Two Sisters

When Taylor Drummond accepts a job as a local television anchor and moves back to Los Angeles, she knows that it won't be easy facing her estranged younger sister, Jillian, and her sister's husband, Mason Reed. Still harboring feelings for Mason, her lover before he became her brother-in-law, Taylor stayed in self-imposed exile on the East Coast while she nurtured her high-powered career. Now, however, Taylor is face-to-face with the man she thought she could live without while at the same time she's deciding how to fulfill her desire to be a mother. When Mason--who also wants a child but is thwarted by Jillian's refusal to become pregnant--offers to father Taylor's baby by artificial insemination, Taylor has to confront her true desires. At the same time, Jillian's drug abuse and affairs are threatening her marriage and placing the tenuous family triangle in jeopardy. First-novelist Wagner, though encumbering her characters with more than their fair share of personal struggles, ultimately delivers an engaging story that touches on such issues as single parenting, addiction, sexual harassment in the workplace and family relationships. (Sept.)