Coco Harding is a humor columnist for the Seaport Gazette newspapers. On an assignment, she is introduced to Dr. Harry Troutman, leading plastic surgeon on the upper East Side. Coco loves her husband. She's in a committed relationship, but not an orgasmic marriage. So, against her moral judgment Coco enters into an affair with Harry. It is lust at first sight.

Maybe it is to justify her indulgent behavior; Coco explains her life up to the opening moment of her illicit encounter; including her childhood, her failed relations, her daughter, and her current relationship with her devoted husband. She is destined for this burden because of the trials life has given her; be it by the great wealth she was born into or the natural beauty she was born with.

The grass is greener and the sex to die for. Their passion comes with all the trimmings, and their relationship is a culinary delight of dining out at exquisite restaurants and evenings of sinful sex. Eventually Coco becomes friends with Éclair, Harry's wife, and is invited to parties. Parker, Coco's husband, encourages the friendship. Through it all, Coco admits her feelings of guilt and reasons for the need for fulfilling sex to her therapist, Dr. Finkelman. He finally tells her that morally she must stop this affair before somebody is injured.

An anonymous letter is mailed to the perspective victims and perpetrators. Coco denies to Parker that she is at fault. The letter, and following correspondence (each more threatening than the last), do not have the desired effect and the affair continues.

What makes SEDUCING HARRY memorable are the humor columns by 'Coco' intermingled into the novel. In these articles I like Coco. In those clippings, she is somebody I can relate to. But when you return to Coco's story, I felt her character was shallow. She doesn't grow or change. It's still everybody else's fault for what happened. If another Harry came into her life, Coco will do what Coco wants. If you can accept these conclusions, you'll enjoy this novel.

Ms. Marks-White is great at writing promising scenes, making the reader turn that next page because you just know that in the next page, you will return to the storyline or you'll get to that exciting scene that makes your pulse race. For my tastes in reading material, that thrill took way too long, and, like Parker Harding, lacked substance when it did come. I love reading those books where you squirm in your seat and look for your husband. Sorry ladies, this isn't one of those books. Neither is it one of those books that you keep a box of facial tissues next to you because it's a scene that you're either crying in sorrow or laughing hard enough to cry. That didn't happen for me anyway.