title: Critic's Choice
author: Cole, Sue Ellen
description: BEHIND THE SCENES
  
  Vea Valdez, L.A.'s most influential film critic, was both beautiful and acid-tongued. While millions of adoring fans thought Rafe. Dougin, the lanky, maddeningly self-assured hero of countless Westerns, was the sexiest man alive, Vea thought he was just another dumb cowboy.
  
  How strange, then, that after a narrow escape at the Cannes Film Festival from the madman threatening her life, Vea should find herself clinging to Rafe. And it wasn't only fear that drew them together....
  
  But could she trust Rafe? Her critiques of him on screen were scathing. But her heart was giving him rave reviews off screen....