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African-American Melanie Hitts is engaged to a charming man she met and fell in love with after a whirlwind courtship. At their engagement party, her fiancé, Will Freedman, gives her a gift of a new house in an upscale neighborhood of Washington D.C. Melanie is offended by Will’s assumption that she’s willing to accept such an elaborate gift, and publicly breaks up with Will on the spot.
Determined to make her career dreams come true, Melanie moves to Manhattan and starts work as an interior designer. When the infamous architect, John Carlson, hires her to work on a new design with him, Melanie’s future is set.
But Melanie starts to fall in love with the older, white, internationally famous architect, disregarding his twenty-three year marriage. And now her ex-fiance is hot on her trail, refusing to give her up. Who will Melanie chose? Will she destroy John’s marriage for her own happiness? Or will she go back to Will?
HITTS & MRS is written in many different points of view, and the reader never knows who’s head they’ll be in next. They are even able to get involved intimately in Melanie’s room-mate’s budding romance. Some aspects of HITTS
& MRS I really didn’t care for, but it is probably one of the better African-American romances I’ve had the pleasure of reading thus far.
If you like chick lit and romance, pick up HITTS & MRS today. It has kind
of a chick lit feel, even though I’m categorizing it as romance.
Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
for The Road to Romance
May 10, 2004
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