Heat Lightning

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Summary: What do they feed Anne Stuart? Genius at work!
Review: Oh my, what a keeper! I have a shelf with nothing but Anne Stuart novels. Small wonder since each and every book she gives a haunting powerful read, that slams into you like a tidal wave. The force of her prose awes you. She leaves you breathless. She's an addiction. Stuart does more with 100 pages than most writers could do with 300. She's a brilliant writer that dances with the devil in the fire, and demands her readers follow along on the dangerous waltz. Heat Lightning is Stuart at her very very best. If you are a Stuart fan and missed this one, snap up any copy you can. Quick! If you've never read Stuart - you poor thing - you can do no better than starting with this one.

In the sticky, humid tradition of the Long Hot Summer - Jassy Turner is a Southern Belle in the old tradition. Used to loud mouthed, pushy men who pat their women on the head and expect them to say fiddlie-dee, Jassy has long ago learnt to get her way by flanking maneuvers. She is a pampered rich girl, whose whole life has been tea parties, gentle manners and observing the proprieties. Oh, she faces the harsher realities of running a shelter for abused women, but that sort of ugliness has never personally touched her life. Until he came striding across the lawn. Six foot of hunk, a come-hither gleam in his pale eyes that had all the ladies of Turner's Landing ready to swoon, Jassy knew he was going to be trouble, but she had no idea just how much.

Caleb Spenser came across the Turner lawn - a wolf amongst pigeons - and he was heading straight at Jassy. At the last second, he confronts her brother. Caleb has bought the old bordello, the property next to the Turner's Belle Reve and claims he is going to fix it up. Only, Jassy sees there's bad blood between her brother and this stranger. Determined to find out what, and head off any problems, she finds herself in Caleb's company, desperate for answers, which neither man seems willing to give. And she does not like the ones she is getting. Caleb's come for vengeance, his plans including taking Jassy, but neither of them is prepared for the flames they create together.

Stuart paints a claustrophobic sense of the old South, that slow, stifling, itchy Falkneresque sense of people on the edge, waiting for the rain to break the drought, waiting for someone to make the wrong move setting everyone on a course of destruction. Caleb is another of Stuart's dangerous bad boys with the devil's soul and a black heart. Once again, Caleb and Jassy will draw you with their complex characters, their flaws, leave breathless by the range of emotions and passion. It just does not get any better than this. I once had someone tell me if he could just once sing a song like Gary Puckett of the Union Gap or play Classical Gas on a guitar like Mason Williams he would feel he had been touched with greatness. Me - I would just like to write a book as good as Anne Stuart.

Rating:
Summary: What do they feed Anne Stuart? Genius at work!
Review: Oh my, what a keeper! I have a shelf with nothing but Anne Stuart novels. Small wonder since each and every book she gives a haunting powerful read, that slams into you like a tidal wave. The force of her prose awes you. She leaves you breathless. She's an addiction. Stuart does more with 100 pages than most writers could do with 300. She's a brilliant writer that dances with the devil in the fire, and demands her readers follow along on the dangerous waltz. Heat Lightning is Stuart at her very very best. If you are a Stuart fan and missed this one, snap up any copy you can. Quick! If you've never read Stuart - you poor thing - you can do no better than starting with this one.

In the sticky, humid tradition of the Long Hot Summer - Jassy Turner is a Southern Belle in the old tradition. Used to loud mouthed, pushy men who pat their women on the head and expect them to say fiddlie-dee, Jassy has long ago learnt to get her way by flanking maneuvers. She is a pampered rich girl, whose whole life has been tea parties, gentle manners and observing the proprieties. Oh, she faces the harsher realities of running a shelter for abused women, but that sort of ugliness has never personally touched her life. Until he came striding across the lawn. Six foot of hunk, a come-hither gleam in his pale eyes that had all the ladies of Turner's Landing ready to swoon, Jassy knew he was going to be trouble, but she had no idea just how much.

Caleb Spenser came across the Turner lawn - a wolf amongst pigeons - and he was heading straight at Jassy. At the last second, he confronts her brother. Caleb has bought the old bordello, the property next to the Turner's Belle Reve and claims he is going to fix it up. Only, Jassy sees there's bad blood between her brother and this stranger. Determined to find out what, and head off any problems, she finds herself in Caleb's company, desperate for answers, which neither man seems willing to give. And she does not like the ones she is getting. Caleb's come for vengeance, his plans including taking Jassy, but neither of them is prepared for the flames they create together.

Stuart paints a claustrophobic sense of the old South, that slow, stifling, itchy Falkneresque sense of people on the edge, waiting for the rain to break the drought, waiting for someone to make the wrong move setting everyone on a course of destruction. Caleb is another of Stuart's dangerous bad boys with the devil's soul and a black heart. Once again, Caleb and Jassy will draw you with their complex characters, their flaws, leave breathless by the range of emotions and passion. It just does not get any better than this. I once had someone tell me if he could just once sing a song like Gary Puckett of the Union Gap or play Classical Gas on a guitar like Mason Williams he would feel he had been touched with greatness. Me - I would just like to write a book as good as Anne Stuart.

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Summary: This book is for The Long Hot Summer movie fan
Review: This is the book that started me on a path of Anne Stuart addiction. Once I read it in 1992 when it was first released, I went in search of all Anne's titles. When reading this book, I feel the sultry heat of the bayou, see Caleb's bad-boy face and become Jassy. What a wonderful read!

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Summary: Great Book
Review: When I first received this book in the mail, I was disappointed because it was a Harlequin Romance, but Anne Stuart proved once again that you can't tell a book by it's publisher. Excellent reading! Caleb Spencer has the perfect amount of bad boy in him to make him interesting. I only wish I knew when the tv movie was playing on Romance Classics so I could tune in.