Publisher's Synopsis
In this, the final book in The Partner Series Trilogy, Monique Boudreaux's well-kept secret about her past is finally revealed to her law partners. A successful partner in the law firm they founded immediately following graduation from Harvard Law School, she is wealthy, single, determined to avoid any and all long-term relationships, and haunted by her past. Her father, a womanizer and drunkard, physically abused her mother, Suzanne, every time he came home drunk. No longer in the land of the living, he almost killed her mother the last time he beat her during a drunken rage. Her mother lives in the tiny town of Raceland, Louisiana, and works as a secretary at the local high school. Monique subsidizes her income with a hefty monthly check. Jeffrey Hansen, General and Thoracic surgeon, has numerous problems.First of all, a relationship with his Family Practice physician father has been non-existent once he refused to follow in his dad's footsteps. Secondly, he blamed his father for his mother's death because he'd not diagnosed her Cancer until it was too late to treat. Thirdly, an older woman who had not followed his postoperative orders and represented by a female attorney, sued him unjustly for malpractice. They meet... there is strong physical attraction... they are well-suited... But can they make something more out of the insatiable physical desire for each other that grows stronger with every day and threatens to consume them?
