Review: Witty and well-presented
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
Reviewed by Angie Just Read...for TheRomanceReviews.comBlend the ultimate revenge date and mistaken identity times two and you have an exciting start to a red hot romance.When published author and newspaper columnist Conlan Dawson discovers his future brother-in-law's intention to cheat, Conlan knows he must protect his pregnant sister at all costs, even if it means he has to misrepresent himself and his motives to the home-wrecking woman his sister's fiancé planned to meet for dinner and a hook-up. Plus, he's sure the experience will give him something to write about in Con's Concerns, his featured segment in The Insider local newspaper.Gwen Wilcox has a bone to pick with the unknown male who directed a blatant come on to her pretty cousin at a party, while the scumbag boldly stood next to his very pregnant girlfriend. Posing as her cousin and meeting the would-be cheat for a dinner date, then putting the lowlife in his place will provide interesting fodder to write about in her relationship blog and in the articles she writes for The Bend Voice.Two strangers set on coming on strong, getting the other hot and bothered, and then getting even seems like the perfect payback plan, but, maybe, not so much when both parties later realize the other was not the distasteful quarry they were originally after; that the burning attraction was very, very real, and all that subterfuge is really rather hard to get past.Author Marie Harte's witty and well-presented plot makes this one of the most delicious mistaken identity romances I've read in quite a while. Conlan and Gwen are a powder keg waiting to go off and the initial dilemma they co-create via revenge date leads to antagonism that doesn't easily melt away when their professional lives suddenly converge and neither can they seem to leave the box of matches alone.STEPPING OUT has it all--humor, passion, lots of steam, and a decidedly pleasing conclusion that leaves you longing for another tempting tale from the talented Ms. Harte.