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Matchmaker Payback
Soon after the premature death of Agnes Jenkins’ husband, she starts trying to set up “match-dates” for her single, mid-thirties daughter, Jessie, with totally unsuitable men. She wants Jessie to marry while she’s young enough to enjoy a longer lifetime of happiness than she’d had with Phil.
But Agnes refuses to accept the fact that Jessie doesn’t want or need her help. Nothing Jessie tries can make her mother quit interfering in her love life.
After years of being out of touch with her forever best friend El, Jessie runs into him again unexpectedly. Their friendship soon turns into a serious romance.
Agnes almost stops matchmaking. But when she learns that El belongs to a different denomination from hers and Jessie’s, she resumes her matchmaking efforts in earnest.
El’s mother convinces Agnes to obtaining counseling. Ostensibly for Agnes to learn how to make Jessie drop El and accept her help. But actually so Jessie and El can get the counselor to help them end her mother's matchmaking. What can they do when they discover he can’t play both sides of the fence?
Jessie needs to make her mother understand how her interference makes Jessie feel. And what better way to do that than for Jessie to punish her mother by attempting to matchmake her with a series of totally unsuitable men? Just as her mother had done to her.
That type of matchmaker payback has its drawbacks, however. As does the undesirable appearance of an equally undesirable woman from El’s past.
How can Jessie and El work their way through their various problems and finally reach the alter?
But Agnes refuses to accept the fact that Jessie doesn’t want or need her help. Nothing Jessie tries can make her mother quit interfering in her love life.
After years of being out of touch with her forever best friend El, Jessie runs into him again unexpectedly. Their friendship soon turns into a serious romance.
Agnes almost stops matchmaking. But when she learns that El belongs to a different denomination from hers and Jessie’s, she resumes her matchmaking efforts in earnest.
El’s mother convinces Agnes to obtaining counseling. Ostensibly for Agnes to learn how to make Jessie drop El and accept her help. But actually so Jessie and El can get the counselor to help them end her mother's matchmaking. What can they do when they discover he can’t play both sides of the fence?
Jessie needs to make her mother understand how her interference makes Jessie feel. And what better way to do that than for Jessie to punish her mother by attempting to matchmake her with a series of totally unsuitable men? Just as her mother had done to her.
That type of matchmaker payback has its drawbacks, however. As does the undesirable appearance of an equally undesirable woman from El’s past.
How can Jessie and El work their way through their various problems and finally reach the alter?
250 pages, Paperback
Published April 24, 2022
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About the author
Roger E. Bruner
32 books26 followersFormer English teacher, job counselor/interviewer, and programmer/analyst. Retired at 62 to write full-time.
Roger can't decide which genre he prefers. He's written speculative fiction, contemporary women's fiction, and novels for teens. His current interest is fiction for and about senior adults. All of his twenty-four novels are Christian, however, and are free from objectionable language, sexual content, and gratuitous violence.
Roger plays bass on his church praise team and guitar at a weekly nursing home ministry. He has also been on mission trips to Australia, England, Wales, Romania, and Nicaragua.
At 78 he's still in pretty good health, but stays home a lot more than he used to. He enjoys reading, walking, photography, writing music and recording his own songs at home, and playing Quidler with his delightful wife, Kathleen.
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June 8, 2022
charming with ingenious plot
I was mesmerized by the numerous plot twists here. The author made me think he was a she as well. I highly recommend this book and was gratified by the Christian aspects, so gently used.
I was mesmerized by the numerous plot twists here. The author made me think he was a she as well. I highly recommend this book and was gratified by the Christian aspects, so gently used.
May 25, 2022
Fun read
As a retired professional counselor, I was annoyed by the unethical, unprofessional behaviors of the counselor in this story. But the plot snd characters were fun.
As a retired professional counselor, I was annoyed by the unethical, unprofessional behaviors of the counselor in this story. But the plot snd characters were fun.
May 29, 2022
Good read
Enjoyed this book and the mother/daughter match makers. Clean, fun read that was not too heavy but still had substance.
Enjoyed this book and the mother/daughter match makers. Clean, fun read that was not too heavy but still had substance.
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