Jen's Place--Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

In addition to being the only two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America's prestigious Favorite Book of the Year award, Susan Elizabeth Phillips also holds Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Susan delights fans by touching hearts as well as funny bones with her wonderfully whimsical and modern fairy tales. She is also a wife and the mother of two grown sons.

"First Lady"
Avon Books, February 2000
Reviewed on 5/5/01

How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. Not for long, however, because she;s made up her mind to escape - if only for a few days - so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the perfect disguise... and she's just found it. With the enitre nation searching for her, she meets a seductive man who has a secret of his own and an appeal that threatens to awaken the woman behind the national icon. With him are two orphaned little girls desperate for a family. Together, they'll take a journey across the heartland chasing their own American dream.
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The Chicago Stars 1. "It Had to Be You"
2. "Heaven, Texas"
3. "This Heart of Mine"
The Bonner Brothers

"It Had To Be You"
Avon Books, 1994
Reviewed on 5/5/01

The windy city isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville - the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Celbow - an Alabama-born former gridiron legend and blond barbarian. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors - a sexist, jock tacskmaster with a one-track mind. The beautiful new boss is everything Dan despises - a meddling bimbo who doesn't know pigskin from a pitcher's mound, So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does Dan's good ol'boy charm leave cosmpolitan Pheobe feeling awkward, tongue-tied and frightened to death?

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"Heaven, Texas"
Avon Books, April 1995
Reviewed on 5/5/01

Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to track down the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton and drag him back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. But taming an egotistical cowboy in a '57 T-bird might be more than this prim Ohio wallfllower can handle. Despite his dazzling good looks and killer charm, Bobby Tom has reservations about being a movie star - and no plans to cooperate with the bossy little virgin whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life. Instead, the hellraising playboy decides to make her over from plain Jane to Texas wildcat. But nothing's more dangerous than a wildcat with an angel's heart ina town too small for a bad boy to hide. And all hell breaks loose when two unforgettable people discover love, laughter, passion - and a match than can be made only in Heaven.

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"This Heart of Mine"
William Morrow, 2001, HC
Reviewed on 5/5/01

Molly Somerville knows she has a reputation for trouble. She did give away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance, but, hey, nobody's perfect. Still, if anyone has an almost perfect life, it's Molly. while her Daphne the Bunny children's books could be selling better, she loves her cramped loft, her French poodle, and her career creating the fiction animals who live in Nightingale Woods. She even loves her sister, Phoebe. True, it was a little tough growing up in her shadow. Phoebe is beautiful, blissfully married, and the owner of the most successful professional football team in America. But who other than her sister knows you're about to do something drastic every thim you change your hair? Yes, Molly's happy about almost everything... except her long-term crush on the daredevil quarterback for the Chicago Stars, the aweful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember her name! One night Molly's penchant for running into trouble runs right into Kevin himself, turning her world upside down. Heartbreak follows, and just when she's certain things can't get worse, Kevin forces his way back into her life. If only the overpaid, Ferrari-driving, poodle-hating jock was as shallow as she wants him to be, she could get on with her almost perfect life. But Kevin's hidden depths and iron will propel Molly out of her comfortable existence into an unforgettable summer at a place called Wind Lake. Surrounded by paintbox cottages and a charming old bed-and-breakfast, she and Kevein battle their attraction while trying to cope with an agin, sexpot actress, a cranky, world-famous artist, and a pair of teenage newlyweds. Their careers and lives are in crisis... yet they can't seem to stay away from each other. Before the summer is over, will they be able to learn one of life's most important lessions? Sometimes falling in love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes - if you're very lucky - it can heal in the most special and unexpected way.
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"Hot Shot"
Pocket Books,June 1991
Reviewed on 5/5/01

With one ingenious invention, they started a brilliant business empire in a seedy California garage. They were renegades who took on corporate America with daring and vision. For Susannah, the cool socialite, it was the hottest challenge of her life; for Sam, the charismatic rebel, it was a rocket-driven-rainbow ride straight into the future on his terms; for Yank, the eccentric inventor, it was a precious dream made dazzlingly real; for Mitch, the marketing genius, it was a risk he had to take. But big dreams can have a cruel price - and Susannah, the daughter of one of the country's most powerful corporate titans, was about to embark on an adventure that would sever her from her family, give her unimagined courage, and open her to a passion so rich, so sensual, that she would be utterly and forever transformed.
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"Kiss An Angel"
Avon Books, February 1996
Reviewed on 5/5/01

Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Markov, as humorless as he is deadly handsome, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a sploied little featherhead with champagne tastes. He drags Daisy from her uptown life to a broken down traveling circus and sets out to tame her to his ways. But this man without a soul has met his match in a woman who's nothing but heart. Before long, passion will send them flying sky high without a safety net... risking it all in search of love that will last forever.
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Golfer's in Love 1. "Fancy Pants"
2. "Lady Be Good"

"Fancy Pants"
Pocket Books, October 1989
Reviewed on 7/5/00

Francesca Day was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe's jet-set playgrounds. Now she's broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown... Dallie Beaudine was tall, lean, All-American gorgeous and a world famous golfer. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. Why in the hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett? Follow Francesca and Dallie as they follow the very bumpy road to love.

