Feet First

September 15, 2005
Jenny Prillaman loves her job as assistant to a designer at Bellagio Shoes so much that when her boss, who is probably on a bender, doesn't show up for work one day, she covers for him by taking some of her own drawings to a meeting with hunky VP Marc Waterson. A reality show has been planned around the showy wedding of a Paris Hilton-like member of the Bellagio family. At a televised dinner, Jenny ends up having wild sex in the pantry with Marc. Marc is looking for a wife but can't keep his hands off Jenny. Jenny knows that he has plans to marry some vacuous beauty queen but decides that every woman needs to have a blazingly hot affair that she can remember forever. Jenny and Marc are kind, decent, and endearing characters. Banks is a master at writing exquisitely paced and sexy fun-to-read novels, and in this one she is at her pleasurable best.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)