The only reason "Mac" MacDougal was alive was that his little sister Amareth had forced the medical team to download his mind into a prototype droid that hadn't been tested for this kind of use. No one expected the droid to come conscious halfway through a defrag process, and go steal a ship, zipping off to who-knows-where, all the while believing he was The MacDougal. All the droid knew was that he had to seek out Elyiana. The big problem with the really sophisticated droid brain was that it was only fully functional in one area: sex. So it could process the sexual information, but could not make sense of the rest of what had been uploaded to it.

So while the real Mac was in a coma registering no brainwaves, the contents of his brain had gone whizzing off to find Elyiana. And once he found her, he felt greatly confused about his identity and the details of his physical existence, but all he wanted to do was fulfill the droid's sexual programming. Unfortunately (or fortunately, as the case may be), Elyiana had no clue who Mac the droid was, or in fact that he was a droid. It was probably a good thing, since the real Mac was furious at Elyiana for using him as a model for the male characters she created for her romance novels. She was indeed using him as a model, and she was sexually attracted to the image of him in her mind as well as the image of him that she created on the pages of her novels. But was she ready for the real Mac? Would the assassin be found? Could Mac be returned to his own body?

Lora Leigh and Veronica Chadwick have written a Futuristic Romance with the twist of an old-style Alpha Scottish Laird hero and with the dreaming romance writer heroine. The chemistry of the characters is tangible and their dramatic conflicts are based on characteristics which are intrinsic to their personae. He is all passion under the tight rule of a brilliant logic; she is all emotion, ruled by heart. Each is the piece who completes the other, but while that truth is something they might have understood emotionally, it is something that the characters have to work out in the course of the story. The plot is well-conceived, a Futuristic-Romantic-Mystery brought to vivid life by characters who seem to take on a life of their own, and the erotic scenes are hot enough to burn clear through the pages. Read this with a bucket of water handy or else you'll catch fire.

Reviewed By: Maîtresse
(c) Sept 2004