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An Irresistible Man
An Irresistible Man by Kylie Brant released on Dec 23, 1994 is available now for purchase.
248 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 23, 1994
About the author
Kylie Brant
86 books654 followersThe mother of five children, Kylie Brant claims she began writing to save her sanity. Plotting stories became her method of escape from the reality of constant ball games, chauffeuring kids, and refereeing "minor" disagreements between her perfect offspring.
In 1992 she was elated to get a call from Silhouette offering to buy her second novel. Home with laryngitis at the time, she still managed to croak out agreement, and her career was born. A few months later she went on to sell Rancher's Choice, the first manuscript she’d written.
Kylie is married to her high school sweetheart, and they make their home in Iowa. She insists that all her heroes are based on her husband of 23 years because he possesses that most heroic of make qualities — ironing skills. Those abilities come in handy, as she juggles a full time teaching job with writing and a family.
Doing things the easy way has never held much appeal for this multi award-winning author. She graduated with high honors from the University of Northern Iowa. A graduation photo shows her in cap and gown holding her two sons, one aged 16 months and the other three weeks. She went on to obtain a teaching job working with learning-disabled children while completing her master’s degree at night and during summers.
"There was a time in my life when I could imagine myself as a life-long student," she recalls. "I actually toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate. But instead, my life took a spin and I ended up writing romances. I’ve never regretted it!" Her family has since been completed by the birth of another son and a set of twins, a boy and a girl.
Kylie’s books are regularly featured on bestseller lists such as Waldenbooks and B. Dalton Bookseller. With over a million copies of books in print, her novels have been distributed in 20 countries and released in seven languages.
Family and friends are the main focus of Kylie’s life. When she isn’t writing or teaching, she enjoys reading and flower gardening. She loves traveling, preferring beach, ocean, and room service.
In 1992 she was elated to get a call from Silhouette offering to buy her second novel. Home with laryngitis at the time, she still managed to croak out agreement, and her career was born. A few months later she went on to sell Rancher's Choice, the first manuscript she’d written.
Kylie is married to her high school sweetheart, and they make their home in Iowa. She insists that all her heroes are based on her husband of 23 years because he possesses that most heroic of make qualities — ironing skills. Those abilities come in handy, as she juggles a full time teaching job with writing and a family.
Doing things the easy way has never held much appeal for this multi award-winning author. She graduated with high honors from the University of Northern Iowa. A graduation photo shows her in cap and gown holding her two sons, one aged 16 months and the other three weeks. She went on to obtain a teaching job working with learning-disabled children while completing her master’s degree at night and during summers.
"There was a time in my life when I could imagine myself as a life-long student," she recalls. "I actually toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate. But instead, my life took a spin and I ended up writing romances. I’ve never regretted it!" Her family has since been completed by the birth of another son and a set of twins, a boy and a girl.
Kylie’s books are regularly featured on bestseller lists such as Waldenbooks and B. Dalton Bookseller. With over a million copies of books in print, her novels have been distributed in 20 countries and released in seven languages.
Family and friends are the main focus of Kylie’s life. When she isn’t writing or teaching, she enjoys reading and flower gardening. She loves traveling, preferring beach, ocean, and room service.
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June 17, 2012
Rating 3.5 stars
The heroine is made the hero's new partner, the hero is used to working alone mainly undercover but an incident (when a cop shot at him) made him switch to normal work. They are both put on one case only, gangs are using AK-47, their job to track down the distributor. What the hero doesn't know is that the heroine is from Internal Affairs. A snitch said that cops where behind this and he is one of the 5 cops under undercover investigation.
She doesn't like deception but plans to do the job to the best of her ability. Both of them are opposites, heroine is kind of rigid and regimented it kind of stems from being raised by cold shallow parents and also a past betrayal (her ex-fiancee used her five years ago to get to her city council man father), while the hero comes from a close knit Hispanic family, loves to cook and the ladies love him. Their working technique is a bit different too, the heroine introduces him to junk food.
I like how we see them work, step by step in the investigation and that they are able to work. Their attraction is mainly simmering then blazing hot. The heroine doesn't want emotion to cloud her judgment again, it would be best for her career and even for the hero Cruz. She finds some things that don't add up like the hero seems to have a second source of income and it takes some digging but she finds out he is in the restaurant business.
Their becoming involved and intimate takes a lot of time and when it does it leaves the heroine conflicted she still has a job to do but she finds herself falling and asking questions about herself and what she is doing. After some thinking she lets herself fall and believe, she knows if the truth comes out Cruz will feel betrayed but she just wants to spend more time with him and telling him the truth will be breaking the rules of the job. I loved how the hero understood in the end and himself came calling, yes it took some time and thinking yet he did behave like a rational adult after a snit.
