This trade-paperback-sized story wouldn't make a half-bad novella if you cut out all the frantic, self-consciously-written sex scenes. I know SJ is known for her sex scenes, but what I don't know is WHY. They're... dull. But the story itself was actually pretty good.
Stella Scott is a comic book store owner. Danny Rees designs computer games & is richer than... she calls him a kazillionnaire, which seems pretty appropriate.
Somebody's broken into his office, trying to steal the details of his new game. She looks like a suspect, and he doesn't talk about any details of his game designing, so she thinks he's just saying he's a game designer when he's really a drug dealer. So they each suspect each other, while in the meantime they can't keep their hands (& other body parts) off each other.
In addition, there's a nice secondary romance between a confirmed bachelor & a divorced mom who's sworn off marriage.
The good:
The comic store setting.
The mutual suspicion which could be cleared up by just talking to each other, but it makes sense that they don't.
The secondary romance.
The bad:
The ho-hum sex scenes.
The verdict:
Wait until it's out in mass market size or get it at your library unless you're a big Susan Johnson fan.
