Cynthia Hamilton Lucky at Love

Lucky at Love

Cynthia Hamilton

Woodstock Press, Aug 2006, $14.00

ISBN: 0977627810

Journalist Allison Tyler-Wilcox explains to her editor in chief Judith Page that she wants to do a story on a man she met at ironically a wedding. A sceptical Judith who is used to Allison working controversial issues cannot fathom why she would want to report on a nobody married and divorced seven times and thinking of going for numero eight. Reluctantly Judith gives the okay to look into the optimistic magnetism of Jake Sorenson, Oregon mule farmer and marriage guru or loser depending on your perspective.

Allison begins her quest to understand the need of people to find the right one as a companion as much as a lover at Buckin J Ranch. Jake, a PH.D in relationships, begins to teach his "student" what love and life is all about whether it is on a mule or dancing cheek to cheek or just talking under the moonlight. As the married and thought happily Allison begins to fall in love with her article source, she begins to understand the need to be loved, give love, and bounce back from a strike out because the next at bat can be a home run.

LUCKY AT LOVE is a fascinating ad moving relationship drama that takes an in depth look at the need to belong to and with someone else. Through Jake who keeps swinging the bat though he has struck out in love seven times, Allison and the reader learn what self-actualization is. Jake and Allison are delightful lead characters, whose changing relationship from his being a test subject to a possible once in a lifetime beloved will grip fans with his never give up attitude of cutting the empty top of the cup off so that it is now filled.

Harriet Klausner