Title: The Last Male Virgin
Author: Katherine Deauxville
Published in September 2003 by LoveSpell
Genre: Contemporary
IBSN: 0-505-52497-X
The Wimberly Foundation was founded to support scientists and other scholars in their pursuit of knowledge. It was a sponsor to Einstein and Goddard, and has received the honors due such philanthropic and educational endeavors. This latest project is not what the Executive Director had in mind, however. Daughter of the politically powerful Senator Wimberly, and great-granddaughter of the Foundation’s founder, Leslie Hall-Grumman is not pleased. This was supposed to be a book-lecture tour and it seems to be turning into a freak show. The crowds at Brown have nothing on the Yalies, because that provocative picture taken at the Yale appearance is in all the papers..
She has a feeling it is going to get worse. The appearance on CNN? Not on her agenda, nor is running for her life afterward -- at least not from a bunch of crazed women on the hunt for her charge. Who could have imagined that one anthropologist -- no matter how attractive, sensual, provocative -- could scare up this much trouble? Just forgetting that she is uptight, insecure, and totally dominated by the men in her life would not be her usual style. Something has to be done so she tries to put her foot down, but the results are very unexpected....
Left alone by the plane crash that killed his parents in Papua New Guinea when he was fourteen, Dr. Peter Havistock has done for anthropology what could only be accomplished by the great Margaret Meade. Unlike Meade, Peter has a jungle-honed body that the women want, and it doesn't stop with just the co-eds at the college stops on the tour. A tribe of unknown aboriginal people called the Antoroks who claimed him from the wreckage, raised him. He was treated like one of them, raised to superior chief, but then was sent away.
He is different, and that difference is a possible asset to the tribal council -- a means to help the tribes so they charged him with a mission. Find and marry a worthy wife, one who will bring him influence in the outside world, one worth at least forty pigs. As the designated superior chief of the Antoroks, the tribal council's decree is what finally leads him here to the U.S., the land of his birth. It also leads him to the woman that he has decided will be his wife, and the council will be pleased. The only hitch is that she is not cooperating. He has proposed at least twice and both times she has given him a very odd look. Hmm....He has to think of something because this is the most important thing on his list...that is next to saving his tribe.
Let me start by saying this: After Out of the Blue, I didn't think that anything could come close to the wonderful humor and the oddball events that were so stimulating and delightfully offered there...I WAS WRONG! Once again, Katherine Deauxville has given us a wonderfully strange book! The Last Male Virgin is a hilarious rendering of societal scruples vs. aboriginal freedom and never have they been mixed so well! It is funny, a tad sad in spots, and yet she has added elements of just enough danger to keep the interest and the adrenaline flowing.
The book is centered about a woman who has been dominated by the men in her life. An influential senator as a father, a veritable "apple from the tree" as a brother, and an ex-husband who married her for the wealth and power she brought with her. With this as a background, and not having the best of luck in the matrimonial arenas, Leslie is immersed in her work but not -- make that definitely not -- prepared for The Last Male Virgin. Released in September from Dorchester's LoveSpell books, this is one you don't want to miss! Kudos to Katherine Deauxville for another terrific read!
Yours in good reading,
Rose!
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