The Adventurer

Rating:
Summary: Wow!
Review: Book two in the trilogy. Long ago Emelina Fleetwood made a geometric map to the location of where she hid her five pairs of gemstone earrings and pasted it down to the next generation of Fleetwood women. Now in present time, Sarah is using the map to find the jewels. She contacts Gideon Trace, the treasure hunter, to help her.

The problem is that someone else is hunting the treasure as well and has a deadly history with Trace. In addition, Sarah is convinced that Trace is the man for her and is determined to make him realize it.

***Treasure hunting is the fantasy of many people. This author made that fantasy into a very cute story. In my opinion, readers will find this story, as well as the entire trilogy, as time well spent!***

Rating:
Summary: Complexly Woven Plot
Review: The heroine who falls in love with his letters, and searches out her man with determination to woo and win him is every man's fantasy. I re-read this book every few months. Do you suppose Jayne Ann Krentz knows how dramatically she can stir the masculine reader's passion?

Rating:
Summary: enjoyable reprint
Review: This is book 2 in a series of Harlequin temptations reprint. It is typically JAK so great fun. If you missed them first time around and are a big fan of JAK, I am sure you will appreciate the reprint. If you are a fan of JAK and keep her stuff - CHECK YOU OLD TEMPTATIONS - they were the Pirate, The Adventurer and the Cowboy - in that order.
In this one, Emelina Fleetwood is the descendant of a lady gold hunters, a former schoolteacher than spent a summer in the 1800'hunting for god and found it. She used the gold to buy five pair of jewelled earrings, each in the shape of one of her favourite flowers. Before her death, she hide the treasure and created a map, which is now in the hands of Emeline Fleedwood. Most of the tale is now myth, but Emaline believes, enough to hire treasure hunter Gideon Trace to help her find them. Gideon is not so sure, but Emaline believes and believes he is some kind of hero, another thing Gideon does not believe, but if she does and it keeps her around, he is more than willing to let her live out her adventure.

It is wonderfully funny JAK and a good read.