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In Need of a Wife
"Stolen kisses are the sweetest" When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material -- until she discovered that the stranger had an ulterior motive...
A kiss is just a kiss...
When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material. And then she discovered that her stranger--one Nathan Parnell--only wanted to marry in an effort to secure custody of his three-year-old son.
Sasha desperately needed a home, but despite a disastrous union that had blessed her with a beautiful daughter, she also wanted to marry for love. And she wanted to share more than a marriage of convenience with Nathan. But if she wasn't willing to take him on his terms, she suspected he'd quickly find someone who would
A kiss is just a kiss...
When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material. And then she discovered that her stranger--one Nathan Parnell--only wanted to marry in an effort to secure custody of his three-year-old son.
Sasha desperately needed a home, but despite a disastrous union that had blessed her with a beautiful daughter, she also wanted to marry for love. And she wanted to share more than a marriage of convenience with Nathan. But if she wasn't willing to take him on his terms, she suspected he'd quickly find someone who would
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published August 1, 1994
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Emma Darcy
640 books327 followersEmma Darcy is the pseudonym created by the married writing team of Wendy (1940-2020) and Frank Brennan (1936-1995). Their life journey has taken as many twists and turns as the characters in their stories, whose international popularity has resulted in over sixty-million book sales. With more than a hundred titles, Emma Darcy appeared regularly on the Waldenbooks bestseller lists in the U.S.A. and in the Nielson BookScan Top 100 chart in the U.K.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.
As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.
As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
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May 15, 2018
Re In Need of a Wife - Emma Darcy breaks out of the depressive tone of her last few HP outings and brings us another one of her "different" books. This one is definitely out there with the campy wacky OTT drama, but it is also a whole 185 pages of fun as ED got the first HP Plus spot of September 1994.
The book opens with the h being proposed to by the H in a Sydney park. She has a baby girl and the H has a three year old son. The h thinks the manly, handsome H is the best looking thing since sliced bread, but she really doesn't know him and tho his manner is charming and smooth, she just got out of a bad romance of four years with a man who was borderline abusive and never offered marriage.
The h finally left the guy when she found him shaking the baby. The h won't stand for any type of abuse to her child and the ex had been know to have a fling or two on the side too, so she packed herself off and left for her parent's place. Now she is needing to find a new place to live, as her parent's live in a two bedroom apartment and are retired, so the h and her baby are very disruptive for them.
The H tells her he is in need of a wife, but is rather vague about why and insists that contractual agreements are a better foundation for marriage than the h's insistence that marriage should only be about deep, true love and devotion. The h politely refuses his offer and on the way out of the park, she gets accosted by her ex, Tyler. Who tries to forcibly drag her out of the park, until the H pretends to be an off duty police officer and steps in.
The ex is a bully and he doesn't like being challenged, he tells the h that if she goes with the H, he is done with her forever. Since this is exactly what the h wants, she goes off with the H and his son and we find out the H isn't a police officer at all, he is a barrister and designs security systems based on computer games.
The H also give the h an address and tells her to check the place out for a place to live. A few days later, driven by desperation and her parent's urging, the h heads over to the address the H gave her and finds it is a very nice Mosman area manor, (I think ED had Boronia House in mind when she described it.)
The h is kindly greeted by an older lady and shown to a lovely set of rooms. The lady tells her that she has to make an offer on the rent for them and the h is worried, cause she is in a very high rent district.
But she offers the lady $100.00 a week and gets the shock of her life when the lady tells her that due to the precepts of the late Seagrave Dunwothry's will, the residents of the house are only allowed to pay up to 5 guineas a week-tho that is negotiable, must always speak of Seagrave Dunworthy in terms of the highest respect and must pay their rent after 9 am on Friday and before the 12th stroke of noon on that same day.
The h, whose job is researching unusual things, does some rapid calculations and figures out that a guinea would be a bit over two dollars in modern currency. Prices were frequently listed in guineas before 1969, when the currency became decimal, even tho actual guineas haven't been used for years. Guineas are also frequently mentioned in horse racing - which is where the $2.00 bet comes from.
The h offers the $10.50 a week in rent and the nice lady, who also offers to babysit as she and her husband look after the house for the H, tells her to make it $10.00 so no one has to mess with change. The h is sorta surprised that the H lives there too, but she really likes the place and the rent really can't be beat.
