[dreams]

Originally Posted by alansplace

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I'm now starting to read Trouble in Paradise, the second Jesse Stone novel.

I read the first few some years ago. Then I caught part of a program staring Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone on TV one evening.

Spoiler:

CBS has adapted the Jesse Stone novels into a series of movie specials starring Tom Selleck in the title role. The movies begin out of sequence but stay relatively true to storylines and character with exceptions made mostly for television network viewing palatability, until the fourth film.

I was interested in seeing more of them, but, when I looked it up, I saw this.

Originally Posted by dreams

The Buried Pyramid by Jane Lindskold is on hold right now. I've listened to a couple of freebie books and have just started The Curse of Senmut by Vickie Britton, another freebie from our Deals forum and a just joined MR author. This one is holding my attention, although I'm not far enough in to really know how good it will be.

I'm having a bit of a slow down with reading lately. Too many things going on at once and too little time to spend on one thing.

The Curse of Senmut went on hold and I thought I would try a short, fluff book to fill in, The Frog Prince by Elle Lothlorien, that was free about a week ago on amazon. It also is being read in bits and pieces, but a little cute so far.

Spoiler:

It was his pheromones that did it. With one sniff, sex researcher Leigh Fromm recognizes that any offspring she might have with the mysterious stranger would have a better-than-average chance of surviving any number of impending pandemics.

But when Leigh finds out that the handsome “someone” at her great aunt’s wake is Prince Roman Habsburg von Lorraine of Austria, she suddenly doubts her instincts—not that she was intending to sleep with the guy. The royal house of Habsburg was once completely inbred, insanity and impotency among the highlights of their genetic pedigree. (The extreme “bulldog underbite” that plagued them wasn’t called the Habsburg Jaw for nothing.)

It doesn’t matter that his family hasn’t sat on a throne (other than the ones in their Toilette) since 1918, or that Austria is now a parliamentary democracy. Their lives couldn’t be more different: Roman is routinely mobbed by paparazzi in Europe. Leigh is regularly mocked for having the social skills of a potted plant. Even if she suddenly developed grace, charm and a pedigree that would withstand the scrutiny of the press and his family, what exactly is she supposed to do with this would-have-been king of Austria who is in self-imposed exile in Denver, Colorado?