Mal, meanwhile, retreats back to Trace’s all-too-willing arms. Nick is forced to move in with Sara, whose slipshod housekeeping dampens what remains of his ardor. Sara’s whining, overheard at a law-firm function, confirms Mal’s suspicions. Sara’s clinginess soon extends beyond her clothes, and Mal finds herself in a compromising position during a business trip to Rome with Trace. Mal blunders into Nick and Sara’s Valentine’s Day tryst and manages to appropriate earrings and La Perla lingerie intended for Sara. But Sara has a firm grip on his fantasies, not to mention his more tangible parts. Nick strives to break off his affair, which began during a terrorist attack on London.
She’s tempted by the culinary and erotic possibilities-Nick has seemed preoccupied lately. Now Trace is back in town and wants to hire Mal as his sous chef. Kit’s paranoia had misled her before: At 22 she was almost engaged to star chef Trace, when Kit goaded her into accusing Trace-groundlessly-of infidelity. His wife, cookbook author Malinche, still lovely but run ragged by the demands of three daughters and the couple’s 16th-century fixer-upper, disregards her gay male friend Kit’s insinuations about Nick’s late nights at the office. London-based divorce lawyer Nicholas has seen plenty of marital upheavals and their financial aftershocks, but a young, gorgeous new associate, Sara, has him in a titillated tizzy. Ultimately, though, it cannot escape the strictures imposed by the genre. The novel flouts the chick-lit mode-there’s less high-fashion product placement, more intelligent, Latin-laced repartee and a better class of lacy underwear. The story of divorce lawyers in lust-a bestseller in the U.K.
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