The Joan Wilder Effect contemporary romance by Lori Wilde EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lori Wilde
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The Adventure begins
MARLIE MONTAGUE WAS SMACK-DAB in the middle of
exposing a massive government cover-up when her front doorbell chimed:
Mission: Impossible.
Engrossed in the comic book she was illustrating, the sound didn’t click
in her brain. She sat tailor-style at her white drawing board, black charcoal
pencil in hand, surrounded by a bank of computers, all expensive tech.
Beneath Marlie’s deft hand, Angelina Avenger’s eyes blazed, her guns
drawn as she confronted a top-ranking CIA agent about his part in a global
oil conspiracy.
She hollowed Angelina’s cheekbones, honing her haunting beauty and
inner toughness. Next, the eraser arched her heroine’s auburn eyebrows.
Her character might be the most kick-butt crime fighter in the comics, but
she never neglected her grooming.
Quite unlike Marlie.
For herself, she identified more with Joan Wilder from Romancing the
Stone—a wimpy author who was nothing like her daring creation.
She glanced down at the rumpled black tracksuit she’d never once run
in and shook her head.
Two o’clock in the afternoon.
On a tight deadline, she toiled for two days without a shower and had
eaten nothing today besides her morning bowl of Froot Loops. When she
hyper-focused, reality fell away.
Mission: Impossible played again. Irritated, she groaned and pushed
back from her desk.
Perhaps UPS brought a box of free author copies of her twenty-eighth
comic book, CIA Zombie Recruits. The upcoming March issue in which
Angelina uncovers a secret government plot using social media and deep
fakes to brainwash the masses.
At the front door, she rose on tiptoe to peer through the peephole. Being
five-two presented a few challenges. Little wonder she’d created a six-foot
Warrior Woman as her heroine. Wish fulfillment.
She squinted at the strange man standing on her porch, and the hairs on
her forearm lifted.
He stood with his back to the door, gazing at the modest homes
comprising her cozy corner of Oleander Circle, just a mile from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Marlie pushed up her glasses and ogled.
He wore a sweat-stained navy blue T-shirt and gray cotton workout
pants. Despite their bagginess, the sweats did not camouflage his firm,
muscular butt.
Oh. My.
He held a Pyrex measuring cup in one hand. Had her new neighbor
come to borrow a cup of sugar?
More likely egg whites. She’d bet her Rembrandt pastels that this guy
never put a bite of the sweet stuff in his mouth.
Two weeks earlier, he moved in next door. She spied on him as he lifted
boxes with bulging biceps. Stripping off his shirt when he got overheated,
he dazzled Marlie with a view of righteous abs. He wore his hair cropped
close. Not quite a buzz cut, but almost. She recognized the style.
Was he military? She hoped not. She didn’t trust military personnel.
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