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Afterburn
Zane
ISBN: 0743470982
Format: Paperback, 320pp
Pub. Date: October 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
BBP Sales Rank: 3,409
List Price: $15.00
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Zane, Afterburn, 0743470982
FROM THE PUBLISHER
When Washington, D.C., chiropractor Yardley Brown goes to his local bank, it
isn't only to make deposits into his account. He has long since accrued some
interest in Rayne Waters, a bank employee who's too beautiful to be true - and
too beautiful to be single. At least that's what Yardley believes, which is why
he has never approached her.
Little does he know that Rayne is anything but taken. Not for want of trying,
of course. But after barely surviving a dating disaster with her hairdresser's
brother and then falling for a member of her church band, she's on the verge of
giving up. That is, until Yardley - discouraged by his own slew of dead-end
romances - finally works up the courage to give her a try.
The true craziness, however, is just beginning, thanks to a cast of characters
who seem bent on botching the young couple's relationship. There's Rayne's
erratic mother; Yardley's playboy buddies, always trolling for sex; and, worst
of all, past lovers who make a habit of popping up and ruining things as only
old flames (or previous mistakes) can. Weaving the carnal and the comical in
true Zane fashion, Rayne and Yardley's struggle to find love in a world gone
mad is a timeless talk about everything that can go wrong in the dating game -
and a few things that can go right.
SYNOPSIS
In the latest romantic romp from New York Times bestselling author Zane, two
hapless lovers get lost in a dating game gone awry.
When Washington, D.C., chiropractor Yardley Brown goes to his local bank, it
isn't only to make deposits into his account. He has long since accrued some
interest in Rayne Waters, a bank employee who's too beautiful to be true -- and
too beautiful to be single. At least that's what Yardley believes, which is why
he has never approached her.
Little does he know that Rayne is anything but taken. Not for want of trying,
of course. But after barely surviving a dating disaster with her hairdresser's
brother and then falling for a member of her church band who, it turns out, is
celibate, she's on the verge of giving up. That is, until Yardley --
discouraged by his own slew of dead-end romances -- finally works up the
courage to give her a try.
The true craziness, however, is just beginning, thanks to a cast of characters
who seem bent on botching the young couple's relationship.
There's Rayne's erratic mother, who constantly boasts about being a "good
whore"; Yardley's playboy buddies, always trolling for sex; and, worst of all,
past lovers who make a habit of popping up and ruining things as only old
flames (or previous mistakes) can. Weaving the carnal and the comical in true
Zane fashion, Rayne and Yardley's struggle to find love in a world gone mad is
a timeless talk about everything that can go wrong in the dating game -- and a
few things that can go right.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zane is a professional African-American female in her early thirties. She
resides in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She
has been entertaining tens of thousands of readers via the Internet for more
than two years through her web sites and monthly e-zine.
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