Heartstrings [Mass Market Paperback]

Rebecca Paisley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1994

Advertising for a man to father the baby she intends to bear for her childless sister, Theodosia Worth hires Roman Montana to be her bodyguard against the onslaught of applicants and finds that he is more concerned with saving her from herself.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Theodosia Worth is a Boston intellectual who has nothing in common with wild-west tough guy Roman Montana. Fate nevertheless thrusts the two of them together on a wild romp through nineteenth-century Texas when Theodosia travels south for a job interview, and along the way concocts a scheme to bear a child for her barren sister. Beset by hordes of potential papas who answer her advertisement requesting the sexual services of a man who closely resembles her Harvard-professor brother-in-law, Theodosia hires Roman as a bodyguard. Although disqualified from siring his employer's child because of his apparent lack of intelligence, Roman is a wily sexual tease who quickly teaches the cerebral Theodosia a lot about emotions and desires she never knew she had. These two are a particularly implausible match, and most of their adventures are predictably plotted and unsurprisingly resolved. But Paisley (The Barefoot Bride) keeps readers enaged by eschewing melodrama in favor of comedy, playing up the zaniness of this oddball couple for all it's worth.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Dell (August 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440216508
• ISBN-13: 978-0440216506
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,713,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enoyable, Funny and a Great Romance, November 4, 1998

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This review is from: Heartstrings (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a joy to read again and again. I highly recommend this book one of the best I have come across in the last couple of years. If you like humour, wit and romance this is the best book for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paisley will pull your heartstrings...., December 9, 2005

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This review is from: Heartstrings (Mass Market Paperback)

this early America romance is just about perfect. It has all the elements of a great romance-adventure, romance, comedy, great dialogue and steamy love scenes. This is one of the funniest romances I've read.

If you love plucky, unusual heroines , you'll love Theodosia! Paisley was realistic in the fact that Theodosia is a genius-but has no life experiences or common sense (I personally know several folks like this:)). Roman is a fantastic hero. One part tortured hero, one part alpha male, and one part sweet, funny everyman.

If you've never read Rebecca Paisley-this is a good book to start with.

Glad to read it-it got me out of a streak of really bad books and renewed my reading interest.
5 stars!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner for Paisley!!!!!, March 7, 2001

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"kctgreat" (Massapequa, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heartstrings (Mass Market Paperback)

A somewhat naive and beautiful genius and her wise-cracking parrot head west in search for the perfect sperm doner and finds love instead in a tall, dark Cowboy. This is a great book...very funny and filled w/ sweet emotions. I recommend all of Ms. Paisley's books. Do yourself a favor and read them all! You won't regret it...Paisley's the best.