Mission Irresistible
by Lori Wilde

PR specialist Cassie Cooper, who made trouble for her twin sister, Maddie, in Wilde's previous romantic adventure, Charmed and Dangerous (2004), has planned an Egyptian costume benefit at Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum to celebrate the reunion of the separated amulet that once belonged to Kiya and Solen, Egyptian lovers from 3,000 years ago. The benefit gets off to a bad start with the stabbing and disappearance of a man in a mummy costume and the theft of Kiya's part of the amulet. When Dr. Adam Grayfield fails to appear at the party with Solen's section of the amulet, Cassie's boss threatens to fire her. In a comical, if less than credible scene, Adam's nerdy archeologist brother, Harrison, saves Cassie's job by asserting that the theft of Kiya's amulet was staged and party-goers must try to solve the mystery. Cassie and Harrison's search for Adam and the pilfered amulet is coupled with overblown romantic tension and outlandish encounters with their pursuers. The imperfections of the protagonists (Cassie is not model thin, and Harrison isn't a fierce tough guy) add realism to the read, which, if nothing else, is adequate escapist fare.

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Lori Wilde's Bio

Lori Wilde was a registered nurse for seventeen years before retiring to write romance novels full time. In 1999 she was nominated for Romance Writers Of America prestigious RITA award. This year she is double nominee in the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award and she was also a finalist in the Holt Medallion Contest. She wrote eleven novels for Silhouette Romance under the pen name Laura Anthony. She's published four books with Harlequin Duets and recently signed a contract to write a four book across the line series, two for Blaze and two for Duets, about four hunky Alaskan bachelors advertising for wives in the lower forty-eight states. Lori lives in Texas with her own real life hero, Bill. A true believer in the adage you've got to live life to write about it, Lori has performed with a professional jazz band, traveled through Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, shot river rapids in Alaska, taken flying lessons, parasailed, completed two marathons, water-skied, raced all terrain vehicles and chased after grisly bears in Yellowstone. Her hobbies include reading, long walks in the woods with her dog Cinnamon, yoga, going to the movies and cooking.