Then the H shows up and a roofie kiss or two ensues after some charming verbal banter. The H also explains that he has only one client on his barrister roster and she is an older lady who would like to hire the services of the h to dig the dirt up on her rapscallion family.
The H escorts the h and her baby to meet the elderly lady, Hester, the next morning. The h is surprised by the quirky woman, who is mad about Thoroughbred horses and has made a fortune on them and who is also convinced that the details in the genealogy in the family bible are total lies.
In particular the very elderly lady wants the dirt on Seagrave Dunworthy and the h is in a quandary. She figures the H got her into this and he can get her out too, by suggesting a way that the h can research the highly esteemed Mr. Dunworthy and she won't be guilty of breaking the conditions of her tenancy by finding anything that puts him in a bad light.
So the h tells the elderly lady that her fee is 15 guineas an hour and the job is hers. The H tells the h to do the research on the highly esteemed late Mr. Dunworthy and then prove that his detractors were all lying about him.
Next, the H takes the h and the baby to see the pink Argyle diamond exhibit locate nearby. The H claims he did the security for the exhibit and the h is shocked when the H picks up one of the large pink diamonds and puts it in the baby's nappy cover. She is even more shocked when the chief of security comes out and profusely apologizes to the H for ever doubting his security system.
Relieved that the H isn't a jewel thief and she and the baby aren't accomplices, we all go to pick up the H's son from his playgroup. The son likes the h and pretends that she is his mother to his friends. The h allows him to do so in front of them, but she resolves to talk to him about her place a little later.
However when the H and h and co. get back to the Mosman house, the H's ex-wife is there and she is a very nasty sewer slurper of outrageous proportions. It seems she wants a political career and to get that, she will force the H to marry her again so she can exploit the family values ticket. She plans to contest the H's custody of her son, which she freely gave up, in order to get her way if the H doesn't comply with her wishes.
The h tells the evil ex wife off and when that doesn't stop her nastiness, she tells the bovine snot slurper that she and the H are getting married, so the nasty toad dropping can just take herself away. The H is overwhelmed with gratitude for the h's rescue of a bad situation, as it was made very clear that the ex wife doesn't care about her son at all, except as a photo op.
The H also explains that he is in fact now contracted to marry a Polish girl named Urzula Budna, who needs a marriage for citizenship arrangement. The h is livid, she had first dibs on the H, but he does ask her to a local judge's party and the h agrees to go. She wears her red traffic stopping dress and after another nasty confrontation with the H's ex-wife, she and the H can't resist a night of boudoir bliss.
The H and h are now in love, but there is the Urzula Budna problem to confront. There is also the h's ex, Tyler, who shows up in a modified Outback Range Rover, he is taking off to photograph the wonders of the Outback with his business partner. The H's ex-wife appears at that point, to claim that she is now the real Urzula Budna's lawyer and she is going to go after the H for breech of contract.
The ex wife also manages to hit Tyler's fancy new Outback Range Rover with gravel throwback from her Porsche and Tyler takes serious offence when the H's ex wife won't apologize. So Tyler runs his Range Rover into the Porsche a BUNCH of times and the H's ex-wife is completely apoplectic with rage. (It was totally hilarious.) We all then discover that the H's ex wife was one of the women that Tyler cheated on the h with.
This gives the H an idear and he rushes off to Tyler to get him to help with his plan. In the meantime, the h's research shows that the H is actually the great grandson of both Seagrave Dunworthy and the elderly lady, Hester, is his great grandmother. Seagrave and the H's granny Hester were set to marry seventy years earlier and Hester was already pregnant with Seagrave's son.
But Seagrave already had a wife in a mental hospital and so the H's granny dumped him for trying to commit bigamy, she did not know the circumstances of Seagrave's first wife and thought he was just trying to fortune hunt her.
The h found a letter for Hester from Seagrave, and it proved that he always loved her and in fact built the house for her, tho he wanted her to speak nicely of him when she lived in it. The H's granny is happy now that the full circumstances are discovered, she really thought that Seagrave was just trying to take advantage of her and now she can mourn his passing properly, cause she always loved him too.
