SUGAR TIME

SUGAR TIME by Jane Adams was read for the Just for Fun Reading Challenge 2011.

From the back of the book:

Charlotte "Sugar" Kane hasn't brought in a hit TV show for 20 years.  She's about to prove she still can, even if she's an old broad in a youth-obsessed business, when she's blind-sided by a medical malady that could cost her the pilot if anyone knew about it as well as ruin her change to turn it into a winning series.  She manages to keep her secret from the conniving young assistant who wants her show, and even from her grown kids and closest friends.  And when she falls in love with Alex Carroll, she can't tell him, either.  "What man who's still got what it takes wants a woman with a condition?"  But Alex has a secret of his own, and by the time Sugar learns it, she'll have to face the hardest decision of all for a woman of a certain age who gets her last chance at both love and success - and knows that getting one means giving up the other.

This book was sent to me by the author over a year ago, and I just got around to reading it.  I'm sorry for the delay.

It was nice to read about a woman past the age of 50 who isn't just someone's mother.  Sugar is a mother and a grandmother, but she also has her own life and career.  She's busy trying to resurrect that career by writing and producing a pilot for a TV series while dealing with a scheming assistant and demanding network executives.  Right in the middle of all of this, she is hit with an unusual heart condition that requires her to reduce the amount of stress in her life.

And then she meets Alex.  A chance meeting leads to a full-blown love affair with a fantastic man.  Sugar eventually learns that things are not as perfect as they seem on the surface, and she has to make a decision as to what she really wants out of life.  I liked Sugar's attitude.  When she realized what was the most important thing to her, she jumped in with both feet and went for it.  Good for you, Sugar.

I had read one other book by this author, a non-fiction titled WHEN OUR GROWN KIDS DISAPPOINT US, and I didn't know what to expect in a fiction book.  A quick read with fun characters - I liked it a lot.