Detour Ahead (Harlequin Flipside) [Mass Market Paperback]

Cindi Myers (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373442092
• ISBN-13: 978-0373442096
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,909,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cindi Myers became one of the most popular people in eighth grade when she and her best friend wrote a torrid historical romance and circulated it among their peers. Fame was short-lived, however; the English teacher confiscated the manuscript and advised her to concentrate on learning to properly diagram a sentence. From this humbling beginning, she has gone on to write more than three dozen novels that have been translated into more than a dozen languages and distributed all over the world. Her books have been praised for their emotion, humor and realistic characters. She writes stories about relationships that matter, whether the subject is friendship, families, or the love between a man and a woman.

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4.0 out of 5 stars amusing chick lit road trip romance, March 5, 2005

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This review is from: Detour Ahead (Harlequin Flipside) (Mass Market Paperback)

In DC advertising copywriter for a not for profit organization Marlee Jones also maintains a website "Travels with Marlee" where she provides her driving travesties and fun. Her latest entry informs her webbing public that she lost her license after making a wrong turn onto a one way street going the other way. Immediately following the post her best friend Susan calls to ask how Marlee, who refuses to fly, will come cross country to attend her San Diego wedding with Brian. Susan suggests she drive with Brian's best man Craig Brinkman, but also warns her that he is her direct opposite anally controlling his life to a scheduled nanosecond.

Even before they leave, Brian and Marlee relate like oil and water as he has written an itinerary to the minute while she wants to stop along the way to enjoy the odd sites of America. As they travel together, she parades on his timetable with her unscheduled side trips. Soon these opposites fall in love as she encourages him to take a chance on opening his own restaurant while he urges her to take a risk on him.

This chick lit road trip is often amusing as Marlee seems to get her way most of the time because of Craig's mixed emotions of wanting to please her vs. staying on schedule. Though she can drive a reader and her "Chef" batty, she makes this opposites falling in love in spite of the DETOURS AHEAD for their hearts into a fine humorous road show.

Harriet Klausner