Then the H is ready to fire up his 'evade marriage to Urzula Budna' plan and the H and h sneak off to the registry office and get married an hour before UB is to show up. The h's ex lover, Tyler, and his business partner are the witnesses and when Urzula and the H's shrew of an ex-wife show up, Tyler swings into action.
The h's ex is a decent photographer and has a way with the ladies, so the H agreed to pay Tyler a ton of money to marry Urzula and also will defend him in court for running over the H's ex wife's Porsche. It also doesn't hurt that Urzula is a very lovely lady to look at.
Tyler offers a marriage with no kids to Urzula and to make her a famous model, as he will take pictures of her in the Outback. So UB and Tyler go off to get married and start their adventure and the H's ex wife is dismissed to the HPlandia mists in a towering rage of thwarted ambition.
The next bit is a big family Christmas with the H, h, her parents, the baby and the H's son all together in the happiness of the day. The H's granny Hester comes over too, to finally take a look around the house that Seagrave Dunworthy built for the love of his life, Hester, and everyone can praise his name. The H and h are madly in love and the kids are happy too, as well leave them all to their HEA and celebrations on this most riotous and funny ED HPlandia outing.
The book opens with the h being proposed to by the H in a Sydney park. She has a baby girl and the H has a three year old son. The h thinks the manly, handsome H is the best looking thing since sliced bread, but she really doesn't know him and tho his manner is charming and smooth, she just got out of a bad romance of four years with a man who was borderline abusive and never offered marriage.
The h finally left the guy when she found him shaking the baby. The h won't stand for any type of abuse to her child and the ex had been know to have a fling or two on the side too, so she packed herself off and left for her parent's place. Now she is needing to find a new place to live, as her parent's live in a two bedroom apartment and are retired, so the h and her baby are very disruptive for them.
The H tells her he is in need of a wife, but is rather vague about why and insists that contractual agreements are a better foundation for marriage than the h's insistence that marriage should only be about deep, true love and devotion. The h politely refuses his offer and on the way out of the park, she gets accosted by her ex, Tyler. Who tries to forcibly drag her out of the park, until the H pretends to be an off duty police officer and steps in.
The ex is a bully and he doesn't like being challenged, he tells the h that if she goes with the H, he is done with her forever. Since this is exactly what the h wants, she goes off with the H and his son and we find out the H isn't a police officer at all, he is a barrister and designs security systems based on computer games.
The H also give the h an address and tells her to check the place out for a place to live. A few days later, driven by desperation and her parent's urging, the h heads over to the address the H gave her and finds it is a very nice Mosman area manor, (I think ED had Boronia House in mind when she described it.)
The h is kindly greeted by an older lady and shown to a lovely set of rooms. The lady tells her that she has to make an offer on the rent for them and the h is worried, cause she is in a very high rent district.
But she offers the lady $100.00 a week and gets the shock of her life when the lady tells her that due to the precepts of the late Seagrave Dunwothry's will, the residents of the house are only allowed to pay up to 5 guineas a week-tho that is negotiable, must always speak of Seagrave Dunworthy in terms of the highest respect and must pay their rent after 9 am on Friday and before the 12th stroke of noon on that same day.
The h, whose job is researching unusual things, does some rapid calculations and figures out that a guinea would be a bit over two dollars in modern currency. Prices were frequently listed in guineas before 1969, when the currency became decimal, even tho actual guineas haven't been used for years. Guineas are also frequently mentioned in horse racing - which is where the $2.00 bet comes from.
The h offers the $10.50 a week in rent and the nice lady, who also offers to babysit as she and her husband look after the house for the H, tells her to make it $10.00 so no one has to mess with change. The h is sorta surprised that the H lives there too, but she really likes the place and the rent really can't be beat.
Then the H shows up and a roofie kiss or two ensues after some charming verbal banter. The H also explains that he has only one client on his barrister roster and she is an older lady who would like to hire the services of the h to dig the dirt up on her rapscallion family.
The H escorts the h and her baby to meet the elderly lady, Hester, the next morning. The h is surprised by the quirky woman, who is mad about Thoroughbred horses and has made a fortune on them and who is also convinced that the details in the genealogy in the family bible are total lies.
In particular the very elderly lady wants the dirt on Seagrave Dunworthy and the h is in a quandary. She figures the H got her into this and he can get her out too, by suggesting a way that the h can research the highly esteemed Mr. Dunworthy and she won't be guilty of breaking the conditions of her tenancy by finding anything that puts him in a bad light.
