Lucky Streak

by Carly Phillips

Book Overview

They're strangers who wake up in the same bed.In Las Vegas. And realize they're married!When Mike Corwin awakens after some wild partying in Vegas $100,000 richer and married to Amber Rose Brennan,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373773757
• ISBN13: 9780373773756
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Hqn
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Amazing!

Well, for starters, I love all of Carly's books. I started this lucky series quite excited. I liked the idea of it. As i read this book i found that it was the better one of the two. I loved it. Can't wait til the next one comes out!

Lucky Streak is a great light romantic read!

Lucky Streak by Carly Phillips is the second story in the Lucky Trilogy. It is about Mike Corwin, a Boston detective, and Amber Rose, a Las Vegas hotel concierge with a photographic memory. Mike travels to Las Vegas for a friend's wedding, and ends up hitched to Amber. But when Mike wakes up the next morning, Amber is gone and she has taken their casino winnings with her. Mike travels back to Boston, but is determined to find Amber and get a divorce. He is surprised though when he comes home and finds Amber in his bed with little clothes on and half of their casino winnings around her. Amber is on the run because she helped her father's friend, Marshall, cheat King Bobby at a poker game. Amber can count cards and she would signal Marshall. She has been doing this for several months in order to get some money to help keep her father in a nursing facility. She tells Mike what is going on, and he agrees to help her hide out for a while at his "crazy" father's house. She really likes Mike and wants to stay with him, but he is distrustful of her now and wants a divorce. There is also the matter of the Corwin curse, and how Corwin men can't keep love before something bad happens. This is a delightful read, and I enjoyed seeing how Mike and Amber's relationship works out with him being so black and white in his attitude, and Amber being somewhat of a con. I liked reading more about Gabrielle and Derek (from the first book) and getting to understand Mike's crazy father better. Mike and Amber felt like real people dealing with real problems (her father has Alzheimers and she is doing her best to take care of him and his father is pretty much bipolar). Great story and I can't wait for Jason's story in Lucky Break. 5 stars!

Loved it!!

I could not put this book down. Read it in 1 day. The play between characters was great! If you like Carly Phillips..you will love this one!

fun contemporary curse romance

In Las Vegas Amber Rose has lived the life of a con-artist and card counter in high-stakes poker games as a way to bring in necessary income to pay for the care of her Alzheimer's-stricken father. Now she plans to go straight though she fears her partner Marshall Banks will go ballistic, but does not care as she wants out. When Banks turns nasty, Boston cop Mike Corwin, in town for a wedding, rescues Amber. She joins him and his party, giving them a special tour of Sin City from an insider's perspective. The day ends in ecstasy when Mike wins the $100,000 jackpot and marries Amber. In the morning, he finds his wife and his money missing. Sad but wiser, Mike returns home. Amber returns to his hotel to explain why, but he has left town. Amber follows love to Boston, but Mike rejects her pleading as he sees cons as thieves as the end never justifies the means. However, when Marshall and some cohorts come after Amber, Mike begins to reconsider what life was like before he met Amber and what it will be like if he kicks her to the curb. The second Corwin contemporary curse romance (see LUCKY CHARM) stars two fabulous lead protagonists whose recent work places them on opposite sides of the law. The story line is fast-paced from the moment Mike and Amber meet and never slows down in Vegas or Boston. Although the ancient curse plays a lesser role in Mike's saga, fans will appreciate Amber opening Mike's eyes as she colors his world with love if he accepts her as his heart's artist. Harriet Klausner