“Blake Williams, raised by loving and attentive adoptive parents, is lost after their death because they were his only family. He meets Maxine and they marry and start a family. Blake, a good businessman, makes a killing during the dot com craze and can now afford to live his dreams. Though he and Maxine have three children Blake can’t understand why Maxine wants to settle down. Blake doesn’t change his lifestyle. Maxine feels since she’s raising her children as any single mother would, she no longer wants to be married to Blake. She meets Dr. Charles West and falls in love. Charles is terribly jealous of Blake and when Maxine doesn’t see a problem with continuing the tradition of her and the children’s spending the summer aboard Blake’s 250 feet sail boat, Charles is in an uproar because Maxine insists that he joins them because it’ll give him the opportunity to bond with the children and he does. Charles tells Maxine to send her children to boarding school so the two of them can spend more time alone. She refuses. Her housekeeper Zelda adopts a crack-baby that never stops screaming. Charles tells Maxine to fire the housekeeper because she can be replace. She refuses. Blake tells Maxine that he wants to throw hers and Charles’s reception party and he’s not going to take no for an answer. She tells Charles and he blows up. He tells her that she makes decisions that concern them both. In the meantime, Blake falls in love. When an earthquake erupts at his home in North Africa he does all he can to help. He invites his girlfriend but she says she can’t stand the sight of blood and will see him when he returns to his London home where she has moved in. He returns a week early and he doesn’t call her thinking a surprise would be better. He finds her in bed with another man. He throws her out. At reception end, Blake and Maxine, drunk, discuss their divorce. Maxine tells him that she couldn’t keep up with him. Blake tells her that she scared him because she was so much smarter then he and the only thing he knew to do was to run away and though the ending isn’t a surprise, The Rogue is a very good read.”
