Please be aware that this is a re-issue of previous work!

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	• A Summer Smile Iris Johansen Bantam, 2007 - 240 pages view larger image
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I'm Smiling

I had never heard the term of a "summer smile" but learned that it's "wise and warm with the sweet promise of joy and fulfillment to come." Interesting depiction that summer is a time when things are renewed instead of spring but Johansen indicates that summer is that time.

Johansen writes a decent romance novel but I prefer her romantic suspense books that she has recently written. A Summer Smile was a quick read, as it's only two-hundred-twenty pages so it was a nice reprieve from my hectic world. I'd recommend this for some down time in which you don't want to have to think too hard and want to just sit back and enjoy the escapades of Zilah, Daniel and Pandora. It was very enjoyable.

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Please be aware that this is a re-issue of previous work!

Many reviewers are rating this Johansen novel quite poorly. Please realize this novel is reissued from 1985. It is one of several related to the Sedikhan series in the line of Loveswept books. Iris Johansen was not able to adequately develop characters and storyline due to space constrictions involved in writing romance novels for Loveswept. These books were of a stipulated number of pages and followed a rigid format. It is only later in her career that Johansen was able to break away from the Loveswept "mould" and establish herself as the writer she is today. I enjoyed A Summer Smile while taking into consideration it's original year written and the fact that it is a Loveswept "novelette". I only wish I could read And The Desert Blooms to continue the relationship between Philip and Pandora...

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a classic tale of thrilling adventure and unbound passion, as two people embark on a journey through terror and desire?.

At twenty-one, Zilah Dabala has already survived a harrowing past. Now she?s convinced she can handle anything on her own?even being held hostage by a terrorist group. But Daniel is determined to rescue her. And soon their escape ignites an intimacy neither has ever known. Once Daniel learns Zilah?s tragic secret, however, he fears she may be lost to him forever. He?s defied death many times over?but can he teach a young woman the healing power of love?

Daniel Seifert has spent his life on the edge of danger, carrying out high-risk security missions across the globe. But it?s more than adventure that compels him to tempt fate yet again?it?s a young woman in a photograph, a woman whose warm, wise-beyond-her-years smile gives Daniel the inexplicable feeling that he?s found something he?s been searching for all along.

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