Red Wine for Breakfast

Red Wine for Breakfast, Robin C. Westmiller, Writers Club Books, 1999

Doris Cohen is a 34-year-old  pure-blood New Yorker living in Los Angeles, who, as Jenny Reed, has the number one morning radio show in the city. Jenny is the sort of person who plays by her own rules; a nice, non-committal affair with Brian Allen, the station owner, certainly doesn't hurt.

The station is suddenly sold by Denise, Brian's wife, and the owner of the station, to Tony D'Amico, who knows nothing about radio and bought it only for tax purposes. Jenny also gets a co-host forced upon her, a man with a sexy voice named Johnny King, who happens to be Denise's big brother. In a profession where jobs are as stable as a house of cards, these are not good signs for Jenny.

One day, while on the air, Johnny "accidentally" leaves the mike on while he asks Jenny to go to bed with him. She comes up with a suitable way to get back at him, also on the air; meantime, the audience loves the idea. Life at the station gets complicated when Gayle, Jenny's best friend is found dead under mysterious circumstances, connected to a drug scandal that could cost the station its license.

This one is quite good. It's easy to read, the author certainly knows her way around the radio biz, and the romance part isn't too overwhelming for non-romance readers.