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Joy and Anger (The Contemporary Collection Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Jennifer Blake (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
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Far from the plastic allure of Hollywood, director Julie Bullard discovers the strong and abiding love of a mysterious Louisiana man….

Julie Bullard is dedicated to her vision of the movie she’s filming on location in a Louisiana swamp. She wants realism, the true essence of the hot, primeval land and the people who live there. What she needs is someone who knows the treacherous waterways and can insure the authenticity of what she puts on film. She needs Rey Tabary, the mysterious and handsome Cajun known as the Swamp Rat.

Rey has better things to do with his time than nursemaid a bunch of Hollywood types. He’d turn down the hot female director’s request that he act as technical director for her movie—if he didn’t suspect a connection between the arrival of the film crew and the sudden influx of drugs into his swamp. And if he didn’t suspect the lady might be in danger.

Tension escalates as death stalks the night swamp. Julie must trust the Swamp Rat to keep her and her movie set safe—even as his kisses jeopardize everything else in her life.

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Louisiana Bayous and the Hollywood film world provide the sultry background for this unsuprising but competent romance. Blake's Love & Smoke has more than 625,000 paperbacks in print.
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Blake's romances, now arriving in hardcover, may lack the total eye-blinding glitter of some of the top soapsters, but other Queens of Romance might take note of the impressive control of her popcorn plots, knowledgeable settings, and placement of pant-and- pash interludes. Here, as in Love and Smoke (1989), the setting is contemporary Louisiana, where an ambitious young female director attempts to finish a film amid murders, danger--and romance. ``Swamp Kingdom'' is the working title of the film that Julie Bullard--only child of the famous auteur ``Bull'' Bullard--is directing. Determined to be accurate in all regional detail, Julie signs on a disturbing Cajun, Rey Tabary, to be ``technical director.'' Although Julie has a stuffy L.A. lover of long standing, she's soon making waves in the bayou with Rey--``a creature of the night and the swamp, splendid, untamed.'' (Rey, out of the water, however, is an enormous help in all the horrors about to happen--and, besides, he's rich.) Suddenly, there are two murders and attempts on the lives of an unhappy child actress and Julie herself. Then Bull barges in. Will he take over Julie's film, the film someone has been sabotaging? Blake has lined up a solid group of suspects, both actors and film crew, and there's a swell slog at the close through mud and water as Julie struggles with the villain. Reliable romantic suspense for the loyal Blake audience. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015RYTV5S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Steel Magnolia Press (September 23, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1526 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 358 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

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National and international bestselling author Jennifer Blake has been called the "steel magnolia of women's fiction" for her enduring career in the genre. She has also been lauded as a "pioneer of the romance field" and an "icon of the romance industry." A charter member of Romance Writers of America, she was an early inductee into the RWA and Affaire de Coeur Halls of Fame and is a recipient of the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. She holds numerous other honors, including Holt Medallions, Maggies, Reviewer's Choice awards, the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times Book Reviews Magazine, and the Frank Waters Award for literary excellence. She has written more than 75 books with translations in 22 languages and sales in excess of 50 million.

After three decades in traditional publishing, Jennifer established Steel Magnolia Press LLC with Phoenix Sullivan in 2011. This independent publishing company published her work through 2018.

FMI: http://www.jenniferblakeauthor.com. You can also find Jennifer on Facebook and Pinterest.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mystery and romance
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021
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Very entertaining and interesting. I will have to listen to the audio book again to catch all the little things I missed!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015
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I really enjoyed this contemporary romance very much. I have read many of Jennifer Blake's historical romances and have always loved her fine writing style and intricate plots as well as her fully fleshed out characters. This is my first contemporary romance from Jennifer and I'm happy to say that I liked it just as much as I did her historicals, and so I'm happy to recommend it to others. Happy Reading! 😻
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4.0 out of 5 stars Loving Acceptance
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2016
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Thank you for this exciting and intriguing story about Julie and Rey and the events that took place during the making of her film. I found the storyline and the many characters very interesting. Your book kept me glued to my Kindle not wanting to put it down. I look forward to reading more of your work.
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SUZETTE T. EDMISTON
5.0 out of 5 stars Joy and Anger
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016
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What a wonderfully told story. I found it intriguing with it's twists and turns with each character to it's final chapter.

A strong woman making her way in the entertainment business world to give ant man a run for his money to include BULL.

Altogether great read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015
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Great as all of Jennifer's books!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Romance on the Bayou as Smugglers may be stalking a film crew
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2016
Joy and Anger is an interesting suspense / mystery / romance set in the bayous of Louisiana between Julie Bullard, a director making a movie about people of the swamp, and the legendary Cajun Rey Tabary, aka "The Swamp Rat". Julie needed a consultant to ensure the authenticity of her movie, and Rey normally would want nothing to do with some pampered Hollywood types but a sudden influx of drugs into his swamp made him want to get close to the crew to find out who may be the link. Julie noticed the various accidents on set and suspect Rey was involved, even as they deny their attraction to each other. When there's a death nearby, trust became an issue.

Both characters and the exotic locations were described to good effect, and the plot is quite competent with blended tropes of secret identity, doubt about the other person's true purpose, the exotic blend of unknown danger vs. handsome attraction. My main problem was the pacing and the title and cover. Pacing was a bit on the slow side, and the title and cover had NOTHING to do wit the novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hope you've discovered Jennifer Blake's magic!
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2017
Just a great story with believable characters & a fascinating plot. Sorry when the last page came....wanted it to go on & on.....
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