Review: "Rekindling the Passion of Love"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
This is a very refreshing novelette by one of my favorite authors, Chicki Brown.  She writes simply with understanding and compassion.  In this story Jan Davis is divorced for a year after being married for 25 years to a man who lacked love and romance. The marriage ended slowly and painfully.  She had worked as an accountant, but her one passion she loved doing was cooking.  So she starts a personal chef business which grows successfully to where she can quit her accounting job. Her two daughters Bobbi and Val are living elsewhere, the youngest, Val, still in college.  Jan is preparing food for a party that Mac Sinclair, a sports manager, is holding the next evening for many of his clients and some hopeful clients.  He sits in the kitchen watching her prepare meals and chatting with Jan.  When she's about ready to leave, Mac asks her if she'd like to attend the party the next evening.  She declined, saying she never mixed business with pleasure. After spending the next early evening having dinner with her female friends, she tells them about her invitation to attend the party as Mac's date.  Why not?  They talk her into it and she calls Mac to see if she's still invited.  Oh, yes, he was hoping she'd decide to attend.  She feels somewhat awkward because Mac is 35 years old, while she is 11 years older.  But Mac doesn't see her age, only her beauty, sweetness, and maturity. How will her daughters see this relationship?  What about his family? Is she denying him the opportunity to become a father?  I love this warm and tender story.  It brightened my day and I could not take a break from reading it.  The writing quality is excellent, characters are captivating and unique.  It's definitely a heartwarming story you'll want to read to lift your spirits.