Stuck in Shangri-La by Kasey Michaels
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- Pub. Date: November 2005
- 384pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2005
- Publisher: Harlequin
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 384pp
- Series: Harlequin Romance Series
- ISBN-13: 9780373770595
- ISBN: 0373770596
Synopsis
Stranded with her sexy ex...it's déjà vu all over again
Even in a place called Shangri-La, shacking up with her gorgeous ex-fiancé wasn't career-driven Darcie Reed's idea of fun. But thanks to her crazy uncle's will, she has to live with Cameron Pierce for thirty days in the old homestead--or watch a sizable fortune go to a talking cat named Lucky!
Tacky lawn ornaments, a homicidal housekeeper, her uncle's ghost and the damn cat are just the beginning. The real trouble in Shangri-La begins when sparks start to fly between Cameron and Darcie--and the undeniable attraction they once shared threatens to come back to life with a vengeance.
Thirty days in Shangri-La just might be the longest month of Darcie Reed's tidy little life!
Biography
The hallmarks of New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kasey Michaels' writing are humor, romance and happy endings. The importance of upbeat, entertaining fiction was brought home to Kasey when her eldest son became very ill. During the long months while he was in the hospital after his kidneys failed, she noticed that the nurses who cared for the sick children and the mothers who spent long hours at their bedsides often had a romance novel in their back pockets. She began carrying her own romances to the hospital in a small suitcase, reading and then sharing and trading them with the other moms.
"We were living in a world too real in that hospital," Kasey says today. "We all functioned at the highest level--there was no choice but to function, to persevere--and we all occasionally escaped that world into the hope and happy endings of romance novels."
Kasey had actually written her first book just before her son's illness. She penned her second book during those long months in the hospital, and it became The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane.
Since then, Kasey has gone on to write about 100 more books, and to receive a trio of coveted Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly. The third was for her first HQN title, The Butler Did It, which was also a 2005 nominee for the Romance Writers of America's (RWA) highest award, the RITA Award and Publishers Weekly's Quills Award. She is already a recipient of the RITA Award, a Waldenbooks and BookRak Bestseller Award, and many awards from Romantic Times magazine, including a Career Achievement Award for her Regency-era historical romances.
Kasey has alsoappeared on the Today Show, and was the subject of the Lifetime Cable-TV show A Better Way, in conjunction with Good Housekeeping magazine, a program devoted to women and how they have achieved career success in the midst of motherhood (short version: "with great difficulty").
Kasey has written Regency romances, Regency historicals, category books including novellas and continuities and a few series "launch" books, and single-title contemporaries. Hers is also the twisted mind behind her ongoing Maggie Kelly mystery series that stars a former romance writer turned historical mystery writer. She is also the author of the highly praised nonfiction book, written as Kathryn Seidick, Or You Can Let Him Go, which details the story of Kasey and her family during the time of her eldest son's first kidney transplant.
Kasey and her husband of more than 40 years live in Pennsylvania with their two neurotic Persians, Princess and Peaches. They are proud parents of four and grandparents of two. Each summer the entire family volunteers to help out with the golf tournament her grown son founded to benefit the Gift of Life Donor Program of Philadelphia. Monies raised contribute to the costs of transporting the youngest members of Team Philadelphia to the annual Transplant Olympics.
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October 03, 2005: Darcie 'Darc' Reed may have a master's in business, but she always seems to pick the (insert an insulting word or two of your own here) of bosses. They hire her for her beauty and are always so surprised when she refuses to put out. No matter how much Darc tries to tone down her looks and come across as a professional businesswoman, her boss is going to make a move on her. And that is exactly what's happening when Attorney Clark Humbolt calls Darcie to inform her of her Uncle Horry's death. So Darc hands over her (insert another colorful word here) resignation, packs her bags, and heads to Uncle Horry's massive house and estate called 'Shangri-La'. ............................ Hecuba 'Horry' Willikins has always loved his toys and gadgets. His home is filled with toys of all types inside and out. (Including a stripper's pole decorated to resemble an anorexic barber pole in full working order, to the rows of solar powered frogs up either side of the driveway that croak as anything passes them. We won't even discuss the flamingo lawn ornaments or the Victorian mansion's paint job.) When Horry last saw his niece, Darcie, with her fianc? named Cameron 'Cam' Pierce, he knew they were totally in love. However, the two did not really KNOW each other. So when they broke up, Horry had a new will made up in hopes of bringing the two back together. ............................. Imagine everyone's surprise when the will is read and they discover that Darc and Cam must live together in Shangri-La for thirty days or watch the sizable fortune go to the cat, Lucky! And if anything happens to Lucky, the entire inheritance goes to Uncle Horry's estranged step-brother (that no one even knew existed)! To make things even more interesting, Lily Paige had been Uncle Horry's housekeeper and mistress for thirty years only to find out that she has been provided for (but not huge amount) and told that she may live in Shangri-La for as long as she wants. Needless-to-say, she is furious! Cam agrees to stay the thirty days so that Darcie will receive her Uncle Horry's inheritance, but he also hopes that he can use that time to win Darc back. It is only a couple of days before the step-brother, Edwin 'Poobie', shows up with his latest arm decoration, Pookie. ........................... Well Lucky is no stupid cat! He knows a target has been painted on his back for the next thirty days. And he makes sure that Horry's ghost knows it. As for Uncle Horry, he is aghast at what his will has caused to happen. Two people have teamed up to help Lucky have a fatal accident, but Lucky and Horry have no way of telling Darcie and Cameron that someone is out to kill Lucky, much less whom. One thing is for sure, the next month in Shangri-La is going to be anything but boring! ............................. ***** A modern day romance with some magical and ghostly elements. All the characters are so lively, even the feline and the dead one, that I hated putting the book down whenever reality forced me to. I fell in love with Lucky and Uncle Horry. I hated to see the story end. And I hope that Cam's partner gets his story told someday! I cannot recommend this hilarious romp highly enough! *****
Superb paranormal contemporary romanceby harstan
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September 28, 2005: Just outside Philadelphia, Hecuba ?Horry? Willikins is enjoying sex with his housekeeper Lily Paige when he suddenly dies with a smile on his face. A few days later in Pittsburgh, his beloved niece Darcie Reed is being sexually harassed by her boss when she learns that her uncle died. She quits her job and heads to Shangri-la Horry?s wild Cliff House home for the reading of the will. Her former fianc? Cameron Pierce is being sexually harassed by a female vulture when he finds out that Horry wanted him to attend the reading of his will................. Attorney Clark Humboldt shows the video will in which Horry provides for his ?Little Lily Pad? and informs Cameron and Darcie that they have joint custody of his estate in trust for his cat Lucky for one month. If either leaves early, everything goes to his half-brother Edwin. At the end of the month they will decide who gets Lucky, the house, and the estate. Cameron and Darcie reluctantly agree the terms of Horry?s will. However, someone wants them to fail by causing trouble between them................... Though a little communication between the lead couple would have solved some of their differences, fans will appreciate this superb paranormal contemporary romance. Horry the otherworldly matchmaker through the will and somewhat as a ghost mostly observes the human foibles and communicates with Lucky. The cast is solid as the secondary characters including the intelligent feline bring out the best and worst in the dueling duet as they struggle with one another, the ghost, someone wanting them to leave, and just being STUCK IN SHANGRI-LA for a month together of no sex though both want it........... Harriet Klausner
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