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The Family Way #4
Cody's Fiancée
TEMPORARY BRIDE
Dana Preston was wary when Cody Carson proposed a temporary engagement - even if it was just a prank on his meddling, matchmaking family. But although he never could have guessed why, a fake fiance was just what she needed right now.
Dana never expected to love Cody's family so much, or for them to be so thrilled at his choice and offered a real wedding, Dana had an impossible choice. Could she spend her life with a man she loved - and who would be the perfect husband - but who might only be doing the honorable thing?
THE FAMILY WAY: When their beloved Granny Fran begins to play matchmaker, four cousins find love!
Dana Preston was wary when Cody Carson proposed a temporary engagement - even if it was just a prank on his meddling, matchmaking family. But although he never could have guessed why, a fake fiance was just what she needed right now.
Dana never expected to love Cody's family so much, or for them to be so thrilled at his choice and offered a real wedding, Dana had an impossible choice. Could she spend her life with a man she loved - and who would be the perfect husband - but who might only be doing the honorable thing?
THE FAMILY WAY: When their beloved Granny Fran begins to play matchmaker, four cousins find love!
250 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 13, 1995
About the author
Gina Ferris Wilkins
15 books2 followersGina Ferris Vaughan Wilkins
aka Gina Wilkins, Gina Ferris, Gina Ferris Wilkins
Gina Ferris Vaughan was born on December 20, 1954 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, daughter of Beth, an executive secretary, and Vernon Vaughan, an electrician. She raised and still resides in central Arkansas. She prepared for her writing career with a degree in journalism from Arkansas State University. In February 1972, she married John Wilkins, a wood turner, and they had three children—two daughters and a son. With her husband, her most loyal supporter, she have raised their three extraordinary children, all pursuing careers in science and medicine.
She working in advertising and audio-visual production until fulfilling a lifelong dream with the sale of her first book, a romance novel to to Harlequin Temptation in 1986, and she has been a full-time writer ever since. Bestselling and award-winning author, she was a four-time winner of the prestigious Maggie Award for Excellence and a former nominee for a Lifetime Achievement Award by Romantic Times Magazine, she has written more than ninety books for Harlequin/Silhouette. Her books are translated into 20 languages.
A member of Romance Writers of America, Diamond State Romance Writers and Novelists, Inc., she is a past president of Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas. She is a frequent speaker at civic organizations and writers' clubs, but she particularly enjoys speaking to middle-school and high-school students about literacy and goal setting.
aka Gina Wilkins, Gina Ferris, Gina Ferris Wilkins
Gina Ferris Vaughan was born on December 20, 1954 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, daughter of Beth, an executive secretary, and Vernon Vaughan, an electrician. She raised and still resides in central Arkansas. She prepared for her writing career with a degree in journalism from Arkansas State University. In February 1972, she married John Wilkins, a wood turner, and they had three children—two daughters and a son. With her husband, her most loyal supporter, she have raised their three extraordinary children, all pursuing careers in science and medicine.
She working in advertising and audio-visual production until fulfilling a lifelong dream with the sale of her first book, a romance novel to to Harlequin Temptation in 1986, and she has been a full-time writer ever since. Bestselling and award-winning author, she was a four-time winner of the prestigious Maggie Award for Excellence and a former nominee for a Lifetime Achievement Award by Romantic Times Magazine, she has written more than ninety books for Harlequin/Silhouette. Her books are translated into 20 languages.
A member of Romance Writers of America, Diamond State Romance Writers and Novelists, Inc., she is a past president of Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas. She is a frequent speaker at civic organizations and writers' clubs, but she particularly enjoys speaking to middle-school and high-school students about literacy and goal setting.
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September 15, 2020
Just a sweet story all around with no OW/OM shenanigans and no Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstandings. A commitment-phobe restaurant owner who masks his insecurities with a clownish, prank-playing persona ends up, to his own surprise, being railroaded into a marriage of convenience to a serious-minded girl used to shouldering many responsibilities, including the custody of her soon-to-be orphaned ten year old brother. It isn’t long before these two admit it’s love, not convenience, that drew them together and will keep them forever HEA. Everybody was nice in this one, including the once wicked stepsister who finally redeemed herself after many years of heartache to the heroine.
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August 8, 2021
This is a nice Silhouette by a new-to-me author. This very clearly seems to be the last of a series, but it's not marked as such. In any case, I had no trouble understanding the characters and their connections to each other. Cody (restaurant owner) and Dana (waitress) decide, for a joke, to pretend to be engaged to get his family off his back about marriage. But when she asks him to help her by also posing for her family, things get a lot more serious. I liked the characters and their real problems. They think they know each other, but both have hidden depths. Although it doesn't seem so at first, they fit together well, and I enjoyed watching them figure it out.
March 11, 2023
Another romance about a marriage for reasons other than love, which the couple are totally denying they feel, and a child who needs someone to take care of him.
Interesting twist: there is a family tree in the front that gives away the ending! Everybody who wonders if things will turn out in the end will be reassured!
Interesting twist: there is a family tree in the front that gives away the ending! Everybody who wonders if things will turn out in the end will be reassured!
September 20, 2016
I absolutely loved this book and would highly recommend reading it.
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