Playing Dirty

Snow’s second Risky Business contemporary (after Power Play) continues to draw out a sexy but confounding love triangle. Executive assistant Sage Reece is still torn between her boss, suave Parker Anderson, and his former best friend, bad-boy cop Dean Ryker. Dean claims to love Sage, but she stops short of admitting her love for him. Is she put off by his irregular hours, which sometimes make her feel like a booty call, or his baffling behavior after an old cover is blown? Or is it simply the slow-burning lust that remains between her and Parker? Sage’s bigger problem is that someone wants her dead, and both men vow to protect her. Readers will be more impressed by Parker’s devastatingly sexy self-control than Dean’s predictable explosiveness. As for Sage, she insipidly wavers between the two men, often with Parker’s encouragement, which is almost as annoying as her habit of stubbornly, stupidly endangering herself and the others. Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (Oct.)