found nothing solid in their current relationship. Harper and Macon were lovers as teens, but it's been 15 years, and McBride doesn't do a particularly good job of developing any kind of current relationship between them. It appears they're either fighting and distrusting one another, or they're making love. Macon is understandably upset to find out that he had a son he never knew about, but the situation is never adequately discussed and dealt with by Harper and Macon. That said, the writing is decent, and I at least finished it (which is saying something because I'm impatient with bad writing). The love scenes are steamy, and the secondary characters appealing. Still, it really seems like there are a lot better romance novels out there.

The Mail Order Men miniseries continues this month with A WAY WITH WOMEN by Jule McBride. When Harper Moody, the postmistress of Pine Hills, interferes with the letters responding to Macon McCann's add in Texas Men, she sets into motion life changing events.

Harper daringly steams open Macon's letters and answers them herself. She figures she's entitled since she's the mother of his child, even if he doesn't know it. When she'd gone to tell Macon of her pregnancy with Christopher, she'd found him with someone else. So she'd married the pharmacists and never looked back. Now Harper's widowed, and she still hurts over the fact that Macon had left town all those years ago and never looked back.

When no one answered his ad, Macon should have gotten suspicious. A chance glance at Harper's desk while she was in the restroom proves what's happened to all of Macon's ad responses. And since his father won't hand over control of the ranch until he gets married, Macon doesn't have a lot of time for Haper's games. So he goes to her house to confront her over the letters, and finds himself making love to her instead. Shortly thereafter, Christopher announces that Macon's his father.

I find it refreshing that not only does the teen son know the truth of his parentage, if his mother isn't aware of his knowledge, and informs his father himself! Such highly charged emotional scenes of A WAY WITH WOMEN add to its fun and quick moving plot. The steamy love making and warm characters make for a charming tale, though I did find myself a bit impatient at times with Macon's reputation with women. Recommended.

Alright, I have read lots of books that were a part of a series and I knew that Prescription: Baby was part of the Maitland Maternity series. The problem is that in most series when you read a book they mention other characters to get you interested, so that you read the other books, but one book alone is a story in itself. However, with this book there was way to much going on. Several different stories were mentioned that I am positive can be found in other books in the series. For example, there was mention of an abandoned baby and the characters that are involved in that story and there was a mention of a murder and the characters that are associated with that. By mention, I mean that there are several pages dedicated to these other stories. In this book it was discussed as 'gossip' at the clinic. So, if you are not planning on reading any of the other books in this series than this is probably not the book for you. If, however, you are planning on reading the series than you will probably enjoy reading this tale of the love between Ford and Katie and the baby that brings them together. This is not the only focus of this book. There is also the story about these two characters families and questions that rise about paternity. Like I said before there is so much that goes on in this book. If you are looking for a straight forward one-dimensional story you will not find it here. This is more of a three dimensional or even eight dimensional book.

After one unforgettable night, Dr. Ford Carrington wants to resume his stalled relationship with Nurse Katie Topper. A byproduct of an affluent yet tragic upbringing, he knows it is too much to hope she could ever love him. He couldn't be more incorrect. Katie has loved Ford for a long while now but is convinced her affectioante and rowdy family would be an affront to the high class society Ford is a part of. But when she finds herself expecting his child, she is forced to admit that they must put the welfare of their child above everything else.

Though it is true that the author is trying to accomplish a lot in this story, notwithstanding developing a credible romance between the hero and heroine, Jule McBride's installment of this Maitland Maternity series is rich with irony and proves to be incredibly poignant. Both Ford and Katie are fundamentally nice and intelligent people who are genuinely committed to doing what is best for children in general to say nothing of their own. Though they harbor a great deal of affection for each other, Ford's disenchantment with his parents leads him to believe he could never truly make Katie happy though it is what he wants. Katie, in turn, would like to understand the rift and try to mend it. She succeeds in doing this in an unexpected way. I really enjoyed this story though at first it seemed to be more Ford's story than anything else. McBride throws in a huge surprise that turns the direction of the story neatly on its head. This is a well-rounded tale with strong, engaging, and sympathetic characters which you will enjoy.

