Come Home To Love (Signature Select) [Mass Market Paperback]

Joan Hohl (Author)

Book Description

Series: Signature Select | Publication Date: February 14, 2006

Marrying Matt Martin was a mistake

Katherine should have said no when he asked her to marry him -- just as she'd refused Matt when he asked her to the high school prom twenty years earlier. But the Matt Martin who came back into her life was rich, powerful -- no longer the kind of man who'd take no for an answer. And Katherine was a widow, her children grown, her successful career as an illustrator no longer enough. So she'd said yes, even though Matt made it clear he wanted her as little more than a trophy wife -- love could never enter into it.

But Katherine is holding tight to a secret that could destroy their marriage agreement. She's wildly, passionately in love with Matt.

And she isn't sure how much longer she can contain it.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (February 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373836899
• ISBN-13: 978-0373836895
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,299,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but not what I expected, October 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Come Home to Love (Mass Market Paperback)

The description on the back of the book was very intriguing and led me to believe that it would be about life after marriage, what "happily ever after" entails. Not too many romance novels (contemporary or historical) focus on the "everyday drudgery" of just living together as husband and wife but rather on the "falling in love" stage of relationships whether that is before/after marriage. I thought that this novel would present Matthew's proposition to Katherine and quickly move to problems that they overcome individually and together. As it is, Matthew, who is initially presented as an interesting, somewhat mysterious character, is never fully developed and remains a remote, emotionless workaholic with occasional outbreaks of passion. Katherine, on the other hand, is as confused as a teenager even though she's a widow who has raised two children to adulthood by herself. Furthermore, the storyline focuses on Katherine constantly switching from her perspective to an omniscient narrative without any warning so that the plot is a mish-mash of past and present as confused/twisted as her thoughts. Also, it was unnecessary and even a little bit confusing to include the goings-on in the relationship of a mutual friend of both Matt and Katherine. While the premise was promising, the story did not quite live up to my expectations.

2.0 out of 5 stars too little too late, March 5, 2011

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Hopeless romantic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Home To Love (Signature Select) (Mass Market Paperback)

When I first picked up this book to read, there were two reviews posted and both of them were 1's. I so wanted to like this book! I like championing the under dog, but as my husband is fond of saying "this dog don't hunt". As previous reviewers have stated: the characters are not ones you can warm up to (I'm being kind here) and by the end of the book, you don't really care what happens to them. The ending was anticlimatic and while I'm glad they resolved their problems and aired their thoughts, it was just too little, too late. I gave this book a 2 because the writing is good, it's just the story could have been told so much better! They should have resolved their differences half way through the book and spent the remainder of the book battling and winning over the bad guys. I would have loved to see the sister and her buddies put in her place. I won't give up reading other books by Ms. Hohl (in fact I have another in my stash yet to read) but I would give this one a pass. It's depressing and not really a romance at all.

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother!, February 28, 2006

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This review is from: Come Home to Love (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the story of a woman who is a widow, who raised 2 children on her own and later married a man that she had briefly known in highschool. It still is not clear why she married this man, stayed married to him or quite frankly why he stayed married to her. On their wedding night he tries to kiss her for the first time (not counting the quick wedding kiss) and she turns her face away from him, at which point he "forces" himself on her. After 2 or 3 such episodes she decides she's in love with this man she can't seem to stand and barely seems to tolerate his attentions. A more cold fish I've never read about. I take that back that would be her husband, maybe they did deserve each other but you don't. Save your money read something else!