2000 Kisses

Zusatztext "Y2K mania strikes and 2000 Kisses is the wonderful result.  This is author Christina Skye at her very best." -- Romantic Times "Christina Skye always serves up the perfect mix of suspense! excitement and romance." -- Rocky Mountain News -- Romantic Times --> "A master of her craft . . . her superb storytelling and vivid characters will seduce you!" --Virginia Henley "Christina Skye  knows what readers want." --ABC Worldwide News Informationen zum Autor Christina Skye Klappentext A year 2000 computer glitch got her $1 million and a cowboy--and the wildest adventure of her life . . . P.R. whiz Tess O'Mara is burned out. She's looking for a change. Something wild and crazy. The year 2000 has arrived. And that's when the trouble begins. A computer glitch has deposited one million dollars into her bank account. Problem is! it's somebody else's money! somebody who's willing to kill to find it--and Tess has already spent a big chunk of it on a new wardrobe and a powder-blue Mercedes convertible. Suddenly Tess is running for her life! as fast and as far as she can go . . . . . . until she reaches the sleepy desert town of Almost! Arizona. Sheriff Jake McCall! a dead ringer for Mel Gibson! is there to catch her as she careens into town and collapses from heatstroke in his arms. Jake's prepared for anything--except the spoiled city slicker with trouble in her wake. The last thing he expects is to fall for her. But as danger tracks Tess to her door! something unexpected happens that will transform two very different people! and one dusty! dead-end town! forever . . . Leseprobe Boston Harbor Observation Lounge, The Silver Princess Saturday, December 31, 1999 Some things were almost as good as sex. Tess O'Mara took a deep breath. Excitement bubbled through her as she looked around the quiet room, thinking about the night to come. Chandeliers cast a soft glow over the elegant two-tiered observation lounge. Waterford crystal gleamed on white damask tablecloths. A dozen chocolate dessert courses waited to be whisked out at the first stroke of midnight, accompanied by champagne from five different vineyards. Best of all, three more reporters had already called, pleading for exclusive interviews. Yes, success felt incredibly good. She checked her watch. In two hours the orchestra would tune up, ready to usher in the new millennium with a shipboard party for two thousand people. Tess had arranged every detail, right down to the 360-degree fireworks that would be set off at the stroke of midnight. Two years of planning. Two years of dreaming. The champagne would be vintage and the flowers would be rare Indonesian orchids of her own selection. She prayed that the evening would be a wild success. Outside the ship's wraparound windows, snowflakes drifted down over the harbor. Tess danced from foot to foot, her pulse racing. "Get a grip," she muttered to herself. "Remember your training. You've got a degree in marketing and eight years of experience, and that makes you a consummate professional." She glanced at her reflection in the window and grinned. Good hair, but nothing fancy. Face too pale, mouth too wide. It was a face that radiated energy, but would never be called beautiful. Long ago Tess had stopped seeing that as a limitation. She knew how to make people laugh, how to make them listen, and how to put them at ease. And right now, professional or not, she was riding a wave of pure, heart-slamming adrenaline. A phone rang outside in the staff area, and the double doors swung open in a rush. A woman with sleek red hair and a chic black pantsuit breezed into view. "Hold on to your seat. That was the Golden Wind Cruise lines." "The people who hung up on us twice last year?" Tess's as...

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• Autori: Christina Skye
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780440235712
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23571-2
• Pagine: 376
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 178 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: SEAL and Code Name; SEAL and Code Name
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General