Apoca[hot]lips

By: Paula Houseman

Life’s tough for wild child, Ruth Roth. After too much resistance from a harpy-like mother and a morally constipated society, Ruth’s up-yours attitude fizzles. Still, you can’t keep a firebrand down! Facing an apocalypse, she bounces back. But an important decision she must make threatens to upend her existence.

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Book Description

Up yours! It's a ballsy attitude for a child, and one that served Ruth (Roth) Gold well back then. It's one she desperately needs to revive now.
After her divorce, Ruth finds the love of her life: Herself. And she's in a happy place ... until a geeky, sexy, god-like man fronts up and fulfils her forgotten little-girl fantasies. He tells her she's 'The One'.
Talk about screwing everything up!

A romance with him seems so wrong, yet—mmm, mmm— feels so deliciously right.
With those around her inflaming her doubts, though, Ruth remains trapped in a do-I-don't-I mindset. But she rallies! She kind of breaks up with her carping mother, and succumbs to Mr Hotlips' charms.
This Romeo 'n' Juliet-esque couple engages in epic battles with the knockers, and triumphantly rattles their cages (from where, it appears, they've all escaped).

Still, Ruth's man can't vanquish the conflicts in her mind. Or the ones in his own. And when an earth-shattering revelation causes him to give her grief, the question on her hot lips is no longer 'Can our love survive?' It's ... 'Do I want it to?'

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