The Love Police / Rough and Rugged

by Liz Ireland, Colleen Collins

THE LOVE POLICE
Stop…in the name of love

Tricia "Pudgy Pat" Peterson has returned to her hometown in a blaze of glory! Only now she's not so pudgy and is about to marry a gorgeous, Beverly Hills dentist. It's a dream come true for the duckling-turned-swan. That is, if her best friend's interfering brother doesn't mess things up. The hunky cop is determined to interfere with her walk down the aisle! And Tricia, who realizes that she's not completely over her teenage crush, is tempted to let him….

ROUGH AND RUGGED
Liney Reed's recipe for a Rugged Man:

1 tsp bad-boy
1 sprinkle of dark and sexy
1 c dreamy

Bring to a rapid boil. Let simmer for three or four days over heated glances. Serves one sexually-primed female executive.

When L.A. executive Liney "Dragon Lady" Reed hires Harley-riding, macho Raven Doyle to be her "rugged man" model for the cover of Cooking Fantasies magazine, she has no idea just how rugged—or how hot—her fantasies will get. Talk about cooking!

384 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Liz was born in Texas and credits a rural upbringing in a houseful of books for her lifelong love of stories. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, she moved to New York and worked various jobs (book clerk, world’s slowest professional typist, substitute teacher) before landing a job in publishing. Since then, she’s made her home in Austin, Portland (Oregon), Ottawa, Montreal, and now Vancouver Island in British Columbia. In her free time, she enjoys playing in local concert bands, watching classic films, and—of course—reading. In addition to her writing career, Liz has worked for two decades as a fiction editor. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and has served as a regional representative for Crime Writers of Canada.

Under the pen name Liz Freeland, Liz writes the Louise Faulk historical mystery series. She also writes women's fiction as Elizabeth Bass.