"A delightful tongue in cheek romantic suspense"

Translator Tempe Walsh is in Hot Harry's Bar in Bombay working for client Ray DeCore who is negotiating with Himali Khan over purchasing Shiva's Diva statue. Tempe is translating to and from Hindi and English. The deal is struck when Tempe notices the statue is a fake. All hell breaks loose with bullets flying everywhere. Ray is dead, but Tempe survives due to her gymnastic skills and her Wonder Woman like earrings. Briggan "Strider" O'Brian, who speaks Gaelic, escapes with Tempe and the original statue.

Everyone in town seems to be after Brig and Tempe. Needing a place to hold up, the beleaguered couple chooses a Bollywood set, which turns out to make it even more difficult to decide who is the hero and who is the villain though Tempe likes Brig's kisses an awful lot.

This is a tongue in cheek romantic suspense that takes off from the moment Tempe opens her mouth about the statue and never slows down until the final altercation. The story line combines plenty of humor with excitement the rogue and the language expert dodge danger within a movie production and fall in love although Tempe has doubts that she will ride off with the hero as her beloved is to much the imp even if he is her champion kind of like the Douglas role in Romancing the Stone. Flo Fitzpatrick provides an amusing romantic adventure.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 4, 2005

Summary

Tempe Walsh is fluent in ten languages- and she can't say no to adventure. Next stop: India! Her mission: find the priceless -and mysterious- statue known as Shiva's Diva. Her man: Briggan O'Brien, a sexy Irishman on the run from the Mumbai Mob. Brig has a strange way of doing business, whatever that business may be. And she's still not sure how she ended up in his arms when the shooting started - but what if her bullet-deflecting earrings don't work the next time? Brig's too busy to explain why everyone's after the fabulous figurine- he's having a devil of a time just keeping one gorgeous American girl out of danger. And there's only one place left to hide: a Bollywood movie complete with villains, lovers , tigers, elephants and even a snake or two. Hey! there's a happy ending- if anyone can find the script.