As You Desire

Desdemona "Dizzy" Carlisle has been scraping together a life in Cairo since she was a girl, selling "artifacts" to tourists and curating the finds from her brilliant, absent-minded grandfather's archaeological digs. It isn't a genteel life, or a tidy one. It was also, once, very nearly wrecked by Harry Braxton.

Harry, expat, adventurer, ne'er-do-well, son of a noble English family, is the one man Dizzy swore off years ago, after the mortifying afternoon she threw herself at him and he laughed.

What Dizzy never realized was that Harry was waiting: for her to grow up, for old secrets to be laid bare, and for the day he might have something more to offer her than a scratch living.

Then everything happens at once. A wealthy American cowboy turns up with a proposition. So does Harry's dark and dazzling cousin, Lord Ravenscroft. And soon half of Cairo is tearing off in search of a priceless artifact, with Dizzy, Harry, the American cowboy, and Ravenscroft all chasing the same treasure and, inconveniently, one another. Dizzy's romance-fed head knows precisely which man a heroine is supposed to want: the handsome lord.

Her heart keeps insisting, maddeningly, on plain Harry. A treasure hunt across an ancient land, a crowd of determined rivals, and two stubborn people trying to dodge the one thing they can't outrun.

For readers of Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series, and anyone who likes a whip-crack of Indiana Jones adventure in their romance.