Loser’s Keepers by M. S. Spencer

  

Dagne Lonegan, aka Dear Philomena, advice dispenser extraordinaire, hoped that spending a year on the Eastern Shore island of Chincoteague to write her novel would clear her sinuses, if not her heart, of any feelings for Jack Andrews, erstwhile lover and long-time jerk.  It’s just her luck that her first week on the island she’s in the right place at the right time to be involved with a murder.  Only she doesn’t know it.

Unfortunately, the murderer doesn’t know she doesn’t know.  Strange and dangerous things begin happening to her, interfering with her new romance with Tom Ellis, the handsome manager of the National Wildlife Refuge.  Complications ensue when her Jack arrives to take charge of the murder investigation.

Will Dagne stick with the tall, cool glass of a Ranger or fall back into the arms of her first tempestuous passion?

Dagne is definitely caught in a conundrum.  Stuff’s been happening to her ever since she arrived on Chincoteague.  Mostly at first she writes it off as coincidence, bad luck.  Then when Jack shows up investigating her father, she wonders if it has anything to do with the package he asked her to drop off on her way there.  She’s too busy drooling over the tall, handsome wildlife ranger and trying to fight back her feelings for Jack, with on-line commentary from her very French mother.

As I’ve said before, erotica is not my first love, but this book was written tastefully and flowed quite nicely.  It pulled me in from the very beginning and kept me immersed throughout.  In fact, I’ve become a fan of Ms. Spencer and when I read her bio, I was quite impressed with her resume, even if she did spend all of her time in Chicago on the South Side.  At least the University of Chicago’s the good part.  I spent a few weeks on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake when my ex-husband worked an outage at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant.  (When you’re married to a rent-a-tech you do get around.)  It truly is a whole other world over there.  Let M. S. Spencer take you to it.  I highly recommend her point of view.

Length:  227 Pages

Price:  $5.50

Buy Link:  http://store.secretcravingspublishing.com/index.php?main_page=book_info&cPath=4&products_id=93

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