Back To Mr & Mrs (Harlequin Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Shirley Jump (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Romance | Publication Date: May 8, 2007

Cade and Melanie--high school prom king and queen--the golden couple! Twenty years on, the reunion's looming, and Melanie Matthews must let the world know that the dream is no longer true....

Somewhere along their journey Cade lost sight of what really mattered. He let work take first place in his life and lost the one person who lit up his world. Now he's determined to show Melanie that he can be the man she's always wanted, the husband she always needed...and win back her heart.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (May 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373039522
• ISBN-13: 978-0373039524
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,434,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nationally bestselling author Shirley Jump didn't have the willpower to diet nor the talent to master under-eye concealer, so she bowed out of a career in television and opted instead for a career where she could be paid to eat at her desk'writing.

She started out in journalism, selling her first article at the age of eleven and dreaming of being the next Jane Pauley. After writing 3000 articles and two non-fiction books, Shirley grew too dependent on her robe and fuzzy slippers, though, and decided a career as a freelance writer suited her better.

Then she got married. And had two kids.

Humor became the only thing that got her through the mashed potato flingfests and toilet paper decorating sprees. At first, seeking revenge on her children for their grocery store tantrums, she sold embarrassing essays about her children to anthologies such as Chicken Soup for the Working Woman's Soul and Chocolate for Women II. However, it wasn't enough to feed her growing addiction to writing funny.

So she turned to the world of romance novels, where messes are (usually) cleaned up before The End and no one is calling anyone a doodoo head. In the worlds Shirley gets to create and control, the children listen to their parents, the husbands always remember holidays and the housework is magically done by elves.

She sold her first book to Silhouette Romance in 2001. That novel, THE VIRGIN'S PROPOSAL, won the Booksellers' Best Award for Best Traditional Romance of 2003. Two of her subsequent books were finalists in the Golden Quill Awards and two others were finalists in the Madcap Awards for best romantic comedy. She is also a Reviewers' Choice Award winner.

Shirley has sold twenty-six novels and now writes stories for Harlequin/Silhouette and Kensington Books about love, family and food'the three most important things in her life (though, there are many days when the order is reversed), using that English degree everyone said would be so useless.

She found a way to combine all her favorite things in her recipes with her own romantic comedy series from Zebra Books, which launched in September 2004 with THE BRIDE WORE CHOCOLATE. The fourth, THE BACHELOR PREFERRED PASTRY, is a February 2006 release, followed by PRETTY BAD in February 2007. Her next Romances will be a linked duet of BACK TO MR. & MRS. and MARRIED BY MORNING in May and June 2007. She also writes for Harlequin NeXt.

Though she's thrilled to see her books in stores around the world, Shirley mostly writes because it gives her an excuse to avoid cleaning the toilets and helps feed her shoe habit.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a high school reunion!, May 21, 2007

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Pattie (Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back To Mr & Mrs (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Cade and Melanie were the "It" couple in high school: prom king and queen, everyone's "happily ever after" dream team. That is, until last year when they separated, Cade moved out, and Melanie opened her own coffee shop, Cuppa Life.

Everything in their lives boils down to a multiple choice question: Yes or no?

When Melanie and Cade are asked to speak at their 20-year high school reunion, Melanie accidentally says "yes." Cade says "yes" to Melanie and "no" to the divorce papers, prompting many conversations and some passionately heated moments. Ultimately, the Golden Couple find that they must make some choices about their future, without repeating the mistakes of their past.

As in any Shirley Jump romance, the reader is guaranteed several things: likeable and strong heroines, handsome heroes, humorous situations, and a plot that never lags. Back to Mr and Mrs does not disappoint.

This book resonated strongly with me, as I'm facing my own 20-year reunion this summer. It's a time of evaluation and soul-searching, of last-minute diets and shopping for the perfect outfit. I strongly identified with Melanie's desire to do something of value and Cade's desire to do something quite different from what he'd trained to do. I am equally delighted that this book had a very happy ending. I am looking forward to reading this book's sequel, Married by Morning, which features Cade's twin brother, Carter.

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