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	Careless Whispers (Indigo) Rochelle Alers Genesis Press, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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Then, with Michael's retirement, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Bradshaw takes charge of the magazine. Refusing to be intimidated by his dictatorial reputation, Dyana still finds herself drawn to this handsome and very wealthy man. And when Nicholas scores a publishing coup, he enlists Dyana's help with the project. With long hours in close quarters, Dyana can no longer run from her feelings or her past. Will careless whispers blossom into promises of love?

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Alers Is My Favorite!

I searched high and low to find each novel written by Ms. Alers. I felt a loss when I came to the end of another and estatic when the next arrived (mail order). Careless Whispers was no exception. Well done!


Whispers better left unsaid

In Careless Whispers, Ms. Alers tells us Dyana Randolph's story. Dyana is a young woman who after being burned by deception of mistaken love and stood up at the altar, Dyana decides to hide away from love should it ever come along again. After leaving home and moving in with her unmarried aunt, Dyana launches herself into her work at Pinnacle magazine. She also feels safe with the magazine's publisher, Michael Dalton, an older man and a fatherly figure, who is also widowed. Dyana feels obligated to Michael and helps him out as a hostess after hours and serves as his date on many occasions. However, good intentions, Dyana and Michael are the brunt of many office whispers of a romantic involvement between the two. The whispers are not only cruel, but they are careless whispers that are untrue.

After Michael decides to retire, a younger and renown journalist, Nicholas Bradshaw takes over the businesss. Nicholas is smitten with Dyana and becomes enamored of her. Although he has heard the whispers, he sets out to form his own opinions. Nicholas thinks its strange that Dyana is drawn to Michael and there are some doubts, but Nicholas also gives Dyana the benefit of the doubt. After several encounters, Nicholas is not only drawn to Dyana, but Dyana's heart unthaws and she begin to see Nicholas as a love interest. Can love possibly be in the picture for Dyana, who desperately wants to love again? Can she get pass the most ultimate betrayal by her first love? Will Nicholas be the man to break the barrier or will their love be destroyed by "careless whispers?"

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THIS IS WHAT DELAYED MY ENTRY INTO BLACK ROMANCE 10/23/02

It took me to get to chapter 4 before I realized I read this book before. I read this book back in 1989 when I picked up my first African-American romance. I am an avid reader and I also collect books. I have my original copy of this book with a different cover. Back then I honestly believed that white writers were writing these books because the format that was followed was similar to Harlequin Romances. Everyone knows that a Harlequin had a guy, a girl, and an unlikely situation. The whole romance was based on a look, a one time kiss, or reactions and dialogue that was way over the top and supposed to pass for sensuous. This was the type of African-American romance that made me not want to read any romance that was supposed to have African American characters in it. I didn't pick up another African-American Romance until 1995. Overall, I absolutely love Ms. Alers later stories the Hideaway series and her Anthologies but as for this story and Gentle Yearnings they are not what I would call hot, sexual, or sensuous stories. They are luke warm like older Harlequins they leave you wondering why you wasted your time.

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