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Reviewed by JJ Phillips for Readers' Favorite
Art of Affection (Love, California Style) by Ellen Butler is a romantic suspense that brings together two people who aren't looking for romance. Holly is now a single mom trying to raise her daughter and own her own business. She shares a nanny with Gary Sumner, a detective with the LAPD. Because both parents work so much, they help each other with the babysitting and spend a lot of time with each other's children, who are fast becoming good friends. Holly and Gary are becoming friends, too, and could be more if they could get past their trust issues and personal baggage from past relationships. But when the children are put in real danger, both parents step up to do whatever is necessary to keep their kids safe. Even if it means trusting in each other, something that threatens to ignite a fire long burning in both Holly and Gary.
Art of Affection is a well-written, well-executed love story that has just the right amounts of love, tension, action, denial, and believability. It is everything a romantic suspense should be! There are action scenes, plot twists, romantic scenes between Holly and Gary, and scenes where both Holly and Gary question the feelings they won't admit they have for one another (even though they desperately want to act on those feelings). So fantastic I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Everything that I want from a great romantic suspense writer I just found in Ellen Butler.
