Tori Lowell and Carter Sinclair went through FBI agent training together at Quantico; they were highly competitive and when Tori cut off a hot and heavy make out session in the dorm Carter thought it was to ruin his edge (ie, so like she wasn't actually attracted to him but just wanted to mess with him), whereas Tori really ended it cuz she saw someone watching and thought it could ruin her career cuz recruits were encouraged not to get involved with each other. When she gets stuck behind a desk for three years after graduation while Carter immediately gets undercover positions she becomes convinced that a double standard must be in play and that the kiss ruined her career, or at least severely hindered it. So she's a little resentful now that she is finally being given the chance to go in the field (as a reward for an exceptionally good research/analysis work she did) that Carter will be her team leader.
Carter, for his part, has been undercover for the entire 3 years now and is sick of it; he's asked for a transfer to a desk job and is hoping to be able to settle down, but his boss insists on this one last job first - pretend to be a married couple with Tori and head to a sex camp, the "Kama Resort", to see if they can get a lead on who might be blackmailing its clients. Before they check in to the resort Tori and Carter check in to a B&B pretending to be newlyweds for a few days to practice their cover - but there is only one bed in the room and they quickly get intimate - is it just lust? Will Tori be a huge success in the field? Can they ever have a future with such diverging priorities?
I find this a great, fun read and enjoyed it as I have just about all the other Harlequin Temptations from this era. I do have a few quibbles as usual, although they don't really affect my enjoyment of the books: primarily, early in the book when they first check in to the B&B Carter makes a big deal about how they should never break their cover even when no one else is around (he's basically telling Tori this cuz she doesn't want to hold his hand for their romantic walk on the beach), but throughout the book - even when they are on site at the Resort - both Carter and Tori are violating this rule, calling each other "agent" and referring to their time at Quantico (and it irked me that Carter was breaking the rule not more than 10 pages after he was lecturing Tori about it)...not good form, but then the mission never seemed particularly serious (and I suppose I should be reading an Intrigue if that was what I was looking for). But I definitely did enjoy this book and will be holding onto it to reread in the future.
