"The sequel to UNEARTHED is here!!"

Majj Tru Van Dye finds a strange artifact among her father's things after his death. She researches it and finds that it might be the key to a fabulous treasure of artifacts. Since Tru has to secure her own Charter soon or she'll be asked to leave, she decides this will be just the thing. Now all she has to do is to find someone who will help her to figure the puzzle out.

Rayce Coburne is finished with treasure acquisition. Now his energies are geared toward renovating the spaceport and getting ready to open for traffic. Unfortunately he needs to find a fortune for that so they can open on time and appease their backers. Enter one Tru Van Dye with a proposition that Rayce just cannot refuse as much as he'd like to.

Even though Rayce abhors the Majj for valid reasons of his own, he can't help but be attracted to this woman much as he tries to fight it. Finally he decides that if he can get a kiss a day from Tru, he can demean her enough so she'll stay away from him but somehow this seems to backfire. Can they get their mission accomplished before they both go up in flames?

C. J. Barry has written a book that I just had to read all at once. There was no way I could put this book down even for one minute! Every time I read one of her books, everyday life just has to be put on hold so I can go off into her world just for a few hours! Believe me those hours are well worth it! I anxiously await another off- worldly session soon!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted July 29, 2003

Summary

Adventurer Rayce Coburne is a financially desperate man with a taste for vengeance. Scientist Tru Van Dye is a brilliant, single-minded woman with a priceless treasure to find. He's her guide and worst nightmare. She's his client and bitter enemy. Will they survive being...UNRAVELED?

To continue her father's life's quest, Tru Van Dye had to leave the insular colony of Majj scientists where she was raised. She had to find Rayce Coburne. Yet the virtual- reality program she acquired to gird herself against the man's touch, his innuendoes, his alien maleness was for naught--his presence overwhelmed her. With Rayce, all Tru's clever plans, her control, everything she knew was coming...

UNRAVELED

...that's how Rayce Coburne felt. He'd tried to give up treasure acquisition. It wasn't the danger that put him off; he despised dealing with icy customers like the Majj. And Tru Van Dye was worse than the usual-a prissy woman who would blackmail him with all his hopes and dreams. Still, while she was smarter than he, there was a way he could fight back: a kiss. A kiss a day was the perfect strategy. Unless the spinning he felt inside was Tru unwrapping his heart.