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Overview
The man Jess has fallen in lust with is not only married, he's her boss. He's also famous — a high-ranking government official who is all business by day, and all-out kinky by night. And when his photo — his naked photo — is splashed on the front page of the supermarket tabloids, Jess has Rude Awakening #1: home-wrecking leads to nothing but heartache. How could it all have backfired so? Are her instincts in this Crazy Thing called Love really that deplorable?
Maybe her instincts aren't the problem. Relying on her colorful circle of girlfriends for unconditional love and break-up recovery via margarita infusion, Jess makes another play for domestic bliss — only to experience Rude Awakening #2: some men are wired to behave badly. But rather than settle, Jess is finally ready to put her happiness first. And happiness, for the time being, means calling on her friends to concoct a marvelous plan to get payback from her exes that's daring, hilarious, and certain to hit the jerks where they live....
Synopsis
The man Jess has fallen in lust with is not only married, he's her boss. He's also famous — a high-ranking government official who is all business by day, and all-out kinky by night. And when his photo — his naked photo — is splashed on the front page of the supermarket tabloids, Jess has Rude Awakening #1: home-wrecking leads to nothing but heartache. How could it all have backfired so? Are her instincts in this Crazy Thing called Love really that deplorable?
Maybe her instincts aren't the problem. Relying on her colorful circle of girlfriends for unconditional love and break-up recovery via margarita infusion, Jess makes another play for domestic bliss — only to experience Rude Awakening #2: some men are wired to behave badly. But rather than settle, Jess is finally ready to put her happiness first. And happiness, for the time being, means calling on her friends to concoct a marvelous plan to get payback from her exes that's daring, hilarious, and certain to hit the jerks where they live....
Publishers Weekly
As a researcher for an important House of Commons minister, ambitious Jess Latham has her political career rolling. Her love life's a dead-end street, but what does she care? All she needs is her job and her mates that is, until her boss, Basil, propositions her and she realizes it's been too long since she's gotten "hot and sweaty with a member of the opposite sex." Basil manages to be both kinky and dull in the sack, but Jess is willing to play mistress, at least until Basil can extricate himself from his marriage after all, she almost truly loves him. But Basil and wife both prove wily, and there's another complicated romance to come, this one with a handsome tabloid journalist. When things don't go swimmingly in either liaison, Jess and her coterie of funny girlfriends (each having suddenly decided to settle down with the man of her dreams) seek revenge on the two-timing cheats who have made Jess's life so difficult. This engaging novel by the author of What If? will have readers laughing with and rooting for its likable protagonist and feeling genuinely thankful for not being in her shoes. Agent, Mary Pachnos. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.