GETTING HOT WITH THE SCOT – Melonie Johnson
Sometimes in Love  - Book 1 
St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-1-250-19309-4
May 2019
Contemporary Romance

Edinburgh, Scotland, London, England, and Chicago, USA

Cassie Crow has been touring Europe with her four friends, Bonnie, Sadie, Delany, and Ana. Cassie has filled her charm bracelet with charms from Italy, Spain and France, but she has not had the opportunity to use one of the condoms in the box she brought with her. She has not yet achieved her biggest goal: one hot fling before she goes back to her all-consuming job as a pop-culture reporter at  ChiChat , a Chicago daytime talk show. After she and her friends take a break and drink some whiskey, a slightly buzzed Cassie seeks out a rest room. On the way back to her friends she loses her way. She ends up encountering a handsome red-haired man wearing a kilt and speaking a deep Scottish brogue. They share a sexy kiss. It's a set up. The whole scene has been videotaped.

Logan Reid and his sister Janet put together pranks for their Internet program  Shenanigans . The woman they trapped in a prank won't sign the release form. Janet gives him the form and tells him to get it signed. Logan needs this, he might have a chance at a telly program but needs good material to show as a demo for the company. He doesn't get the signature from Cassie but does get a night of great sex. He follows her to London to get the signature.

GETTING HOT WITH THE SCOT is a unique love story. Both Logan and Cassie are concerned with their careers, but a strong physical attraction turns into an emotional one. Their affair ends disastrously in London, begins again in Chicago, but again work interferes, and another disaster breaks them apart. The story is very emotional with many hot sexual encounters, but how can they move a relationship any further? Once back in Chicago, one of her fellow reporters shames Cassie on ChiChat for reading romance novels. Her response is wonderful. Well-developed secondary characters give advice, but ultimately the story is about how Cassie and Logan overcoming their fears of commitment.

Robin Lee