I have really been enjoying this series they are not getting new ones out fast enough to satisfy my curiosity though.I have read all of them so far and am patiently waiting the new ones.

I have to disagree with the previous reviewer.

This book started out with a bang, with Morgan falling into bed with Vanessa by mistake, thinking she was someone else. After that, the plot just sort of went downhill. I felt the whole "secret admirer"/bomber storyline really didn't go anywhere. Of course the resolution was tied up nice and proper, in only a few short pages.

Vanessa struck me as being overly childish, while the fact that Morgan was blantantly looking forward to sleeping with Lucy (the friend/maid) in the first two pages of the book really turned me off. Overall, a disappointing read.

The Valentine Bomber sent two explosive letters to two former US Senators who along with another retired colleague is leading the debate on extending maternity leave. So far luck has insured no one has been hurt, but Secret Service Agent Morgan Fine is assigned to watch over Vivian Verne, the daughter of the third retired senator.

Morgan has done his duty, but has kept his distance from the vixen he watches. Now with his two weeks of bodyguard service over, Morgan makes a play for Vivian's maid Lucy Giangarfalo, who invites him to her bedroom. The next morning after awakening to the best sex of his life, a horrified Morgan realizes he spent the night with that man eating Vivian. As the threat to her safety rises, there is a direct correlation of risk to his heart that goes up proportionally as Morgan and Vivian fall in love.

NAUGHTY BY NATURE is an exciting political romance that shows the danger to individuals when extremists try to take control of any issue worthy of debate and ultimately synergy. Though how Morgan mistook the six-foot Vivian for the five-foot Lucy seems impossible even with the duo steaming the sheets in the dark. Still, the lead couple is an engaging pair who drives a strong tale forward. Jule McBride provides readers with an interesting tale of love and compromise that leaves the reader thinking about solutions not sound bytes to other complex issues.

Harriet Klausner

Jule McBride, an author known for her lighter romances, makes her second trip to Intrigue with "The Strong Silent Type." On the day of Alice Eastman's wedding to Dylan Nolan, Dylan vanishes, her maid of honor is found murdered, and a little witness names Dylan as the killer. Two years later a stranger with familiar eyes arrives on her doorstep. Has Dylan come home? Is he a killer?

McBride uses several of the same devices she did in "Wed to a Stranger?" (Intrigue 418). A husband returns with a different face, a wife doesn't know whether to trust him. It's been done before and can work, but McBride's treatment of it here is much less plausible. The number of contrivances and coincidences used to keep the story going and the characters from learning the truth is aggravating. I spent too much of the story thinking, "I'm not buying any of this."

McBride's writing is smooth, although it does have a lighter feel that prevents any real sense of danger from building. It does help carry the reader past some of the more hard to swallow aspects for a while, until the book completely unravels in the final fifty pages. Out of nowhere, the heroine is convinced the hero is the killer. The hero is convinced he's the killer. They whine and cry and wring their hands, and all the reader can do is scream in frustration. Of course, we know Dylan isn't the killer. (That should not be considered a spoiler. The day a Harlequin hero turns out to be a psychopathic killer is the day Harlequin goes out of business.) Other writers have managed to create a sense of suspense where we really have to wonder, but it never seems possible here. Most readers will have figured out the only possible solution long before. It cannot be more obvious, yet the characters never seem to catch on. This reader's patience with the story and the characters ran out long before the climax, when one of the figures it out, conveniently, at the last possible moment.

Many readers will appreciate the glimpse McBride offers of Dylan and Alice's relationship before the wedding, so we can see what they are trying to recapture. The romance is generally well done until the characters turn into idiots. An annoying read.