From Publishers Weekly
This effort from the author of Illusions depicts the tribulations of a troubled celebrity lawyer and a culturally displaced romance author. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Devotees of contemporary romance will find here a delightful read, courtesy of the author of Rainbows (LJ 11/15/91). Raven Winter is the best entertainment attorney in the business. She is handling the reclusive, best-selling author Holly, who fears that Jason Cole, an Academy AwardR-winning filmmaker, is going to change the happy ending in the film version of her book. Nick is introduced to this group when Raven distractedly jogs in front of his nursery truck. Suffice it to say that these beings have much more than their share of talent, wealth, good looks, career success, and charm. Still, tortured and tormented by events from their past, Raven and Holly have not (yet) found that perfect mate. Most romance readers expect a happy ending, but the pleasure comes in the journey to reach it, and Stone does not disappoint. Strongly recommended for libraries with Sandra Brown or Danielle Steel fans.Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
Beautiful Raven Winter, Hollywood lawyer to the rich and powerful, rebounds from numerous failed relationships to find passion and love with divorced father Nicholas Gault. Nicholas doesn't tell Raven at first that he's a multimillionaire; he has been pursued before for his money and at first he perceives Raven's ambition to be greed. But despite past mistakes and beliefs, Raven and Nicholas manage to find common ground in their love. Meanwhile, Raven's friend and client, Jason Cole, a powerful actor and director, meets Holly Elliot, a writer whose work he has optioned for his next film and who has faced her demons alone for more than 15 years. Jason plans to change the happy ending in Holly's book, and Holly is forced to abandon her sanctuary to stop him. Jason falls in love with the ethereal Holly and manages to reunite her with the father she believed dead for almost 20 years. Happy endings for all, though not without suspense beforehand. Melanie Duncan


From Kirkus Reviews
A sob story with a silver lining: Beautiful people suffer and are saved through the transfiguring power of love. Stone (Rainbows, 1992) has penned another quick-reading formula romance. Once again the basic premises are out of Danielle Steel: You can wear Armani, drive a Jaguar, and still be miserable; you can't be too rich or too thin to need love. The plot is crowded with overachievers looking for happiness. In her Los Angeles penthouse, flawlessly beautiful attorney Raven Winter can't find true love because of the poverty and abuse she suffered as the daughter of an outstandingly terrible mother. When she is almost run over by Nick Gault, the blindingly handsome CEO of Eden Enterprises, he pretends to be a gardener because he too has been wounded by life: His ex-wife married him only for his money (hard to believe, considering his steel gray eyes and other staggering assets). Raven, the ``Snow-White Shark,'' is the lawyer for sexy, successful producer/director/actor Jason Cole, who begins the story by winning seven Oscars. Jason, preparing to make a movie of the bestseller Gifts of Love, plans to change the book's happy ending. Its desperate author, Holly Elliot, flies from her Alaska home to persuade Jason to change his mind. Holly, whose stepfather murdered her mother, brother, and sister, doesn't know that her real father, Lawrence, was not killed in Vietnam and has become a veterinarian. Stone provides all her tortured, gorgeous characters with their own happy endings and no explicit sex. She makes a lot of the issue of abortion without the consent of the father. All in all, a stock genre effort, albeit one handled with dispatch. No surprises, very syrupy, and very moral. The Jaguar finds a Lexus; no one should have to park alone. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

ANNOTATION

In each of her bestselling novels--Illusions, Promises, Rainbows, Twins--Katherine Stone goes deep into the hearts and minds of her contemporary cha racters. Now she offers a brilliant novel of five people haunted by their tragic pasts, men and women whose lives touch and connect as they transform pain and heartache into Happy Endings. Author signings.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Katherine Stone delivers a compelling, richly emotional tale of two women haunted by their pasts--whose lives touch and connect as they search for love, happiness, and happy endings in Hollywood.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Stone's latest (after Promises ) is another puffed-up category romance, this one revolving around three couples connected by business and blood. Though she's ``extraordinarily beautiful,'' top Hollywood lawyer Raven Winter has been looking for love in all the wrong beds--until she finally meets a nice guy, whom she hires as her gardener. What she doesn't know is that Nicholas Gault is really a hotel magnate; the flowers in his truck are for his ``hilltop estate in Bel Aire.'' Scars from a bitter divorce are the reason he chooses to protect his true identity, and hence his heart. Then there's reclusive romance writer Holly Elliott and Oscar-winning director Jason Cole. When Jason options Holly's bestselling romance novel, Raven handles the contracts and arranges for them to meet; later, Jason follows Holly to Alaska and learns her nightmarish family secret--a secret that has caused Holly's father, veterinarian Lawrence Elliott, to search for his daughter for 17 years. Lastly, there's the pairing of Lawrence and society queen Caroline Hawthorne, who meet during an oil-spill cleanup. Stone knows how to write a complicated plot, but her troika-based story line backfires; with so many characters vying for the reader's attention, none stands out, particularly since they are all strictly one-dimensional. Only a soap-operatic quality gives this novel what modest life it possesses. (Aug.)

Library Journal

Devotees of contemporary romance will find here a delightful read, courtesy of the author of Rainbows (LJ 11/15/91). Raven Winter is the best entertainment attorney in the business. She is handling the reclusive, best-selling author Holly, who fears that Jason Cole, an Academy AwardR-winning filmmaker, is going to change the happy ending in the film version of her book. Nick is introduced to this group when Raven distractedly jogs in front of his nursery truck. Suffice it to say that these beings have much more than their share of talent, wealth, good looks, career success, and charm. Still, tortured and tormented by events from their past, Raven and Holly have not (yet) found that perfect mate. Most romance readers expect a happy ending, but the pleasure comes in the journey to reach it, and Stone does not disappoint. Strongly recommended for libraries with Sandra Brown or Danielle Steel fans.-Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich.

BookList - Melanie Duncan