Uncross My Heart
Episcopalian priest and teacher Alexandra Westbrooke may be in line to become chancellor at Chicago’s Claridge Seminary, but as an apparently liberal cleric at this conservative institution, she becomes a lightning rod for the wrath of a far-right student and his family. As punishment, Alex must meet with Claridge-bashing broadcast journalist Vivienne Wilde to blunt the attack but feels attacked herself as the superattractive talk-show figure reawakens feelings long held in check from a time when the priest was a liberal protestor whose lesbian leanings were quashed. And Wilde’s path continues to cross hers, with sparring, jarring questions. Is this media messenger an agent of change sent to the teacher-priest by God or the devil? Andrews and Austin’s contemporary lesbian romance will please readers with its fast-paced action and timely plot and characters. A sequel seems likely. --Whitney Scott