Dirty like Me

The sparks fly when a Vancouver-based rock star hires a struggling artist first to appear in his new video and then to act as his girlfriend as he goes on tour across North America. Katie Bloom has no intention of being known as rocker Jesse Mayes’s latest fling, but the money is too good to pass up, and she’s secretly intrigued by Jesse’s blend of roguish charm and private playfulness. Their mutual attraction is impossible to deny, and what starts off as a performance for the cameras soon turns real, with the two lovers burning up the sheets even as Jesse’s album burns up the charts. But they both know it’s only for the duration of the tour, and Katie can’t wait to get back to a normal life. For this first entry in the Dirty contemporary romance series, Diamond (Deep) crafts a spicy, sassy, sexy romance with likable characters who share intense chemistry, and populates it with a memorable, entertaining supporting cast. It feels like Katie and Jesse take forever to realize their obvious feelings for one another, but their story is still satisfying. (BookLife)