Desire Me (The Legend Hunters)
As far as Sabine Tobias is concerned, she has two ways of getting the map of Atlantis from Maxwell Barrett: she can steal it or seduce Max into giving it to her. Because Sabine is not crazy about the idea of becoming a permanent guest at one of London's finer prisons, she opts for seduction. As the manufacturer of London's hottest beauty cream, Sabine intends to use every trick of the beauty trade to convince him to give her the map, but Max proves surprisingly resistant to Sabine's charms. Once Max realizes that someone else is equally determined to posses the map, and will stop at nothing less than murder to acquire it, working with Sabine beings to seem like a far more acceptable alternative. A wildly inventive and original plot, a captivating cast of secondary characters, and an unforgettable hero and heroine (whose sexual chemistry is strong enough to generate actual sparks) add up to a scintillating addition to DeHart's Victorian-set Legend Hunters series. --John Charles