I am rating this book a little lower because I found it a little less intense and hot than her other books.
The heroine is made the hero's new partner, the hero is used to working alone mainly undercover but an incident (when a cop shot at him) made him switch to normal work. They are both put on one case only, gangs are using AK-47, their job to track down the distributor. What the hero doesn't know is that the heroine is from Internal Affairs. A snitch said that cops where behind this and he is one of the 5 cops under undercover investigation.
She doesn't like deception but plans to do the job to the best of her ability. Both of them are opposites, heroine is kind of rigid and regimented it kind of stems from being raised by cold shallow parents and also a past betrayal (her ex-fiancee used her five years ago to get to her city council man father), while the hero comes from a close knit Hispanic family, loves to cook and the ladies love him. Their working technique is a bit different too, the heroine introduces him to junk food.
I like how we see them work, step by step in the investigation and that they are able to work. Their attraction is mainly simmering then blazing hot. The heroine doesn't want emotion to cloud her judgment again, it would be best for her career and even for the hero Cruz. She finds some things that don't add up like the hero seems to have a second source of income and it takes some digging but she finds out he is in the restaurant business.
Their becoming involved and intimate takes a lot of time and when it does it leaves the heroine conflicted she still has a job to do but she finds herself falling and asking questions about herself and what she is doing. After some thinking she lets herself fall and believe, she knows if the truth comes out Cruz will feel betrayed but she just wants to spend more time with him and telling him the truth will be breaking the rules of the job. I loved how the hero understood in the end and himself came calling, yes it took some time and thinking yet he did behave like a rational adult after a snit.
I am rating this book a little lower because I found it a little less intense and hot than her other books.
June 17, 2012
Nice couple - The title is kind of icky, but Cruz actually is irresistible - funny, handsome, sweet. He is a bit manipulative which could have been a turn off but worked out ok. Madeline was funny too - and I liked that it seemed to be a surprise to her. The petty nastiness of her father was well developed. The closing scenes seemed a bit anti climatic to me, but still a good read.
August 16, 2016
A good read..
I don’t think I’d like to read another book on Internal Affairs. Cruz spends his time desiring Madeline and Madeline spends her time suspecting Cruz of selling illegal arms, and reporting to her supervisor. Almost the entire book was like that, even after they slept together. She was always finding ways she thought he lived beyond his means, his expensive sports car, his expensive boots, buying his apartment and renovating it, paying for his brother and sister’s collage education, but never just said, “how can you afford this on a cop’s salary?” She never even thought about asking. I didn’t understand that at all.
As for her father? What an absolute A-hole he was. For someone who was just on the City Council he thought he was really something. Even the narrator made him sound like a stuffy jerk.
Overall, this was a good story. It was interesting to go along with Cruz and Maddy while they tried to figure out who the arms dealers were. But I could have done with a little less suspicion on Maddy’s part.
There were a couple of explicit sex scenes in this story and a little swearing, not so much to worry about.
As to the narration: Again Ms. Marlo did a great job. Men sounded like men. What more do you need from a female narrator?
I don’t think I’d like to read another book on Internal Affairs. Cruz spends his time desiring Madeline and Madeline spends her time suspecting Cruz of selling illegal arms, and reporting to her supervisor. Almost the entire book was like that, even after they slept together. She was always finding ways she thought he lived beyond his means, his expensive sports car, his expensive boots, buying his apartment and renovating it, paying for his brother and sister’s collage education, but never just said, “how can you afford this on a cop’s salary?” She never even thought about asking. I didn’t understand that at all.
As for her father? What an absolute A-hole he was. For someone who was just on the City Council he thought he was really something. Even the narrator made him sound like a stuffy jerk.
Overall, this was a good story. It was interesting to go along with Cruz and Maddy while they tried to figure out who the arms dealers were. But I could have done with a little less suspicion on Maddy’s part.
There were a couple of explicit sex scenes in this story and a little swearing, not so much to worry about.
As to the narration: Again Ms. Marlo did a great job. Men sounded like men. What more do you need from a female narrator?
July 24, 2013
So I am a man and decided to read outside my comfort zone and I chose this book. I enjoyed it. Her command of the language is good, her plot is good – I think at times she had to “work in” the romance because the story itself lends it to a crime novel. Nevertheless even small sections are well developed and I enjoyed reading it. Maybe it needs a rewrite into a pure crime novel but maintain a bit of the passionate romance? Just and idea…
July 7, 2015
I listened to this book loved it, I read it a long time ago too.
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