Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger Author:Jon Cohen Max Lakeman is head-over-heels in love with his wife, enchanted by his two children, happy with his job mowing lawns. Unshakably content. Or is he? — One warm summer night, Max’s overactive imagination conjures up a beautiful woman, Mrs. Zeno, who steps out of the moonlit rhododendrons and into his life. Max is certain that Mrs. Zeno is ima... more »ginary until she manages to seduce him into a passionate affair, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, between wanting and having.« less