Between the Sheets

November 19, 2007
After the U.S. president-elect dies during sex with a hooker at the high-class residence where Emma Jamison is working as a butler, her world falls apart. Fleeing the premises in a state of undress, Emma gets tabbed by the media as the hooker involved, which she isn't, and is further victimized by a Secret Service coverup. Broke and disgraced, she takes a housekeeping job at her grandmother's retirement home in the small town of Chartreuse, La., where she's determined to lead an obscure and blameless life. But Emma hasn't counted on her outrageous grandmother's sexual shenanigans with a handsome Alzheimer's patient; on her own attraction to the man's grandson, local district attorney Max Duval; or on an ambitious young reporter dogging her trail. Despite the saucy premise, Wells's (The Babe Magnet
) madcap and enjoyable romantic comedy is only mildly spicy.

Starred review from December 15, 2007
When professional butler Emma Jamison is mistakenly identified as the call girl who was with the president-elect when he died of a heart attack, she moves to tiny Chartreuse, LA, to ride out the scandal and start over. But being seen with Max Duval, the hunky DA who is in a tough, mud-slinging election campaign, is no way to keep a low profile, especially with a persistent tabloid reporter on the loose. When their elderly grandparents, who live at the retirement home that Emma manages, decide to have a fling, the media frenzy begins. Both tenderly funny and outright hilarious, this sexy, lively romp gently touches on some serious issues but highlights romance and is enhanced by delightful, sometimes confused seniors who, in many ways, are the stars of the book. Wells ("The Babe Magnet") lives near New Orleans.

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