Helpful Score: 6
A TIGHT STORY- NOT WORDY- A GOOD LINE AND I LIKED THE PEOPLE IN IT. YOU REALLY FELT THE ELECTRICITY!!!
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Helpful Score: 6
A great summer time read! Fun and oh, so sexy. I had a fun time reading this in Vegas on my honeymoon by the pool. It set the mood for the whole trip.
Helpful Score: 4
Jax and Treena's story. Prequel to JUST FOR KICKS. Jax has to find his father's collectible baseball, which his father's widow has in her possession. He devises a plan to seduce the gold-digging floozy who ran through his father's fortune, and relieve her of the baseball which should have been his. Unfortunately, Treena is nothing like he supposes, and Jax gradually discovers that he has lied to the one woman he can love.
I enjoyed this book, but it was tense, rather than light hearted, because the hero has childhood problems to work through. I liked the sequel much better.
I enjoyed this book, but it was tense, rather than light hearted, because the hero has childhood problems to work through. I liked the sequel much better.
Helpful Score: 3
This book was a lot of fun and informative in that I learned how the big poker tournaments were run.
Anything by Susan Andersen is fun!
Anything by Susan Andersen is fun!
Helpful Score: 2
Very good book. Looking forward to reading the sequel.
Helpful Score: 2
This is a really good book. Susan is a really good author. Her books are fast paced and easy reading
Helpful Score: 1
Wonderful book, look forward to the next one.
Helpful Score: 1
Jax Gallagher is a professional poker player that needs something from Vegas dancer Treena McCall. This is another great hot and steamy romance from author Susan Andersen.
Helpful Score: 1
cute, entertaining story. An enjoyable read.
Helpful Score: 1
Light and steamy love story between a professional poker player and a showgirl. To rachet up the interest, the gambler is, unbeknownst to the dancer, her stepson. And he wants to retrieve a baseball that he felt should rightfully have belonged to him... and that he has already gambled away.
This was one of those books that made me want to scream at the main characters to tell the truth already!
I did like the characters Andersen created, including the older Mack and Ellen.
This was one of those books that made me want to scream at the main characters to tell the truth already!
I did like the characters Andersen created, including the older Mack and Ellen.
Helpful Score: 1
Great sexy scences!
Helpful Score: 1
Good beach read..enjoyed this one..
Helpful Score: 1
disliked it, hard to pick up and finish.
I love everything by this author, hope you do too!
Andersen is a favorite of mine so I couldn't wait to read this newest novel. The cover in my opinion is really ugly, but the story was interesting.
Jackson Gallagher McCall, aka Jax Gallagher -- tournament poker pro, in a drunken pity fest gambles away a family heirloom autographed baseball to an Elvis impersonating Russian Mafioso -- say that fast three times. He soon discovers that the ball was not left to him in his fathers will but actually left to his step mom Treena McCall a 35 year old Las Vegas showgirl with polish roots from Pennsylvania
Assuming the Treena was a gold digging slut who married old men for their money, Jax sets out to seduce Treena and steal the ball back. Oh but of course in romance land, nothing is at it seems. Jax falls in love with her. Being your typical grown up man who still thinks like the insecure geek childhood prodigy he used to be, he doesn't tell her the truth. Treena discovers who he is and kicks the man to the curb with his precious ball in hand (the heirloom one in case you were wondering).
Will JAX survive losing her? Will his fingers and other body parts survive the Elvis dude? Read it and find out....
Jackson Gallagher McCall, aka Jax Gallagher -- tournament poker pro, in a drunken pity fest gambles away a family heirloom autographed baseball to an Elvis impersonating Russian Mafioso -- say that fast three times. He soon discovers that the ball was not left to him in his fathers will but actually left to his step mom Treena McCall a 35 year old Las Vegas showgirl with polish roots from Pennsylvania
Assuming the Treena was a gold digging slut who married old men for their money, Jax sets out to seduce Treena and steal the ball back. Oh but of course in romance land, nothing is at it seems. Jax falls in love with her. Being your typical grown up man who still thinks like the insecure geek childhood prodigy he used to be, he doesn't tell her the truth. Treena discovers who he is and kicks the man to the curb with his precious ball in hand (the heirloom one in case you were wondering).
