| Twenty-three year old Philly Graham loves her life. She still lives at home with her parents, she has
loved the boy next door for ten years and she loves her job. Philly is shocked when her life begins to
drastically change. Her newly retired parents
have decided to travel and are going to rent out their house and she needs to find a place
to live, her boss tells her that she has to complete six months of training in London to
receive a promotion and her boyfriend, Don does nothing to stop her from going. Philly doesn’t want to go anywhere or to
leave Don, but she changes her mind to go to London and thinks time apart will make Don
realize he can’t live without her.
When Philly
arrives in London it’s raining and she isn’t sure she knows how to hail a taxi. When she finally does find one and is thoroughly
soaking wet, someone else lays claim to it. That
someone is tall, dark and dangerous, Callum “Cal” McBride. They agree to share the taxi and Philly soon
realizes that Cal lives in the same building where she will be staying. After many embarrassing mishaps, Philly leaves Cal
chasing his umbrella down the street and goes up to the apartment to meet her roommates. Her first night in the city goes as badly as her
first day did. More embarrassing mishaps bring Cal to her door and after Philly stammers
over an explanation, Cal offers to share his dinner with her. Much to Philly’s surprise she enjoys Cal’s
company immensely and finds him extremely attractive.
Not that anything could ever become of it, Philly tells herself; she has Don
back home and thanks to one of her roommates, she knows that Cal is gay.
As Cal and Philly
spend more and more time together and share a passionate kiss, Philly can’t help but
think maybe there’s been a misunderstanding. Cal
is everything she wants in a man, caring, attentive and intelligent. She soon begins to forget about the boy next door
back home and can’t stop thinking about the man next door in London.
I loved this
romantic comedy. The gentle humor, sexy Cal
and the charming Philly make for a wonderful story. I laughed out loud so many times through Philly’s
mishaps when she arrives in the city and I was breathless many times when she was with
Cal. This story is the first in the TANGO
series and it’s a brilliant beginning. I
can’t begin to say enough about the sweet, gentle humor in this story. I was thoroughly entertained when we went from a
shrieking key chain alarm, to suitcases flying open and underwear landing on the sidewalk
to blown fuses.
Philly is a
charming young lady that is scared but very anxious about being out on her own. Cal is Prince Charming coming to the rescue of his
Princess. Liz Fielding does a wonderful job
of reminding us what it was like to be out on our own for the first time and I know I
reminisced about my own adventures. The
ending was wonderful and I was pleasantly surprised, it was one that I was not expecting
but it was perfect. Liz Fielding did a
wonderful job with this story about love at first sight and with the meaning of happily
ever after.
Reviewed by Tracey West for The Road to
Romance
February 3, 2003
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