Married to the Man

by Judith Arnold, Barbara Keiler

What if You Though You Were Divorced - And Found Out You Were Still

Married to the Man?

If you're Jane Thayer, successful Boston Lawyer and highly organized person, you hightail it to New Orleans, where your ex-husband lives. Well, he's not really ex, but that's what you're going to fix. Especially since you're engaged to Mark Dennison, a much more suitable man.

But Cody Sinclair, the love match - and mismatch - of your younger days, isn't so sure he wants that divorce. Now what? His bad-boy ways used to thrill you - maybe they still do. OH, oh.

You and he make a deal, you get your divorce in exchange for helping him fight a sleazy lawsuit. Cody drags you through the steamy streets of New Orleans - not what you're used to. But the experience is instructive nonetheless.

Because you find out that first love isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's more!

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1996

About the author

Barbara Keiler
aka Ariel Berk, Thea Frederick, Judith Arnold

Barbara Keiler was born on April 7th. She started telling stories before shecould write. She was four when her sister, Carolyn, stuffed a crayon intoher hand and taught her the alphabet, and she's been writing ever since.

Barbara is a graduate of Smith College, where she learned to aim for thestars, and she received a master's degree in creative writing from BrownUniversity, where she took aim at a good-looking graduate student in thechemistry department and wound up marrying him. She says: "Before myhusband and I were married, I had a job in California and he was working onhis Ph.D. in Rhode Island. I became ill, and he hopped on a plane and flewacross the country to be with me. Neither of us had any money, but he saidhe simply couldn't concentrate on his research, knowing I was three thousandmiles away and facing a serious health problem all by myself. He stayed fortwo weeks, until I was pretty well recovered. That he would just drop whathe was doing, put his life on hold and race to my side told me how much heloved me. After that, I knew this was the man I wanted to marry."

Barbara has received writing fellowships from the Shubert Foundation and theNational Endowment for the Arts, and has taught at colleges and universitiesaround the country. She has also written several plays that have beenprofessionally staged at regional theaters in San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,Connecticut and off-off-Broadway.

Since her first romance novel's publication in 1983 as Ariel Berk. Shewrote one novel as Thea Frederick, and since 1985 she writes asJudith Arnold. Barbara has sold more than 70 novels, with eight millioncopies in print worldwide. She has recently signed a contract with MIRABooks. Her first MIRA novel will appear in 2001. She has received severalawards from Romantic Times Magazine, including awards for the Best HarlequinAmerican Romance of the Year, Best Harlequin Superromance of the Year, BestSeries Romantic Novel of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement Certificate ofMerit for Innovative Series Romance. She has also been a finalist for theGolden Medallion Award and the RITA Award for Romance Writer of America. Hernovel Barefoot in the Grass has appeared on the recommended reading listsdistributed by cancer support services at several hospitals.

Barbara lives in a small town not far from Boston, Massachusetts, New England with her husband, two teenage sons, and a guinea pig named Wilbur. Her sister Carolyn died of breast cancer in 1998.

Reviews

[Dobrawcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Osobiście? Bardzo podoba mi się postać Jane i Codiego totalnie do siebie pasują nawet jak na przeciwieństwa. Od razu z rozdziałem z Markiem wiedziałam, że będzie miał romans z sekretarką Jane. Scena z motocyklem wywaliła z kapci. Nie spodziewałam się, że to on właśnie przyjdzie do niej do Bostonu. Właściwie na początku ostatniego rozdziału myślałam, że Cody ucieknie lub spróbuję popełnić samobójstwo, a później przy jego rodzinnym domu to, że przyjechał tam tylko dla mamy.
Na prawdę przyjemna książka, czasem nawet zabawna. Harlequiny jednak mają to w sobie

[Nadia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dal titolo mi aspettavo tutt'altro, come ad esempio un bel viaggio in Harley sulla Route 66, e sono rimasta delusa.
Ma non è stato del tutto tempo perso.
Trama interessante, meno "easy" rispetto agli standard Harmony ma molto valida, con un leggero tocco di suspense.
3 stelle e 1/2

[Gina Guesby Mays · Rating 4 out of 5]

You know, this really wasn't a bad book. I followed the story of Jane, a successful attorney who is engaged to a wonderful man and finds out her dad never filed the divorce papers for her when she was younger and married to Cody. So she takes off to New Orleans to find Cody, have him sign the papers, and then come back and marry her man, Mark. Well, while Jane is in New Orleans, Mark gets to know Clarissa. And now what? And Jane gets re-acquainted with Cody. They're not kids anymore. They're not young and carefree and unresponsible. A lot has changed and Cody likes the changes. So what will he do? What will Jane do? Jane decides to help Cody with a case he has with a local clergyman in exchange for his signature. So much adventure happens in little ol' New Orleans and it takes the rider into different areas around the city and different people that make Cody and Jane re-think their lives. It really is a good little romance book but not heavy into a lot of adult things.

[Darla Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

The motorcycle scene in the book! All I can say is - OMG!

[Tilly · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5 stars.