"Amusing North to Alaska tale"
Following the death of her beloved grandmother who raised
her, Ally Jarrett decides to live her dream. She leaves
the relative warmth of Southern California to become a
wildlife photographer in wintry Porcupine, Alaska. Not
long afterward, her grandmother's nerdy personal assistant
Mitchell Carruthers arrives with the pretext he needs her
to sign estate documents. Mitch is actually a private investigator bodyguard hired
by Ally's grandmother to keep her safe from her Uncle
Kurt. Because she knew Ally would reject a bodyguard,
grandma got Mitch to pretend to be a nerd and obtained a
deathbed pledge from him that he would keep her beloved
safe. As Mitch and Ally fall in love, Kurt arrives with
dominatrix girlfriend Vivian pretending to be a famous
wildlife photographer for they have plans for the wealth
that his stepmother left totally to his niece. The nerd series has not gone much wilder than this tale
that seems to take two Los Angeles citizens and
voluntarily places them amongst a rowdy crowd that must
have escaped from Northern exposure. The story line is
fun to follow as Mitch tries to ignore his desire and love
for Ally who thinks he is pathetic until the first kiss.
Vivian is an intriguing character though some readers will
be turned off by the S&M bondage relationship between her
and Kurt. Vicki Lewis Thompson takes nerds where they
never gone before with this amusing North to Alaska tale. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted January 2, 2005
SummaryInheriting a fortune means less to Ally Jarrett than
fulfilling her real dream: to take off for the wilds of
Alaska and photograph animals. Unfortunately she's also
inherited her grandmother's personal assistant-an over-
protective nerd who couldn't survive a snowball fight.
As a PI and bodyguard, Mitchell Caruthers is the perfect
man to protect his late employer's granddaughter. However,
keeping his geek-masquerade-and the secret behind his real
mission-isn't easy when the freeze between Ally and
Mitchell begins to melt.
Yet all's not well in this sub-zero paradise. Ally's bad
seed uncle is staking a claim on the family inheritance
with a dangerous masquerade of his own. With Ally's life in
danger, it's time for her right-hand nerd to expose the
real man undercover, and prove himself to the vulnerable
body he's been hired to guard...
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