“ saucy feminist romp… Crusie charms with her brisk, edgy style, and the repartee between Sophie and Phin keeps energy and sexual tension high. Don’t ever throw a game with me again.” Welcome to Temptation by Jenny Crusie Praise and Reviews “On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. One of ’s Top Ten Romances of 2000Ī Literary Guild / Doubleday Book Club Featured Alternate Selection Gossip, adultery, and blackmail pornography, politics, and murder vehicular abuse of a corpse and slightly perverse but really excellent sex: all hell is breaking loose in Temptation, Ohio, while Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble… and in love. It only takes one look before Sophie knows that Phin’s the kind of boy her mother used to warn her about– a fast-talking town boy– and Phin knows she’s the kind of woman his father told him to stay away from– the devil’s candy.Īnd in no time at all, boredom is the least of their difficulties. The son of generations of mayors, Phin’s trying to be an upstanding citizen, but it’s, well, boring. The daughter of generations of con men, Sophie’s trying to walk the straight and narrow, but it’s, well, difficult.Īll Mayor Phineas Tucker wants to do is run Temptation with as little fuss as possible and win his upcoming election without cutting into the time he needs for his real passion: playing pool. Now she’s making trouble for the town council, love with the mayor, and lemonade for a murderer.Īll Sophie Dempsey wants to do is help her sister make a video of a washed-up actress and get out of town before they get into trouble. With hot sex, clever characters, and Crusie's trademark wit, "Welcome to Temptation" will keep your eyes glued to the page and your stomach aching with laughter.Sophie came to Temptation, Ohio to help her sister make a movie. Clea's husband Zane turns belly-up, the race for mayor turns dirty, and Sophie and Phin turn on the heat full steam. But things are never easy in rural Ohio, and what starts off as an esoteric art film project soon evolves into potential porn-and that's just the relationships, let alone the documentary. And when the local mayor, Phin Tucker, and the police chief, Wes Mazur, proffer themselves as willing subjects for quick flings, Sophie and Amy aren't the type to object. Sophie and Amy Dempsey are just two wedding filmers trying to hop to the next level of their careers when they agree to produce a documentary of aging film star Clea Whipple's return to her hometown of Temptation, Ohio. Prepare to be absolutely charmed by Jennifer Crusie's riotous tale of two slightly twisted sisters and a town chock full of hunks, coots, and petty politics in "Welcome to Temptation." Paperback - 0312932804 WELCOME TO TEMPTATION
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