My Daughter's Boyfriend

Cydney Rax. Crown Publishers, $22 (320pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-4920-2

Single mom Tracey Kendricks is bringing her daughter up right. Lauren, 17, has informed Aaron, her college student boyfriend, that she's not ready to sleep with him yet. But Tracey can't keep her own hands off luscious Aaron (who ""put the `hot' in `hottie' ""). My Daughter's Boyfriend by first-timer Cydney Rax attempts some thoughtful exploration of the trickiest kind of romantic triangle, but readers may feel she lets impulsive Tracey off too easily.

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