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Her
Last Fling
Jana Mercy
Ellora's Cave
February 2008
ISBN#: 9781419914522
Contemporary
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Synopsis:
He was her last fling. She was his first.
Tired of dead-end relationships, Katy Simmons is determined to find her
forever man. Only problem is, every time she thinks she's found him, he
turns out to be a dud and she no longer trusts her instincts where
good-looking men are concerned.
After years of walking the straight and narrow while caring for his ill
mother and building his career, Noah Hilton has earned the right to let
loose. He's ready to taste the wilder side of life. However, his matchmaking
mother has other plans.
When Noah's mother and Katy turn to the same computer dating service, the
embers of Katy and Noah's not-so-forgotten encounter spark to life in a
flame that threatens to devour Katy's best intentions and Noah's worst.
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As Katy Simmons
sees it "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" is not just an
age old adage, it is her life's story and it is time to make a change. While
out one night, she announces to her two best friends that she is no longer a
"free cow" and that she has put in motion her quest to look for Mr. Right.
Unfortunately, before this life change can happen she has what she thinks is
an anonymous "fling" with a man named "Harry" in her one last free cow
moment. As Jana Mercy lets her readers find out with hilarious results,
nothing in life ever turns out like you think it will – read Her
Last Fling and get ready for the time of your life.
Katy posts a want
ad online, subtitled "One Bodacious Cow" with hilarious results, much to the
dismay of her two best friends. Ms. Mercy manages to find an odd assortment
of respondents and situations for Katy that keep the reader entertained from
the beginning of the book, and continue to the very end. Katy's true problem
centers on Noah, her "fling" who turns out to be the one man she wants to
keep, and the one man who is more than a little commitment phobic. Hilarity
ensues when, unknown to both of them, Noah's mother answers Katy's ad, and
sets up a date for them without being aware of their prior connection. Ms.
Mercy keeps us guessing as to what Noah and Katy will do: will their
relationship develop in spite of Noah's fears or will Katy find her Mr.
Right and marriage with someone else.
This story is
very rich in characterization, with the secondary characters just as
compelling as the main ones, Katy and Noah. The scenes with Katy's best
friends, Lindsey Boyd and Stacey Patterson, are so amusing they deserve
their own stories, and at times they threatened to create one. Noah's mother
and her best friends were the quaint little old busy bodies, so full of
personality and irrepressible spirit you almost wanted to adopt them into
your own family. My one hope is that while writing Her Last Fling,
Ms. Mercy recognized the scope of her characters and taking pity on her
readers will give us future books featuring each and every one of them. This
book is a keeper: until the next installment comes out we can content
ourselves with reading Her Last Fling again and again! |