Her Husband-to-Be

by Leigh Michaels

Her Husband-To-Be by Leigh Michaels released on Dec 25, 1998 is available now for purchase.

Deke Oliver was definitely not Danielle's idea of husband material. So it was infuriating that he believed she was trying to manipulate him into marriage. It wasn't her fault their joint inheritance forced them to live under the same roof!

And it was Deke who refused to keep it strictly business—suggesting that since they had to share a home, why not a bed? Danielle simply ignored this outrageous proposal—until she began to feel tempted by the intimacy of living together, and Deke began to look very much like the perfect husband-to-be….

Genres: Harlequin Romance

185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

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

[Danielle The Book Huntress · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't think I was in the mood to read this book, so it was a slow one for me. Danielle had a tendency to jump to conclusions that I found frustrating. She seemed determined to think the worst of Deke. Of course, at the end, it seems she was right about Deke in one respect, but he realized that his fear of commitment was about to cause him to lose a woman he really loved. That was a bit confusing to me, because he didn't seem like a bad guy. Of course, I didn't really get a real fix on Deke because he seemed to get cut off most of the time by Danielle in her assuming the worst about him and snapping something rude at him.

I like Leigh Michaels Harlequin books, but this one didn't do much for me. Not bad, but not very memorable or involving. I do have to say I liked the end more than most of the book, and not because it was almost over.

[aarya · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the only LM category where 1) the hero is actually guilty of the crime/breakup reason that the heroine accused him of and 2) the protagonists leave the small town for the big city at the end (I gasped!). They hated running the B&B the entire book and actually sold it!!! Doesn’t that break some kind of romance rule? I’m not sure whether the book worked (too much squabbling, not enough romance) but it was an interesting departure from the norm.

This is reissued as “Her Husband Inheritance” on e-retailers but for some reason the two GR listings are separated.

[Mrs J Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sassy speak

[Lena Papanikolaou · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,5/5

[More Books Than Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good story but a little slow. It’s more a regular novel about people in small town with a romance than a love story. Also it is clean, a nice change from the overly explicit HPs

[Nic2416 · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars. FMC was shrill. No scenes of them connecting. He was glib and she was snippy.