Private Matters

By Amberlina Wicker

Charismatic jewel thief Calvin Carleton had gotten rich by taking what was't his. But he paid the price of a life on the run with a lonely existence. Then he met, Tanya, a woman he could seduce into helping him escape an angry mob boss and save a man's life. How could he have known she'd touch his heart by believing in him?

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786002468
• ISBN13: 9780786002467
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Arabesque
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

PRIVATE MATTERS (or The Jewel Thief's Woman)

When her fiance is mistakenly kidnapped by the Black Chicago mob, a beautiful, spirited woman joins forces with the intended victim - a handsome charismatic jewel thief - by acting as a gangster's moll to con gamblers out of the money needed to ransom her fiance. This is a rousing (scary, laughing, romantic) story with wonderful, colorful urban characters such as Two-Step, Fancy Eddie, CSaw and his gangster brother, Big Bull, that will keep you turning the pages. You will fall in love with CC, the Jewel Thief, root for him as much as you will for Tanya, left stranded in Springfield, Illinois after Big Bull's henchmen kidnap her fiance whom they mistake for CC. This is a lush romance story of the True Love variety. Beginning in the State's Capital City and ending on the banks of Chicago's Great Lake Michigan, these charming lovers will tickle your funny bone while simultaneously, the celestial inevitability of their love will take your breath away. Published as a multi-cultural romance, Private Matters is in reality, a transcultural romance. Two beautiful human beings find each other, and the stars being what they are, nothing on this earth can separate them. This is why I so love this book. Most novels you can exchange one hero/heroine for another. Not in Private Matters. By the end of the book, you KNOW these two are meant for each other and only the other. It is CC and Tanya, and only CC and Tanya. These are our lovers for the millineum!