Will JAX survive losing her? Will his fingers and other body parts survive the Elvis dude? Read it and find out....
In a rare moment, professional poker player jax Gallagher committed a rookie's mistake. He threw an IOU for a valuable baseball that wasn't his to wager into the pot and lost. Now the man who wont the collectible is demanding his prize or else. The problem is, the ball is in the possession of his estranged father's widow - a flamboyant Las Veags showgirl. Jax intends to get it back, by any means available.
Professional gambler Jax Gallagher is sure that Las Vegas showgirl Treena McCall married his father for his money. Now he is going to have to get to know his young, widowed stepmother so he can retrieve a priceless baseball he recklessly bet in a high-stakes game with an Elvis-impersonating mobster. Treena McCall went through her husband's fortune to get him the best medical help when he was dying of cancer, only holding on to the baseball he said he wanted his son to have. Now she has no idea that Jax is that son. Soon, she is falling for Jax, and in spite of himself, he is falling for her. Sex, lies, a bad guy in white polyester, and a prized baseball add up nicely, while a delightful secondary romance featuring a buttoned-up, retired librarian who becomes a hot mama adds humor. Written with Andersen's signature sass and sizzle, this book will appeal to fans of Sandra Hill and Rachel Gibson.
Entertaining but not as good as some earlier books
Good book! I read it after Hot and Bothered which was nuch better but this on is also good
Very funny and enjoyable read. Loved the secondary characters as well as the main ones.
Treena McCall has enough on her plate without being wined and dined by a ruthless gold digger. She's built a life for herself filled with good friends and hard work. But in Vegas as a dancer she meets all kinds and she knows better than to bet on love.
Excellent book! I just love this series, read the second one and had to go back and get this one!
What a delightful read....fun characters, Las Vegas showgirls, quirky but believable plot, and lots of dialogue to keep you chuckling and occasionally outright laughing! This is the first of two about glamourous gal friends, Treena and Carly. I am so glad I have both of them to read in a row. The second book is 'Just For Kicks'.
there more than one way to lose your shirt. in a rare moment, professional poker player jax gallagher commited a rookie"s mistake, now he need sto use any means to obtain the prize.
Really enjoyable story, told from the man's point of view. I enjoyed it so, much that i read it twice.
Susan Anderson always writes a witty and entertaining book. This one is about Jax Gallagher, professional poker player, and Treena McCall, is father's widow.
It's not one of her better books. I didn't finish it.
Great read. Can't wait for the next book due out in August
Funny! Great summer read!
Susan Andersen tops my list as one of my favorite authors.
Not normally my kind of book but I ended up enjoying it.
Professional gambler Jax Gallagher is sure that Las Vegas showgirl Treena McCall married his father for his money. Now he is going to have to get to know his young, widowed stepmother so he can retrieve a priceless baseball he recklessly bet in a high-stakes game with an Elvis-impersonating mobster. Treena McCall went through her husband's fortune to get him the best medical help when he was dying of cancer, only holding on to the baseball he said he wanted his son to have. Now she has no idea that Jax is that son. Soon, she is falling for Jax, and in spite of himself, he is falling for her. Sex, lies, a bad guy in white polyester, and a prized baseball add up nicely, while a delightful secondary romance featuring a buttoned-up, retired librarian who becomes a hot mama adds humor. Written with Andersen's signature sass and sizzle, this book will appeal to fans of Sandra Hill and Rachel Gibson.
Jax, a professional poker player, makes a rookie mistake when he bets a legendary baseball he doesn't actually own. When he looses the bet, he is forced to try and wrestle the ball away from his father's widow, a saucy Vegas showgirl.
