About the Author
Julia Harper is the contemporary romance pseudonym of bestselling historical romance author Elizabeth Hoyt. Both Julia and Elizabeth live in central Illinois surrounded by fields of corn which turn into fields of snow in the winter. Please visit her website www.elizabethhoyt.com.
About the Book
For the Love of Pete is Julia Harper’s second contemporary romance, following Hot (January 2008.) Featuring a uptight but sexy FBI agent, a free-spirited redhead, two kidnapped babies, a passel of bad guys, and a pair of Indian matrons obsessed with saffron, For the Love of Pete was called “Janet Evanovich crossed with The Sopranos” by Romantic Times BOOKreviews.
1. Fess up—did you read the whole book?
2. If you had to spend five days in a car with a sexy FBI agent, what model car would you pick? Why?
3. Who was your favorite character in For the Love of Pete? The babies don’t count.
4. Who would you pick to play Dante in the motion picture of For the Love of Pete (sadly fictitious at the moment)? Zoey? Neil the hitman? Defend your choices.
5. How do you feel about Indian food? Wouldn’t it have been a good idea to serve Indian food at the book club? Why didn’t the hostess think of that?
6. Have you ever actually met a hitman? Really? Give details without implicating yourself.
7. Have you tried the recipe at the back of the book? (If not, why not?) Did it work? If it didn’t work, who do you blame: the author or the obviously poor editing job done on the book? Wouldn’t it have been a good idea for the hostess to serve the rice pudding for dessert after an Indian meal at the book club? Why didn’t she think of that?
8. Which is sexier: standard boxers or those knit boxers? And in what colors/patterns? Discuss. (Women preferring briefs must not go off topic.)
9. Have you ever been to the southern tip of Illinois? If yes, would you describe it as the armpit of Illinois? What part of your state would you give the name “armpit” to?
10. Where would you go on a first date: a natural history museum, an Indian restaurant, or a gun show? Why?
BONUS EXTRA DISCUSSION QUESTION!
If you had a museum fetish, what would it be?