Elusive Love

by Catherine Lanigan

Susannah Parker, an Indiana beauty whose marriage to wealthy Greg Walton has taken her into a world of money, privilege, and betrayal, and Wall Street mogul Michael West search for true love amid the glamour of high society, Hollywood glitter, and the rarified world of New York's financial powerbrokers. Original.

Genres: Romance

24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Catherine Lanigan is the bestselling author of over thirty published titles in both fiction and non-fiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, as well as over half a dozen anthologies, including “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living your Dream”, “Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul”, “Chocolate for a Woman’s Heart”, Chocolate for a Woman’s Spirit”. Ms. Lanigan’s novels have been translated into over a dozen languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Ms. Lanigan’s novels are also available on audio-cassette, CD and on electronic format. A prolific writer, she is always writing wonderful stories. She has several titles only available in ebook format on Amazon.com Several of her titles have been chosen for The Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs. Her novel, The Christmas Star, won the Gold Medal Award Top Pick from Romantic Times Magazine for December, 2002, and has also won Book of the Year Romance Gold Award from ForeWord Magazine as well as Book of the Year Romance from Reader’s Preference. In March, 2006 Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention and the second in Lanigan’s Angel Watch series of books, was published by HCI, the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher.

Reviews

[Joshua · Rating 2 out of 5]

Elusive Love Is an enjoyable and somewhat silly, melodrama.

Susannah Parker has always dreamt of a handsome sea prince, floating out of the water and offering her his hand.
Unfortunately, Mr. Sea-King has ruined men for Savannah. Hoping to find her handsome dream man in florida, she follows her best friend Marielou for a trip during spring break.

Michael West meets Phillip Van Buren while fixing his car. Phillip explains to Michael how he is a stockbroker and encourages him to study business and finance.
(Spoiler: Michael is her sea-king)

Will fate bring them together?
Well yes, but it takes awhile... And by a awhile I mean 439 pages. That's two pages from the end.
Susannah is a bit of a dim bulb and Michael is a pretty uninteresting piece of cardboard. They had their moments and I rooted for them, but towards the end I just wanted them to hurry up and get together. It wasn't perfect, but I have to say that at times this book was really earnest and an honest story.
As sappy as it was, I could tell Mrs Lanigan put a lot of heart into this and really believed in what she was writing.

If you enjoy soap opera/family dramas you will probably enjoy this. Just don't expect any great literature or anything.

[Carolyn Somerville · Rating 2 out of 5]

A sappy romance store follows two people through life as they nearly meet many times.