A just lately engaged inside designer should reassess her life when
the daddy of her youngster reenters her life with surprising information about their previous.
Yvonne Cable has “claw[ed] her approach by way of Atlanta’s cutthroat
inside design group” and simply landed a brand new contract with an area
superstar and a cherished article in a life-style journal, and he or she’s additionally
change into engaged to Nathan Lange, a house enchancment TV star who needs to launch
a present along with her. Yvonne is ecstatic, and if she feels a little bit pushed round by
Nathan’s publicist and barely aggravated by the truth that everybody appears extra
excited concerning the engagement than her different accolades, she’ll recover from it.
She’s reached some main targets and landed the proper man, so life is nice.
Enter Richard Barrington,
proprietor of the Weekend Warrior community, who needs to choose up Yvonne and Nathan’s present—and
can be the daddy of Yvonne’s 6-year-old son, Jacob. Yvonne thinks he deserted
her, and Richard thinks she’s been hiding Jacob from him. Realizing they’ve each
been betrayed by Richard’s father and ex-wife, they work to get Richard again in
Jacob’s life, which creates rigidity with Nathan, particularly after it is
clear that Richard continues to be in love with Yvonne. Brooks’ easily written debut
is filled with characters on the tops of their professions who face a range
of dramas exacerbated by high-stakes enterprise cultures and deep-seated household
tensions. Nearly all the key conflicts are exterior, nevertheless, and the ultimate
resolutions come from paths being cleared relatively than obstacles overcome.
An fascinating, partaking debut that doesn’t ask sufficient of
its characters.
