How to Trap a Tycoon (Avon Light Contemporary Romances) [Mass Market Paperback]

This story of multiple identities is funny and absolutely entertaining. Adam Darien is totally contemporary and sexy. And Dorsey is not only smart and funny, she also has the guts to pull off playing hot Lauren Grable-Monroe. Of course, that act doesn't last very long... but it's wonderful how both of the main characters evolve into their "real" self in the course of the novel. And who'd thought reading men's thoughts would be SO hilarious? (Well, me, for one...) The secondary romance of Lucas Conaway (an employee of Adam) and Edie Mulholland (a fellow bartender at Drake's) is so sweet and satisfying! Both of their relationships carried an element of seriousness and a bit of the dark side but it is well balanced with wittiness and humor. And of course, being that it *is* a romance novel, the happy ending is just sweet enough.

By day, Doresy MacGuiness is a soicology teaching assistant at a local college. She is also the author of a best selling guide on how to trap a tycoon that is the rave among women. Dorsey wrote the book under an assume name based on her mother's past experiences and to provide her mother with some retirement. After all, trapping millionaires doesn't come with social security benefits. By night she works as a bartender at an exclusive men's club compiling research on the difference between sexes. While tending bar, she meets Adam Darien, the publisher of an elitist men's magazine. Sparks fly between them. Adam has taken it personally that any woman would dare write a book on how to trap men into marriage. He feels he owes it to his readers to expose the author as the fraud he feels she must be. This starts a madcap adventure as the plot of this story takes off.

One of the reasons I gave this book a four is the second story line, which involves one of Adam's writers for his magazine. Lucas decides to take matters into his own hands and conduct an experiment. In order to be successful, he needs the help of one of the bartenders who works with Dorsey. With the second story line, the book switches from comedy to melodrama which doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the book and frankly drags it down.

This is a fun book, maybe predictably in many ways, yet still fun. I've read all three books by the author and will be waiting for number four. Ms. Bevarly delivers a story with style.

Dorsey and Adam are a fun, sexy, and endearing couple. Adam is a very wealthy and very sexy publisher of an elitist, sexist men's magazine (hey, I'm a feminist). Dorsey, on the other hand, has many professions. She's a bartender at the exclusive men's club Adam attends (doing 'research' for her sociology dissertation), a teaching assistant at Severn College, and the reluctant author of HOW TO TRAP A TYCOON. Adam doesn't know that Dorsey is the author of the book that is "wreaking indigestion on most men". The secondary characters are all wonderful too. I especially enjoyed Adam's young, cynical staff writer and Dorsey's mother. (Separately, not together)

The book summary does a much better job of explaining the plot than I do. You really have to read the book to appreciate it. It's great fun! If you read this book, I doubt you'll be disappointed. I laughed out loud several times. I rarely put down the book and when I did it was with great reluctance. Very highly recommended.

P.S. There's also a fabulous secondary romance. What more could you ask for?