Dear Helen, 

Per your instructions on Twitter, I picked action/adventure in the category to submit my adventure romcom. I’m excited to send you DIGGING DR. JONES (86K words) an adult contemporary romance. It will appeal to readers who enjoy the witty narrative of Livy Hart novels and themes reminiscent of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren, or who have a deep love for movies Romancing the Stone or The Lost City.

Adriana Jones hasn’t even opened her store, and she’s already on the verge of bankruptcy. But an unfortunate (or perhaps fortunate) mix-up with the package delivery of an antique bracelet binds her to a stranger—the archaeologist Dr. Andrew Jones—who is superman hot (just in case you were wondering). Unable to unlatch the jewelry from her wrist, Andrew needs Adriana to travel with him to Colombia to locate a priceless artifact before a Russian oligarch’s men reach it first. Um, no thank you. 

When Andrew offers to pay Adriana enough money to save her business, she has no choice but to agree to a two-day trip to open a cryptic chest in a museum. How bad could it be? Well, you guessed it. The promised quick trip turns into a fortnight journey, trudging through jungles, crawling over skeletons under an old church floor, and sleeping under the stars. 

Adriana is dead set against love, but she finds herself irresistibly drawn to gallant Andrew, with his kind heart, winning smile, and different colored eyes. Hot days turn into even hotter nights, and the more time she spends with Andrew, the more painful it is remembering that after their trip is over, he goes back to London, and she goes back to Atlanta. Who was she kidding? Andrew is a blue-blooded aristocrat, and she is…well, she didn’t even finish college. Adriana believes it wouldn’t have worked out between them, anyway. And maybe, she is wrong.

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Thank you in advance for your kind consideration. 

Olivia