Josh Lanyon has long been one of my favorite authors...so when I saw that Amazon was offering four of her books cozied up in one 500-page volume for a ridiculously low price, I said "send me one". I had only previously read one of the books that it contained, but as with all Josh's books it was well worth rereading. My favorite of the four was Lovers and Other Strangers. I hadn't read it before and I soon developed a great deal of respect for the main character's efforts to find out exactly how his twin had died. I never in a million years would have guessed the killer's identity. My least favorite was A vintage Affair. Mostly because I 'm not a big wine freak, just give me Mogan David. One of the main characters was simply awful. Ghost of A Chance was a good ghost story and a really good mystery. It was my second favorite. Blood Red Butterfly had good possibilities but the main character that was suppose to be the "good guy" was somewhat of a "borderline baddie". I actually liked the "borderline baddie"" more. All the stories were well done in a style that can only be Josh Lanyon, and it will forever have a place of honor on my shelf of books that I will reread until the covers fall off or the print disappears...whichever comes first. ( )

First of all, the quality of the print book was rather bad. A first from MLR books for me, so I'm not sure if it was only my copy or not but it was pretty shaky.

On to the stories, I was a little disappointed by Sarah's story, because it does start with one of the guy cheating on his boyfriend and there's the whole "I might have been in love with him even tho we were only together one day and one night". That doesn't make the boyfriend happy when he comes back because someone told him some young guy was sleeping in HIS bed. It's such a shame he did that too cuz his boyfriend is totally hot~
There are somewhat reasons for why he did it but are there any situation where excuses for cheating are really "valid"? I don't think so besides lack of communication. Something emphasized in this story here.
Anyway despite the fact that I wanted to slap the cheater around, it was still pretty good~

No whining about Josh Lanyon for his story this time!!
He added a little twist to one of the guys that made it for me, very very interesting! I'm a sucker for stories with guys that aren't perfect or who have disabilities (the case here, however minor). It just adds a little spice to the romance. Cards on the Table remains my favorite of Josh Lanyon along with The Dark Horse. ( )