Wife Wanted

Fortune's Children #8

by Christine Rimmer

What other disaster could befall Natalie Fortune? Her long awaited vacation had been waylaid, her “new life” postponed. Now she was marooned with a broken leg, a St. Bernard—and a way-too-sexy neighbor. Eric Dalton had made her an offer she couldn't refuse. But was letting the gorgeous bachelor and his sweet little boy into her life a MistakeNo. 999, or the new beginning she'd been waiting for?

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary Romance

250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 25, 1996

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer has written more than one hundred contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated seven times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and five times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.

A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.

She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.

Reviews

[*CJ* · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Wife Wanted" is the story of Natalie and Rick.
Natalie Fortune is getting over a bad relationship, and decides to take a small vacation in her "late" grandmother Kate's ancestoral home with her dog Bernie- while it is being rented to outsiders.
The new tenants happen to be Rick and his small son Toby, who has been refusing to speak after witnessing a tragic accident. Soon Bernie and Natalie are able to pull Toby out of his shell, and make the estranged father and son reconnect. But as attraction sparks between Natalie and Rick, she tries to ignore it (unsuccessfully) because of her past record with men- but fate has other plans..
There is a second story and update regarding Jake, Erica and Monica (Which will make sense if you've read the series in order, which I did)- and I cannot wait to read more.
Personally, I was a bit annoyed by the heroine and she definitely wasnt my favorite. The hero and his son were likable, the dog adorable and Kate as endearing as ever.
Average read.
Safe
2.5/5

[Dina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Título em português: Procura-se uma Esposa

Tradução: Marcelo Neves

Sinopse: Natalie Fortune estava de repouso em casa, com a perna quebrada e um são bernardo de companhia. Suas férias tinham sido destruídas e sua "nova vida" adiada. Até que Eric Dalton, um novo vizinho super sexy, faz uma oferta irrecusável... Mas será que Natalie deveria ceder a esse homem irresistível, ou estaria cometendo mais um erro em sua vida?

[Priscilla · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oitavo volume da série Família Fortune.

A história perde um pouco do rítmo com Nathalie e Eric, ambos estão tão deslocados em relação ao resto da família que nem parecem ser da mesma coleção.

Dispensável.

[Eeeps :) · Rating 3 out of 5]

The domestic scenes were lovely and sweet. I thought the book’s premise was a nice way of making it seem plausible that two single people who don’t know each other would live together. I also really appreciate that the end of the book falling out was not unnecessarily dragged out.

I was not expecting that twist in the overarching story of the series. I was shocked lol.

[Pamela Rabon · Rating 3 out of 5]

good continuing mystery series for romance books.

[Ayimas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally some bits of the actual plot was included