title: Summer Passion and Forbidden Fruit
author: Franklyn, Rose D.
description: Books in the series are standalone novels. At the age of thirty Carmela Lopez is at a crossroads. The Assistant Director at the York Street Playhouse, a professional theatre company located in Ottawa's trendy ByWard Market, is deeply unhappy and confused since her much older husband Emilio's stroke and changed personality. On a daily basis she struggles to keep an optimistic view on her three-year-old marriage and the years beyond. But the prospect of a future void of kindness and love is hard to accept. Walk away? Stay? Or take a lover? Will she have a second chance at love? The questions torment her day and night until, out of the blue, Emilio makes a rash decision and her moral dilemma unexpectedly becomes a problem of the past. But with it surface new dilemmas, each of them adding to the heat of her already hot summer days. Amid the upheavals, Carmela tries hard to bring back romance and passion into her life and to stand up to people who intend to do her harm