Kitty's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 Review copy provided for an honest review 
 5 STARS 
 I was absolutely blown away by "Playing the Part". I was hooked on "Dammit" and did not let go atruegemawarduntil "For the rest of my life." Ms. Covington wrote such a face-paced, down and dirty book that my head was spinning and jumping for joy with such a well-written story about lust, love, anger, betrayal and forgiveness. With a hot, lead male and a voluptuous female lead, you can't go wrong. 
 Mick Blackwell is renowned movie star known for his action flicks. He's tired of being type-cast and auditions for the lead in "Regan's Gift", a love story. Well, things aren't going very well and they decide to bring in the author of the book to try to get him to understand Chance, the lead character. Enter Piper James, the hot, sexy, librarian-looking woman that is going to teach him about love. He's never been in love, known love or wanted love, so what is he to draw from except his acting abilities. He's a player and proud of it. Anyone that sleeps with him knows the score - wham-bam, thank you ma'am and nothing more. He grew up in his father's shadow and is now making a name for himself with both his acting and his love life. Boy, does she have her work cut out for her! 
 Piper James is trying to make a come back. After a very public and "War of the Roses" type break-up with her fiancee Antonio Rojas, her publisher is ready to drop her. No more publicity, no more public display's of affection or anger - just go to Hollywood and get Mick Blackwell to nail the part of Chance. OK! Then she sees him - tall, dark, handsome - a bad-boy to the bone - just the type of person she is always attracted to. Well, a little flirting won't hurt, nobody needs to know if they sleep together. She knows the score with Mick and she lays the ground rules: Benefits - no sleeping over - nothing public. PERIOD! Hey, that's right up Mick's alley. A few weeks of hot sex with the sexiest man in Hollywood would take care of her libido and provide a fun distraction. Until Mick starts changing the rules. 
 Two weeks in Hawaii after the shoot, filled with hot sex, swimming, walking around nude and writing the best novel of her life ends in utter disaster. She knew she shouldn't have let him talk her into the vacation. When pictures of her and Mick show up in the tabloids of them having Anal Sex on the beach, well, her publisher isn't a happy camper and Piper is enraged. He promised they were alone. He promised no one could get onto his estate. He promised that they would have complete privacy. That's the only way she would agree to go. Now she has to face the paparazzi, the scorn, the dredging up of her break-up with Antonio. Mick is the publicity hound, not her. Now, all her insecurities are coming to the fore-front again. Did he set this up? Why would he set it up? Who got the pictures? How did they get on the Estate? Why did they take those pictures? All questions that she couldn't answer but Mick promised that he would. Did she trust him to tell her the truth? Did she trust him to not make things worse? Her best friend and manager, Chris is her rock and he'll protect her any way that he can. But there's not much that he could do when the second scandal hits the papers. She's dropped by her publisher, she's broken up with Mick, she's in a depression. Only one person could fix this and it looks like she trusted the wrong man - again. 
 So, what's so different about "Playing the Part"? A romance writer wrote a book about a romance writer. Loved. It. Who better to write about a romance writer? And, it was so fluid. The sex scenes were unbelievable and weren't just thrown in for shock value. The back-and-forth between Piper and Mick was great. The dialogue was absolutely believable - it actually felt true to life. My favorite quote in the book? "You're going to get so lucky you might want to stop off and buy a few lottery tickets." And lucky he got, time and time again. So, take the time out of your busy schedule, put aside a couple of hours and enjoy the hot read that "Playing the Part" is. Honestly, I couldn't put it down and wanted to go back and read it a second time.