Shy Jane Spyrus loves gadgets. She can build anything B.L.I.S.S. needs in the international organization’s fight against crime-although its agents aren’t exactly lining up at her door. Some of them think her inventions are a little too . . . well, innovative. Like her shrink-wrap prophylactic constraints, or her spray-on truth serum.
Of course, you can’t use wacky inventions to fix all your problems; Jane knows that better than anyone. Her neighbor has been kidnapped, driving that point home. She will have to team up with another human being-and Abel Andretti arrives just in time. He will help Jane find her neighbor, stop a villain, and most of all he will show Jane to love the daylights out of something without batteries.
She hadn’t been thinking, that was obvious, Jane decided, and tossed the little packets back into her briefcase, then reached to retrieve the banana and it’s spiked holder.
“What are you doing?” Y asked sharply.
Jane paused and flushed. “I was going to skip this item. It’s rather silly and I thought I should just move on to-”
“No skipping,” Y said firmly.
Mr Manetrue nodded, adding, “Even if your idea doesn’t work out, Jane, it may spur another idea from someone else here, or even yourself. That’s what these meetings are about, remember?”
Jane blew out an unhappy breath, but set the banana and its holder back and retrieved the small foil packets from her briefcase. “This idea- Well, my gran was telling me once about an agent friend of hers who was raped while on assignment and I thought-” Her face was flaming and she knew it, but she had no choice but to continue, so straightened her shoulders and blurted, “I came up with the BLISS Shrink-Wrap Condom.”
Dick Hedde was not the only one to laugh this time, although most of the other laughs were more embarrassed titters. Jane did her best to ignore them and walked over to hand a packet to both Y and Mr Manetrue before returning to her spot and opening the packet she’d kept for herself.
“As you can see, the label suggests the condom contains a Viagra-like substance to increase longevity and increase sensitivity and pleasure,” she mumbled, wishing she’d thought a little harder about this before deciding to present it. “This is to make it appear more attractive to anyone who might use it.”
About the Author:
LYNSAY SANDS is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. She’s been writing stories since grade school and considers herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and if there’s occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that’s just a big bonus. Please visit her on the web at www.lynsaysands.net.
Jennifer’s Review of The Loving Daylights
Review (4 Stars) Jane Spryus loves creating gadgets for her job at B.L.I.S.S. and is great at it except her ideas border on being too creative and unconventional. One night, she takes some of her inventions home with her and her next door neighbor, Edie, “borrows” one, unaware that object is more than meets the eye. When her neighbor ends up being kidnapped, it is up to Jane and Edie’s brother to find her and save the day while falling in love at the same time.
The Loving Daylights is a very cute romance with the right amount of espionage to make it entertaining and keep you on the edge of your seat. Jane was a very shy character in the beginning of this book and she felt that everything she did was wrong. Never in a million years did she imagine to meet a handsome guy and go on an adventure of a lifetime. I liked Jane and Abel as a couple because they were both very sweet and reserved and just seemed to bring out the best in one another. The story is quite different than Ms. Sands vampire series but I think it is a fast-paced fun adventure that I’m sure will please fans of her books.
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