title: The Art of French Kissing
author:  Kristin Harmel 
description: Harmel's (<i>The Blonde Theory</i>) formulaic continental romance too often falls short of funny. When media professional Emma Sullivan is dumped by her fianc the same week she's laid off from Boy Bandz records, she quickly accepts an offer from Poppy, an old friend from Europe, who hires her to handle press for the English-language launch of Guillaume Riche, a French TV star turned sexy singer. So Emma jets off to Paris, and Poppy is soon giving Emma lessons in dating French men. Meanwhile, Guillaume turns out to be an eccentric pill, causing havoc for Emma by pulling public stunts that run contrary to the saintly do-gooder image Poppy has been carefully crafting. Most of the media accept Emma's spin on Guillaume's eccentricities, but one very attractive reporter is annoyingly persistent about finding the real facts and, eventually, romancing Emma. While descriptive passages show Harmel's knowledge of Paris, the Guillaume conflict feels manufactured, and Emma's romantic disasters are too predictable to be truly comic. <i>(Feb.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Paris already has Cinderella’s heart...  
  Can the billionaire steal it?
  
  
  Interior designer Zoe wouldn’t put her heart on the line for anything like she
  would for Paris! Practically penniless, her only chance of staying is
  convincing buttoned-up billionaire Jules to hire her. But how can she work
  with a man who finds her joie de vivre so infuriating? Until one
  uncharacteristically impulsive kiss later Zoe realizes Jules isn’t as immune
  to her charm as he’d have her believe...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Darn Jules for planting that delicious kiss on her!
  
  
  Because even though he’d retracted it with his words, Zoe’s lips were still
  reacting. How, in a blink, his kiss sent sensation up and down her like hot
  blood that coursed through veins parched from drought.
  
  
  His kiss kindled mental portraits of lovers in Paris. Walking arm in arm,
  appreciating every bridge over the shimmering river. Strolling down a
  boulevard, gesturing and animate