Liz Jordan is making some changes in her life.  The death of her husband left her and her eleven year old twin sons alone in the city.  Liz sees trouble ahead for the boys if she doesn’t get them away from the neighborhood where they live.  Liz takes a Nurse Manager’s position in the Othro/Neuro Unit at Eastlake Community Hospital and moves the family to Eastlake.  Here she will be surrounded by old friends from college days.  Liz also knows she will have a working relationship with Dr. Jeff Carter who has been the object of her desire for many years.  A brief encounter while both were suffering losses has Liz wondering if she can control the desire she feels for the handsome doctor.

Dr. Jeff Carter is displeased with how the Ortho/Neuro Unit is being managed so when a new Nurse Manager is hired he hopes she can get things under control.  Bad things are happening to patients in the unit, especially his patients, and Jeff wants answers.   At fifty-one years old, Jeff is still suffering from the death of his wife who he’s loved since early childhood.  Since his wife’s death, he had become a hot commodity among the hospital nurses.   He wants an affair, but with the right woman.  When he meets Liz he thinks maybe she can be the answer to more than one of his problems, but will Liz agree?

Liz wants to keep the relationship professional especially since she is dealing with a disgruntled employee and office gossip.  Delores Forbes was the acting Nurse Manager and also wanted a relationship with Dr. Carter.  When Liz arrives Delores is returned to the position of floor nurse and is not happy.  Add to the mix, Delores’ son who causes trouble for the twins and having to fight her attraction to Dr. Carter, Liz has more than she can handle.  At first Jeff just wants an affair, but soon realizes he needs Liz more and more. Liz knows her feelings for Jeff go much deeper and she can’t handle just an affair.  She thwarts his advances at every turn.

I enjoyed this book very much.  Janet Lane Walters put so much reality and feeling into this book.  The first sexual encounter between Jeff and Liz was written so right-on!  The disappointment Liz felt after the first sex was so real; she was scared, nervous and the fact she wanted so much more from Jeff than sex, left her feeling empty.  Jeff’s awareness that he needed to show Liz how good it could be between them and his realization that he wanted more was a significant turning point for the story.  Like so many men it was hard for him to come to terms with his feelings for Liz and finally put them into the words she needed to hear.

A Double Opposition is an amazing book that I would recommend for any reader.  It has so much to offer…a great hero and heroine, very well developed secondary characters, sexual tension, suspense…oh and let’s not forget the evil Delores and her son who you will dislike immediately.  The story is a perfect mix of all the things we want in a good book.

Reviewed by Jennifer Ray for The Road to Romance

January 25, 2004