Ryder Jefferson and his feisty ex-wife, Suzanne, take center stage in this third book in McCarthy’s Fast Track series. Suzanne has her hands full planning an over-the-top wedding for a race car driver and his bridezilla fiancée. After a stint on the board of a medical charity, Suzanne’s heart just isn’t in wedding planning anymore, but she has to keep at it. Suzanne is close to broke, without a steady income or alimony from Ryder.
Ryder would be happy to pay alimony to Suzanne. He considers himself an openhanded man, and he is concerned about Suzanne’s financial security. But there’s more to it than that. He still has feelings for Suzanne and wishes that he tried harder to keep her. In the parlance of his profession, he thinks he quit the race a few laps too soon.
But fate may give them another chance. For the past few months, Suzanne has been enlisting Ryder’s help with the matchmaking she’s done for some friends; Ryder is to be a groomsman in bridezilla’s wedding; and on top of that, it turns out that the paperwork for their divorce is incomplete. Suzanne and Ryder are still legally married! As the story unfolds, readers learn the history of Ryder and Suzanne’s marriage and the source of Suzanne’s prickliness. The character development is particularly good in Hot Finish, but the book also delivers the snappy repartee and sexy scenes that are standard elements of this series.
Check this title’s availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.