Cop on Loan

By Jeannie Watt

Playing bodyguard to a vigilante librarian?excuse me, library technician?is not the career move Tony DeMonte had in mind when he came to this town. On temporary loan, the big-city cop figured he'd take it easy, maybe watch the grass grow. Not with Jasmine Storm colliding into danger every other day. Getting mixed up with a failed drug bust is just the beginning. Now she claims there's an intruder in her house. Which leaves Tony no choice but to?move in. Jasmine and her cat get the protection they need, and Tony and his dog get a roof over their heads. But he can't stay forever?despite one attractive library technician's attempts to make him see that a solitary life is a lonely life.?

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037371520X
• ISBN13: 9780373715206
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

A great read...

Ms. Watts takes two wounded characters and leads them through a healing process that makes this a very enjoyable read. Love the dog, the cat and the cast of secondary characters. A real winner, Ms. Watts.

Cop on Loan

This is a nice light mystery-romance and it would fit well on film or television, with the right actors, of course. As usual, Jeannie has just the right dialogue, and in Cop on Loan, she spiced up the story with a couple of pets with original names. I liked Genghis Khat, who belonged to Jasmine, the main female character. Originality at play here. And equally so in her selection of a moniker to describe the Great Dane owned by Tony, the male lead. How's Muttzilla for a mountain of a dog? In her choice of characters, Jeannie uses the "opposites attract" equation. Jasmine Storm is an attractive librarian in a small town in Washington state. Tony DeMonte is a jaded big-city cop from Seattle on loan to the local police department. Jasmine is the nice, neat personification of the stereotypical Miriam the Librarian whereas Tony is a scruffy Italian guy with curly black hair. The two protagonists meet in a back alley behind the library one night as Jasmine and her boss sit in a car in an attempt to find out who has been breaking into the library. Tony and his partner are in the same alley on a stake-out to nab some drug dealers. The detectives mistake Jasmine and her boss for the dealers and confront them with guns drawn. The two are off to a rocky start. Things don't improve much when we learn that Jasmine has her own mystery to contend with. Someone has been entering her home for mysterious reasons and in the process releasing Genghis Khat. Jasmine becomes frightened and speaks to Tony about it. He's your classic disbelieving cop, however, and doubts her story. But since he is about to be ejected from his own lodgings, he sees an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, rent Jasmine's basement and alleviate her fears over her mysterious visitor. Okay, no more from me. You'll need to buy the book and read it for the unexpected resolution of both mysteries. You'll be surprised at Jeannie's original ending, not only her revelation of the identity(ies) of the culprit(s), but perhaps of more importance to readers of romances, the equally novel surprise ending to Jasmine's and Tony's love story.

fun police procedural romance

Someone keeps unlocking the library every night so chief librarian sexagenarian Dorothy Murdock decides on a stakeout to catch the perpetrator. Library technician Jasmine Storm fails to persuade Dorothy to drop the surveillance so she accompanies her to try to keep her boss safe. However neither library employee is prepared for what happens on their one night vigilance. They end up in the middle of a police operation to find proof that a home across from the library is a drug house. On loan from the big city, police detective Anthony DeMonte is furious especially with all the work his partner Yates did to pull off the maneuver ending with yelling at two librarians not to move; the bust was a bust. However, when strange things occur near Jasmine's home, Anthony moves into her basement to keep her safe. COP ON LOAN is a fun police procedural romance starring two warriors who start off wrong when he informs her that her name denotes stripper. Their relationship can only go up from there it would seem, but not with this pairing as she believes you can't count on this cop. Readers will enjoy the gender battle between Jasmine and Anthony with a strong investigative subplot and solid secondary characters augmenting the wonderful romance. Harriet Klausner