Her Best Friend's Lover
Shiloh WalkerRomantica
Available from Ellora's Cave
June 2003
| For five years, Lauren Spencer has loved Dale Stoner. Dale looks at Lauren and sees his best friend. She is someone he can talk to, hang out with and someone that understands him more than he understands himself. Lauren is frustrated with Dale’s inability to see that she loves him far more than as a friend. She knows that Dale is in love with someone else and all his sexual conquests are just to substitute for Nikki, the girl that got away. Lauren does not want to be another substitute.
Dale, in a drunken haze, sees Lauren not as his best friend but as a woman for the first time. Lauren, wanting just one night with Dale, gives herself to him, knowing that he will probably not remember. It is one night she can fulfill her fantasy of loving Dale. Dale does not remember loving Lauren, but he does start to notice that she is a beautiful woman and not just his best friend. What comes from this one night is a story of all time, for everyone who has ever loved and did not know if the object of their affections would ever return their love. It’s a tale about maturing, understanding and most of all- love and friendship. Shiloh Walker’s first book, Her Best Friend’s Lover, is superb. Dale and Lauren are rich and complex characters with emotional highs and lows, greatness, and all too human weaknesses. Ms. Walker succeeds in breathing life into them in such a way that the reader can almost forget that Lauren and Dale are not real. This is an excellent book and I highly recommend reading how friendship and love can work out despite the problems they can bring.
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Reviewer: Sara Sawyer |