So the h tells the elderly lady that her fee is 15 guineas an hour and the job is hers. The H tells the h to do the research on the highly esteemed late Mr. Dunworthy and then prove that his detractors were all lying about him.
Next, the H takes the h and the baby to see the pink Argyle diamond exhibit locate nearby. The H claims he did the security for the exhibit and the h is shocked when the H picks up one of the large pink diamonds and puts it in the baby's nappy cover. She is even more shocked when the chief of security comes out and profusely apologizes to the H for ever doubting his security system.
Relieved that the H isn't a jewel thief and she and the baby aren't accomplices, we all go to pick up the H's son from his playgroup. The son likes the h and pretends that she is his mother to his friends. The h allows him to do so in front of them, but she resolves to talk to him about her place a little later.
However when the H and h and co. get back to the Mosman house, the H's ex-wife is there and she is a very nasty sewer slurper of outrageous proportions. It seems she wants a political career and to get that, she will force the H to marry her again so she can exploit the family values ticket. She plans to contest the H's custody of her son, which she freely gave up, in order to get her way if the H doesn't comply with her wishes.
The h tells the evil ex wife off and when that doesn't stop her nastiness, she tells the bovine snot slurper that she and the H are getting married, so the nasty toad dropping can just take herself away. The H is overwhelmed with gratitude for the h's rescue of a bad situation, as it was made very clear that the ex wife doesn't care about her son at all, except as a photo op.
The H also explains that he is in fact now contracted to marry a Polish girl named Urzula Budna, who needs a marriage for citizenship arrangement. The h is livid, she had first dibs on the H, but he does ask her to a local judge's party and the h agrees to go. She wears her red traffic stopping dress and after another nasty confrontation with the H's ex-wife, she and the H can't resist a night of boudoir bliss.
The H and h are now in love, but there is the Urzula Budna problem to confront. There is also the h's ex, Tyler, who shows up in a modified Outback Range Rover, he is taking off to photograph the wonders of the Outback with his business partner. The H's ex-wife appears at that point, to claim that she is now the real Urzula Budna's lawyer and she is going to go after the H for breech of contract.
The ex wife also manages to hit Tyler's fancy new Outback Range Rover with gravel throwback from her Porsche and Tyler takes serious offence when the H's ex wife won't apologize. So Tyler runs his Range Rover into the Porsche a BUNCH of times and the H's ex-wife is completely apoplectic with rage. (It was totally hilarious.) We all then discover that the H's ex wife was one of the women that Tyler cheated on the h with.
This gives the H an idear and he rushes off to Tyler to get him to help with his plan. In the meantime, the h's research shows that the H is actually the great grandson of both Seagrave Dunworthy and the elderly lady, Hester, is his great grandmother. Seagrave and the H's granny Hester were set to marry seventy years earlier and Hester was already pregnant with Seagrave's son.
But Seagrave already had a wife in a mental hospital and so the H's granny dumped him for trying to commit bigamy, she did not know the circumstances of Seagrave's first wife and thought he was just trying to fortune hunt her.
The h found a letter for Hester from Seagrave, and it proved that he always loved her and in fact built the house for her, tho he wanted her to speak nicely of him when she lived in it. The H's granny is happy now that the full circumstances are discovered, she really thought that Seagrave was just trying to take advantage of her and now she can mourn his passing properly, cause she always loved him too.
Then the H is ready to fire up his 'evade marriage to Urzula Budna' plan and the H and h sneak off to the registry office and get married an hour before UB is to show up. The h's ex lover, Tyler, and his business partner are the witnesses and when Urzula and the H's shrew of an ex-wife show up, Tyler swings into action.
The h's ex is a decent photographer and has a way with the ladies, so the H agreed to pay Tyler a ton of money to marry Urzula and also will defend him in court for running over the H's ex wife's Porsche. It also doesn't hurt that Urzula is a very lovely lady to look at.
Tyler offers a marriage with no kids to Urzula and to make her a famous model, as he will take pictures of her in the Outback. So UB and Tyler go off to get married and start their adventure and the H's ex wife is dismissed to the HPlandia mists in a towering rage of thwarted ambition.
