Emma Sutcliffe is the more down to earth twin; while her sister Zara is a famous literary agent now in Australia working on resolving some issues with a movie adaptation Emma has got a job writing articles on diy home improvement like sponge painting your walls but really wants to write cozy whodunnits. Anyway their mother is the uberfamous screamqueen Candy Carmelle and someone wants to buy the ray guy she used in one of her movies...for $2 million. So considering that that would mean neither of them actually has to live with their mother anymore, they are all for it. Only since Zara is in Australia and the buyer doesn't want anyone else to know about the deal Emma has to pretend to be Zara and go to Zara's office to get the ray gun.
Only while there she meets Gage Foster, the "next John Grisham" - Zara had had an appointment with him and he didn't get informed of the cancellation until he was in flight and now he clearly doesn't believe Emma when she tells him she's not Zara. So he follows her to the subway when she gives him the slip which is great luck for Emma cuz some bad guy grabs her purse and pushes her onto the tracks but Gage jumps down to save her. They soon figure out that this bad guy is after the ray gun and Gage isn't about to abandon her to this peril by herself!
This is a good book if the premise appeals to you - I've gotta warn that it's a two parter though, with the actual ray gun theft and subsequent other happenings not wrapped up until the conclusion of Zara's story in Pamela Burford's Twice Burned (which I don't have). But the romance itself is well resolved and Gage and Emma are clearly made for each other - two homebodies who hate NYC (Emma has just had to move there from Maine and Gage has just flown in from Arkansas) and love hot pepper oil on Chinese food and black pepper on vanilla ice cream. What bothered me most about the book was the way Emma didn't seem to care when she completely destroyed Zara's neighbor's new Porsche, oh that and the blood when Gage took Emma's virginity (seriously? is this a historical or something?). Anyway, it is a fun book and I enjoy it even not knowing what happens to Candy once she gets kidnapped (don't worry there's an FBI hero on the case for the next book).
