Now or Never: Rafe's Revenge/Hand in Glove/Partners in Crime

by Anne Stuart and Eden O'Neill

Book Overview

Now Or Never by Anne Stuart released on Sep 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373201664
• ISBN13: 9780373201662
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 666 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

3 Stuart!! A Triple Delight!!

This how reprints should be put out instead of how they are doing Jayne Anne Krentz - charge big book price for reprints of decade old series romances. You get three Anne Stuarts - just her - and all three are gems!!!Rafe's Revenge is a knock out tale of a critic Silver Carlylse. She writes a scathing review of movie mogul Rafe McGinnis. Now he has set a target on her back and is determined to make her pay in one form or another.Hand in Glove deals with Judith Daniels a small town reporter. Her friend dies under mysterious circumstances at the Puppet Factory - a Jim Henson type organisation run by Ryan Smith. Her friend was in love with him and Judith fears he may be responsible for her death. So she gets a job there determined to find out the truth. Only now she is falling for Ryan herself and someone is trying to kill her.Partners in Crime - has Jane Dexter rushing to keep a secret formula from falling in the wrong hands. Instead she ends up in the arms of the dashing, dangerous criminal, she cannot resist.Wonderful tales package as the right price! A must for all Stuart Fans - and if you have not read her, here is a super chance to get to know of one of the best writers in the romance field.

eminently readable fluff

The romantic genre poses real challenges to the worthy author. When every romantic idea has been flogged to death by the surfeit of romantic fiction, how can an author who aspires to rise above the mass of mediocre writing please the discerning reader while staying within the strict constraints of the genre? Anne Stuart shows how with Rafe's Revenge : strong and believable characters engage in a sharp battle of wit and will from the first page to the last, and no glaring holes in the plot mar the reading pleasure. This short book has it all, the dark powerful man, the vulnerable but clever heroine, the satisfyingly romantic encounters, the sexual tension and the ubiquitous happy ending. As the protagonists reveal their true characters through the ordeal of conflict, I feel I am getting to know them well, and it is entirely believable to me that their mutual antagonism grows from resentment to grudging admiration and mutual esteem, and finally, you-know-what. Ms Stuart scores with this one.Unfortunately, the second offering, Hand In Glove, shows how even a master of the genre can miss the mark. I get no good feel as to what it is about the man and woman which attracts them to each other, apart from brute physical attraction. The plot has holes you could drive a horse and carriage through - a factory-full of curious employees don't realise where their charismatic boss really lives; and in a night of intimacy spent (part of the time) in conversation she fails to tell him about the recent attempt on her life? Too much rests on the tightening sense of peril, and since I spotted the (albeit unbelievable) villain miles away, this just didn't work for me.I would consider Partners in Crime a near miss. There is some character development, and some rather satisfying romantic situations. But somehow this offering fails to convince me. Nonetheless, a pleasurable read. And I'll say this for all three books; Ms Stuart is right at the top of her league. If you must indulge in romantic fiction, you could do a lot worse then reading her offerings. Her writing is competent, full of fun and wit, and she doesn't stretch her readers' credulity too much. All this in the course pushing the right romantic buttons.

Three of Anne Stuart's best novels!

As an Anne Stuart fan, it's very easy for me to recommend this book! All three of these stories, are keeper material. Rafe's Revenge is one of those true "opposites attract" stories. Rafe and Silver are truly well-defined leads. Hand in Glove takes the reader to a puppet theater for romance and dark scares. This is one of Ms. Stuart's more violent, scary books. And, it's also a true mystery with a strong who-done-it plot; and the romance is quite sensual. Partners in Crime is one of Ms. Stuart's lighter stories. It's about a lawyer who is mistaken for a criminal, and the woman who hires him to do a little thieving. The romance is quite marvelous; the two leads are both headstrong and determined. Now or Never would be a real treasure for any romance reader to have!