He was expecting one visitor…. She was expecting three!
Two seconds after meeting him, Kristi was falling for Michael Running Wolf O'Leary. His chiseled features and taut body were as sculpted as the New Mexico mountains. Unfortunately, two hours before, she'd switched places with the friend of the family he was expecting to visit. Apparently that "innocent" stranger had neglected to tell Kristi a few crucial details—like the fact that she was to be Michael's wife…and that she was pregnant….
I'm sure this was intended to be a romantic comedy but the comedy came across as face-palming and weak grins more than the hilarity I'm used to from several standbys I read.
So our h, on the way home to what amounts to an arranged marriage, runs into a sobbing woman in the airport. The woman is trying to avoid an arranged marriage of her own. The sobbing woman convinces her to take her place, scattering quite a few lies in the middle. The h does, and finds herself stuck in the middle of a lie that she increasingly doesn't wanna be in, because a) she's not pregnant, certainly not with triplets and b) she really likes the guy.
The H...in all honesty, I had the most issue with him. And I suspect at least part of it is that after reading a certain other author's "woe is me" male leads who are convinced they're the most horrible scum on the earth/galaxy/whatever, my compulsion is to give a sneer of disbelief and check to see if they have any balls left. The H's internal bemoaning his lack of a family - why he was willing to let a judge/mentor arrange a marriage for him - was wearing. Here was this guy who, according to description was seriously hot (aren't all heroes though?), and he has to get someone else to find him a girl.
So eventually, the truth sets everyone free, only now he's really feeling sorry for himself, and she's feeling bad because she doesn't want to leave, but can't let her family down (basically, her dad owed her best friend's dad a lot of money and bf's dad was insisting bf marry). Fortunately a workable solution was found - she had a sister who the bf actually had feelings for (besides thinking of her as the sister he never had). HEA. Yay. whatever.
Book was written in 1998 apparently - arranged marriages?! Seriously?!