Mike, Mike & Me (Red Dress Ink)
The inventive premise of Markham's winning novel involves a love triangle in both the past and the present among pretty Beau, the Mike she married, and the Mike she left behind. Beau spent her early twenties in Manhattan in the late 1980s working for a television show and dating her high-school sweetheart, Mike, who was torn between moving to New York and staying in California. Beau is waiting in an airport bar for Mike when she meets the other Mike, a handsome stranger who charms her right off the bat and asks her out. In the present, Beau is married to one of the Mikes, living in the suburbs with him and their three children, but an e-mail from the other Mike gets her wondering about what could have been, and what still could be. Markham alternates between the past and the present, not giving away which Mike Beau chose to marry until the very end of the novel. Markham's latest is an appealing, wholly original yarn.Kristine HuntleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved