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Sydney Cabot doesn't trust uptight attorney Regan Desanto, who is assigned to defend her in a civil suit, and the feeling is mutual--but Syd's career is in the balance and her libido is sending signals that are impossible to ignore.

City Attorney Regan Desanto moved to town a year ago after her partner of twenty years dumped her for another woman. All she wants is to be near her ailing grandmother and to work ordinary, boring municipal cases until she can get her life back together. Beat officer Sydney Cabot is a chronic serial polyamorist who craves the adrenaline rush on and off the job. She has never wanted to be or tried to be faithful to one woman. When Syd is slapped with a wrongful death suit, Regan, the most uptight, controlling, and monogamous woman Syd has ever met, is assigned the case. They don't much like each other, but they have to work together--and what's even more of a challenge, they have to figure out how to defuse their growing attraction.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #158721 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 290 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781602820531
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Raw excitement - passion - drama!
Sydney Cabot has been on the police force at High Point North Carolina for 12 years and loves her job. Eight months ago she used her gun in self defense in the midst of a robbery and since then she has been on a binge of mindless sex which has always been her escape. Finally cleared from wrongful death she now must face a civil lawsuit.

Regan Desanto works as a city attorney in High Point. She fled 500 miles from Nashville a year earlier after her college sweetheart and lover of fifteen years dumps her for a co-worker in the midst of a high profile trial which she ends up losing. Devastated by the double loss Regan looks to restart her life.

The two come together as client and lawyer. Major fireworks flare, each has completely different approaches to life yet both are compelling drawn to the other.

Tremendous raw passion from the first page to the last with a terrific twist that make this a very exciting ending.

If you enjoyed this story you will want to read the author's other novel 'To Protect and Serve'.

Nothing Short of Divine
I'm not going to sugar coat it. I wasn't a huge fan of Powell's first book - To Protect and Serve. I only gave it 3.5 stars (rounded up to 4 for Amazon) because it just wasn't that exciting, so I wasn't sure I wanted to try another by this author. Wow. I'm extremely glad I took a chance and ordered her second book. This one is so fantastic it's almost as though it was written by a different person.

The plot is nothing short of divine. The characters are extremely well-developed. There is a fantastic supporting cast. Powell interjects drama, humor, angst, lust and many other things into an unquestionable lesbian classic in the making.

First is the femme-on-the-inside / butch-on-the-outside cop Sydney Cabot. Syd is a beat cop who has recently been cleared of all wrongdoing after fatally shooting a suspect. As a coping mechanism, she blocks all feelings and seeks the purely physical connection one gets from rigorous, anonymous sex. Hoping to move on with her life, Syd is devastated when she finds out a wrongful death suit has been brought against her by the victim's family. Worst of all is her attorney - a gorgeous woman to whom she has strongly attracted - recently lost a case just like hers.

That attorney is Regan Desanto. Regan has demons of her own to face. Her partner of 15 years suddenly left her for another woman. As her defenses raise up, Regan leaves town and takes a job as assistant district attorney in another town. Before moving, she loses a wrongful death suit against a cop. She just couldn't commit herself completely to the case because of the turmoil in her personal life. Due to the pressure of losing the case, the cop kills himself, making Regan's guilt even harder to overcome. Desperate to give the case away for fear for failure and fear of her attraction to Syd, Regan is forced to deal with both.

These women have to overcome their own demons. They have to come to terms with their undeniable differences and attraction. Circumstances make this almost impossible, but love is a powerful thing.

I'm not usually one to write a novel-length review to describe a book I've just read, but this was one of the fundamentally good books I've read in a long time.

Bottom Line - Don't miss out on this one. It's a real winner. (P.S. Now I can't wait for Powell's next book, `Fever' due out in 2010.)

Passions falls short
"Suspect Passions" by V.K. Powell shows an author who has quite a good grasp of the use of prose, but seems to fall short on plot. "Passions" is purely a romance novel somewhat on the lighter side, that is based loosely on the day to day life of a police officer, awaiting a return to regular duty after a shooting in the line of duty. Powell is, however, a writer I intend to keep an eye on, and I'm sure with some time she will begin to produce some excellent novels. I look forward to that time.