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In Too Deep
HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN HER TO BED IN A HEARTBEAT...
Private investigator Harry Lonnigan wasn't fooled by her disguise. The waif dressed as a boy, who was about to blow his cover and maybe get herself killed, was every inch a woman. So he saved her neck and the sexy little body that went with it. And lived to regret being such a hero.
BUT SHE WAS OFF LIMITS
Harry discovered Charlie was the estranged daughter of his best friend and father figure. His first priority should have been getting them back together, but Charlie didn't know that. Her first priority was to seduce Harry, and before Harry knew it, he was in too deep.
Private investigator Harry Lonnigan wasn't fooled by her disguise. The waif dressed as a boy, who was about to blow his cover and maybe get herself killed, was every inch a woman. So he saved her neck and the sexy little body that went with it. And lived to regret being such a hero.
BUT SHE WAS OFF LIMITS
Harry discovered Charlie was the estranged daughter of his best friend and father figure. His first priority should have been getting them back together, but Charlie didn't know that. Her first priority was to seduce Harry, and before Harry knew it, he was in too deep.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2000
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About the author
Lori Foster
425 books11.7k followersSince first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, including Kensington, St. Martin’s, Harlequin, Silhouette, Samhain, and Berkley/Jove. She is currently published with HQN.
Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home.
Each year Lori donates all proceeds from one book to charity. You can see the benefit romance books here: http://lorifoster.com/benefit-books/
Career Highlights
•In 2001, Lori received the prestigious Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Series Romantic Fantasy.
•In 2002, Lori’s book Too Much Temptation was the top-selling romance title for Amazon books.
•In 2003, Say No To Joe was the second “Bestselling Original Contemporary” romance title for Waldenbooks.
•In 2004, Lori Foster was a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle.
•In 2004, The Secret Life of Bryan was the “Bestselling Original Contemporary” romance title for the BGI group.
•In 2005, Lori received the prestigious Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Contemporary Romance.
•In 2006, Jude’s Law was the “Bestselling Romantic Comedy” romance title for the BGI group.
•In 2007, Lori launched a new “urban fantasy” series under the name L.L. Foster. See more on her “dark side” at www.llfoster.com.
•In 2007, Causing Havoc was among Amazon’s Top Ten Editor’s picks in Romance.
•In 2008, Hard to Handle made #2 on The New York Times.
•In 2009, Servant: The Acceptance was Amazon’s #1 Editors’ Pick in Romance.
•In 2010, Lori was a clue in the USA Today Quick Cross puzzle.
Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home.
Each year Lori donates all proceeds from one book to charity. You can see the benefit romance books here: http://lorifoster.com/benefit-books/
Career Highlights
•In 2001, Lori received the prestigious Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Series Romantic Fantasy.
•In 2002, Lori’s book Too Much Temptation was the top-selling romance title for Amazon books.
•In 2003, Say No To Joe was the second “Bestselling Original Contemporary” romance title for Waldenbooks.
•In 2004, Lori Foster was a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle.
•In 2004, The Secret Life of Bryan was the “Bestselling Original Contemporary” romance title for the BGI group.
•In 2005, Lori received the prestigious Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Contemporary Romance.
•In 2006, Jude’s Law was the “Bestselling Romantic Comedy” romance title for the BGI group.
•In 2007, Lori launched a new “urban fantasy” series under the name L.L. Foster. See more on her “dark side” at www.llfoster.com.
•In 2007, Causing Havoc was among Amazon’s Top Ten Editor’s picks in Romance.
•In 2008, Hard to Handle made #2 on The New York Times.
•In 2009, Servant: The Acceptance was Amazon’s #1 Editors’ Pick in Romance.
•In 2010, Lori was a clue in the USA Today Quick Cross puzzle.
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May 26, 2018
3.5 stars rounded up for cheesy goodness.
Harry meets Charlie diguised as a boy, just as a couple thugs prepare to shakedown the elderly store owner. Things go to hell in a hand basket fast and you can learn a thing or two about a person in a pinch.
Harry is a sexy divorced PI who defies the job description with his eloquent discourse.
Charlie is a scrawny firecracker who makes no apologies and always says what she means.
They both have secrets and theres those darn bad guys, but the stress levels are low on this one. The story revolves around the MCs as they get reluctantly aquainted and discover there's more to the other than at first assumed.
Totally enjoyed this old school fluff. The romance had a nice arc and the ending made me grin.
Harry meets Charlie diguised as a boy, just as a couple thugs prepare to shakedown the elderly store owner. Things go to hell in a hand basket fast and you can learn a thing or two about a person in a pinch.
Harry is a sexy divorced PI who defies the job description with his eloquent discourse.
Charlie is a scrawny firecracker who makes no apologies and always says what she means.
