Catalyst

by Charlene Teglia

If Veronica Jones' prince is coming, he's lost her address. Resigned to the single life, she buys a house and settles down with her man-hating cat. But single doesn't have to mean celibate, especially... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419955470
• ISBN13: 9781419955471
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Catalyst

Veronica Jones has to move... again. It seems that her cat Sebastian doesn't play very well with others and he keeps angering landlords. Veronica does the right thing and buys a house. The only problem at the moment is the fact that she can't find her coffee grinder. So, like any normal new neighbor, she rings her next door neighbor's doorbell to ask to borrow either a coffee grinder or some pre-ground coffee. What she doesn't count on is the fact that her next door neighbor is handsome, built, and totally sexy. Scott Davis is afraid that he has waited too long. As the last man standing in the marriage race his friend's have all succumbed to, he finds himself wanting the same things. He wants a wife to come home to, children, white fence, everything. As Scott contemplates while rocking in his hammock, he notices the shadow of his new neighbor, and she is stacked! Scott thinks maybe she might want to 'borrow' something of his and he plans to oblige her. He doesn't count on Sebastian, the man hating cat standing in his way. Catalyst was a good read although there is no way that I would have put up with a pet that was as much trouble as Sebastian. I love my pets, but wow, that cat raises cain. That aside, Catalyst was a wonderfully well-written, absolutely darling, love story. Scott was sexy and shy at the same time and I adored him. Veronica cracked me up several times while reading. Especially when she would think of new names to call Scott like "Mr. Devastatingly Handsome." Catalyst is the first book I have ever read by Ms. Teglia, and it won't be the last. Talie reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Charlene Teglia's CATALYST is fast paced, a pleasure to read, and will have you smiling through to t

Veronica has been evicted due to her cat's supposed vindictiveness against the landlord. Since acquiring Sebastian, she'd moved several times. Obviously, if there is a prince out there for her he'd lost her address. With her thirtieth birthday coming up, if she's going to have the white picket fence and home of her home she's going to have to provide it for herself. She might as well settle into spinsterhood, she already has the cat. Scott lives next door to the house that Veronica has bought. He's the last bachelor left in his group of friends, having gone from getting wedding announcements to birth announcements. His mother is practically drooling at the idea of the grandchildren he isn't providing her. Now he's wondering if he's spent too long messing with Ms. Right Now and Ms. Right passed him right by. Until he spots his newest neighbor and realizes Ms. Right just moved in, then he begins to worry that maybe his Ms. Right didn't wait around for him. The morning after moving into her new home, Veronica finds herself desperate for a caffeine jolt that only fresh brewed coffee could provide. However, the coffee bean grinder has mysteriously disappeared and she doesn't have a hammer to smash the beans with, so Veronica finds herself standing on her neighbor's porch ready to beg for help getting her caffeine fix. When the ultra sexy Scott answers the door, she discovers that like her, he is not a morning person and can't function without a morning cup of coffee either. While sharing a morning cup of coffee, Scott and Veronica engage in the normal getting to know you question and answer session with lots of sexual overtones. Since Veronica can't cook at all, Scott offers to teach her since it's something he enjoys. Secretly, he's plotting to weasel his way into her heart by having her at his "cooking classes" each night. He already knows just by the delicious way she was looking at him that she wants him, but he's decided that he wants her for more than one night, and that will require seduction. However, Scott has yet to meet his competition in the form of Veronica's man-hating-cat, Sebastian. CATALYST had me laughing out loud over the antics of Sebastian in all his territorial male glory. I could easily picture this mangy tomcat acting like the lord and master over Veronica and running off any men that come into the vicinity. Veronica's obsession over the need for coffee and the loss of the coffee bean grinder is what initially brings Veronica and Scott together, but a mutual need for each other keeps them coming back. Veronica secretly desires a caveman approach, and Scott wants to deliver a caveman approach but goes for the gentle seducer in the hopes of obtaining Veronica's heart as well as her libido. Charlene Teglia's CATALYST is fast paced, a pleasure to read, and will have you smiling through to the end. Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)