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McKenna Family #2
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home by Leigh Michaels released on Aug 25, 1989 is available now for purchase.
Kaye Reardon and Graham Forrest make a perfect couple -- all they need is the perfect house. But real estate agent Brendan McKenna seems to think that Kaye shouldn't be looking for a house at all, but for a different man. Book #2 in the McKenna Series.
Kaye Reardon and Graham Forrest make a perfect couple -- all they need is the perfect house. But real estate agent Brendan McKenna seems to think that Kaye shouldn't be looking for a house at all, but for a different man. Book #2 in the McKenna Series.
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Leigh Michaels
351 books173 followersLeigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance.
When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984.
Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate.
She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984.
Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate.
She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
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October 13, 2020
"No Place Like Home" is the story of Kaye and Brandon.
A pretty sedate love story. Our heroine is an orphan who is dating a blue collar man, and soon engaged to his high and mighty butt. He barely tolerates her working class attitude, but she compromises in lieu for a conventional marriage and her dream of five kids. On the day on their (surprise) engagement, she meets with an accident and the hero. She soon needs a house, and low behold, the hero is a real estate agent. Their love story is pretty bland, in which the kind and loving hero makes her realize how boring and not nice her fiancé is. Some drama ensues, some realizations are made, and it all ends in a HEA.
Honestly, not a fan of triangles and this was a pretty average one. The hero was nice and I liked the cat Omar.
SWE/Safe..ish
2.5/5
A pretty sedate love story. Our heroine is an orphan who is dating a blue collar man, and soon engaged to his high and mighty butt. He barely tolerates her working class attitude, but she compromises in lieu for a conventional marriage and her dream of five kids. On the day on their (surprise) engagement, she meets with an accident and the hero. She soon needs a house, and low behold, the hero is a real estate agent. Their love story is pretty bland, in which the kind and loving hero makes her realize how boring and not nice her fiancé is. Some drama ensues, some realizations are made, and it all ends in a HEA.
Honestly, not a fan of triangles and this was a pretty average one. The hero was nice and I liked the cat Omar.
SWE/Safe..ish
2.5/5
July 31, 2023
3.5 stars
Well. I was fully prepared to dislike it and am flummoxed that I didn’t. Yes, the heroine is engaged to someone else for 90% of the book, but the ship genuinely works. Only LM could write a book where the heroine is house-hunting with her fiancé and falls in love with the realtor. Read via Scribd.
Well. I was fully prepared to dislike it and am flummoxed that I didn’t. Yes, the heroine is engaged to someone else for 90% of the book, but the ship genuinely works. Only LM could write a book where the heroine is house-hunting with her fiancé and falls in love with the realtor. Read via Scribd.
October 27, 2009
Leigh Michaels' No Place Like Home was one of those fast paced fun reads that make you wish you were the heroine in the story. Kaye starts out with the wealthy baby food tycoon Graham, but as she house hunts, she meets Brendan and sparks fly.
This is a tale of love or money and its good to see the heart winning out. It was easy to identify with Kaye as most of us struggle to make ends meet. Its not always easy to say that we wouldn't be swayed into a relationship because the person offers security. How nice that Kaye found love and security with Brendan and a beautiful house.
I read this in one sitting and had a hard time putting it down. As always Leigh's books are on my keeper shelf.
This is a tale of love or money and its good to see the heart winning out. It was easy to identify with Kaye as most of us struggle to make ends meet. Its not always easy to say that we wouldn't be swayed into a relationship because the person offers security. How nice that Kaye found love and security with Brendan and a beautiful house.
I read this in one sitting and had a hard time putting it down. As always Leigh's books are on my keeper shelf.
March 29, 2015
3.5
I'm trying to finish through my Leigh Michaels. Only one left to go. A pretty good one, very sweet and endearing. It doesn't hold the drama and fleshed out plot as the others and not enough for a four writing. The writing style and tone is as enjoyable as always, even if the humor is less there. Characters are likeable but not much erotic tension. The love aspect is realistic enough, and the ending, while predictable, wraps up everything wonderfully. Not the best out there but good if you're in the mood for a simple, endearing story.
I'm trying to finish through my Leigh Michaels. Only one left to go. A pretty good one, very sweet and endearing. It doesn't hold the drama and fleshed out plot as the others and not enough for a four writing. The writing style and tone is as enjoyable as always, even if the humor is less there. Characters are likeable but not much erotic tension. The love aspect is realistic enough, and the ending, while predictable, wraps up everything wonderfully. Not the best out there but good if you're in the mood for a simple, endearing story.
