ISBN-10: 0425253252
ISBN-13: 978-0425253250
Publisher: Penguin Group
Line: Berkley Trade
Release Date: Nov 6, 2012
Pages: 352
Retail Price: 15.00
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Genre: Contemporary
Heat Level: Scorching
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USA Today bestselling author Lauren Dane serves up a sweet, sensual, and hot-to-the- touch novel in which one woman's most intimate desires are stirred by two very special ingredients
Juliet Lamprey is having the time of her life running her successful bakery, TART, when Gideon Carter comes back into her life. Returning home to help his grandfather run the family on the farm, Gideon is back for good. When they meet again, the spark between them is immediate, and it isn't long before the former childhood friends play catch up in bed.
That's not good news for local lawyer Cal Whaley. Though the sexually open but strictly monogamous Cal has loved Jules for a long time, he's hardly ever taken it further than friendship. When he sees her start to fall for Gideon, he knows he has to make his move or risk losing her forever.
Who would have anticipated that all three of them would connect on such an intimate level? The trio's scalding liaisons take them places they've never dreamed. But such an intensely passionate and unusual relationship comes with equally as complicated emotions, and when Jules must suddenly leave town, she wonders if she'll have a choice to make when she returns.
Series: A Delicious Novel
Review
TART is as emotionally satisfying as it is incredibly sexy.
Juliet Lamprey has waited a long time for Cal Whaley to make his move. When the gorgeous cowboy, Gideon Carter, comes to town she decides that it is time to stop waiting a start living her life. The attraction that she feels for Gideon is instant and returned. It takes seeing Juliet moving on with someone she could be with forever for Cal to come to his senses and make a move to claim her. Juliet then has to make the decision of what to do when two men she has deep feelings for want to be with her.
No one writes a triad like Lauren Dane. She explores each person’s physical and emotional needs and how they adjust to the triad. Juliet, Cal and Gideon don’t take the relationship they are entering into lightly. There are questions they ask of themselves and each other as they figure out if they can be happy this way. I love that Juliet visits Erin (from Laid Bare) and asks her questions about her relationship with Ben and Todd. It was a great way to tie the Brown and Delicious series together.
At the heart of TART is a story about the family you create with the people you surround yourself with. Juliet has made her own family with her friends and that family is ever expanding. Gillian and Adrian (from Never Enough) celebrate both their engagement and wedding during the course of the book. Their relationship expands Juliet’s family. Gillian, who is like her sister, marries into a wonderfully supportive family and Juliet gains all of the Brown siblings and their families. I love how important that circle is to all of the characters in the Delicious series.
The book is wonderfully written. There are moments that pulled at my heartstrings and brought tears to my eyes. Then there are moments that are so hot that caused a blush that felt like a hot flash. There is a perfect balance between the erotic and the romance of the story.
Tart is a great addition to the Brown/Delicious series and I cannot wait to read the next book in the series in 2013!