Home Fires [Paperback]

Layle Giusto (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1996

Divorced and laid off from her job, Terry Redding takes a position as a live-in housekeeper for businessman and single father Mark Holden, an arrangement that inevitably leads to love. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Arabesque (February 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786002352
• ISBN-13: 978-0786002351
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,318,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's SO hard to find good help nowadays!, October 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Home Fires (Paperback)

Terry Redding is an unemployed, divorced, single mother. Looking for work has become her full-time job. Everywhere she goes, she hears the same story: "You're overqualified." What's a girl to do? When Terry goes into a home health employment agency owned by handsome, single father Mark Holden, it doesn't appear as if her luck is going to change. That is, until Terry literally falls at Mark's feet. No, it's not love-at-first sight, it's hunger. After helping her home, feeding her and meeting her outgoing daughter, Mark decides that Terry might be the right person to work as a live-in housekeeper to help take care of his shy daughter. The children get on smashingly. Not so, the parents. The road to true love never runs smoothly but Mark and Terry's route has a couple of off-ramps in the person of ex-spouses. Layle Giusto has written an exceptionally funny and touching novel that will have readers laughing out loud. I never found oranges particularly amusing until I read "Home Fires." It is a very visual novel that would lend itself to film adaptation. It's a keeper.

3.0 out of 5 stars Home Fires was OK, July 31, 2000

By 

Crystal Hayden - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Fires (Paperback)

This is a true version of the old romance novels. It was just a story nothing really exciting but is was good. There was no mystery or suspense like you find in the novels of today.

I did get mad because I could not believe that Terry let her no good ex-husband take money from her and he did not even support there child. And Mark's ex-wife would let her child suffer because she did not get what she wanted.

It makes you wonder if there are situations like this that exist. I know they do.

4.0 out of 5 stars The feeling of a real family is wonderful!, July 19, 2000

By 

Sean D. Young (Merrillville, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Fires (Paperback)

Terry Redding was a single mother with a sick child and no job. She had lots of skills and that was really her problem. Everywhere she went she was overqualified.

She walks into Holden-McNeil Heathcare and gets the same answer: Your overqualifed! Terry faints for lack of eating. Mark Holden then takes her home and after meeting her daughter Makeda offers her a job as his live-in housekeeper. Terry couldn't refuse, because she needed the money and God help her if Makeda had to go to the hospital. She agrees, but Terry had to tell Mark she can't cook. Terry's wayward ex-husband pops up from time to time and bullies her into giving him money.

Mark Holden didn't believe in marriage. His marriage to his ex-wife Marlene ended when he found out she was having an affair and left him and their little daughter Yvette behind. He doesn't understand why he is so attracted to Terry Redding. She is not like the women he is usually attracted to.

The title of this book says it all Home Fires. Terry taught Mark's daughter accept affection and Mark gave Terry's daughter the attention a father would give to his daughter. They made a happy family. It also shows what can happen when that happy family is invaded for any reason. It was a good book, no drama or suspense, but just a good book.