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For This Week I Thee Wed / 50 Clues He's Mr. Right
FOR THIS WEEK I THEE WED
Come clean…or come up with a husband
I, Francie Karr-Taylor, take thee, Ryan MacNair, in marriage to convince my grandmother and tenth-reunion class that I'm happily married—you provide the kids. A week should do it. You should pledge to be so irresistible that you charm the control tops right off those small-town busybodies. Your touches should be possessive and your kisses so hot that we won't need to feign our intense reactions. Oh, and promise we won't want this fake family to become real….
50 CLUES HE'S MR. RIGHT
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Reporter Tara Butler is thrilled with her assignment from Real Men updating Forty-Nine Things You Need to Know about a Real Man from the first issue of the magazine in 1949. This is a chance to discover how times have changed, and maybe just maybe, this is her chance to meet a real man—not the romantic duds she's dated. But when she's paired with writer Chase Montgomery, who doesn't have a real man quality to him, she begins to wonder if her list is wrong….
- GenresContemporary Romance
277 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1999
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March 17, 2013
I only read the first story. Very humorous.
I tried reading the 2nd story, but I just wasn't into it.
I had really only wanted to read Ms. St.John's story anyway.
I tried reading the 2nd story, but I just wasn't into it.
I had really only wanted to read Ms. St.John's story anyway.
May 25, 2022
Francesca 'Francie' Karr is a talented photographer but isn't organized and can come off as flakey. She has so much love for her YaYa, who raised her after her parents dropped her off so they could continue their lives. She avoids relationships based on her parents and their abandonment. She will find herself in a pickle, needing a fake husband for a week—if he has kids—that works too. It's only for a week to show YaYa and her classmates that she has a husband at her high school reunion.
Ryan MacNair is a single father, raising his two children, Alanna and Cameron, after their mother decides she doesn't want tied down to a family. While he feels he is doing the best for his children, working long hours and never far from work, his children aren't happy. Running down a lead for a family heirloom brooch will lead him to eccentric Francie Karr. Money isn't an object, but that isn't what she is asking for—can he and the kids be her fake family for a week?
The story's plot will bring Ryan and Francie together over a brooch she purchased to use for photography. It is a family heirloom that was to one day belong to his daughter Alanna. He never dreamed that he would find himself bartering his week as a fake husband to reclaim the brooch.
Francie: Perhaps we can negotiate after all.
Ryan: Money isn't the issue here. The brooch has sentimental value. Ten thousand. Fifteen.
Francie: No. Not more money. In fact, if you agree to this idea, you can keep your money.
Ryan: What idea?
Francie: I'm in a predicament myself. I'm afraid I've done something—said something—impulsive, and now I don't have any way out of it. Except maybe through you.
Ryan: So, you lied. And now this lie is causing you a problem. What does your lie have to do with me?
Francie: You can have the brooch—if you come to Spencer, Colorado, with me as my husband for a week.
The story will have Francie, joined by Ryan, Alanna, and Cameron, going to Spencer, Colorado, posing as a family for a week. They will visit YaYa, and partake in various activities that are part of the reunion. The MacNair family is upper class, more refined, and not used to someone as free-spirited as Francie. So much good comes from the time there. Ryan realizes his workload has interfered with his relationship with his children. Two people with two different lifestyles, brought together by a brooch. I love the journey of Francie and the MacNair family, and what scares her and Ryan is the feelings that are developing for each other. That was not part of the bargain.
"If there's one thing I love about Francie. And there are many things I love about her—it's that she's full of inconsistencies. She's never boring, that's for sure."
"Life's too short to worry about what people think or to miss out on the things that are important."
Ryan MacNair is a single father, raising his two children, Alanna and Cameron, after their mother decides she doesn't want tied down to a family. While he feels he is doing the best for his children, working long hours and never far from work, his children aren't happy. Running down a lead for a family heirloom brooch will lead him to eccentric Francie Karr. Money isn't an object, but that isn't what she is asking for—can he and the kids be her fake family for a week?
The story's plot will bring Ryan and Francie together over a brooch she purchased to use for photography. It is a family heirloom that was to one day belong to his daughter Alanna. He never dreamed that he would find himself bartering his week as a fake husband to reclaim the brooch.
Francie: Perhaps we can negotiate after all.
Ryan: Money isn't the issue here. The brooch has sentimental value. Ten thousand. Fifteen.
Francie: No. Not more money. In fact, if you agree to this idea, you can keep your money.
Ryan: What idea?
Francie: I'm in a predicament myself. I'm afraid I've done something—said something—impulsive, and now I don't have any way out of it. Except maybe through you.
Ryan: So, you lied. And now this lie is causing you a problem. What does your lie have to do with me?
Francie: You can have the brooch—if you come to Spencer, Colorado, with me as my husband for a week.
The story will have Francie, joined by Ryan, Alanna, and Cameron, going to Spencer, Colorado, posing as a family for a week. They will visit YaYa, and partake in various activities that are part of the reunion. The MacNair family is upper class, more refined, and not used to someone as free-spirited as Francie. So much good comes from the time there. Ryan realizes his workload has interfered with his relationship with his children. Two people with two different lifestyles, brought together by a brooch. I love the journey of Francie and the MacNair family, and what scares her and Ryan is the feelings that are developing for each other. That was not part of the bargain.
"If there's one thing I love about Francie. And there are many things I love about her—it's that she's full of inconsistencies. She's never boring, that's for sure."
"Life's too short to worry about what people think or to miss out on the things that are important."
January 15, 2025
The Duet books never did much for me. I think they were supposed to be humorous but as I’ve said wacky characters annoy me and I never found the main characters compelling
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