"Amusing romance"

Her husband Steve dumped Phoebe Frame for a younger cocktail waitress, but explained to his wife that he was dumping her for her good. The car salesman tells her the same thing when she goes to buy a used vehicle after her car died. At Central Care Network Clinic where she works as a lowlife transcriptionist, her boss Dr. Ken Patterson gropes her while making pass at Phoebe insisting he only wants to help her relax. Phoebe threatens him with an alphabet soup sexual harassment case.

Already over the top with all this male kindness, Phoebe runs into Jeff Fischer and takes his head off for touching her. Jeff insists he was trying to keep his balance. Jeff installs a new transcription system for Phoebe, but his efforts to get her to go out with him fail. Phoebe mistrusts anything that contains a Y-Chromosome; Jeff, who is very attracted to her, knows he must mount a campaign to persuade that not all Ys act as if they are doing you favor; instead dating her would do him a favor.

This amusing contemporary romance stars a woman, who will no longer take it from men insisting they are taking care of her best interests. However, as Phoebe takes charge of her life, she wonders what Jeff wants from her besides a roll in the sack. Readers will take delight in Jeff, as he struggles to prove to his beloved that she can be independent all she wants as long as she allows him to be there when she needs him and visa versa.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 12, 2004