Trading Places

by Ruth Jean Dale

Alice Wynn has nothing to lose-- and only fun and adventure to gain. So she agrees to impersonate her glamorous boss, Sharlayne Kenyon, who needs solitude to finish her scandalous memoirs. Jed Kilby... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373709927
• ISBN13: 9780373709922
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

dynamite romantic suspense

Notorious glamour queen Sharlayne shakes up high society when she announces plans to write her memoirs. However, Sharlayne tells her publisher Lindon Wilbert that U.S. Eye muckraker Gina Godfrey will not allow her the peace and quiet needed to complete her autobiography. Lindon is more worried that one or more of his client's ex-husbands or even the "family" members of one dead husband might object. He believes it is a possibility that Sharlayne will be fitted for cement shoes to get their way. To buy her time, Sharlayne informs employee Alice Wynn that she will impersonate her. To insure no one gets close enough to see Alice masquerade as Sharlayne, Lindon hires Jed Kelby of S.J. Slade Insurance Agency as a bodyguard. Expecting a prima donna, Jed breaks rule number one of bodyguarding by falling in love with his client. The fake Sharlayne reciprocates, but wonders if Jed loves Alice or her glamorous alter ego? Then again someone is using bombs and a bullet to insure that book never is finished. TRADING PLACES is not the Ackroyd-Murphy movie. Instead it is a fun to read romantic suspense. Alice is a brave heroine, who finds celebrity status lacking. Though Jed feels like an idiot when he learns just whose body he protects and loves, readers will adore the dolt. The story line is fast paced though the attacks on the fake Sharlayne seems stretched, as exposes are a way of life. Still what makes the novel is the lead couple's love blossoming even when Alice is Sharlayne.Harriet Klausner

Great fun! Very highly recommended

"People see what they expect to see, not what's actually there."TRADING PLACES details an everyday woman who gains an opportunity to trade places with her celebrity boss. Alice Wynn prefers cotton rather than spandex, au natural to bleached and made up. Then one day notorious boss lady Sharlayne Kenyon convinces Alice to trade places to throw the press of her track while she retreats to an island paradise to pen her autobiography. A little bleach, a haircut, a change in wardrobe and viola -- Alice becomes Sharlayne. But little does Alice suspect how quickly a dream come true can turn dangerous.Alice retreats to lush Beverly Hills with security guard Jed Kelby and Sharlayne's assistant, the dragon lady Tabitha Thomas. She agrees its worth a little stress and strain to insure a debt-free future since she's still paying her grandmother's hospital bills. A registered nurse, she'd spent nearly ten years caring for her grandmother before going to work for Sharlayne. But soon Alice wishes she could break out of her silken prison. Despite Jed's prostration that he must follow his boss' dictate that "Thou shalt not get involved with thy client."As he tries to juggle the dictates of his boss and his conscious, Jed knows he's in trouble. He resents the press labeling him Sharlayne's newest boy toy. Further, the woman he believes to be Sharlayne is the sexist, hardest to resist woman he's ever met. One moment she acts like a playgirl and lives up to her reputation as an adventuress; the next moment she is as shy and naive as a teenager. The more Jed tries to remain cool and professional, the more she kicks up her campaign to drive him wild.For this reviewer, TRADING PLACES by Ruth Jean Dale was one of those rare novels that I couldn't put down. Dale's quick paced, neatly constructed plot combined with extraordinary characters held me enthralled. Indeed this unforgettable combination of tension and sizzle goes on my keeper shelf. Very highly recommended.