AUTHOR: Harrington, Nina
TITLE: Hired: Sassy Assistant
Date Read: 12/21/13
RATING: 4/B
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: Romance/2009/Harlequin/186 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE S/A

TIME/PLACE: Present/UK
CHARACTERS: Lulu Hamilton/artist; Kyle Munroe/Physician; Adventurer; Writer

FIRST LINES: It wasn't every day of the week that you saw a librarian carrying a package on her head that looked bigger than she was struggling to get off a London tube train @ eleven o'clock in the morning.

COMMENTS: Lulu is a young woman who grew up a bit non-traditionally. Her mother was a physician who had a calling to help those in undeveloped countries and was often abroad. Lulu's father was an artist, she lived in the English countryside w/ him and he was a great father but she did feel the absence of her mother. Her mother was killed in a land mine accident in Uganda when she was in her teens, and her father just passed recently. Kyle Munroe is part medical physician, part Indiana Jones adventure-seeker -- taking high risks in not only his job but climbing the Himalayas, etc., part author of a very popular book re: his exploits in Nepal helping those in need of medical assistance and then there is the part of him that has never really reconciled his parent's divorce and how to have a long-term relationship. When Kyle returns from Nepal he is asked by his publisher to write a new book re his time in Uganda. The deadline is quick and Lulu is hired to assist him in compiling all his diaries, pieces of paper and other assorted unorganized papers from 9 years ago. ( )