The Love Potion is Sandra Hill’s latest romance novel with a paranormal twist.

Dr Sylvie Fontaine is a shy chemist who believes that she has found, through a voodoo journal and modern technology, the way to create the perfect love potion.  Designed specifically for each user and in the form of a jelly bean the JBX (Jelly Bean Fix) is the invention that will make her career for her.

Testing the JBX on animals in her lab she is now ready for the human trials and she is planning to give her boss the beans that will make him attracted to her.  Her plans go awry however with the arrival in her lab
of Lucien LeDeux.

Luc has been the plague of Sylvie’s life since she was at school.  Sylvie from the richer part of town and Cajun bad boy Luc had never been friends.  After Sylvie declined his offer of a dance at the first boy-girl dance at their school Luc began his campaign to make Sylvie’s life a misery.  Things have changed little over the years and now it appears that at the highlight of her career he has returned to destroy her life completely.

Luc’s life has taken a different turn to Sylvie's and he is now in the legal profession and is known locally as “the swamp solicitor”.  When he realises he is going to need the help of a chemist to expose a polluting oil company he decides to visit Sylvie’s lab and enlist her help.  While he is there he cannot resist helping himself to the sweets on her desk.  He does not realise that he is eating the jelly beans that will make him attracted to Sylvie.

When Sylvie realises what he has done she tries to make him vomit them up but as soon as Luc realises her hysterics do not mean he has been poisoned he refuses to do so.  After all, he realises that this situation has a whole host of possibilities in his campaign to tease Sylvie again, not to mention the possibility of blackmailing her into helping him stop the oil company polluting the waterways.

Striking a deal with Luc Sylvie agrees to do his tests for him on the condition that he leaves the area for one week, until the love potion has run its course.  One day later Luc is breaking his word and gate crashing a family party to confront her.

Sylvie meanwhile is mortified that her experiment has gone so dreadfully wrong.  Of all the people who could have taken her jelly beans the person she has hated since childhood is now the one running after her and demanding an antidote to her love potion.

However this personal problem is not as big as the problem that Luc has as he pits his wits against Cypress Oil and his own father.  The polluters do not want anyone interfering in the way they conduct their business and they will kill anyone that gets in their way.

Thrown together Luc and Sylvie hide out in the bayou as they work to expose the polluters and wait for the love potion to wear off.

The longer they are together the more Sylvie comes to realise that she has misjudged Luc dreadfully and his devotion to his family and the younger brothers he practically raised is just one of the qualities she has failed to see all these years.

Soon she realises that she is falling in love with him, but she knows that the feelings he has for her are due to the JBX and will disappear as the potion wears off.

The choice she must make is whether she can trust Luc enough to lose all her inhibitions and take a chance on his love lasting.

Once again Sandra Hill delivers a fast-paced and humorous novel of the same high standard she always manages to attain.
 

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Also by Sandra Hill:  Frankly, My Dear..., The Reluctant Viking,  Sweeter Savage Love, Desperado,  The Outlaw Viking, The Bewitched Viking, Truly, Madly Viking, The Very Virile Viking, The Tarnished Lady, The Blue Viking, Tall, Dark & Cajun and The Last Viking.

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