Critic's Choice — Catherine Kay

ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR

Taking a potshot at a rival paper's snobbish dining columnist was all in a day's work for restaurant critic Sara Courtney. But she certainly hadn't intended to fire the first volley in a war of words that had all of Los Angeles talking!

Nor had she counted on falling in love with the object of her scorn, Paul Cabot Egerton, but it happened. Protected by her pseudonym and her disguise as a nondescript matron while she worked, Sara had no trouble hiding most of her life from Paul.

Yet hiding leer feelings was another matter entirely....