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By Michelle Bardsley
They lost two children. Marissa Vanderson’s parents meant well when they locked up
their remaining daughter in the luxury and safety of their home like a fairy tale princess. Now her parents are away in Europe. Marissa is determined to experience all the things on her to do list. Experience life.
Dane Sinclair is the sports director for the teen center. Working behind the bar at the at the Paradise Club is just a favor to his brother. When beautiful, crazy, Marissa Vanderson plops down at the bar and makes her outrageous proposition, Dane is determined not to be taken in by another scheming socialite like his ex-wife.
But confronted by her ridiculous determination to do and experience all the things on her ridiculous list, Dane is just as determined to see to it that the naïve, crazy woman makes it through the week safely without completing some of the things on that list. Besides the $10,000 she offers him for bodyguard services will go a long way at the teen center. It is only a week. How hard can it be?
Dane doesn’t bargain on a haunting secret, a serial killer on the hunt, the serial killer’s hunter, or the battles he will have to wage to protect the woman he loves.
Character depth, humor, tight pacing, suspense, and surprises. Michelle Bardsley’s “Wild Woman” is a modern delightful fairytale romp filled with enough mystery and action to keep readers of any genre turning pages.
-Charlene Austin © 2005 (chars@writersandreadersnetwork.com)
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