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Pleasure To The Max!

Pleasure To The Max!, August 2008
by Cami Dalton

Harlequin Blaze
Featuring: Cassie Parker; Max Stone
224 pages
ISBN: 0373794185
EAN: 9780373794188
Mass Market Paperback
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Fresh Fiction Review

Pleasure To The Max!
Cami Dalton

Reviewed by Stacey Hayman
Posted September 18, 2008

Romance Contemporary

Cassie Parker's treasure hunting Aunt Minerva sent her a package from St. Petersburg, Russia. Minerva "liberated" a priceless antiquity from fellow dealer, Max Stone, without his knowledge and passed it along to her niece in Florida. When Cassie opens the package and reads her aunt's note, she's skeptical but willing to give it a go. It's a lover's box created by a Gypsy King over a hundred years ago and it's supposed to make the owner's fantasies come true. The instructions Minerva sent indicate Cassie should write her wants and wishes down in the journal included, then put the journal in the box. Badda-bing, badda-boom. Cassie's wildest dreams will be realized.

Naturally Max wants his goods back and follows the box to Florida. Max breaks into Minerva's antique store, where Cassie is living in the upstairs apartment. Cassie doesn't know he's there for the box, she thinks he's the answer to her first magical request. There's no way Cassie's giving up that box now, no matter how much Max insists it's really his. But he isn't the only one looking for the box. The box is rumored to contain instructions on finding a greater treasure of riches, hidden inside by the Gypsy King who created the box. The Russian Federal Service of Security, headed by Max's old enemy Victor and the Russian Mob Boss Ivan also want the box for their own reasons. Will Max and Cassie be able to keep the box, the journal, and their new relationship intact while fighting against the odds? The bantering between Max and Cassie sounds genuine and adds an element of reality to their quick connection. They're both flawed, but they know it, so when they recognize that something special in the other; they don't trust it right away but they don't walk away either. The graphic sex scenes are frequent, but they seem appropriate to a story about a magical "lover's box." Although the ending is clear and complete, there is definite potential for more entertaining adventures with Cassie and Max.

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SUMMARY

Cassie Parker's globe-trotting great-aunt has sent her a Gypsy "lover's box." All she has to do is write down her most erotic fantasy, tuck it inside the box and presto! Her own personal sex genie will appear. Right! So Cassie is totally shocked when a gorgeous stranger does show up. And she's even more shocked by the things she wants to do with him….

Treasure hunter Max Stone isn't amused. His latest treasure has been swiped and he's followed it to a dusty little antiquities shop in the States. Surely one woman can't stand in the way of his retrieving the priceless lover's box? Little did he guess that he'd have his hands full (literally!) with sexy Cassie. Or that he'd have to hold off on locating the box until after he located his clothes…


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