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The Substitute Wife
Deanna Stephens needs a job and a place to live -- and Jay Masters's advert for a live-in nanny sounds perfect. Though one look at Jay and his two adorable little girls, and Dee knows her heart is in trouble!
Jay is a wary widower who doesn't want commitment with another woman. So how can Dee convince him that what he needs isn't just a substitute wife -- but a real one?
Jay is a wary widower who doesn't want commitment with another woman. So how can Dee convince him that what he needs isn't just a substitute wife -- but a real one?
- GenresHarlequin Romance
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
About the author
Barbara McMahon
413 books178 followersBestselling, award winning author Barbara McMahon has written more than 80 novels which have sold more than 16 million copies world wide in more than fifty countries in twenty-eight languages.
Known for her heartwarming, emotional stories, she excels in capturing those feelings when first falling in love. She has won or been nominated for every major award in the romance genre from a double nomination in the RITA to winning the Bookseller's Best, National Readers Choice Award and the prestigious HOLT Medallion, among others.
Barbara lives in West Michigan with her husband and two fur babies. Her favorite passtimes are genealogy research and taking her dogs on walks in the wood behind their home.
Known for her heartwarming, emotional stories, she excels in capturing those feelings when first falling in love. She has won or been nominated for every major award in the romance genre from a double nomination in the RITA to winning the Bookseller's Best, National Readers Choice Award and the prestigious HOLT Medallion, among others.
Barbara lives in West Michigan with her husband and two fur babies. Her favorite passtimes are genealogy research and taking her dogs on walks in the wood behind their home.
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June 25, 2017
Not to speak ill of the dead, even when they are fictional, but the dead wife Beth seems like a controlling and smothering wife and mother even from the grave.
As a result of her lesson in child-rearing as well as the hero's grieving, the H is a little shut down with his two daughters and every other sstatement out of his mouth is “Beth says this,” and “Beth says that”. He hires the much more free spirited h, do you see where the author is going with this, to take care of his two daughters. She's an orphan artist raised by two great-aunts and sees family dynamics differently than the narrow as a ruler H.
The H is wildly attracted to the h right from the git go and promise himself he will keep it business-like then proceeds to blow hot and cold like a teeny-bopper and takes every opportunity to kiss the h then apologize.
Nice little romance if you have nothing else go on, or if you don't want sex and exploding body parts tossed in your face.
Low energy romance and low-key kissing sum it up. I would check out Barbara McMahon again as her writing is well done.
As a result of her lesson in child-rearing as well as the hero's grieving, the H is a little shut down with his two daughters and every other sstatement out of his mouth is “Beth says this,” and “Beth says that”. He hires the much more free spirited h, do you see where the author is going with this, to take care of his two daughters. She's an orphan artist raised by two great-aunts and sees family dynamics differently than the narrow as a ruler H.
The H is wildly attracted to the h right from the git go and promise himself he will keep it business-like then proceeds to blow hot and cold like a teeny-bopper and takes every opportunity to kiss the h then apologize.
Nice little romance if you have nothing else go on, or if you don't want sex and exploding body parts tossed in your face.
Low energy romance and low-key kissing sum it up. I would check out Barbara McMahon again as her writing is well done.
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