This is my first book by Connie Brockway, so I don't know if it is typical of her writing, but it was really really, funny and very enjoyable. I'm glad I picked it up in spite of the cutesy title which doesn't sound like a historical romance. I totally recommend it. It takes place in Egypt and has a real screwball comedy feel to it. Fans of Loretta Chase will be happy to hear that in some ways it was reminiscent of "Mr. Impossible", except in that book the hero is the troublemaker, while the heroine tried to bring a note of sanity to the proceedings. In this book, it's the reverse. Ginesse, the madcap heroine, is very intelligent but more accident prone than Katherine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby" and she just about drives the hero mad. She is an expert on Egyptian/Pharaonic archeology and history and is on a mission to uncover a lost city. Basically she tricks the hero, Jim, into guiding her there through the desert. The scene when she first arrives in Cairo and is playing the role of a hoity-toity British lady, when in reality she was raised in Egypt, and knows exactly what rude things people are saying about her in a foreign language, which they think she doesn't understand, is laugh-out-loud hysterical. I liked the hero too, he was a good guy and a good match for her, but Ginesse is the unique character who makes the story great. During the course of the book, I gathered that she is the daughter of a couple who were the hero/heroine of one of Brockway's earlier books, "As You Desire", but you definitely don't need to have read it to enjoy this one.

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