Funny, wonderful romance. Susan Andersen never lets me down.
another good one
Joe Gallagher tries to retrieve a baseball from his estranged father's widow, a gorgeous Las Vegas showgirl. Lots of fun like all of Susan's Anderson's books.
Treena McCall inherits a valuable baseball from her late husband. Jax Gallagher needs his late father's baseball to keep a Russian mobster from breaking his hands. His plan to woo and then rob his estranged father's widow don't go according to his plan.
Good Andersen read, if not typical of her other books.
Good Andersen read, if not typical of her other books.
Treena McCall seems to be your typical Las Vegas Showgirl, what I liked is that this books takes you into a look behind the curtain (so to speak) and gives you a glimpse of how life can be for a showgirl. Jax seems to be your typical bad boy who was estranged from his father, even after his father's death. A professional gambler, he ends up betting an item that isn't his and has to secure a way to get this item from his father's widow, who just happens to be Treena. The character's are well written so that I couldn't wait to find out what happens next. There are a few other characters to add to the mix, Carly, Treena's neighbor and best friend since starting in the business, Ellen, an ex-librarian neighbor, and Mack the handyman. Good laughs, great story.
This was a good story. Jax Gallagher goes looking for a collectible baseball to pay a gambling debt. The baseball is in the possession of his estranged father's widow. He travels to Las Vegas, she Treena McCall lives and works at a showgirl. She does not know the Jax is her late husband's son.
Not enjoyable (this or Just for Kicks). I read 50-100 pages and then skipped to the last chapter without feeling like I missed something in between. There's a spark missing that would make it worth reading.
like her writings looking for others
Las Vegas showgirl, Treena, and professional poker player, Jax find themselves in a real life game of chance and love. A good fun read.
In a rare moment professional poker player Jax
Gallagher committed a rookie's mistake. He threw an IOU in the pot for a valuable baseball that wasn't his to wager. The problem is the ball is in the possession of his estranged father's widow -- a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl.
Gallagher committed a rookie's mistake. He threw an IOU in the pot for a valuable baseball that wasn't his to wager. The problem is the ball is in the possession of his estranged father's widow -- a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl.
Very good read.
There's more than one way to lose your shirt...
i enjoy her books
great book. I normally would keep this one, because I know SA has a second one coming about the friend. But the book is on the wish list, so I am sharing.
Did not read.
From the back of the book:
In a rare moment, professional poker player Jax Gallagher committed a rookie's mistake. He threw an IOU for a valuable baseball that wasn't his to wager into the pot...and lost. Now the man who won the collectible is demanding his prize..or else. The problem is, the ball is in the possession of his estranged father's widow..a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl. Jax intends to get it back, by any means available.
Only, Treena McCall is anything but the ruthless gold digger Jax expects. She's built a life for herself filled with good friends and hard work. And if she sometimes wonders what it would be like to share her dreams with someone, she can live with the suspense. She's got enough on her plate trying to hang on to her job as a dancer without being wined, dined and seduced by sexy Jax Gallagher.
In Vegas there's more than one way to lose your shirt, and both Jax and Treena know better than to bet on love. Yet sometimes rolling the dice in a high-stakes game can lead to a prize beyond compare, if you have the courage to gamble your heart.
In a rare moment, professional poker player Jax Gallagher committed a rookie's mistake. He threw an IOU for a valuable baseball that wasn't his to wager into the pot...and lost. Now the man who won the collectible is demanding his prize..or else. The problem is, the ball is in the possession of his estranged father's widow..a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl. Jax intends to get it back, by any means available.
Only, Treena McCall is anything but the ruthless gold digger Jax expects. She's built a life for herself filled with good friends and hard work. And if she sometimes wonders what it would be like to share her dreams with someone, she can live with the suspense. She's got enough on her plate trying to hang on to her job as a dancer without being wined, dined and seduced by sexy Jax Gallagher.
In Vegas there's more than one way to lose your shirt, and both Jax and Treena know better than to bet on love. Yet sometimes rolling the dice in a high-stakes game can lead to a prize beyond compare, if you have the courage to gamble your heart.
