Be Mine, Valentine

Hartman Valentines #1

by Vicki Lewis Thompson

There was nothing predictable about her love life. If it hadn't been for a freak snowstorm, Roxie Lowell wouldn't have felt compelled to take eccentric Charlie Hartman under her wing-only to become the object of his matchmaking zeal. He claimed he was St.Valentine himself, and that the man she met on St.Valentine's Day would be her husband within a year. Of course, she didn't believe her encounter with rugged contractor Hank Craddock had anything to do with Charlie. How could their overwhelming passion have been engineered by an outside force?

Genres: Romance, Category Romance, Contemporary Romance

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

New York Times and USA Today bestseller Vicki Lewis Thompson believes love makes the world go around and laughter makes the trip worth taking. The recipient of RWA’s Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award and the author of more than ninety books, Vicki pioneered a new kind of romance hero with Nerd in Shining Armor. Following the success of her nerd stories, Vicki launched a boisterous paranormal series featuring a matchmaking witch and wizard, an ADD dragon named George, and a black cat inspired by her own precocious feline, Eve.

Reviews

[Saly]

3.25 stars
I read a book by this author which featured Charlie, the St Valentine and this is the book where he first appears. This wasn’t a bad read at all. The heroine was duped by a married man but has slowly built her confidence and life. The hero runs a construction company and is the widowed dad of two. Charlie works to bring these two together with the help of a lama. Their attraction is instant and their is a lot of Insta-luv as well but what serves as a stumbling block is that the hero is done having kids and thinks the heroine should let go off the dream of wanting one and just fit into his family. To be honest I saw the POV of both but also felt the hero was being selfish in outright dismissing and dissing the heroine’s need to have a child. I do believe it is not imperative to have a biological child to love a kid (I have family who have adopted and adore their child), but to not even want to discuss it was a bit umm. Of course these two work through their issues and get their HEA. Another thing that bugged me was that the hero’s dead wife wasn’t talked about at all, how she died, about the hero’s and their relationship. Not a great read but not bad either.

[Mem]

T240. 2/89 Roxie Lowell, city clerk and house sitter to a llama, takes Charlie home with her. She's worried about the elderly man and can't let him stay out in the cold. He claimed to be St. Valentine and that she met the man, Hank Craddock, she will marry on St. Valentine's Day. Love, of course, doesn't happen without some angst.

[Kristine]

ok not bad