The next bit is a big family Christmas with the H, h, her parents, the baby and the H's son all together in the happiness of the day. The H's granny Hester comes over too, to finally take a look around the house that Seagrave Dunworthy built for the love of his life, Hester, and everyone can praise his name. The H and h are madly in love and the kids are happy too, as well leave them all to their HEA and celebrations on this most riotous and funny ED HPlandia outing.
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May 3, 2012
To be honest this book was wacko, crazy wills, crazy ex forcing the hero to marry him, crazy marriage contracts but despite it all it was fun, kind of like watching a really comic show.
The hero was pretty awesome, a barrister and security guy, he adored his three year old son and now his ex-wife wanted him and the son back for political aspirations whether he wanted it or not. The heroine just broke it off with her boyfriend of four years who is also the father of her daughter. She is kind of desperate and the hero comes to her rescue, proposing marriage to her which she refuses, but she takes up his offer of residency when her parent's place gets too crowded.
I loved the fact that the hero told her he was falling for her on the other hand was contracted to marry someone else, oh what drama! I have to admit I have rarely read about such a wacko ex as the hero's and the heroine's ex was portrayed to be a douche and sometimes not.
This book was kind of like a screwball comedy and I was surprised that this was an HP. Oddly enjoyable.
The hero was pretty awesome, a barrister and security guy, he adored his three year old son and now his ex-wife wanted him and the son back for political aspirations whether he wanted it or not. The heroine just broke it off with her boyfriend of four years who is also the father of her daughter. She is kind of desperate and the hero comes to her rescue, proposing marriage to her which she refuses, but she takes up his offer of residency when her parent's place gets too crowded.
I loved the fact that the hero told her he was falling for her on the other hand was contracted to marry someone else, oh what drama! I have to admit I have rarely read about such a wacko ex as the hero's and the heroine's ex was portrayed to be a douche and sometimes not.
This book was kind of like a screwball comedy and I was surprised that this was an HP. Oddly enjoyable.
August 12, 2021
"In Need of a Wife" is the story of Sasha and Nathan.
When our single parent heroine meets a handsome single father at a park, she never expects to be propositioned for marriage. She refuses, only for her ex to show up, and the hero saving her. We then have the heroine looking for a home and circumstances leading her to be the hero's tenant. The story then has loads of craziness coming from eccentric jobs, two insane exes, comedy of errors, forbidden attraction, slapstick drama, moments of romance and HEA.
I enjoyed parts of it and moments made me chuckle!
Safe
3/5
When our single parent heroine meets a handsome single father at a park, she never expects to be propositioned for marriage. She refuses, only for her ex to show up, and the hero saving her. We then have the heroine looking for a home and circumstances leading her to be the hero's tenant. The story then has loads of craziness coming from eccentric jobs, two insane exes, comedy of errors, forbidden attraction, slapstick drama, moments of romance and HEA.
I enjoyed parts of it and moments made me chuckle!
Safe
3/5
July 7, 2023
I’m going to keep this short, there’re tons of reviews out there. In Need of a Wife gives us Nathan and Sasha’s story… two single parents with terrible exes. It’s not super dramatic or angsty, but I really liked it. It’s cute, both are very likable, and a couple parts almost made me chuckle.
Bottom Line- I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a solidly written, less soapy/more whacky-quirky HP read.
Bottom Line- I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a solidly written, less soapy/more whacky-quirky HP read.
May 28, 2017
Definitely wacky......hard to follow and in most places it just didn't make sense. Heroine was annoying too.
I think you have to be in the mood for extreme screwball comedy.
I think you have to be in the mood for extreme screwball comedy.
December 9, 2011
As there is no synopsis for this book I copied this from back of book.
A kiss is just a kiss...
When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material. And then she discovered that her stranger--one Nathan Parnell--only wanted to marry in an effort to secure custody of his three-year-old son.
Sasha desperately needed a home, but despite a disastrous union that had blessed her with a beautiful daughter, she also wanted to marry for love. And she wanted to share more than a marriage of convenience with Nathan. But if she wasn't willing to take him on his terms, she suspected he'd quickly find someone who would!
I enjoyed this book. It reminded me of a Emma Goldrick novel which is ironic as both ED and EG involved husband wife writing teams. Unlike EG this book doesn't have the sometimes crazy internal monologues. This book was very silly and light weight but a fun diversion. I thought murder and mayhem might have to occur to achieve a HEA but they achieved it with a set of improbable and somewhat slapstick circumstances.