They both have secrets and theres those darn bad guys, but the stress levels are low on this one. The story revolves around the MCs as they get reluctantly aquainted and discover there's more to the other than at first assumed.
Totally enjoyed this old school fluff. The romance had a nice arc and the ending made me grin.
April 19, 2020
I liked it!
August 16, 2016
I cannot believe that Harlequin would have the audacity to re-release this book with zero updates.
The original was from 1996 and it shows. I could just sigh over the pager reference (although he mentions a cell phone but doesn't use it in a crisis) and even just puzzle over the uncorrected typo (linch when she meant to say flinch) but the hero's dickishness is unforgivable. He's baffled by his attraction to the heroine since he repeated calls her unattractive and "unfeminine" wondering why she doesn't wear makeup or dress provocatively to attract him or other men. Despite being held at gunpoint and their kidnappers clearly intent on humiliating and possibly raping her, the hero makes jackass suggestive comments belonging in a "how not to sexually harass women" handbook under what not to do. The only history we have of him is that he came from a rich family with a distant father yet he's a PI with high end clothes, a fancy car, and a snooty, distancing vocabulary.
I'm glad he's independently wealthy since he's definitely the worst PI, ever. The heroine is supposed to be 28 and a bar owner but reads much younger (too young for the divorced hero who thinks her "bossy" nature, i.e. Her independence, reminds him of his ex-wife). The situation with her estranged father and the utterly extraneous "dangerous extortion ring" has enough holes to drive a truck through. I have no idea why the couple is in love with each other and fervently thank heavens that Lori Foster's writing has grown to the point where I don't need to worry about reading something so bad with her name on it again.
Buyer beware (and shame on you, Harlequin)!
The original was from 1996 and it shows. I could just sigh over the pager reference (although he mentions a cell phone but doesn't use it in a crisis) and even just puzzle over the uncorrected typo (linch when she meant to say flinch) but the hero's dickishness is unforgivable. He's baffled by his attraction to the heroine since he repeated calls her unattractive and "unfeminine" wondering why she doesn't wear makeup or dress provocatively to attract him or other men. Despite being held at gunpoint and their kidnappers clearly intent on humiliating and possibly raping her, the hero makes jackass suggestive comments belonging in a "how not to sexually harass women" handbook under what not to do. The only history we have of him is that he came from a rich family with a distant father yet he's a PI with high end clothes, a fancy car, and a snooty, distancing vocabulary.
I'm glad he's independently wealthy since he's definitely the worst PI, ever. The heroine is supposed to be 28 and a bar owner but reads much younger (too young for the divorced hero who thinks her "bossy" nature, i.e. Her independence, reminds him of his ex-wife). The situation with her estranged father and the utterly extraneous "dangerous extortion ring" has enough holes to drive a truck through. I have no idea why the couple is in love with each other and fervently thank heavens that Lori Foster's writing has grown to the point where I don't need to worry about reading something so bad with her name on it again.
Buyer beware (and shame on you, Harlequin)!
August 17, 2010
A funny and fast-paced romance in the best tradition of the screwball comedies and the Lucy show.
Charlie (Charlotte) in trying to spy on her father, with whom there's been no contact in 18 years, ends up tracking extortionists.
P.I. Harry Lonnigan has his hands too full keeping Charlie safe to complete his investigation. She ought to be off limits but the temptation is unbelievable.
The attraction is red-hot and simmering throughout the story. Even though this was a Harlequin Temptation Blaze, it was fairly mild with a lot of near misses until the last chapter.
I liked it enough to keep it around for a repeat performance or three in the future.
Charlie (Charlotte) in trying to spy on her father, with whom there's been no contact in 18 years, ends up tracking extortionists.
P.I. Harry Lonnigan has his hands too full keeping Charlie safe to complete his investigation. She ought to be off limits but the temptation is unbelievable.
The attraction is red-hot and simmering throughout the story. Even though this was a Harlequin Temptation Blaze, it was fairly mild with a lot of near misses until the last chapter.
I liked it enough to keep it around for a repeat performance or three in the future.
July 18, 2013
Mergulho Para O Amor
Lori Foster
H.C.P. Sucesso 35
2013
Estória ótima, excelente argumento.
Mas por motivos que fogem a minha compreensão, o livro não me pegou.
Penso que faltou algo, só não sei o que é que tá faltando.
Não entendo, os personagens são bons, com estórias coerentes, com contexto. Tendo início, meio e fim.
Tudo certinho e esperado!
Infelizmente a estória não me arrebatou, porque?
Não sei.
Mesmo assim recomendo, quem sabe você tenha uma visão completamente diferente da minha.
Lori Foster
H.C.P. Sucesso 35
2013
Estória ótima, excelente argumento.
