- Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books; New edition edition (16 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446614165
- ISBN-13: 978-0446614160
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 1.6 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 698,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in a high-rise elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies on the handsome stranger with her to help overcome her claustrophobia. The man, Deke Sargent, is just as attracted to this beautiful and vulnerable woman as she is to him. When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that soon leads to a night of love in his apartment. Shocked at her own brazenness, Laney disappears the next morning. Then, months later, she receives an even greater shock: Deke shows up in her life with an astounding announcement. Unable to forget the chemistry between them, but afraid that she's just another notch on this wealthy playboy's bedpost, Laney is about to discover that her resistance to Deke hides an even deeper fear-one that she must face or forever lose the one man she can't resist
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Always (Leisure historical romance)
Words of Silk is my favourite Sandra Brown romance. A chance encounter in a lift leads to a hot night of passion between Laney a kindergarten teacher and Deke a hot shot lawyer.Laney whose troubled chidhood has precluded relationships before flees without trace, pregnant as she discovers when she resumes her teaching job.
Deke has discovered the love of his life and he tracks her down. The main part of the book is devoted to Dekes wooing and Laneys realization that she can trust this guy and dare to love him.
Words of Silk is my favourite Sandra Brown romance. A chance encounter in a lift leads to a hot night of passion between Laney a kindergarten teacher and Deke a hot shot lawyer.Laney whose troubled chidhood has precluded relationships before flees without trace, pregnant as she discovers when she resumes her teaching job.
Deke has discovered the love of his life and he tracks her down. The main part of the book is devoted to Dekes wooing and Laneys realization that she can trust this guy and dare to love him.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
"LOVE ME"
8 Jun 2004
Format:Hardcover
What does New York,an elevator,a blackout,a good looking guy and clausterphobia have in common. Laney McLeod. All of those single things lead to a one night stand. What a suprise ten weeks later when Laney goes to the doctor,for what she thinks is the stomach virus. And learns that shes pregnant. She can't beleive it. At first shes in shock. For when she was thirteen she was told that she would never have children.
When she gets home she begins to accept it. She actually is happy about it. Now she will have someone to love and get that same love in return. She thinks about how she is going to tell the school principal and the superintendant. For she is a kindergarten teacher and is single.
She comes up with a pausiable story. Her and her husband have legally seperated. And they had got together for a weekend to try and reconcile,it didn't work out and she was pregnant.
Now that Deke Sargent has spent weeks looking for Laney, and learns that she is pregnant. He wants to be in her and the babys life. But Laney wants nothing to do with him. She wants him to leave and let her and the baby be. Will Deke be around for the Laney and the baby. Or will he do what Laney expects him do. LEAVE.
When she gets home she begins to accept it. She actually is happy about it. Now she will have someone to love and get that same love in return. She thinks about how she is going to tell the school principal and the superintendant. For she is a kindergarten teacher and is single.
She comes up with a pausiable story. Her and her husband have legally seperated. And they had got together for a weekend to try and reconcile,it didn't work out and she was pregnant.
Now that Deke Sargent has spent weeks looking for Laney, and learns that she is pregnant. He wants to be in her and the babys life. But Laney wants nothing to do with him. She wants him to leave and let her and the baby be. Will Deke be around for the Laney and the baby. Or will he do what Laney expects him do. LEAVE.
This classic love story is a great book. When you open the first page you won't want to put it down until it's done. It's fast paced. You'll love it. Sandra Brown does a great job. Enjoy.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
If you want sex - here you go!
12 Aug 2004
Format:Audio CD
I now am completely versed in lovemaking and all the words that go with it. Sandra Brown has written a love story that is completely about two people in bed. While she has the beginnings of a GREAT story, the focus of Words of Silk was mainly on how many times Deke and Laney could find themselves entangled in a hot passionate embrace.
The story begins in a 10 minutes black out in an elevator in New York City. The sparks that ignited between a very claustrophobic Laney McCloud and Deke Sargent are the makings of a story about a gentleman to the rescue of a damsel in distress. He takes her back to his apartment to help her calm down and they end up in bed. OK, a great way to start a romantic novel. But for the next four and a half CDs, every other sentence is about them in bed. There are small portions of Laney's life as a kindergarten teacher and Deke's as a lawyer but the main focus of the book was how hot they were for each other.
I kept hoping that Ms. Brown would expand on their lives and how they worked out their two vastly different lifestyles. I was hoping that Ms. Brown would allow Laney's character to want to find her father and expand on that subject matter. I was hoping that Ms. Brown would expand on Deke's large family and loving chaos that goes with it. Unfortunately, none of this happened.
In short, this is a bedroom book and the story line goes lacking. In Ms. Brown's book, Hello Darkness, she wrote a wonderful plot and the characters didn't find it necessary to fall into bed at every turn. In Envy there were a few references to bedrooms scenes but there was a plot and she developed it. Seduction by Design was a book that sounded like it would be totally involved in the bedroom but was not. And, finally The Switch was a murder mystery involving twin sisters. Again, none of these books involved a total commitment to sex. I had hoped Ms. Brown would continue to write in this manner in Words of Silk but was disappointed.
The story begins in a 10 minutes black out in an elevator in New York City. The sparks that ignited between a very claustrophobic Laney McCloud and Deke Sargent are the makings of a story about a gentleman to the rescue of a damsel in distress. He takes her back to his apartment to help her calm down and they end up in bed. OK, a great way to start a romantic novel. But for the next four and a half CDs, every other sentence is about them in bed. There are small portions of Laney's life as a kindergarten teacher and Deke's as a lawyer but the main focus of the book was how hot they were for each other.
I kept hoping that Ms. Brown would expand on their lives and how they worked out their two vastly different lifestyles. I was hoping that Ms. Brown would allow Laney's character to want to find her father and expand on that subject matter. I was hoping that Ms. Brown would expand on Deke's large family and loving chaos that goes with it. Unfortunately, none of this happened.
In short, this is a bedroom book and the story line goes lacking. In Ms. Brown's book, Hello Darkness, she wrote a wonderful plot and the characters didn't find it necessary to fall into bed at every turn. In Envy there were a few references to bedrooms scenes but there was a plot and she developed it. Seduction by Design was a book that sounded like it would be totally involved in the bedroom but was not. And, finally The Switch was a murder mystery involving twin sisters. Again, none of these books involved a total commitment to sex. I had hoped Ms. Brown would continue to write in this manner in Words of Silk but was disappointed.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Silly & Simple- Don't Read
6 Jun 2005
Format:Hardcover
That's all I can really say about this novel. SIMPLE! It doesn't deserves to get any stars. ZERO, NADA, NONE! Plot is weak, and very unrealistic, not to mention dated (I'm 26, but I can't imagine any woman falling for this caveman-stalker-bully even in the 80's) No way. If you're looking for a fast read, try The Rana Look or 22 Indigo Place. They have a little more depth.
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