Consenting Adults Only – A novel of medicine, mayhem and a vicious love triangle in modern-day Las Vegas
Las Vegas Emergency Medicine physician Dr. Joshua Luvkin is a nice, upstanding guy form the Midwest - with a few problems.
He falls in love with nurse Barbara Wilson, which leads to his breaking up with girlfriend Dr. Judy Berkowitz, also an emergency medicine physician. Barbara moves in. Judy shows up. What ensues is remindful of Fatal Attraction.
He meets Jack Strawn, an obese guy who enters quickie weight reduction contests, aka The Biggest Loser, but via a bathroom break and not from dieting. This somehow leads to Dr. Luvkin's investment in a Las Vegas cable porn show...and more publicity than he ever wanted.
He is sued for malpractice, as if he didn't have enough trouble already. Will he settle? Go to trial?
Malpractice lawsuit, (very) angry ex-girlfriend, and a skeptical hospital board make a difficult situation for the doctor. And then there's the Vegas terrorist attack.
How will it all end?
About Lawrence Martin (The Villages, Florida Author)
Larry is a retired physician who lives in The Villages, Florida. He is author of 20 books, about half in the medical field from when he was practicing medicine. Since retirement he has turned to writing mostly fiction, for both adults and kids.
Adult works include a contemporary fiction novel Consenting Adults Only, and two Civil War-themed historical fiction works, Sherman's Mistress in Savannah and Out of Time: An Alternative Outcome to the Civil War. Before publication, The Boy Who Dreamed Mount Everest, won 2nd place in the 2016 Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Awards, category of unpublished middle grade fiction.
Larry is president of The Writers League of The Villages, which meets monthly. WLOV arranges speakers on a variety of topics related to writing, sponsors an annual book Expo for Central Florida authors, and through its website and mailing lists seeks to connect the hundreds of writers active in The Villages.
Larry's other retirement interests are golf and music. He took up ukulele after retirement and in order to better understand the instrument began writing himself explanations. The result -- of course -- a book on music theory for the ukulele, now posted online (www.lakesidepress.com/UkeSyllabus.pdf).
