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Rendezvous With Fate (Indigo Love Spectrum)

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Rendezvous With Fate, by Jeanne Sumerix

When Leela Taylor goes back to College 19 years later to finish her education she has no idea that she will run smack into her past. Leela's mom has recently died of cancer, her heartbroken dad has committed suicide. Leela is devastated and throughly shaken by these two tragic events but realizes that she must stay focused for her teenaged son Alex.

As Leela and her best friend Jan take the only remaining seats in the classroom she finds herself looking into blue eyes which are the image of her sons eyes. Her professor is none other than her old love Jack, who is Alex's father. Leela is shaken but no more so than Professor John 'Jack' Whitman. As seconds pass they are both sent reeling back to their last angry parting scene.

In the late 70's college students Leela Taylor and Jack fall in love. Jack wants Leela to move in with him, then get married after his graduation. But Leela has plans to leave school and work in Washington, DC. where she hopes to make a positive change in the world. She goes to Jack to tell him this, instead they end up making love the whole week end. When Leela does make her announcement Jack is furious. They both say hurtful things and angrily part. When Leela finds that she is pregnant she can't locate Jack to tell him. She never knew his last name. She realizes that the only thing she really knew about Jack was that she had loved him. Now, Leela can't belive that Jack is back in her life. Her first thought is to keep him from knowing about their son. She goes through great lengths to keep the two apart. But when Jack sees a picture of Alex in Leela's wallet, he becomes determined to be a part of his son's life.

There are other key characters in this novel. Jack's best friend, Leela's best friend, but the pivotal character is Alex, the pair's son who is well adjusted, loves his mother dearly and seems comfortable in his skin.

Author Jeanne Sumerix is such a good story teller, that this is a interracial couple, he's White, she's Black, seems almost incidental to the story.

Vannie(~.~)

Jack and Leela were given a second chance to find and hold dear the love they had in college. I was thrilled that the author didn't spend time on the race issue when that wasn't the reason these two people were apart. Neither of them had a problem with each others race. Their problems were more internal. A Love as strong as theirs transcended the norm and lept to a higher realm. I LOVED IT!

Can our youth blind us to love and relationships? In Leela & Jack's case I believe that's exactly what happened nineteen years ago. Leela Taylor was a freshman in college, while Jack Hamilton worked on his masters. They dated and fell passionately in love.

Jack told Leela when he received his masters they would get married, but in the meantime he asked, "Why don't you move into my apartment?" Thinking Jack was toying with her, her reply to him was "That's a lovely idea Jack, will you ask my parents? Freshman needs permission to live off campus."

Leela realizing Jack was serious began to feel emotionally trapped. She feels she could love Jack without the committment. Leela wants to soar. A couple of months later she leaves town without Jack. Jack on the other hand feels Leela didn't love him enough to stay. Seven months later a baby is growing inside of her. She goes back in search of Jack. Believing he has left with another women she is hurt.

I don't make it a habit to read romance because some of them you have to have alot of faith. This story tested every ounce of faith and patience I had. While Jack and Leela were trying to rekindle a nineteen year old love, Professor Forrest, a scorned women drives a wedge so deep between them Leela finds it hard to find her way back, then while their renewed love is so fresh and fragile, Brian, Jack's friend who does something innocent causes another eruption for Jack and Leela. Does the relationship make it or is it singed forever? Read the book ...seeing if you have Fate.

I gave this book a 3 because in my opinion it had one too many twists and turns, also Leela and Jack's characters are nothing like the couple on the cover. Leela had locks and Jack was described to have a well-muscled body.

Reviewed by Missy

In 1979 at CMU senior Jack Whitman asks his beloved freshman Leela Taylor to move in with him and eventually marry him. Leela rejects Jack's offer because she is quitting school to help people, starting as a clerk in DC. They part angrily with neither one aware that their recent lovemaking has left Leela pregnant.

Nineteen years later, Leela returns to school only to find Jack is the professor of her history class. Leela never told her son Alex who his father is nor informed Jack he sired a child. As they share memories, Jack and Leela realize they still love one another. However, if he learns the truth will he understand why she never told him about Alex? Then there is the people they are seeing who refuse to give up on their relationship so that Jack and Leela can regain what they almost had.

