Stephanie James (1)

Forced by circumstance to submit to Lucas Kincaid's superior survival skills and leadership after a plane crash, hotel executive Jessica Travers is sure things will go back to normal after they're rescued. But when Kincaid tracks her down on her recuperative cruise, she finds that civilization has very little affect on the attraction she feels.

Typical of its time, this book has a pushy to the point of stalking hero and a career woman who gives it all up for her man. Well written, but the plot is pretty dated.… (more)

The heroine is a very controlled reference librarian at a public library who's on vacation with her cat. (Say what you will, but she's self aware and a grown up, which is more than I can say for the heroine in the last UF novel I read.)

The hero is an ex-drifter who alternates between stalwart protector and crazy stalker dude. He mostly made me laugh, but sometime his alpha-douchecanoe tendencies got a bit tiresome.

In other words, fairly standard early JAK. Kind of reads like a test run for Gift of Gold in some ways.… (more)