Tit for tat… When Ali learns her golf-pro husband has been emulating his idol both on and off the course, she decides to even the score. No emotions—just hot, hard sex.
Cable guy Cam has just had the hottest service call of his life, and he’s definitely willing to schedule more episodes. Problem is, his package includes love, which is more than Ali signed up for. Can he convince her to upgrade?
Romance is sexy. And often funny, and sometimes tangled up with suspense. Let’s face it: all sorts of things get mixed up with romance in real life. Piper Denna’s stories are not cut-and-dried romance. Her characters deal with issues female readers can relate to: independence and trust, empowerment, inhibition, an unfaithful partner, motherhood. Sometimes her characters make mistakes, and often her “bad guys” are not 100% bad. She hopes to take the reader on an emotional journey to a happy ending…with enviable sexual encounters along the way. When she’s not writing, she edits, talks about life daily with her two twenty-something kids along with her husband, and collects scrapbooking material. She enjoys books—or movies—with a comedic twist and hopefully a love story with lots of tension, too. Sexiest parts of a man in Piper’s opinion? The hands and eyes. Shoulders are nice too, and of course, great pecs are never amiss…
Emotionally eviscerated and humiliated by her husband’s affair, Ali turns to a hot cable guy for payback. Is her tit-for-tat fling mature? No. Will she regret it? Maybe. But I dare you to ask any woman in the heat of a spurning to judge Ali.
The Best Cable Package is part 1 of a serial novel with 5 completed & available parts. It has a happy-for-now ending.
Denna’s writing is fast-paced, loaded with emotion, and almost painfully real. Even if you don’t agree with the characters’ decisions and actions, you’ll get why they do what they do. You’ll cheer for them when they soar and shake your fist at the universe when they crash and burn.
Like other female characters of Denna’s I’ve read, Ali has backbone. Her man has done her wrong, and she’s not standing for it. She’d got spunk and wit, but she’d also wonderfully vulnerable. In arranging some very personal payback for her cheating husband, she learns that keeping emotions separate from sex is easier said than done.
Ali isn’t perfect, and neither is Cam, the cable guy with the great package who lends an enthusiastic helping hand when Ali requests it. It was a blast watching these two characters slam together in a hot and heavy insta-lust relationship and then grapple with unexpected feelings as lust fires something much deeper for them both.
Now, don’t go thinking Ali and Cam are going to get their full-fledged Happy Ever After without lots of ups and downs. This is a serialized novel for a good reason. From what I’m seeing in the blurbs, Ali has a lot of emotional development to accomplish, and Cam isn’t the only man who is going to help her along the way.
I thoroughly enjoyed part I of this series and will be getting the next. I’ll keep the reviews coming as I read them.
If you like experiencing the sexual escapades of a spurned woman, including ups and downs and in-betweens, and if you like solid writing and strong female characters with real-life issues, You Gotta Read Boundaries Part I: The Best Cable Package by Piper Denna!