Mas por motivos que fogem a minha compreensão, o livro não me pegou.
Penso que faltou algo, só não sei o que é que tá faltando.
Não entendo, os personagens são bons, com estórias coerentes, com contexto. Tendo início, meio e fim.
Tudo certinho e esperado!
Infelizmente a estória não me arrebatou, porque?
Não sei.
Mesmo assim recomendo, quem sabe você tenha uma visão completamente diferente da minha.
September 7, 2017
Read this as part of the project to help a friend compile a reading list for her group, Adult Children of Parents with PTSD. Both the hero, Harry, and the heroine, Charley, deal with it as a result of really bad parental decisions.
Harry is a private investigator whose project is thugs taking advantage of business owners who are of a certain age in a neighborhood that doesn;t get a lot of police attention. Charley and her sister were raised by their mother in strange little communities that were so small they were unincorporated and had their own schools. Charley believes her father abandoned his family.
This story is full of concatenations, and sometimes I wanted to smack Harry upside the head for the choices he made while at the same time empathizing with his reasons. Charley is abit harder to take as she is all rough edges, all about survival and not taking any help, no matter how impossible her situation.
I find I like Foster' early work much better than her more recent efforts in which she seems to have fallen into the trap of writing to a very predictable formula. In this book, she is still taking chances and I like it.
Harry is a private investigator whose project is thugs taking advantage of business owners who are of a certain age in a neighborhood that doesn;t get a lot of police attention. Charley and her sister were raised by their mother in strange little communities that were so small they were unincorporated and had their own schools. Charley believes her father abandoned his family.
This story is full of concatenations, and sometimes I wanted to smack Harry upside the head for the choices he made while at the same time empathizing with his reasons. Charley is abit harder to take as she is all rough edges, all about survival and not taking any help, no matter how impossible her situation.
I find I like Foster' early work much better than her more recent efforts in which she seems to have fallen into the trap of writing to a very predictable formula. In this book, she is still taking chances and I like it.
May 24, 2017
Sort of wonder how this landed in the Blaze/Temptations line - one whole sex scene and it was eh.
I was wondering in the beginning if this was going to be a hate read, but not quite. More of an irritated and/or bored read. The H spent entirely too much of the first chapter or two thinking uncharitable thoughts about the h, from her apparent lack of a bosom to her unwillingness to let a total stranger tell her what to do. Made it a little hard to believe that he got turned on by her in any fashion more than the "haven't had sex in months" sort of way. But we're supposed to believe that he fell in love with her in spite of her lack of decorum or figure (or unwillingness to let a total stranger who managed to get her kidnapped in the first place with his misplaced chivalry - he managed to draw the attention of the bad guys to the fact that she was a girl).
So this was more of a yeah right whatever sort of read.
I was wondering in the beginning if this was going to be a hate read, but not quite. More of an irritated and/or bored read. The H spent entirely too much of the first chapter or two thinking uncharitable thoughts about the h, from her apparent lack of a bosom to her unwillingness to let a total stranger tell her what to do. Made it a little hard to believe that he got turned on by her in any fashion more than the "haven't had sex in months" sort of way. But we're supposed to believe that he fell in love with her in spite of her lack of decorum or figure (or unwillingness to let a total stranger who managed to get her kidnapped in the first place with his misplaced chivalry - he managed to draw the attention of the bad guys to the fact that she was a girl).
So this was more of a yeah right whatever sort of read.
June 26, 2020
I actually listened to the audiobook. I had been searching for books narrated by Amanda Ronconi and this was one of them. I can't remember ever reading a book with a similar plot line so this was very refreshing. Charlie has had a rough life, filled with lies. Needless to say she is a little leary of men. When she stumbles across an extortion she is thrown into danger and into the arms of Hunky Harry. Twists, shocks and romance fill the pages of this story. I will definitely be checking out more of her books.
March 29, 2019
Ok book, not great.
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April 1, 2020DNF
January 25, 2023
Verboden vrouw
May 12, 2017
By far the worst Lori Foster book I've ever read. Outdated and just bad.
January 16, 2008
In Too Deep - Poor
Foster, Lori
Worried about his fellow shopkeepers doing something rash, jewelry storeowner Dalton asks his friend private Investigator Harry Lonnigan for help. Harry would do anything for Dalton who has been like a father to the sleuth. Harry watches the two punks Ralph and Floyd extort money from the shopkeeper when he notices the woman bundled as a boy observing something too. All hell breaks out and the two thugs take Harry and Charlie Jones as prisoners for their boss Carlyle to handle.
