The Temptation of Rory Monahan

Marigold, Indiana #3

by Elizabeth Bevarly

He was a man of books, alright, but Rory Monahan had no explanation for his new reaction to lovely librarian Miriam Thornbury. Something was suddenly different about her. He'd never noticed that her legs were so long...or her lips quite so full.

Why, it was almost as if the sultry but sensible Miss Thornbury was trying to seduce him!

Well, two could play at this game. After all, he was a scholar - it was time he figured out what was up with her. Even if it took all day - and all night.

The things a man will do in the name of research...

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Desire

185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[willaful]

Oh my God, this was so twee. Internal monologue after internal monologue, all in the cutsiest, meandering style. I was also very disappointed that the initial conflict that interested me -- the librarian heroine is being forced to censor library material by the prudish mayor -- was dropped without a word, just a suggestion that the Mayor is going to find twu wuv later in the series, which presumably will loosen her up and fix everything. Would only give it 1 star, except you have to love a librarian heroine and nerdy professor hero getting it on.

[Francesco]

L'impacciata bibliotecaria di un anonimo paesino USA che decide, dopo aver letto qualche articolo su Metropolitan, che può cercare di fare interessare a sé il locale giovane professore di storia. Il quale sarebbe già attratto dalla ragazza ma è ancora più impacciato di lei.

Se fosse stato un romanzo umoristico e non un Harmony sarebbe stato sicuramente più apprezzabile, così è stata una lettura che partiva con basse aspettative ed è riuscita a deludere pure quelle.

[Sylvia]

Modern

[Mem]

SD1363 May01 Felt like I missed part of the story and when I added this to Goodreads I realized I had! Books 1 and 2.. Wishful librarian and a no clue professor.