This HaBO request is from Ms. A, who is hoping to find this contemporary romance. Content warning for consent issues below:
I read this book in 2001 or 2002. I’m guessing it was from the late 90s, definitely a Harlequin, maybe a Harlequin Superromance?
The man was the boss of a company, and the woman worked for him. They got married for business/convenience reasons. There was a lot about how they physically “fit” together, and how surprising it was, since they had had a purely professional relationship until then.
Soon after they got married, they went to some sort of work-related getaway to an island resort. While there, the heroine gets drugged with an aphrodisiac by the villain woman (who herself was a pawn of some larger organization), but luckily our hero was around to treat our heroine by having sex with her…
This happened several times.
Oh boy. Anyone know this one?
I think I read this one, but I can’t come up with better details, much less a title. I feel like it was a Sarah Morgan but a perusal of her backlist didn’t turn anything up…
STG I at least glanced at this years back–it was a spy pastiche/parody of some kind, and the island was home to a mad scientist who was going to us the aphrodisiac to make all women horny and subservient to men. I decided not to read it (the premise made me roll my eyes so hard they nearly fell out), and I cannot remember the title. My brain says it was a James Bond joke–like “Doctor Yes” as opposed to “Doctor No”–but a quick check on Goodreads isn’t finding anything.
@Lara – The book you’re thinking of is Dr. Yes by Lisa Cach. I didn’t read it either so I’ve no idea if it matches this HaBO.
@MaryK–Thank you! Now I can blithely go on with my life with still no plans to read it. 😉