Taking Chances: To Love Again

Beyond showing what it is like to live with diabetes, Taylor's ( Whispered Kisses ) insipid romance offers little more than pages of boring small talk and routine sex. Kirstin Lowrey, a 45-year-old widow recently diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes, is driving from Georgia to California to work as a medical research technician. When hypoglycemia causes her to become disoriented, she crashes her car and is rushed to the ranch of Christopher Harrison, a former surgeon now running a part-time general practice in rural New Mexico. While checking Kirstin over, Chris proclaims her figure ``topnotch'' and, not coincidentally, offers her accommodations at his ranch for a few days while she gets her blood sugar under control. Kirstin, who senses an opportunity for ``a little innocent hanky panky,'' accepts. When they're not discussing diabetes, sizing each other up sexually and speculating on a possible relationship, Kirstin whines about her late husband (who didn't appreciate her and was mysteriously squirreling away part of his income) and Chris laments about the high-powered career he lost (in an incident that strains credulity to the breaking point). (Aug.)