FROM OUR EDITORS

When a successful, self-sufficient woman vacations in Jamaica, she is swept away by the relaxing effects of sun, sea, & an island full of attractive men, & by the attentions of one man in particular--handsome, charming, & half her age.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean - and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.

FROM THE CRITICS

New York Times

Irreverent, mishievous, diverting.

Orlando Sentinel

A liberating love story...tells women it's okay to let go, follow your heart, take a chance and fall in love, even if that love comes from a place you'd least expect.

Liesl Schillinger - (Washington Post Book World)

Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read... who makes me glad to be a woman.

New York Newsday

So much fun in so many ways...a down-and-dirty, romantic and brave story told to you by this smart, good-hearted woman as if she were your best friend or your sister.

Mademoiselle