The Payback Club

by Rexanne Becnel

Book Overview

The Payback Club by Rexanne Becnel released on Dec 27, 2005 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373230559
• ISBN13: 9780373230556
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Harlequin Next
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Don't get mad, get even

Liz Savoie and Joan Hoffman meet at a health club after going through rough divorces. They become friends and with the help of Nina a fitness instructor at the club come up with a plan to get back at their ex's. There plan is to ruin the new relationships of their ex's and also get even through their businesses. Joan plans on setting Denis Savoie up by going to the Salon that he and Liz started. She was to flirt with him, look rich and get his relationship with Cora Lee on the fritz. Liz was to try to get the marriage between Ed St. Romaine (Liz's ex) to Barbara on the fritz also. Their plans do not go so well. It turns out Cora Lee is pregnant, Ed wants nothing to do with Liz (but Nina has something to do with that)the disappearance of Ed, and Joan's grown children moving in with her it looks like they wont get their revenge. What happens? Read The Payback Club

A wonderful and pleasant read

Joan Hoffman and Liz Savoie keep fit at the same fitness center and are introduced to each other by their fitness trainer. Joan and Liz had each suffered heart breaking divorces initiated by their cheating husbands in spite of the fact that they had been loyal and devoted wives. Both husbands had unmercifully raked their wives over the coals near the end of their marriages and in the property settlements. The embittered wives discover that they have the same fantasy: they each want to see their exes get their comeuppance. They form a pact to seduce each other's exes, then drop them and cause a little damage in the process. The plan becomes complicated and one of the ex husbands turns up missing and presumed dead and, of course, the ex wife is the prime suspect. Then it appears that the only one who is going to get their comeuppance is the ex wife. The Payback Club is expertly crafted by an apparent master storyteller. It kept me turning the pages long after I decided there were other things I needed to be doing. The main characters are true to life and I found myself caring about them. Even the secondary characters were realistic and the exes were so expertly portrayed that I hated them and wanted to see them get their comeuppance. The story is tightly structured and the plot is interesting, exciting, suspenseful, and full of surprises right up to the end of the book. Even the last two pages were surprising and provided a satisfying resolution that made me feel good all over. The Payback Club is a great read and I strongly recommend it.

terrific romantic suspense

On the surface, upper crust Joan Hoffman and beauty salon owner Liz Savoie have nothing in common except spouses who not only cheated on them, bankrupted them. Both are outraged and thirst for vengeance. The scorned pair meets at a gym where they relate their horror story about unfaithful mates. They agree to form the PAYBACK CLUB with each seducing the other's ex until he becomes so emotionally devastated their penis figuratively falls off. The plan is set in motion to have the ex-wives exchange former husbands. Liz would seduce the now married Ed and Joan Dennis; turn them into jelly and dump them. The plan was executed perfectly except for the grousing of other women and adult children until one of the formers vanishes without a trace. Has the Payback Club gone too far throwing daddy from the train? THE PAYBACK CLUB is a terrific romantic suspense filled with wonderful out of nowhere yet plausible twists. The tale feels like a crossing of Throw Momma from the Train with the First Wives' Club. Joan and Liz are a delight from the first time they meet mumbling cut off his head like phrases. When they pair up to avenge the affront caused by their respective spouses, the tale takes off bringing the audience along for a fun time. Harriet Klausner