Skinny Dipping

By Connie Brockway

Mimi is just drifting through life. Her personal philosophy is no entanglements: no husband, just the occasional boyfriend; no kids; no career, just a job; no pets ... she doesn't even have a houseplant in her apartment. She dropped out of college just a few weeks short of getting her degree. And it's not that she's stupid, no, she has a very good brain that she uses for very little.
So what happened to Mimi to make her so disconnected? Her father disappeared when she was a kid and she was never the same after that.
Then one day Mimi receives a post card from her father, a post card dated 30 years ago that the post office is just now delivering and it stirs up all those old feelings. To make matters worse, Mimi's family is considering selling their lakeshore property to real estate developers who want to build a bunch of million dollar McMansions and are offering big bucks to the locals to sell out. Mimi has been spending every summer at that place for her whole life and to lose it now is breaking her heart. But how can she hold out against the sale when all her relatives are drooling at the thought of those millions the developers are willing to fork over?
It gets even more complicated when the millionaire genius who lives next door breaks his leg and somehow Mimi ends up spending the winter with him taking care of his three mutts and his hunky father, who also manages to bang himself up showing off for Mimi while skiing. The woman whose goal in life was to stay clear of responsibility suddenly finds herself weighted down with tons of new ones, including her baby sister who shows up several months pregnant and alone.

Yes, this is a romance story, but it is one of the best I have ever read. Mimi is quite a character, as are the other folks in the story. In addition, the book is full of humor and is a very down home look at life on a little Minnesota back country lake; almost as good as vacationing there. I enjoyed the book very much. It was a lot of fun.