Review: A great romance with a hint of naughty and James Bond.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2012
Artemetesia is a widowed woman who loves to paint and the freedom she has being a widow.  Trevalyn is trying to investigate something and when he shows up to her studio she mistakes him for a potential model for one of the paintings she's working on.  Paintings in which she's having the models pose naked.  But surprisingly he's game for allowing her to believe he's a model and poses for her.The attraction to each other is pretty much instantaneous all that can possibly be helped along by the fact he spends quite a bit of time in her company naked.  If someone knew she was the artist behind the paintings there could be quite a scandal and it could affect her reputation, but she really doesn't care because art is one of the things she really loves.It's not too long into the book we discover there is quite a bit going on in the book and eventually the book goes from a steamy romance novel and turns a little bit into an adventure series.  As for Trevalyn wasn't the only one who was searching for something that someone really wants.  And that something happened to have been closer then she had realized.  Part of the adventure is what happens when she and the hero go after a sculpture that she had made years ago, as the sculpture contains something they could really use.  Retrieving it puts them in danger and leads to some excitement as well.One subplot of the book also deals with Trevalyn and the relationship between him and his father.  His father believes him to be a screw up but he doesn't realize who his son really works for and also doesn't realize that he downplays his accomplishments for the good of his job.  I liked this book from pretty much the opening page and am glad this is one of the books I've chosen to read.  I'll keep Mia Marlowe in mind in the case of future Kindle purchases.