Sometimes Fate provides more than subtle hints...
Penny Halloran has been dating Martin for three months and even though the physical side of their relationship has not gone beyond good night kisses at the door and hand holding he has asked her to marry him. Martin is in his thirties now, wants to have children before he is too old to enjoy them, and thinks that he and Penny make a good team. Penny agrees they are well suited to each other, but as she mulls over her answer she also realizes that sex is important to her as well and before she says yes or now she wants to find out if she and Martin are sexually compatible. Knowing that Martin was going out of town the next day Penny, who owns a sandwich shop with her sister, sends him a note with his sandwich that reads: "Meet me tonight. Ten o'clock. Corner of Fourth and Walnut. And be ready for anything." Having even gone so far as to rent a limo, Penny intends to take Martin for a test drive.

The dark interior of the back of the limo gives Penny the freedom to do "Something Wild" and that evening what happens exceeds her expectations. If she was going to make her decision based on how great the sex was then the answer is most definitely "yes." The only problem is that Martin has already left town and when Ryan Pierce, a new employee at the software company who is using the boss's computer while he is away find the sandwich and the note from Penny the Sandwich Girl from downstairs, he is surprised the shy young woman would hit on him like this and shocked after enjoying a session of wild sex in the back of the limo. However, when the voice in the dark declares her willingness to marry him, he has to draw the line.

Toni Blake's "Something Wild" is one of "The Wrong Bed" stories in the Harlequin Temptation series, although, more accurately, this would be the wrong car. Of course Penny is shocked that she has had wild sex with someone who is almost a complete stranger, but although she is mortified she cannot get away from the fact that it was really great sex. However, the Fates are not yet down with Penny, because Martin gave Ryan her account and the two have to work together on constructing a software program for her business while Martin is gone. Clearly, Penny cannot marry Martin. Now, if she could only stop having fantasies about Ryan. "Something Wild" has plenty of passion, but it also has two paper creating a real relatinship.

Your standard romance has two people overcoming the obstacles that keep them apart, but "Something Wild" takes the opposite tact as Penny and Ryan have to deal with the circumstances that keep bringing them together. The nice thing is that they both think that this simple twist of fate means something more than a cosmic accident. In trying not to talk about what happen they end up talking about plenty of other things, building a real relationship, even while their minds keep drifting back to what they did and thinking ahead to what might happen. Ironically, Ryan thinks Penny is too "wild" for him, which pretty much completes the job of turning Penny's world completely upside down. Fortunately, Ryan discovers he likes bringing out Penny's wild side.

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