April 14, 2021
(read in french, under the title « Une journée au paradis »)
Published in the Romance line in the US, « No Place Like Home » was released within « Azur » (french name of the Harlequin Presents collection) in the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. No wonder why it's one if the most original HQ Azur I've read !
Usually, the heroine accidentally meets an handsome rich man then struggles a bit before ending with him 150 pages later. Here, Karen (yeah, one more time, without any reason the heroine's name has been changed in the french version) has her millionnaire right from the start of the story. Oh, I can hear you from here : « so you're advertising us a cheating story ! » Well, considering the fiancé is not only as tasty as a burger without sauce but also quickly reveals himself as the absolute King of A$$h*les, we understand long before Karen that the best she can do for herself is to RUN AWAY FROM HIM. Without turning back. The guy becomes worse and worse as the story flows and would deserve more than one punch.
So, on one side, we got an ultra-toxic « relationship » (if you can name it like that, because Graham doesn't cares much about his fiancée), on the other side, a real estate agent trying hard to find a house for the couple, despite guessing it can't end well. Obviously, all the house-hunting is let to Karen and that's how she finds herself spending all her free time with this carefree man who never takes anything seriously, not even his work, which doesn't means he isn't good at it. Their attraction-tinted friendship grows with each house visited, and that's what makes the book standing out. Far from being a simple background line, Russell's job is at the core of the story. Understanding his customer's desires, anticipating their needs, sometimes finding himself caught in their private life in the middle of a visit... For sure, it changes a bit from kingdoms in need of a heir or wine empires ! Finally, having the same house tastes as Karen, some of those in the book really made me dream.
Despite Russell's perpetual mischievous attitude and the amazement toward (sadly) fictional beautiful homes, the book's atmosphere is quite heavy, Graham often acting like a total j*rk, Karen drowning in doubt, and sometimes showing herself rude and unfair too. Despite a well-written story and really likable sub-characters (especially Omar the cat), « No Place Like Home » really is this kind of book you can't recommend to everyone. If this sort of plot and lots of brainstorming aren't your thing, no, problem, just pass on this one. On the contrary, if you don't mind those, then you'll probably like this original story !
Published in the Romance line in the US, « No Place Like Home » was released within « Azur » (french name of the Harlequin Presents collection) in the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. No wonder why it's one if the most original HQ Azur I've read !
Usually, the heroine accidentally meets an handsome rich man then struggles a bit before ending with him 150 pages later. Here, Karen (yeah, one more time, without any reason the heroine's name has been changed in the french version) has her millionnaire right from the start of the story. Oh, I can hear you from here : « so you're advertising us a cheating story ! » Well, considering the fiancé is not only as tasty as a burger without sauce but also quickly reveals himself as the absolute King of A$$h*les, we understand long before Karen that the best she can do for herself is to RUN AWAY FROM HIM. Without turning back. The guy becomes worse and worse as the story flows and would deserve more than one punch.
So, on one side, we got an ultra-toxic « relationship » (if you can name it like that, because Graham doesn't cares much about his fiancée), on the other side, a real estate agent trying hard to find a house for the couple, despite guessing it can't end well. Obviously, all the house-hunting is let to Karen and that's how she finds herself spending all her free time with this carefree man who never takes anything seriously, not even his work, which doesn't means he isn't good at it. Their attraction-tinted friendship grows with each house visited, and that's what makes the book standing out. Far from being a simple background line, Russell's job is at the core of the story. Understanding his customer's desires, anticipating their needs, sometimes finding himself caught in their private life in the middle of a visit... For sure, it changes a bit from kingdoms in need of a heir or wine empires ! Finally, having the same house tastes as Karen, some of those in the book really made me dream.
Despite Russell's perpetual mischievous attitude and the amazement toward (sadly) fictional beautiful homes, the book's atmosphere is quite heavy, Graham often acting like a total j*rk, Karen drowning in doubt, and sometimes showing herself rude and unfair too. Despite a well-written story and really likable sub-characters (especially Omar the cat), « No Place Like Home » really is this kind of book you can't recommend to everyone. If this sort of plot and lots of brainstorming aren't your thing, no, problem, just pass on this one. On the contrary, if you don't mind those, then you'll probably like this original story !
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