I was delighted to see Romantic Times gave FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW four and a half stars...

Come on! buy the book! it's cheap - the cover's sexy - buy last year's The Model Man, too - it's even cheaper! get free bookmarks (someone is selling mine signed on e bay for $100. I bet they won't get that much, but you never know - buy my cheap, good books, enjoy them, and get signed stuff you can use to pay for your next vacation!!!)

ANYWAY ---

Here's the RT review:

A thoroughly engaging heroine whose witty, first-person voice and palpable love of music make this novel terrific. Davis gives all her characters strong dialogue, unique personality
traits and an amusing, offbeat plot to work their way through. But Jessie's narrative is especially delightful. The song references are great fun and in keeping with the heroine's point of view, while her relationship with the hero is steamy but with an underlying tenderness that makes their love scenes compelling.

Summary: Thirty-year-old indie-rock DJ Jessie Adams runs for city council in an attempt to help a friend, but she doesn't expect danger to strike on the campaign trail. She also doesn't
expect to fall for the hot-as-sin police detective on the case -- a man with whom she shares an
uncanny sexual chemistry and who's as different from her "type" as Louis Armstrong is from AC/DC.


While the self-assured Chuck Jackson can't and won't defend the inexplicable attraction between himself and Jessie, he's as puzzled as she is by their similar way of thinking (the "Vulcan
mind-meld," as he puts it), their mutual adoration for pizza and Star Trek, and the way he's openly rearranging his life to include this new woman. Can a love between opposites
work out long term, or will the sizzling passion between them burn out as quickly as it began? (ZEBRA, Feb., 320 pp., $4.99)
HOT

-Marilyn Weigel