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"Lady Be Good"
Avon Books, February 1999
Reviewed on 7/5/00

Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission - she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beauiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace! World-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kicked up his boot heels one too many times, and now he's suspended from the sport he loves. Only one thing will restorer his career: complete and utter respectability! Unfortunately, he's been blackmailedinto chauffering bossy, single-minded Lady Emma, and she's hell-bent on visiting honkytonks, chasing down tattoo parlors, and worse... lots worse. When a gorgeous man who can't afford another scandal meets a hardheaded woman who's determined to cause one, anything can happen. But love? Oh, dear. the impossible. That's outrageous. That's... inevitable!
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The Bonner Brothers The Chicago Stars
1. "Nobody's Baby But You"
2. "Dream A Little Dream"

"Nobody's Baby But Mine"
Avon Books, February 1997
Reviewed on 6/11/98

Dr. Jane Darlington wanted a baby. Being a genius, Jane knows what it is to grow up feeling like a freak. She doesn't want to happen to her child, so, she plans on finding a very special father. Good looks, healthy and most important stupid. That's where Cal Bonner, football quarterback, comes in. He's handsome, obviously in great shape and he's a good ole boy from Salvation, North Carolina with an bad grammar and a slow wit. But Call turns out to be a lot smarter than Jane could ever believe and all of her plans are blown apart. When Cal discovers that she's pregnant, he demands that they marry. Well, Jane realizes she has no other options and agrees but word leaks and the two must both live together in Cal's hometown, Salvation. What follows is a hilarious journey, as Jane and Cal begin to fall in love, when neither want to. We also meet, Cal's spunky grandmother Annie, who helps not only Cal and Jane but her daughter, Cal's mother, and her husband come to turns with who they have become over the space of their thirty plus marriage.

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"Dream a Little Dream"
Avon Books, February 1998
Reviewed on 7/5/00

Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a fighter. And she'll do anything to keep her child safe - even take on... Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beauitful outcast who's invaded his property. She has a ton of attitude, a talent for trouble, and a child who brings back bad memories. Yet Rachel's feisty spririt might just be heaven-sent to save a tough, stubborn man.
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"First Lady" Avon Books, February 2000 Reviewed on 5/5/01
		How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. Not for long, however, because she;s made up her mind to escape - if only for a few days - so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the perfect disguise... and she's just found it. With the enitre nation searching for her, she meets a seductive man who has a secret of his own and an appeal that threatens to awaken the woman behind the national icon. With him are two orphaned little girls desperate for a family. Together, they'll take a journey across the heartland chasing their own American dream.
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The Chicago Stars		1. "It Had to Be You"
		2. "Heaven, Texas"
		3. "This Heart of Mine"
		The Bonner Brothers

"It Had To Be You" Avon Books, 1994 Reviewed on 5/5/01
		The windy city isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville - the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Celbow - an Alabama-born former gridiron legend and blond barbarian. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors - a sexist, jock tacskmaster with a one-track mind. The beautiful new boss is everything Dan despises - a meddling bimbo who doesn't know pigskin from a pitcher's mound, So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does Dan's good ol'boy charm leave cosmpolitan Pheobe feeling awkward, tongue-tied and frightened to death?

"Heaven, Texas" Avon Books, April 1995 Reviewed on 5/5/01
		Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to track down the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton and drag him back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. But taming an egotistical cowboy in a '57 T-bird might be more than this prim Ohio wallfllower can handle. Despite his dazzling good looks and killer charm, Bobby Tom has reservations about being a movie star - and no plans to cooperate with the bossy little virgin whom he can't get off his mind or out of his life. Instead, the hellraising playboy decides to make her over from plain Jane to Texas wildcat. But nothing's more dangerous than a wildcat with an angel's heart ina town too small for a bad boy to hide. And all hell breaks loose when two unforgettable people discover love, laughter, passion - and a match than can be made only in Heaven.

