I am fairly sure this is supposed to be hilariously funny, but when the bad decisions that no real person would possibly make keep piling one onto another, I find it difficult to stay wrapped in the story.
Beatrice (“Bea”) has a job as a librarian and is facing the possibility of losing her job if she is late one more time. She sits at a red light, bemoaning the fact that without her job income, she won’t be able to pay the rent on her apartment. Having been warned by the landlord that if she is late one more time on paying her rent, she will be evicted, so would be both jobless and homeless as well.
While mentally going over the injustice of her situation, she is not paying attention to traffic while the light has cycled from red to green and is on its way back to red – so she floors it through the intersection on the red light, and is pulled over by a cop named Brick. She had given some thought to leading the cop on a mad chase through the city and perhaps over a cliff, or using a glimpse of her ample cleavage to bribe him, but she pulled over and stopped. Brick is immediately drawn to her and, when her car turns out to be broken down, ends up taking her with him on a break-in call (which no cop would even think of doing in real life) – where they end up being part of a hostage situation. At least that gives them a chance to get to know each other much, much better.
There were many more crazy pieces to this puzzle of a relationship that I left out so that the entire reading experience can be realized by potential new readers, because the contrived stacking on of disaster after disaster can either have you rolling on the floor joyfully with the craziness or banging your head against the wall in frustration at the impossible situations that could never happen – at least not that many, one right after the other. It wasn’t a horrible story, so if you are intrigued, grab a copy and hang on for dear life as the author takes you off on a very wild ride!