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July 04, 2008
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| In Hot Water by Mary Lynn Baxter | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner |  | Publisher: Mira
http://www.harlequin.ca
ISBN: 0778321428
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Melodrama
Release date: Feb 2005
Format: paperback
Pages: 400
Price: $6.99 | Maci Malone goes on vacation to Jamaica where she meets a hunk. The pair share an incredible night of passionate lovemaking. Though neither expects a morning after, “Stan” and “Mildred” desire this to happen. However, there was none; as both know they should have not indulged, though they could not stop. They separately left for their respective home destinations never expecting to see one another again.
Not long afterward, Maci agrees to marry Dr. Seymour Ramsey, who offers her security, something she needs in life. Life is good and Maci gives birth to a child, Jonah. However, the illusion of stability shatters when her spouse is sued for malpractice and charged with manslaughter for the wrongful death of a patient due to the abusive influence of prescription drugs. Seymour asks his estranged adult son, Holt, to serve as his legal council. However, Maci is stunned because Holt is the hunk in Jamaica who took her to ecstasy and may be the biological father of her son.
Maci is a likable protagonist who feels her world collapse with the charges against her husband and then further implodes when Holt arrives. Unlike the harassed lead female character, the two males are not amiable; as Holt is nasty and Seymour pathetic. Still this is a fine contemporary soap opera even if coincidence generates the triangular tension. | | |
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