Assignment: Twins

by Leigh Michaels

Assignment: Twins by Leigh Michaels released on Feb 22, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Harlequin Romance, Harlequin, Romance

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance.

When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984.

Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate.

She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.

Reviews

[Nightwitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Relatively recent for Michaels (2005) so the hero is less of a jackass than they sometimes are - not a single threat of rape in the entire book, wow! - but otherwise pretty much what one might expect. The heroine, a real estate agent, and the hero, a contractor, are Not Friends - ever since the hero witnessed the heroine break up with her fiance in the antechamber of the church (she found out he'd slept with the exotic dancers at the bachelor party). However, her best friend is married to his brother, and they're both godparents to a set of twins, so the heroine makes the best of it. When the happy couple get a free cruise, the heroine insists she's going to babysit for a long weekend. Unfortunately, a virus strikes the cruise ship and she's stuck with them for longer, and Michaels goes for realism here - it's impossible to work, care for year-old twins, and not go crazy. The hero is persuaded into helping (slash blackmailed slash cajoled) and the two of them careen around town trying to keep the kids alive and their respective careers intact. Obviously, because it's a Michaels book, the heroine has a revelation out of the blue at some point that she's actually in love with the hero, there are several misunderstandings which might have been cleared up with some communication, and it turns out the hero did Something Bad which the heroine needs to discuss with him in order to learn he did it for Good Reasons. It's fine - neither the hero nor the heroine is particularly interesting, but the hero isn't a total dick, either, so if you're looking for a Michaels book and you've already read all the good ones this is a good option.

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

A futuristic novel considering this was written back in 2005. This feels straight out of 2020 as we head into a Covid19 situation with the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was one of the most impacted. The H and h are forced to take care of twins as the parents who are on a cruise ship are quarantined due to an unknown virus outbreak. The parents are back and after a kiss the h is predictably in love. Predictably, the only incident that the h hasn't gotten over is a cancelled on the day off wedding as the groom spends his last day tempted by call girls. Therefore predictably this incident comes back to haunt them and there is a set back before the predictable HEA wrap up.

[The Queen Katz · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF @ 17%

Disliked both characters behaviour, attitude, disposition….just plain disliked them all together

[Grace Hamilton · Rating 3 out of 5]

(M&B) just a sweet story