Nerd in Shining Armor

April 28, 2003
Lady Luck seems to be smiling on secretary Genevieve Terrence when Nick Brogan, her employer at the Honolulu-based Rainbow Systems software firm, asks her to accompany him on an overnight business meeting to Maui. But when the smooth-talking lothario parachutes from the plane, leaving Genevieve and computer geek Jackson Farley without a pilot, she realizes her luck has run out. Fortunately, Jackson turns out to be a. Not only does he safely land the plane near a deserted island, he also helps occupy Gen's time while they're marooned. Jackson's transformation from super geek into sexy savior is liberally sprinkled with humor, as is Gen's reconnection with her backwoods upbringing. With its endearing characters, ample sex scenes and smart, funny dialogue, this lighthearted lark from Harlequin series author Vicki Lewis Thompson (Behind the Red Doors, etc.) is sure to satisfy.

May 1, 2003
Genevive's much-anticipated overnight business trip with her arrogantly sexy boss, Nick, has gone terribly wrong. Not only has Jack the computer nerd managed to tag along on the private plane to Maui, but Nick has turned out to be a corporate thief and a murderous psychopath who plans on killing off Jack and Genevive in a plane crash. Luckily, Jack has played enough flight-simulator computer games to crash-land the plane, leaving Genevive and himself alone on a desert island in the Pacific with only a guava tree and their soon-to-be-realized lust for each other to sustain them. Jack may be a nerd, but he has a great body and a real sense of chivalry. He's also an amazing lover, and the stranded couple's uninhibited desert-island sex scenes leave readers conflicted about whether to root for the rescue party or not. If they are rescued will the Nerd in Shining Armor go back to his mismatched clothes and computer games? Thompson's fun, sexy island adventure gets points for casting a nerd in place of a Fabio.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2003, American Library Association.)