Mary Castillo In Between Men

In Between Men

Mary Castillo

Avon, Feb 2006, $12.95

ISBN: 0060766824

In Los Angeles, though she and her husband Carlos recently divorced high school ESL (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), teacher Isa Abelian enjoys her work and is proud of her son Andrew. Life is good, that is until she is voted the least sexy teacher in the school, which includes some educators old enough to be the twenty nine year old Isa's grandmother. Adding to her humiliation, Carlos reveals in detail on national radio what a failure in bed she is.

When she is knocked unconscious by a soccer ball, she finds coach Alex looking into her eyes asking if she is alright. She decides then and there, pushed by a beautiful sexy guardian angel, to do a complete makeover from frump to siren to score with Alex. However becoming a glamour queen is hard work when teaching and raising a teenage son, while Alex seems immune to her advances, when in fact he debates with himself whether he should drop his pride to date the sexiest woman in the L.A. school system.

IN BETWEEN MEN is an amusing lighthearted romp starring a wonderful Latina-Americana protagonist who became complacent failing to care for herself, and in turn lost respect. Her guardian angel is a cute aside that allows comparisons between the two beauty enhancing-detracting extremes, while the hunk, who corner kicked his way into her life, provides the incentive, more so than the school sexometer scoring system. Fans will enjoy Mary Castillo's satirical glimpse at the sex appeal of a working mom.