Synopsis
When English professor Gabriella Kurtz is dumped by her ho-hum boyfriend because she doesn’t have the energy to do the breaking up herself, she knows a drastic change is in order. But she’s not counting on just how drastic the change is going to be . . . .While she’s reinventing herself as a hot sexy chick, Gabriella imagines her perfect man. Big and masculine but gentlemanly, he’s going to take one look at her and then it’ll be mind-blowing sex all weekend. That’s what she wants. That’s what she tells her colleagues she . . . already has. Because she just can’t stand the fact that everyone knows she’s been dumped by a boring academic colleague. What’s wrong with an imaginary boyfriend to shield her from the worst of the humiliation?And that’s when Duncan Sinclair, Sin to his friends, enters the picture. Ex-military, now working for an oh-so-secret government agency, he’s on the hot seat. Take out an undercover terrorist posing as an accomplished academic, his boss tells him. Sin gets the game plan: the terrorist will be giving a talk at a big Midwestern university.When Gabriella’s colleagues mistake Sin for her imaginary boyfriend, he thinks she’s set up the situation to provide him cover, which means she must be a deep-cover asset. Brilliant deductive reasoning. Except it’s wrong . . . .Sensuality Level: HotAlicia Thorne is a former college professor who has invented a boyfriend or two in her life, although she found the results not nearly as satisfying as her heroine does.
