Rendezvous with Fate

by Jeanne Sumerix

Book Overview

They share a son that he knows nothing about and she won't tell. They agree to be friends, but the embers are still burning and they are thrust back in time where history repeats itself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585712825
• ISBN13: 9781585712823
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Genesis Press (MS)
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Hated the cover

I was interested by the story line, that of the characters having a child (unknown to the father) together... how would he find out, how would the son take the news, etc. I hesitated to buy the book because the cover is too racy (the story isn't). I like romance but not 'explicit sex'. Couldn't read the book at work, couldn't read in front of my husband or children because of the sleazy cover. I really enjoyed the story, though, the only weak spot was the son's reaction; too non chalant for my tastes.

Unfinished Business

Rendezvous With Fate, by Jeanne SumerixWhen Leela Taylor goes back to College 19 years later to finish her education she has no idea that she will run smack into her past. Leela's mom has recently died of cancer, her heartbroken dad has committed suicide. Leela is devastated and throughly shaken by these two tragic events but realizes that she must stay focused for her teenaged son Alex.As Leela and her best friend Jan take the only remaining seats in the classroom she finds herself looking into blue eyes which are the image of her sons eyes. Her professor is none other than her old love Jack, who is Alex's father. Leela is shaken but no more so than Professor John 'Jack' Whitman. As seconds pass they are both sent reeling back to their last angry parting scene.In the late 70's college students Leela Taylor and Jack fall in love. Jack wants Leela to move in with him, then get married after his graduation. But Leela has plans to leave school and work in Washington, DC. where she hopes to make a positive change in the world. She goes to Jack to tell him this, instead they end up making love the whole week end. When Leela does make her announcement Jack is furious. They both say hurtful things and angrily part. When Leela finds that she is pregnant she can't locate Jack to tell him. She never knew his last name. She realizes that the only thing she really knew about Jack was that she had loved him. Now, Leela can't belive that Jack is back in her life. Her first thought is to keep him from knowing about their son. She goes through great lengths to keep the two apart. But when Jack sees a picture of Alex in Leela's wallet, he becomes determined to be a part of his son's life. There are other key characters in this novel. Jack's best friend, Leela's best friend, but the pivotal character is Alex, the pair's son who is well adjusted, loves his mother dearly and seems comfortable in his skin. Author Jeanne Sumerix is such a good story teller, that this is a interracial couple, he's White, she's Black, seems almost incidental to the story.Vannie(~.~)

Suprising!

The book cover really threw me off. I thought the female model a little too large and the male model a little too spindly for her. I think they should try to find models who favor characters in the book. These two definitely do not. But don't let that turn you away because the Leela and Jack characters look nothing like them. Once you get past the cover, you'll enjoy the book. Although there was not many sexual situations, there was definit sexual tension and enough turmoil with Leela and Jack to keep it interesting.

A well written second chance at Love!

Jack and Leela were given a second chance to find and hold dear the love they had in college. I was thrilled that the author didn't spend time on the race issue when that wasn't the reason these two people were apart. Neither of them had a problem with each others race. Their problems were more internal. A Love as strong as theirs transcended the norm and lept to a higher realm. I LOVED IT!

A very entertaining read

In 1979 at CMU senior Jack Whitman asks his beloved freshman Leela Taylor to move in with him and eventually marry him. Leela rejects Jack's offer because she is quitting school to help people, starting as a clerk in DC. They part angrily with neither one aware that their recent lovemaking has left Leela pregnant. Nineteen years later, Leela returns to school only to find Jack is the professor of her history class. Leela never told her son Alex who his father is nor informed Jack he sired a child. As they share memories, Jack and Leela realize they still love one another. However, if he learns the truth will he understand why she never told him about Alex? Then there is the people they are seeing who refuse to give up on their relationship so that Jack and Leela can regain what they almost had. RENDEZVOUS WITH FATE centers on a second chance at love relationship drama rather than the interracial problems confronting the two lead protagonists. The story line is well written and readers will understand Jack's hurt and reluctance, but struggle with Leela's save the world motive for leaving school and her beloved. For a welcome change, the teen seems reasonably adjusted and thus not interferes with the prime story line. Jeanne Sumerix shows she is a superb author, but though this reviewer enjoyed the tale, concentration on the biracial aspect rather than the second chance theme would have been refreshing. With her talent, Ms. Sumerix easily could have been a pioneer not a settler.Harriet Klausner