Product Description

Kit Colfax is a sassy insurance investigator who is out to catch herself a suave Southern jewel thief any way she can. Her very career depends on it. But she's in for the surprise of her life when she mistakenly snares handsome chief of police Simon "Beau" Beaulieux in her sting operation instead.

Lord have mercy, if the man didn't have a voice custom made for smooth satin sheets on hot, sultry afternoons, dripping with the scent of honeysuckle and the taste of icy mint juleps sliding down kiss-parched throats.

Kit does her best to resist the sexy Louisiana aristocrat. But a series of disasters--certainly not his heated kisses--have her chasing Beau from Las Vegas to the bayous of his antebellum plantation, where she finds herself hopelessly caught in the sensual web of his love.

Catch Me If You Can is a sizzling, fast-paced romantic suspense story-with emphasis on the romance. You'll love the twists and turns of the plot, and the picturesque settings from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the sultry atmosphere of Beau's Southern plantation. But most of all you'll fall in love with Beau and Kit, as together they discover that love always catches you just when you least expect it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1264711 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Melinda Helfer, Romantic Times Magazine, Special Valentines Issue, 2000
Gifted new author Nina Bruhns makes quite a splash in her debut book, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (4). A lovely insurance investigator resorts to desperate measures to catch a notorious jewel thief, only to get tangled up with the suspect's enigmatic cousin. Just who is who? Ms. Bruhns' keen eye for vivid, unforgettable scenes and a wonderful romantic sensibility bode well for a long and successful career.

From the Publisher
Catch Me if You Can was the 1998 winner of the prestigious Golden Heart Award, given out annually by the Romance Writers of America.

From the Author
Catch Me If You Can was inspired by a very short scene from a now-defunct TV show. In it, a gorgeous woman takes off her dress and wagers it in a poker game. It was an extremely erotic scene, and the idea just would not leave me alone. But how could a nice, innocent romance heroine be caught in a dubious position like that? And how could an honorable (if obnoxiously sexy) romance hero come to be the one she loses it to? How far would they go...? By the time I came up with the answers to these questions I had my plot! Heroine Kit Colfax is an insurance investigator out to save her career by catching a suave Southern jewel thief in the act. She sets up an elaborate sting in a poker game to nab him. Imagine her consternation when she mistakenly reels in the sexy chief of police instead! Simon "Beau" Beaulieux is the epitome of a Louisiana gentleman, so he does what any hero worth his gumbo would do--he cons her right back. By winning her dress.

Kit is determined to stick to her career plan and catch her jewel thief. But she's in for the surprise of her life when she loses that dress to Beau--and he ends up catching her instead.

Customer Reviews

CAUSED GREAT CONFLICT
I will have to rate the author - Excellent -
The story with its fast paced coflict and action - Excellent
The characters [male, anyway] and the legend - Excellent
But the leading woman [she was sure no lady] with her mental attitude to morality - her emotional conflict - immature - and her reasons for looking a gift horse in the mouth and backing away [Simon Beaulieux]for a job?? Nope, not too bright at all.

Her insecurity didn't go well with her job. For being a cracker-jack investigator she was too emotional. But being human [for a character that is] I couldn't stand her attitude toward life. She seemed to cause her own problems [but don't we all]. Great story and excellent author to make one feel so about a character.

I agreen thar Remi does need his own story - If Simon was juicy, Remi should be a lot better. I loved the gaters getting Hunter. Go 'gaters, Go!

Definitely recommended as an excellent read --M although I wish the leading ladies? 'scuse me, females, weren't such twits!
Am most anxious to get to "Renegade's" story now - N.B.'s stories should just keep getting better.

Nina Bruhns: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
The story is, as with all Nina Bruhns's books, essentially simple. This writer does not need exotic locales, unusual circumstances, unlikely coincidences, famous brand-names and all that, to sustain our interest. She is far too good a writer for that.
Here, the story is that of an insurance investigator (Katherine (Kit) Colfax), who plans a sting to catch a man (Remi Beaulieux) whom she believes to be guilty of jewellery robberies. When she succeeds in interesting him in a no-dealer, invitation-only backroom game in a Las Vegas hotel (c'm on! Vegas isn't exotic!) - and loses a sapphire necklace in the process, to make the sting possible - it turns out that the man to whom she lost the necklace was not Remi, but his look-fairly-alike cousin, Simon ("Beau") Beaulieux, who is Chief of Police in his home-town of Verdigris, LA. It is a great pleasure meeting the Louisiana aristocrat; Ms. Bruhns's French is impeccable, and she has hit upon a most charming manner to translate the French for us without appearing to do so. A man such as Beau is obviously fluently bilingual, therefore it is entirely natural for him to think in a mixture of the French of his ancestors, and English. Ah, Nina Bruhns - you're one helluva writer!
It is a joy to watch Kit and Beau get together, and it is a measure of this gifted writer's art that she sweeps us, with effortless grace, into scenes of such emotional depth that it is impossible not to feel a frisson or two. In the first great love-scene, Ms. Bruhns keeps this going, with deceptive ease, for some ten pages!
Using seemingly simple language, never overwriting, she succeeds in building an emotional tension that is tangible, and one feels that perhaps one has trespassed upon an intensely private moment.
Of course, Kit and Beau disagree vehemently about Remi's alleged guilt, yet, in spite of it all, they feel such a deep attraction for each other.
On the lighter side, there are some highly enjoyable scenes in a disreputable roadhouse deep in Bayou country; then she effortlessly takes us back to some deeply moving love-scenes in Beau's rooms at Terrebeau, and al fresco in the moonlight.
And always Ms Bruhns maintains a seemingly unsustainable tension between the two. Beau, who wants Kit to be with him forever, slowly realizing he wants her to be his wife; and Kit who believes that all she really has going for her in life is her job, her condo in New Orleans, and her determination not to depend on any man (Ms Bruhns briefly sketches for us an unhappy experience Kit had years earlier.
This exceptionally talented writer succeeds in bringing Kit and Beau together in an unusual, but entirely believable way - and if you want to know how she does this, then do yourself a favour and buy this book! Trust me, you will love every page of it.
Amazon still shows some copies available - Hurry! and get one.
You'll thank me!

Catch Me If You Can kicks up the heat in series romance.
Silhouette Intimate Moments is the best in series romance, & now they have another "star" to add to their stable of authors who produce the best in this sub-genre. I like the fact that a series romance is pushing the edge of the newest trend towards erotica. Reading pre-fab romances is boring. Nina Bruhns, a.k.a., Nikita Black, doesn't do boring.

This book is a page turner. Well written, plotted, & jazzed with imagination by an author who shows outstanding ability telling fun stories. Too bad we have to wait so long before SIM puts out her next book.