Review: Hot Romance in Jamaica
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2011
I really enjoyed this book.  There were many different storylines that played out through the book and the author did a good job keeping everything straight.Lisa is a Sales Director for the Jamaican division of an international company based in New York.  After a year of less than desirable sales volume, the New York big wigs send in Rod, an executive, to evaluate Lisa's branch of the company.  When Rod says "layoffs," Lisa goes into defense mode.  These employees are her responsibility and she makes a deal with Rod to turn sales around in a specific period of time and he agrees.In the meantime, Rod and Lisa become close and they each war within themselves on the relationship that is forming.Intertwined with the main story of Sales and Romance is the fact that Lisa also has commitments with the AIDS hospice where she is a committee member and Rod tries to find his father; the father that didn't know had a son.  The AIDS hospice actually is threaded throughout the book and is a nice situation that ties some of the book together.When New York decides that Lisa's strategies aren't sustainable and that layoffs must by done, Rod forces Lisa to go to New York and plead her case, in person.  While there she receives news from the CEO of the company that Rod has been made President of international operations and would be soon heading to Russia.  The pages that follow had me in tears.  I felt Lisa's despair, confusion, and disappointment.  Are Rod and Lisa meant to be together?  You'll have to read the book cuz I'll never tell.This book contains "adult scenes."