Charlie and Harry escape, but not before an attraction between them explodes. She explains that she was spying on her runaway father, a local storeowner. She needs money to send her teenage sister off to a top college and wants her dad who deserted them eighteen years ago to pay the bill. Harry learns that Dalton is her father. He knows his friend has spent a small fortune trying to find his daughters who were taken away by his ex-wife. As Harry risks his heart to help reconcile father and daughter, he also tries to keep the neighborhood safe from Carlyle's gang, but Charlie only knows how to go right up the middle into trouble.
I'm just not a Lori Foster fan.
Foster, Lori
Worried about his fellow shopkeepers doing something rash, jewelry storeowner Dalton asks his friend private Investigator Harry Lonnigan for help. Harry would do anything for Dalton who has been like a father to the sleuth. Harry watches the two punks Ralph and Floyd extort money from the shopkeeper when he notices the woman bundled as a boy observing something too. All hell breaks out and the two thugs take Harry and Charlie Jones as prisoners for their boss Carlyle to handle.
Charlie and Harry escape, but not before an attraction between them explodes. She explains that she was spying on her runaway father, a local storeowner. She needs money to send her teenage sister off to a top college and wants her dad who deserted them eighteen years ago to pay the bill. Harry learns that Dalton is her father. He knows his friend has spent a small fortune trying to find his daughters who were taken away by his ex-wife. As Harry risks his heart to help reconcile father and daughter, he also tries to keep the neighborhood safe from Carlyle's gang, but Charlie only knows how to go right up the middle into trouble.
I'm just not a Lori Foster fan.
February 9, 2017
In Too Deep is a cute romance written by author Lori Foster.
June 18, 2016
I have to say this is the first of Lori's books that I was laughing so hard at parts my sides were hurting..it was a really good book..Harry is on a stake out when he spots what looks like another male in the store..but he can tell right away it is a female. That would be Charlie...Harry and Charlie get kidnapped by these thugs but get away...The book was great..Harry is a P I so Charlie hires him to find her dad, who Harry works for....Harry is fighting his attraction to Charlie because of Dalton, her dad...but it is no use...You have to read this book!!!
November 27, 2010
I was laughing in the first chapter. Thats what makes a good book for me. Expecially after a good murder mystery. This fun book gives all the character personality. I thought it was great that the female character was Charlie and the male was Henry. Charlie is getting in trouble at every turn, has awful decorating abilities and dresses up like a boy. Some hot scenes and a fast pace storyline makes this book a quick fun read.
September 24, 2011
Quick read. And yes, it was cliché: average attractive girl meets ruggedly handsome, buff, and rich guy. Instant love, sex, and marriage proposal. However, it was an entertaining and fun read for a Harlequin Romance. I was not disappointed. It was a nice escape.
December 23, 2012
I become interested in Lori Foster's books because of auditor Amanda Rancony. The back and forth baiting of the characters in their unknowning journey towards love and intimacy seems to keep a light giggle or smile on my face.
July 30, 2014
It seems like there were a lot of missing pieces in the story, a lot of things happened without being in the story. I would like to have seen a better reunion with the girls and their dad and a little more romance with Harry and Charlie.
October 9, 2015
In Too Deep
In this book the heat did not sizzle as hot as it usually does with Lori Foster. It was a much shorter story and I felt the plot was a little too rushed for the heat to ignite. Not what I've come to expect from this author.
In this book the heat did not sizzle as hot as it usually does with Lori Foster. It was a much shorter story and I felt the plot was a little too rushed for the heat to ignite. Not what I've come to expect from this author.
June 26, 2016
I have read a lot of Foster's books. This one was awful! Charlie was trite, immature and childish for a 27-year-old woman. Both main characters were shallow, imnsho. I gave it one star for the author's name! I kept reading to see if it ~might~ get better. It did not!
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August 21, 2016"too funny couldn't stop reading til the end" (Review @ Harlequin.com) To read more, go HERE> http://www.harlequin.com/storeitem.ht...
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February 2, 2017
Very sweet loved how Harry & Charlie got under each other's skin. Loved the use of language, we don't speak like that here. Your more likely to hear it from an academic or from across the pond. Challenge yourself give this a read, stretch a little.
April 22, 2020
After reading the story, I found out it was a Harlequin Blaze novel which explains why I thought it was just okay. Very rarely do authors, even good ones, have very good Harlequin novels. It's the problem with formula writing and not being allowed to really delve into the characters.
December 19, 2012
Normally love Lori. This one was just okay... Read it as part of the Bewitched book.
January 17, 2013
very cute story
August 10, 2013
For me the basic plot was lame, but the characters were GREAT. Lori Foster is fast becoming a guilty pleasure of mine.
June 28, 2016
My first book i read, truly amazing.
July 17, 2016
A fun read with two strong characters. Action, romance, humour, and pets with personality - a winning combination.
April 16, 2017
This was a fun book to read with characters I enjoyed getting to know.
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