"This Heart of Mine" William Morrow, 2001, HC Reviewed on 5/5/01
		Molly Somerville knows she has a reputation for trouble. She did give away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance, but, hey, nobody's perfect. Still, if anyone has an almost perfect life, it's Molly. while her Daphne the Bunny children's books could be selling better, she loves her cramped loft, her French poodle, and her career creating the fiction animals who live in Nightingale Woods. She even loves her sister, Phoebe. True, it was a little tough growing up in her shadow. Phoebe is beautiful, blissfully married, and the owner of the most successful professional football team in America. But who other than her sister knows you're about to do something drastic every thim you change your hair? Yes, Molly's happy about almost everything... except her long-term crush on the daredevil quarterback for the Chicago Stars, the aweful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember her name! One night Molly's penchant for running into trouble runs right into Kevin himself, turning her world upside down. Heartbreak follows, and just when she's certain things can't get worse, Kevin forces his way back into her life. If only the overpaid, Ferrari-driving, poodle-hating jock was as shallow as she wants him to be, she could get on with her almost perfect life. But Kevin's hidden depths and iron will propel Molly out of her comfortable existence into an unforgettable summer at a place called Wind Lake. Surrounded by paintbox cottages and a charming old bed-and-breakfast, she and Kevein battle their attraction while trying to cope with an agin, sexpot actress, a cranky, world-famous artist, and a pair of teenage newlyweds. Their careers and lives are in crisis... yet they can't seem to stay away from each other. Before the summer is over, will they be able to learn one of life's most important lessions? Sometimes falling in love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes - if you're very lucky - it can heal in the most special and unexpected way.
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"Hot Shot" Pocket Books,June 1991 Reviewed on 5/5/01
		With one ingenious invention, they started a brilliant business empire in a seedy California garage. They were renegades who took on corporate America with daring and vision. For Susannah, the cool socialite, it was the hottest challenge of her life; for Sam, the charismatic rebel, it was a rocket-driven-rainbow ride straight into the future on his terms; for Yank, the eccentric inventor, it was a precious dream made dazzlingly real; for Mitch, the marketing genius, it was a risk he had to take. But big dreams can have a cruel price - and Susannah, the daughter of one of the country's most powerful corporate titans, was about to embark on an adventure that would sever her from her family, give her unimagined courage, and open her to a passion so rich, so sensual, that she would be utterly and forever transformed.
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"Kiss An Angel" Avon Books, February 1996 Reviewed on 5/5/01
		Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Markov, as humorless as he is deadly handsome, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a sploied little featherhead with champagne tastes. He drags Daisy from her uptown life to a broken down traveling circus and sets out to tame her to his ways. But this man without a soul has met his match in a woman who's nothing but heart. Before long, passion will send them flying sky high without a safety net... risking it all in search of love that will last forever.
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Golfer's in Love		1. "Fancy Pants"
Golfer's in Love		2. "Lady Be Good"

"Fancy Pants" Pocket Books, October 1989 Reviewed on 7/5/00
		Francesca Day was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe's jet-set playgrounds. Now she's broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown... Dallie Beaudine was tall, lean, All-American gorgeous and a world famous golfer. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. Why in the hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett? Follow Francesca and Dallie as they follow the very bumpy road to love.

"Lady Be Good" Avon Books, February 1999 Reviewed on 7/5/00
		Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission - she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beauiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace! World-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kicked up his boot heels one too many times, and now he's suspended from the sport he loves. Only one thing will restorer his career: complete and utter respectability! Unfortunately, he's been blackmailedinto chauffering bossy, single-minded Lady Emma, and she's hell-bent on visiting honkytonks, chasing down tattoo parlors, and worse... lots worse. When a gorgeous man who can't afford another scandal meets a hardheaded woman who's determined to cause one, anything can happen. But love? Oh, dear. the impossible. That's outrageous. That's... inevitable!
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The Bonner Brothers		The Chicago Stars
		1. "Nobody's Baby But You"
		2. "Dream A Little Dream"

"Nobody's Baby But Mine" Avon Books, February 1997 Reviewed on 6/11/98
		Dr. Jane Darlington wanted a baby. Being a genius, Jane knows what it is to grow up feeling like a freak. She doesn't want to happen to her child, so, she plans on finding a very special father. Good looks, healthy and most important stupid. That's where Cal Bonner, football quarterback, comes in. He's handsome, obviously in great shape and he's a good ole boy from Salvation, North Carolina with an bad grammar and a slow wit. But Call turns out to be a lot smarter than Jane could ever believe and all of her plans are blown apart. When Cal discovers that she's pregnant, he demands that they marry. Well, Jane realizes she has no other options and agrees but word leaks and the two must both live together in Cal's hometown, Salvation. What follows is a hilarious journey, as Jane and Cal begin to fall in love, when neither want to. We also meet, Cal's spunky grandmother Annie, who helps not only Cal and Jane but her daughter, Cal's mother, and her husband come to turns with who they have become over the space of their thirty plus marriage.

"Dream a Little Dream" Avon Books, February 1998 Reviewed on 7/5/00
		Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a fighter. And she'll do anything to keep her child safe - even take on... Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beauitful outcast who's invaded his property. She has a ton of attitude, a talent for trouble, and a child who brings back bad memories. Yet Rachel's feisty spririt might just be heaven-sent to save a tough, stubborn man.
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