Rhapsody

Mason is a super storyteller as is clearly evident in her latest release after Seduction. Lenore Foxwood had been in love with William Buster Dixon as long as she could remember, but he had abandoned her in college to pursue his dream to make it big in the music industry. Now, 15 years later, Lenore is a highly respected African American college professor. Answering a summons from California for the reading of a will, she finds herself reunited with Billy, now better known as musician and record producer Buster Dixon. Lenore has a chance to inherit $1 million, but in order to do it she has to live with Billy for one week. The dialogue is perceptively real (if occasionally a little cleverer than that of normal humans) and Mason is particularly assured in her pacing, never falling into the common trap of episodic plotting. Here she stays in control from page one and creates magic. (June)