Count on Love

By Melinda Curtis

It took guts for Annie Raye to come home to Vegas. With a cardsharp for a father and a convicted embezzler for an ex, she's already got two strikes against her. The last thing the struggling single mother needs is some private investigator deep-sixing her chance to go straight Annie, a former gambling prot?g?, isn't going to pull the wool over this ex-soldier's eyes--even if Sam Knight is finding the woman and her daughter impossible to resist. She certainly has an uncanny knack for counting cards, but Sam can read people. And everything about Annie tells him she wants the same things he only wishes he could have: a family and a love you can rely on...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373714483
• ISBN13: 9780373714483
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Card Sharks Beware!

Annie Raye is back in Vegas. She left Vegas to go straight, leaving her card counting father and the life she hated behind. She was a bright child, and at the age of twelve began card counting - for a living. When she beat one of the most successful casino owners of all time, she began refusing to play blackjack because she watched her father almost beaten to death over the game. Annie is back to find a life for herself and her daughter, Maddy. She has come home to Vegas to take a job at Slotto, but a private investigator, Sam Knight has rejected her for the position over her background check. Annie wants to know why, and sets out to prove herself to him. When Sam finds out she is THE card counter from years ago, he is intrigued, but still has illegal players to find before the casinos are run broke by card counters. Sam and Annie are exact opposites and play upon each others weaknesses to create chaos and situations that left this reader laughing out loud at times. They also come together with a bang, and when their attraction blows up, they are both torn between wanting each other, and knowing what might happen. Sam passing out every time Maddy comes into his vision makes for a unique twist that made this reader sigh with frustration and to hope he can overcome his past to make a future with this family. This reader loved numbers growing up and made counting objects a big game. As Maddy counts things, and plays, she makes a great secondary character and gives a great dimension to this tale. Her antics and the love that surrounds her turn this tale into a family tale to treasure. In this reviewers opinion this one of the best Super Romance novels publishes so far this year, and this author will be put on auto-buy for future books to come! Review Courtesy of LoveRomancesandmore