Product Description

Trystan Lightfoot allowed herself to love once in her life; the experience broke her heart and strengthened her resolve never to fall in love again. At forty, however, she still longs for the comfort of a woman's arms. She finds temporary solace in meaningless, albeit adventuresome encounters, burying her pain and her emotions deep inside where no one can reach. No one, that is, until she meets C.J. Winslow.

C.J. Winslow is the model-pretty-but-aging professional tennis star the Women's Tennis Federation is counting on to dispel the image that all great female tennis players are lesbians. And her lesbianism isn't the only secret she's hiding. A traumatic event from her childhood is taking its toll both on and off the court.

Together Trystan and C.J. must overcome their challenges to find the flip side of desire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #567978 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Lynn Ames is the best-selling author of The Price of Fame (which was short-listed for the first annual GCLS award in the category of lesbian romance) and The Cost of Commitment.

For more than half a decade, Ms. Ames was an award winning broadcast journalist. These days she is a nationally recognized speaker and public relations professional with a particular expertise in image, crisis communications planning, and crisis management.

Ms. Ames resides in the southwestern U.S. with her favorite guys (relax, they're dogs): a golden retriever named Alex, who bears a remarkable resemblance to a character in her books, and Parker, another golden and the newest edition to the family.

Customer Reviews

Gracefully written with realism and strong characters
With the belief that her one chance at love has passed her by, Trystan Lighfoot has put her heart on hold for the last sixteen years. Focusing on regaining her number one ranking as professional tennis player combined with a childhood trauma has kept C.J. Winslow from allowing herself the chance to experience love. When Trystan and C.J. meet they find putting aside the hurts of the past as well as facing a judgmental society will challenge their opportunity to share the love they've found with each other.

While reading The Flip Side of Desire, I found myself held captive by the talented strokes of Ms. Ames' artistry. The wording is so fluid I felt more like I was breathing the story in than reading it. From the first passage this book quietly seeped into my veins and grabbed hold of me before I realized what had happened. By the conclusion, I felt as if I had experienced every drop of sweat, every ounce of pain, every passionate embrace, every aching scar, and every courageous step taken to break free from each deep-rooted ghost.

Ms. Ames does an admirable job in not only describing the ups and downs of those associated with the Women's Tennis Association but also the emotions associated with an unrequited love and a childhood trauma. Told with grace and realism this is a book each reader should discover for themselves. And in that discovery, you might even find a piece of yourself.

Drama! Heartbreak!
Everyone and everything has two sides. So which side do you choose?

Tennis star, C.J. Winslow, is beautiful, talented and aging in a sport that is quick to be cruel to those that are. CJ has suddenly found herself in the unenviable position of no longer being at the top of her sport. However, she was number one once and she is determined to be again. Now all she has to do is make some hard changes...to her game and to her life. Will CJ be able to do what is necessary? Even if it means that she has to put business before loyalty and friendship?

Sports physical therapist, Trystan Lightfoot has been brought in by the women's professional tennis organization to treat CJ and the other female players on tour. At the top of her profession Trystan seems to have it all --all that is, except personal happiness. Trystan has been badly scarred by an unrequited love, a memory she can't seem to let go of.

Mistrustful of each other in the beginning, CJ and Trystan find they must band together when an event from CJ's past collides with her present. It's obvious that life caused the paths of both women to cross. Could it be to bring Trystan a chance to love someone who'll love her back? Or perhaps, to help CJ learn that being true to one's self is the most important goal of all? Will defenses long held be lowered enough to let either of these things happen? Will strangers become friends? Friends become lovers?

Lynn Ames is a talented writer with a proven track record who enthralled readers with her intensely dramatic Kate and Jay series, The Price of Fame, The Cost of Commitment and The Value of Valor. With her fourth book introducing two new dynamic characters in Trystan and CJ, Ms. Ames proves that her track record is most definitely still intact.

New Treatment of an Old Story
Trystan Lightfoot is a successful closeted physical therapist. C.J. Winslow is a successful closeted professional tennis player. When they meet and fall in love, their lives become complicated by their social environment, in which intolerance for lesbians and gays is prevalent and fierce.

This story has been told countless times --- the unfortunate necessity of having to choose between a career in the closet vs. a crap-shoot out of the closet. With over half of the Fortune 500 companies now offering domestic partner benefits and with more and more celebrities coming out all the time, hopefully the story will become passé in the very near future. Until then, it is satisfying to read once again about how people face the situation bravely and with dignity.

The choices that Trystan and C.J. must make really aren't simple or straightforward, as the author brilliantly shows. She portrays the theme with grace and understanding. I felt good after finishing this book, and what more could a person ask of a book? Kudos to Ms. Ames.