Cold As Ice - Anne Stuart

Cold As Ice - Anne Stuart
Romantic Suspense - 360 pages

From Back Of Book: Never get in the way of a mission.


The job was supposed to be dead easy - hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done.  But Manhattan lawyer Genevieve Spenser soon realizes she's in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that the publicly benevolent playboy has a sick, vicious side.  As he tries to make her his plaything for the evening, eager to use and abuse her until he discards her with the rest of his victims, Genevieve must keep her wits if she intends to survive the night.


But there's someone else on the ship who knows the true depths of Van Dorn's evil.  Peter Jensen is far more then the unassuming personal assistant he pretends to be - he's a secret operative who will stop at nothing to ensure Harry's deadly Rule Of Seven terror campaign dies with him.  But Genevieve's presence has thrown a wrench into his plans, and now he must decide whether to risk his mission to keep her alive, or allow her to become collateral damage...

My Review: Fortunately, Genevieve is not one of those "damsel in distress" types, and the byplay between her and Peter is quite amusing, and downright moving at times.  While there is a certain amount of predictability, that is common with the genre.  It wouldn't be a romantic anything without the two characters that fall madly in love by the end of the novel.  But even with the predictablity, the story was sound and well written.  Anne Stuart really got into the character of Genevieve, especially when building suspense.  Anne Stuart makes you want Genevieve to survive, and by default that she falls in love with Peter.  Poor Harry Van Dorn doesn't stand a chance against these two!

I'd Recommend This Book To: Any romance lover.  Women will enjoy the romance, and men will enjoy the suspense.