"A sexy, funny Spy romp!"

Lynsay Sands is a super historical romance writer with a light touch that often ventures into sidesplitting giggles. She is one of the best at leaving you feeling good all over when you finish reading her novels. This is her first contemporary romance and it is a fun romp! In the Ladies from B*L*I*S*S* series (various writers - Nina Bangs and Lisa Cache to date) by Dorchester Publishers, this is the 3rd entry in the spoofs on James Bond books, right down to the parody of the 1960's covers.

In Lynsay's typical warm and funny style, she gives you one delicious romp! WARNING: if you have a chest cold or broken ribs do not read. If you are in a public place and do not want people looking at you - do no read there!! You will laugh so hard you might hurt or embarrass yourself!!

Jane Spyrus makes gizmos for B*L*I*S*S* spies - and wow what gadgets!! Won't spoil the surprises and tell you about them, but let's say you will be howling from page one and Q would most certainly blush! Due to malfunctions, Jane takes some of her gadgets home to work on improvements. Her neighbour, Edie, has a hot date with a mystery man, so she comes by to borrow a few things from Jane. Without realising, she takes one of Jane's spy gadgets that contains a tracking device. Jane figures she will get it back from her later, only Edie does not come home. The tracker comes in handy when Edie's sexy brother, Abel Andretti (no groans please!), turns up looking for his missing sister.

So Jane, her wheelchair-bound ex-spy grandmother, Gran's dog Tinkle, and Abel are suddenly in hot pursuit of Edie -- who stumbled onto a super spy ring a la T*H*R*U*S*H*, and was kidnapped and smuggled in a back of car from Canada into California. Abel is totally unaware of Jane's true line of work, but soon finds out there is more than meets the eye where this lady is concerned, especially after she knocks him out and handcuffs him in the back of her van. Jane reports back to B*L*I*S*S*, figuring they would send in the "real spies" to wrap things up. Instead, Jane is pressed into being a super spy/femme fatale with the help of Gran and the sexy Abel. Jane must vamp the bad guy while trying to keep her hands off Abel.

To me, Lynsay Sands on the cover is a guarantee you will have a wonderfully, funny time and once again, she delivers a witty tale laced her brand of wacky humour. And for those looking for an inside joke: keep watch for author Melanie Jackson and her husband to turn up as "characters" in this delightful tale.

The book feels like the first in a series of Jane romps....one can but hope!

Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted September 3, 2003

Look for all the B.L.I.S.S. Titles:

FROM BOARDWALK WITH LOVE by Nina Bangs
DR. YES by Lisa Cach
THE LOVING DAYLIGHTS by Lynsay Sands

Summary

Shy Jane Spyrus loves gadgets. She can build anything B.L.I.S.S. needs in its international fight against crime— although agents aren't exactly queuing up at her door. Some of them think her innovations are too...well, innovative. Like her shrink-wrap prophylactic constraints. But they just don't realize that item's potential. Of course, you can't use wacky inventions to fix all your problems. Jane will have to team up with another human being—and Abel Andretti arrives just in time. He will help Jane find her kidnapped neighbor, stop the evil machinations of Dirk Ensecksi, and most of all he will show her how to love the daylights out of something without batteries.