Linda Howard scores a one, two knock out with this spicy thriller!! *****GOLDFour ladies work at a company dominated by men, and so every Friday night after work they meet for supper and girl-talk. This particular Friday, men - or rather the lack of Good Men - leads the four into creating a list of their idea man.
Marcia is a forty-something with three failed marriages behind her. She loves men, their company and sex, so is currently living with an out of work Brick. TJ, thirty-something, is married to the childhood sweetheart who is likely having an affair. She wants a child, but he refuses. Beautiful Luna, twenty-something is head over heels in love with a heel, a NFL
quarterback who likes parties and women too much. And razor-shape mind and tongued Jaine, thirty-something, and a veteran of three failed engagements.
So over a few drinks, they come up with a list of all the qualities of the perfect man, like faithfulness, honesty and something that says size DOES matter!! Naturally, later a tipsy Marcie shows another woman at work The List, and suddenly it is on the bulletin board, going through emails, and then the news local and national are picking up it.
And the men around these ladies are not happy campers. One man in particular is very upset.
Janie is furious with Marcie, but has other things in her life to worry about. She just bought a new house, her mother and father are away on a vacation of a lifetime - her mother leaving precious BooBoo kitty and her father his precious Shelby (car for all you non babyboomers). BooBoo kitty is shredding the couch cushions, her sister Shelly is mad because Mum left Jaine the cat, and her brother David is mad at her because Dad left the Ford Cobra with little sister!! To top matters off, she think the next door neighbour is a drunk or a drug dealer, for he drive a POS pontiac with a busted muffler, comes in at all hours and looks dangerous - and he walks around nude in the kitchen drinking juice !! Worse, she just backed over his trashcans!!
Jaine learns Sam is not a drug dealer, but a cop and she has to admit, it did not take her a long time to get the phone number from the neighbour so she could call him to tell him to lower his window shade....
As The List brings them national attention, and a possible book deal, TJ's marriage falls apart, Brick, surprisingly hurt since he does not measure up, leaves Marcie and Luna tells her football hero to take his job and shove it. Only Jaine seems to be having the bright side of romance.
But there is someone who takes The List as a personal insult and intends to see the four pay. Marcie realises this too late, when she opened her front door...
