Harriet Ruby, tour director extraordinaire, and her fianc‚ and favorite spy, Will Talbot, travel to Russia undercover as tour directors for the US delegation to an international youth conference.

Harriet tackles her first covert assignment to investigate smuggled artwork while Will's mission is to locate and destroy a group of terrorists recruiting young computer experts.

She appeared out of nowhere, blown into Red Gulch, a decaying mining town, on the crest of a desert breeze like the ever-present tumbleweeds that filled the empty streets in the blink of an eye. Except everyone knew where tumbleweeds came from.

Brandon O'Donnell never figured out where Melody came from, but she captured his heart with her flaming red hair, hypnotic light-grey eyes, and intense but distant way of speaking. As though, Brandon had thought for years, she knew a lot more than she let on.

Now, Brandon is about to find out how much more that really is.

When Patricia Macintosh inherits her Scottish father’s ancestral estate near Loch Ness, she wants nothing to do with it. They’d been close until her parents divorced, more than twenty years before, but in her mind he had broken her heart and abandoned her. No man would ever do that to her again.

But after a bout with cancer and reconstructive surgery, she flees to Scotland, on the pretense of selling the estate, but more to escape from making a commitment to the man who wants to marry her. There, an encounter with the impossible forces her to make a life-altering decision.

I’m Harriet Ruby, Tour Director Extraordinaire. At last, one of my fondest wishes has come true! Will Talbot, my favorite Super Spy and the love of my life, wants to include me in his covert mission to recover a list of double agents for the U.S. government.

Wow! Usually, I want to know everything, and he can’t tell me anything. Now, I’ll be part of the action. I am so-o going to love this!

Not that I have a big role. I only have to act as if we’re husband and wife when he accompanies me on my China tour. The tour group members are strangers we’ll neversee again, and we can spend three intimate weeks together.

I mean, how hard can that be?

Surprise, surprise! My parents show up on the tour as replacements for some cancellations. Now we have to pretend we’re married to protect Will’s cover.

And then, other problems erupt when someone tries to kill me, and terrorists kidnap me and my mother to lure Will into a trap. Not to mention the damage my assault rifle does to the Great Wall…

Oh, man. It isn’t my fault. Really!

Harriet Ruby: Tour Director Extraordinaire, has had some real winners when it came to tourists, but this group, wearing Halloween costumes on an all day tour of Rome, took the cake. Well, it was Halloween, but these folks were seriously…different.

When eight of them decide to explore on their own and take off down a restricted tunnel of the Roman catacombs, Harriet has to find them…for their safety and her reputation…and ends up involved in something she never expected.

Length: Short

Fantasy Comedy Romance

After knowing each other for nine months, young tour director Harriet Ruby and drop-dead gorgeous spy, Will Talbot, are looking forward to their first Christmas together.

Their plans for an entire uninterrupted week in each other’s arms go awry when she’s assigned to conduct a tour for a group of children over the Christmas holiday.

Disappointed but determined to make the best of the situation, Harriet and Will soon discover the tour group is in Rome for more than just a holiday…and they are definitely not children.

Fun, Fast, and Naughty

Take another fast-paced romantic romp with young tour director, Harriet Ruby, and handsome spy, Will Talbot, this time through Italy in hot pursuit of a lost grave, an assassin, and a once-in-a-lifetime love.

My name is Harriet Ruby, Tour Director Extraordinaire. At least I thought I was worthy of that title until...

My first mistake: Agreeing to conduct a custom tour of Italy. Fourteen Italian-Americans? All family, for three weeks, with four teenagers? What was I thinking?

Fate responds to my engraved invitation by placing one of the family members under surveillance as a suspect in an assassination plot. And who is assigned to the case? None other than my favorite drop-dead-gorgeous spy, Will Talbot.

My second mistake: Allowing Will to coax an invitation from the family matriarch to join the tour.

And that was just the beginning: The family matriarch, on a quest to find the unknown location of her mother's grave so she can bury her brother's cremated ashes, and her quirky family sweep through Italy leaving chaos, hilarity, and danger in their wake.

My name is Harriet Ruby, Tour Director Extraordinaire.  At least I thought I was worthy of that title until one of my tourists, Archie Philpot, died in the middle of my first, solo European tour. 

Teaming up with William Talbot, a seemingly kind stranger who turned out to be a spy in disguise, I tried to keep my tourists happy and unaware while smuggling poor old Archie's body out of Morocco.  I never expected my newfound friend and helper to be the love of my life.  It certainly didn’t hurt that he was such a hunk! 

But before our romance even got properly started, we were chased by terrorists, smugglers and murderers.  Since my role model had always been Tour Guide Barbie, I was out of my league and had to rely on Will to get us to safely. 

Little did I know that getting out of Morocco was just the beginning...

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