REVIEWED BY COLETTE

TITLE:    Crazy From the Heat

AUTHOR:   Mercy Celeste

PUBLISHER:  MJC Press

LENGTH:  161 pages

BLURB:

Life is like high school.

For Grey Talbot teaching high school history was a choice. When a gorgeous blond punk of a kid walks into his class with attitude to spare, Grey fears his choice might just be his undoing.

High school kids kept getting younger and Paul Gaines stayed the same. Moving from one city narcotics unit to the next, his youthful looks and slender body made him a perfect undercover cop for the job.

Meeting the professor wasn’t part of the deal. The man was smart sexy and off limits even if he was younger than Paul.

For Grey getting involved with one of his students, even if that student wore a badge meant playing with fire. Fire that could burn them both.

REVIEW:

Um, what just happened? There I was reading along, mostly ignoring the editing and not rolling my eyes too much when BAM out of nowhere comes the ending. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying I didn’t like it – I did, if fact, enjoy this book. But, I enjoyed it in spite of the problems I had with it.  This is classic Mercy Celeste – there are so many twists and turns in the story, so many revelations out of left field, so much sex – lots and lots of hot sweaty sex.

Paul is an undercover narcotics officer posing as a 17 year old student – I have never met a 30 y/o who could pass for 17 but I guess it is possible.  He has a troubled past and impulse control issues. Grey is a 28 year old History teacher at the school Paul is assigned to.  He too has a troubled past and similar impulse control issues.

When Grey is assaulted near his home one night by a suspect that Paul is chasing and he is injured, Paul rescues him and takes him home to check out his injuries. Grey learns his student is not quite who/what he appears to be. The sexual tension between the two is immediate and they can’t really keep their hands, and other body parts, off each other. Even though they both know that they should not get involved while Paul is undercover and that his assignment will probably only last a few weeks, They Still Can’t  Keep Their Hands Off Each Other – in the class room after class, in the football stadium bathroom, on the terrace, yup pretty much everywhere inappropriate and dangerous.  Throw in Paul’s ex-partner, his ex-boyfriend, Grey’s not-boyfriend, a lascivious teacher, some body piercings, painful revelations and WITSEC and you have the whole story.

If you are a fan of Mercy Celeste, and don’t mind suspending belief for a few hours, I think you will enjoy this – I did.

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