Prenuptial Agreement

by Doris Rangel

WIFE IN NAME ONLY?

China Dare Smith had always loved Yance Chisolm from afar. Seeing him again reawakened feelings that she had long forgotten were there-and that shook her very soul. When Yance proposed a marriage for the sake of his son, China was overwhelmed.

A marriage contract based on convenience was easy to accept. The hard part was convincing her new husband that she planned to cherish him forever and always. And the one thing standing in her way -- a pesky prenuptial agreement -- was not going to stop China from giving Yance the courage to do the same as she: to open his own heart, and see he could have a wife and family for real!

Genres: Marriage Of Convenience

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rancher Hero enters marriage of convenience with artist heroine because he thinks he is going to die in an upcoming life-and-death surgery and wants someone to take care of his son from his first marriage (he is a widower). I was pretty appalled at the titular pre-nuptial agreement he made the heroine sign. Protecting your and your son's financial interests fine but did he have to insert a clause allowing them to have extra-marital affairs? WTH??? Of course neither of them break their marriage vows and had not intended to. After the surgery goes well and he is recovered, he starts actually seeing the heroine for who she is rather than a convenience. He tells her he loves her and she reciprocates. A final dark moment comes when heroine thinks the hero is ready to move on to a better, more socially acceptable wife (just like her first husband did when he dumped her) because he put all her paintings into a studio instead of decorating the house with it. That misunderstanding is resolved when the hero drives her to his lawyer's office not to dissolve their marriage but ask her to sign adoption papers for his son and to please rip up the only copy left of the silly prenuptial agreement (He had already ripped up his and heroine's copy).

The ending was pretty good but I still think hero needed to make some sort of apologies for how he treated the heroine at the beginning and that ridiculous and humiliating pre-nuptial. Heroine was so sympathetic and relatable, it hurt to see her be treated so coldly by hero and also by the son who acted like a demon spawn from hell for a little while.

All in all, the romance was just okay but I liked this author's writing and will read more from her.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Prenuptial Agreement
Doris Rangel
Silhouette Special Edition Romance
242 pages
copyright: 1999
isbn: 0-373-24224-7

A Wife In Name Only?

China Dare Smith had always loved Yance Chisolm from afar. Seeing him again reawakened feelings that she had long forgotten were there--and that shook her very soul. When Yance proposed a marriage for the sake of his son, China was overwhelmed.

A Marriage contract based on convenience was easy to accept. The hard part was convincing her new husband that she planned to cherish him forever and always. And the one thing standing in her way--a pesky pernuptial agreement--was not going to stop China from giving Yance the courage to do the same as she: to open his own heart, and see he could have a wife and family for real.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

1st: 6/13/00; 2nd: 2/15/03