The Chase

May 29, 2017
Fewings (Enthrall Him) feeds the current taste for over-the-top power fantasies featuring impossibly wealthy, mysterious, charming, and dramatically dominant men in the opener to a new trilogy. Heiress Zara Leighton, an art forensics specialist still carrying trauma from a fire during her childhood that destroyed most of her father’s art collection, brings an awkward naïveté to the job assigned by her London employer: serving as a discreet private consultant to American tech billionaire Tobias Wilder. Tobias, who can generously be described as controlling, invites Zara to his mansion, dresses her in designer underwear, and brings her to the exhibitions and gender-stereotyped orgies of the rich and famous, instructing her to stealthily evaluate the priceless artworks that furnish their homes. Directive but not rough sex is paired with Tobias’s protective possessiveness; conversation reveals how passionate he is about both art and charity. But Zara worries about the increasing evidence she sees that her client and lover may be connected to the international art heists committed by mastermind Icon. The book’s not very original and far too sincere, but those who crave the esthetics of Fifty Shades of Grey and James Bond will find them competently executed here. Agent: Kimberly Whalen, Whalen Agency.

May 15, 2017
Zara Leighton has high expectations for her new job at London's most prestigious art-investigation firm. She hopes that making her mark in the art world will put to rest the rumors that surround her father's death in a house fire when she was 10 and the resulting destruction of the family's art collection. What she hasn't counted on is billionaire American gallery owner Tobias Wilder. Smart, sexy, ambitious, and oh-so-delicious Tobias. Zara is assigned to work with him to authenticate a painting, and this leads to a whirlwind adventure of luxury, lust, and passion unlike anything she has experienced before. As demanding as he is at work, he is an even-more-insistent, though tender (when he wants to be) lover. When she joins the team tasked with solving a string of high-level art thefts, Zara finds herself questioning Tobias and his motives. Fewings' art knowledge shines through, making this a must-read for art lovers as well as fans of more explicit romances.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)