Falling for the Lone Wolf

The Suds Club #3

by Crystal Green

Go-getter businesswoman Jenny Hunter was used to living life on her own terms, and there was little the beautiful, brainy blonde couldn't conquer. But with her career skyrocketing, she'd decided to put love on the back burner--except for a little innocent flirtation with a hunky loner at her neighborhood Laundromat.

Although Liam McCree had nursed a crush on Jenny for months, the wannabe Web entrepreneur was convinced he was no match for the woman of his dreams. But when she faced an unexpected health crisis, Liam was there to boost Jenny's spirits and to send her heart rate soaring in the process. Would these two opposites find that love was truly the best medicine?

Genres: Contemporary Romance

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 20, 2008

About the author

Pseudonym for Chris Marie Green and Christine Cody

A long time ago, in a land far, far away (Milwaukee , WI , St. Luke's Hospital), Chris Marie Green (also writing as Crystal Green) joined the world. While moving to Southern California, Kentucky , then back to California , she amused herself by writing poetry and short stories featuring the ultimate Alpha males--Superman and Indiana Jones. Later, after graduating with a B.A. in English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo , Chris decided to become a professional writer.

While she wrote, Chris worked as an eighth-grade teacher, but resigned in 2002 to pursue writing full time. Her critique partners, Sheri WhiteFeather and Judy Duarte are instrumental in her endeavors. Without these talented authors, writing would be a lonely road.

Chris is pumped about her Vampire Babylon series for Ace, which is best described as "noir fantasy-mysteries" featuring a vamp hunter. The first five books, NIGHT RISING, MIDNIGHT REIGN, BREAK OF DAWN (which compose the first trilogy), plus A DROP OF RED and THE PATH OF RAZORS (the first two books in the second trilogy) have already been released. The sixth, DEEP IN THE WOODS, will be on shelves on March 2, 2010. A Vampire Babylon-related novella was released in an anthology entitled FIRST BLOOD. (Note: The Vampire Babylon series uses trilogy arcs to tell one basic story, much like the way JK Rowling used seven books that didn’t solve every plot thread book-by-book to tell Harry Potter’s story. While each individual novel focuses on a central mystery that’s solved by the end, the three books together build character and mythology arcs/mysteries until everything culminates in the third book. Each trilogy repeats this pattern.)

Chris is also writes Silhouette Special Editions ("home and hearth" tales of redemption and community) and Harlequin Blazes (steamy fantasies), and whenever she can, she travels, including backpacking trips in Europe and road trips in America . She also enjoys yoga, hiking, and way too much movie-watching.

For any press inquiries, please contact Chris’ agent Pamela Harty at http://www.knightagency.net/contact/.

Reviews

[Corrine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read that could have easily (and probably should have been) expanded into a full length (as it was, it was over 30 pages shorter than most SEs). Interesting take on a well-known trope: scarred hero has feelings for heroine, but doesn't feel worthy of her. But where this one differs is Jenny is going through her own medical issues (a possibly-cancerous lump in her breast), and the correlation between this issue and Liam's difficulty reconciling his physical limitations with his worth as a man blend together touchingly. But with the limited space, it was hard to see how Jenny could not only go from only being somewhat adversarial acquaintances with Liam to lovers to in love over such a short time span and while dealing with such a hugely emotional issue like her health. B-

[Diane Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such an emotional, lovely book! It deals with physical scars and emotional scars and having the courage to face our weaknesses. It's part of a series that centers around a laundromat -- an unusual and clever motif.

Jenny, 30 years old, has discovered a lump in her breast and a biopsy is looming. Liam is a web design entrepreneur that was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that left him with a severely scarred leg. Both of them are unsure that another person could accept their limitations.

This would seem to be a very angsty type of story, but it is really a story of love and acceptance. I really liked it.

[Dorel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the 3rd book I read by Crystal Green. This book's storyline was okay. I liked the hot & steamy scenes. I liked Liam's character. I felt sorry for Liam. I liked Jenny's character. I felt sorry for Jenny. The ending was okay.

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rather tame but it did address an important topic and the author didn't do the classic "whew! Only a scare."