Part-Time Fiance

by Leigh Michaels

PART-TIME FIANCE by Leigh Michaels released on Jan 23, 2004 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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

[A · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a crock of plot, the cracks are so wide that it makes for the most unrealistic fiction ever written. Any kind of acquisition of a bank even a private bank involves heavy regulations especially as it relates to AML(Anti Money Laundering), compliance and not something that is decided by the Board of directors in a single meeting. Also, the transactions of a bank are always scrutinized when we are talking of multi million dollars coming in and out of a newly opened account. So, the whole plot of the book about an unemployed H and a business loan officer h coming together and pretending to be in a relationship to throw off her obnoxious colleague and a celebrity potential client nicknamed merger king by media who keep showing up at the door uninvited and often is again unheard off. Plus the whole idea of H looking over h's shoulders and arriving at the transactions being a coverup considering not one person looks at the 'merger king's' transactions at their own bank would never happen. The author needs to do some serious research before she plots out any book.

[Karen Hartley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to read romance, although the premise was a little unbelievable. main character goes around assuming everything and never trying to get to the truth of anything. All about her. Good enough for a couple hour diversion.

[Johanna Juntunen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book with happy end :)

[Diah Didi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet simple and fun. Loved it!
Didn't really need a hot (or even love-making) scene to make the most of it.

[Josie]

This was a DNF for me. I found Delainey judgemental, rude, and unlikable. I also didn't buy into the way the premise played out.