"As I walked into the den, I condemned myself for even considering having an affair with Luther. I reminded myself that I rarely even thought about Luther before he contacted me. I was happily married to a man I loved and who loved me. We had a great sex life. I had a child I adored. I lived in a beautiful house. I was a partner in a top-tier law firm.

And an ex-lover I hadn’t seen in ten years was making me feel like a teenager in heat."

--from One Hot Summer

During the span of a summer, anything can happen. Former lovers return, husbands lose all rationale, and family can suffocate a person more easily than the sweltering humidity of a late Florida afternoon.

Set in Miami Beach, One Hot Summer follows the life of Margarita Maria Santos Silva, a woman bent on making her own decisions in a family that seems to have the future, as well as the rules, neatly laid out for her. After the birth of her son, Margarita is at the end of taking a year off from the stressful legal career she worked so hard to earn.Margarita suddenly faces the daunting task of deciding whether she should go back to work or stay home and dutifully raise her two-yearold son--the latter being the choice both her overachieving husband, Ariel, and old-fashioned family desperately want her to make.

But when her old law school boyfriend, the ultrasuave and handsome Luther Simmonds, shows up out of nowhere, all hell breaks loose. Along with her newly awakened passion, Margarita again understands the empowering warmth of having Luther listen to her needs and desires. She now has twice as many critical decisions to make and only one hot summer in which to make them.