Trouble with Harry

Edie Ragsdale is a hopeless romantic, a woman prone to pirate fantasies and daydreams of hunky heroes in the broad daylight. Her father has told her all her life how unattractive she is, and it’s given her a bit of a self confidence problem. She’s working at the New York City Anthropological Museum, and is under orders from her uptight boss to open a crate containing an ancient sarcophagus when something strange happens...

Harrington Taylor the Third, called Harry, is in a bad way. He’s been yanked from a 1924 archeological dig in the mountains of Iraq to modern day New York City, and all because of the stone he found in a forgotten tomb. One minute he's making the find of his lifetime and the next thing he knows, he’s facing a woman dressed in funny clothes who's staring at his naked body. What's even worse is that something tells him that he’s not his own master anymore...and what's with this bottle?

Trouble with Harry is a fun and funny, magical romp through time. It’s really the tale of Edie’s emancipation from being a spinsterish, trying-to-be-invisible young woman to becoming the person hidden inside herself. Myla Jackson injects her own brand of humor into this piece, giving it loads of verve, and adds enough scorching love scenes to make it interesting. I really enjoyed the thread of history woven into this book, and the threats of danger that Harry and Edie faced will give readers a thrill. Trouble with Harry is ripe with sequel possibilities, and I’m hoping to read some spin-off stories, especially about Mitch, Edie’s good-hearted, roving Romeo of a neighbor.

Reviewed by: Michelle