September 15, 2013
I have no idea what she was thinking when she came up with the idea for this one. Who knew Emma Darcy can have so much sense of humor? The plot line and the characters are insane BUT somehow it works. I found myself laughing out loud or shaking my head while reading 90% of this book. It was so very unexpected.
August 6, 2018
Wacky is the best word I could find to describe this book. It was so much fun to read. The meet-up at the kiddie park, the aggressive ex boyfriend/baby daddy, the hero/gorgeous and sweet dad, two adorable kids, a psycho ex-wife, crazy great grandma, a marriage contract with a polish woman looking for citizenship, and a mansion with a really weird rental policy.
ED was deep in her cups when she sorted this mess out and made it an absolute delight to read. The h was heroic, the H gave the appearance of being mild mannered but he was sneaky af! And his computer games were sneaky too.
This is another book that I will be reading again in the future. I enjoyed the silliness too much not to read it again.
ED was deep in her cups when she sorted this mess out and made it an absolute delight to read. The h was heroic, the H gave the appearance of being mild mannered but he was sneaky af! And his computer games were sneaky too.
This is another book that I will be reading again in the future. I enjoyed the silliness too much not to read it again.
September 18, 2015
What the blooming hell did I just read? This is nuts, whacko, insane, bipolar and a bunch of others added to the list. Crack monkey shit right here!
February 19, 2017
Daffaq ..... This book doesn't make any sense .
June 11, 2012
I remember reading this book (by the cover) and I think I liked it. Have to search through my stack to see if I can re-read this. Hmmmmm
OK re-read it... holds up well... wished I could've seen more of the kids though
OK re-read it... holds up well... wished I could've seen more of the kids though
December 20, 2012
Super linda historia, un poco enredoso por la historia del bisabuelo y el testamento y fideicomisos, pero en si la historia es muy linda y sasha tan cool, buen libro xD
December 12, 2018
Fairly excruciating romance tale with two dimensional characters and lame plot. The most entertaining part about reading it was that the book itself was so old and decrepit that it was falling apart as I was reading it so each time a page was completed it was scrunched up and tossed in the paper recycle bin. At least the book is useful for something!
August 31, 2018
Written differently to what I am used to. Ok book nevertheless.
April 25, 2019
3.5 different writing, quirky
July 25, 2019
γνωριμία στο πάρκο...
July 30, 2020
Great love story
This story was so unique. Hero and heroine had an unusual start and found love at the end. Really held my interest.
This story was so unique. Hero and heroine had an unusual start and found love at the end. Really held my interest.
August 19, 2020
A little ridiculous.
May 14, 2025
What a crazy book!
August 29, 2011
So I have been immersing myself in the romance genre through the mills and boon series and I am not sure that this is a genre that I really like. I know they are popular but perhaps not my cup of tea. I will read a few more and see how it goes but I am not convinced. Anyway to the story of this book. Sasha complete with Bonnie her nine month old daughter meet Nathan Parnell and his 3 year old son Matt at the local park. Nathan for whatever reason immediately proposes marriage out of convenience of course and the story starts to roll along. Both Nathan and Sasha have previous relationship problems to deal with and of course hurdles to overcome before they find true happiness with each other.
August 29, 2014
so over the top that it works.
December 24, 2019
This was silly and convoluted but sweet and fun. I liked the two leads and the kids. I liked the resolution.
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December 31, 2017A kiss is just a kiss...
When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material. And then she discovered that her stranger--one Nathan Parnell--only wanted to marry in an effort to secure custody of his three-year-old son.
Sasha desperately needed a home, but despite a disastrous union that had blessed her with a beautiful daughter, she also wanted to marry for love. And she wanted to share more than a marriage of convenience with Nathan. But if she wasn't willing to take him on his terms, she suspected he'd quickly find someone who would!
When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material. And then she discovered that her stranger--one Nathan Parnell--only wanted to marry in an effort to secure custody of his three-year-old son.
Sasha desperately needed a home, but despite a disastrous union that had blessed her with a beautiful daughter, she also wanted to marry for love. And she wanted to share more than a marriage of convenience with Nathan. But if she wasn't willing to take him on his terms, she suspected he'd quickly find someone who would!
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