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The Fling
Elda Minger
What woman hasn't contemplated a no-holds barred, no emotions involved fling? But for Kate Prescott, her idea backfires when she falls in love with "Mr. Fling"
Kate Prescott has sworn off men after a disastrous run of
dates.
When her cousin, Patti, gets stood up at the altar on
Valentine's Day,
Kate's uncle comes up with a plan -- Kate will take Patti
on her
honeymoon to Maui, to get her away from the prying eyes of
their large,
extended family and to give a devastated Patti a chance to
heal.
On their flight to the islands, Kate meets Cherry
Jubilee, a former
Vegas showgirl, who is traveling to Maui with the intention
of bagging
herself a millionaire. Cherry has had it with dating as
well, after her
experiences in Vegas. The three women team up and decide
to help
support each other in getting what each of them want. They
set their
goals and decide to go for it!
Kate, deciding that men and the emotional chaos they
cause are just
too much trouble, decides to have a fling, and Hawaii is
just the place
for it! She meets Jack on the beach one night, and the
attraction
between them is so volatile that she decides he's perfect
fling
material. Little does she know that Jack is not what he
seems. Though
he is, for all appearances, a happy go lucky bartender in
Paradise, in
reality his father owns the resort and is handing it over
to his son in
ten days, after Jack spends that time working various jobs
undercover so
that he will have a deeper understanding of the resort he
will
untimately run.
Amid mistaken identities and changing perceptions in
this Romantic
Comedy, Kate and Jack and their various friends come to the
realization
that, while love is never easy, it's worth every bit of the
struggle.
And though Kate has come to these tropical islands with the
intention of
having a fling and not involving her emotions at all, she
finds the one
thing she didn't think was in the cards for her -- a man
worth keeping,
and loving.
Berkley, September 2002
368 pages ISBN: 0515133728 Paperback $6.99
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