Review Negligee Behavior by Shelli Stevens
When lingerie heiress Brandy Summer gets cold feet and runs out on her Vegas wedding, she has nowhere to turn—so she hijacks a hunky biker waiting for a red light and begs him for help. What she doesn’ t know is that her instincts are right: the groom has a hidden agenda. He needs her money to pay off his gambling debts and she’ s his ticket to the good life.
Marco Vargas isn’ t sure what he’ s getting himself into when he rescues Brandy, but figures he’ ll do the chivalrous thing. He offers her a job in his bar and the chance to sort out her feelings. But it seems that keeping Brandy hidden is easier than keeping his hands off her—and what will happen when Brandy discovers that Marco has secrets of his own?
Negligee Behavior is exactly what you want a Carina Press book to be quick, cute, fun, sexy, and just enough escapism to make things interesting. Brandy, a voluptuous woman whose parents own a lingerie chain, similar to VS, has been hiding in her grandma clothes out of an inferiority complex mainly due to growing up surrounded by beautiful models. She was marrying her boyfriend of a year, a guy she knew was a douchebag and when she runs out of the chapel and hops on the first mortocycle she sees, she didn’t know she was running into Marco Vargas, a bar owner, and bike rider who happens to be the most gallant man ever, as well as a complete a-hole. Odd combination but it works.
There are several really unbelievable aspects to this story, some things that really make no sense at all, there were some dramatic “reveals” that were just overdone. Had it been dialed back a little bit it would make sense, but it wasn’t, the way it was written was just circusy large. Actually MOST of this book aside from the bar scenes and the scenes between Marco and Brandy were over written. Negligee Behavior was decent escapism, a little hot sex but not a book you’d read for anything other than a way to drop out of your life for an hour or two.
Overall Rating: C
