The Jump Off
Doug Dixon, . . Dafina, $14 (289pp) ISBN 978-0-7582-1356-3
Romance sours when distance separates two lovers in Dixon's competent but clunky debut novel. Mobile, Ala., software engineer Troy Sanders dreams of building a home for his fiancée, Jennifer Stevens, an ambitious, gorgeous criminal lawyer, but trouble looms when Jennifer leaves Troy in Mobile for a lucrative law gig in Atlanta. Regular visits and phone calls keep things together until Troy makes a trip to Atlanta and catches Jennifer with another man. He eventually lands in the arms of Dana Suarez, a sexy Latina co-worker, who shares his bed while Jennifer tries to reconcile. Things are hot for a while, but Dana's
Reviewed on: 06/12/2006
Genre: Fiction
Mass Market Paperbound - 352 pages - 978-0-7582-1357-0