RENDEZVOUS WITH FATE centers on a second chance at love relationship drama rather than the interracial problems confronting the two lead protagonists. The story line is well written and readers will understand Jack's hurt and reluctance, but struggle with Leela's save the world motive for leaving school and her beloved. For a welcome change, the teen seems reasonably adjusted and thus not interferes with the prime story line. Jeanne Sumerix shows she is a superb author, but though this reviewer enjoyed the tale, concentration on the biracial aspect rather than the second chance theme would have been refreshing. With her talent, Ms. Sumerix easily could have been a pioneer not a settler.

Harriet Klausner

The book cover really threw me off. I thought the female model a little too large and the male model a little too spindly for her. I think they should try to find models who favor characters in the book. These two definitely do not. But don't let that turn you away because the Leela and Jack characters look nothing like them. Once you get past the cover, you'll enjoy the book. Although there was not many sexual situations, there was definit sexual tension and enough turmoil with Leela and Jack to keep it interesting.

The lead character jumps to dumba** conclusion after dumba** conclusion and messes up her own life. The male love interest, her son, even her best friend BEND OVER BACKWARDS to be generous, patient and kind to someone who does not reciprocate. She has the expectation that she can wrong others, but if they treat her the way that she treats them then life is unfair and her world crumbles.

UGH...I hate this type of person. Hopefully, the author will develop a better heroine in her next novel.

Yes this is a IR BW/WM novel but it's not worth the money, IMO.

Well, what can I say, I have never read a book where I wanted to slap the heroine silly and I do not believe in hitting women being one myself. I tried real hard to be sympathetic to her, she was young,got a proposal from a man and she did not even know his last name - pleese how real is that? (maybe in the 70's love was that free?). Got pregnant at 18, death of parents, being single mum. But when the love of her life is back in her life rather than deal with problems that come up all she does is run away.
1. She sees her lover with another woman and assumes its his new girl - she runs
2. She jumps to conclusions about lover's intentions - she runs
3. Former girlfriend of lover with malicious intent tries to break them up with bad news - she runs
this lady needed therapy badly
I had more interest in her best friend's love affair then in hers. I would love to read a book about that.

There are no time limits on love. Rendezvous With Fate by Jeanne
Sumerix attests to the fact that true love never dies nor does it
go away.

Leela and Jack had a wonderful love affair while attending college.
Jack felt they were destined to be married and live happily ever
after. Leela wasn't ready to settle down, she felt there was much
to see, much to change, and much to experience.

She decided that leaving college and moving to Washington, D.C.
along with some other college friends would be an opportunity
for her to help make a change in the world. When Leela adamantly
makes her decision, Jack is hurt and heart-broken. He says some
ugly things to Leela, which makes her decision to leave the
right one. While in D.C., Leela learns she is pregnant and
returns to tell Jack the news. Leela finds out that he has
left college and with another woman.

Eighteen years later, both have gone on with their lives and
careers. Leela decides to go back to college to finish her
degree, only to learn that one of her professors is Jack.
They are suddenly confronted with their past and Leela and
Jack realize that they never got over their feelings for each
other. They have much to consider in the days ahead, as Jack
learns that he has a son named Alex by Leela.

Ms. Sumerix's Rendezvous With Fate is a nice story revolving
around two people consciously in love with each other but afraid
to confront that love collectively. Although they will

experience much hurt, drama, and disappointment, their desire
for each other never ends. Will they be able to withstand the
ongoing trials and tribulations that will confront their
daily lives to achieve that special feeling again? Will their
love truly withstand the sands of time? You will have to read
it to find out. I give this book a rating of 3.

Reviewed by Kalaani

Wow. The only words to describe this book. What a terrible read! The plot was good, but everything else fell flat. Everything went way too fast, too many typos and grammatical mistakes, and nothing made sense to me. It's like the author threw in conflict where ever it was needed, and because of that she really dumbed down her chracters. I was very disappointed in this book.

happened to a good book that you could snuggle down with at the end of a hard day because you just want to unwind I have to pose this question because this isn't that book.

I love a good romance book just like everyone else but I hate books where the heroine is just sooooo annoying that you want to slap some sense into her.

I agree with the other comment about preferring to read a story about the best friend because this book made me want to scream which I did just to feel better.

There are just some authors that have a better grasp of what I like to see in my heroines~~unfortunately this author isn't one of them.

BTW I purchased the book based on the cover. The cover gives me the impression that the heroine is anything but a scared little thirty-something year old acting 'virgin' with an eighteen year old kid.