Title: Corkscrewed
Author: MJ O’Shea
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel (200 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (December 1st 2014)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5 Hearts
Blurb: Cary Talbot has found the perfect mark. Marigold Shelley is filthy rich, and her newly found grandson, Isaac Shelley, is poised to inherit her huge estate, complete with a priceless wine collection. Cary concocts a plan to con both of them into selling the crown jewel of that collection to him at a bargain price. Since Isaac is young, single, and gay, part of Cary’s scheme to get close to the Shelleys includes seduction.
But Isaac isn’t the sheep he appears to be. He isn’t even the grandson he appears to be. Isaac is, in fact, running quite the con of his own.
These two masters of the confidence game are pitted against each other, and both are after the ultimate prize—a chunk of the huge Shelley fortune. It’s only when a third cunning player comes in and is ready to outwit them both that they must band together and beat their opponent or see all they’ve worked for slip from their grasp one ruby-red drop at a time.
ISBN: 9781632165268
Product Link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5756
Reviewer: Tams
Review: Isaac has no memory of his life prior to the car crash that took the lives of his parents. Raised by Ronan, a grifter, Isaac is about to assume the identity of one Isaac Shelley, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. Infiltrating the Shelley family proves to be much easier than Isaac anticipated, perhaps because Merigold Shelly, the patriarch of the family, is certain that he is her grandson. It’s the sexy, flirtatious Cary Talbot that is the problem.
Cary is a grifter as well, and the Shelley’s extensive and expensive wine collection is what he has his sights on. The gorgeous, young, and inexperienced grandson Isaac is just icing on the cake. Cary uses their mutual attraction to seduce the heir apparent and everything is going according to plan, until a third person wiggles their way into the grift and Isaac realizes that Cary is actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
They try hard to stay away from each other, to hate each other, but something seems to always push them back together. When the third-party is revealed as well as a few more ‘family secrets’ Cary is free to go his own way. Age difference, unsavory careers, and chosen identities aside, these two have fallen in love. But can they get past all the obstacles in their way and actually trust each other enough to follow through?
Did you ever see the movie ‘The Grifters’ with Jon Cusack and Angelica Huston? Imagine that movie set in wine country with the threat of Uma Thurman from Kill Bill and a gay love story developing behind the scenes. Now you have a pretty good visual for Corkscrewed. There was mystery, intrigue, suspense and some pretty smexy love scenes. O’Shea has an ability to write the most unlikely love stories, make them believable, relatable, and still give the characters depth. Definitely an author I will buy just because her name is on the book, don’t care what it’s about because it is bound to be terrific!
A must read for anyone that likes romantic comedies with a bit of intrigue and a plethora of sexual situations. There is shy getting to know you sex, can’t seem to bury myself any further inside of you sex, I hate you but I want you sex and my personal favorite, angry sex. I promise you this, you won’t be bored!
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