Summer Times — Marcia Rose

This is the story of one summer in the life of Natalie Simon, creative VP of a major New York ad agency, hard-drinking, sexy lady, woman in control of her life.

This is the story of the summer when it all almost falls apart. She's had it! Her immature tyrant of a boss--"boy wonder" Peter Marcus--makes her feel like she's losing her touch. Her smug husband--pipe-smoking writer Jerry Weber--finally agrees that their marriage is a sham. Her sixteen-year-old daughter drives her crazy, and even her best friends get on her nerves.

That's why she's sunk every penny she has into a beach house on Fire Island--land of leisure, land of parties, land of men. Let the sun soothe her aching bones! Let the sea wash away her yes! Let sex with the perfect stranger restore her confidence! Let her escape from it all!

But problems like Natalie's don't just go away...