Husband for Hire (Bachelor Auction) [Paperback]

Susan Wiggs (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon (September 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263836274
• ISBN-13: 978-0263836271
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Susan Wiggs's life is all about family, friends...and fiction. She lives at the water's edge on an island in Puget Sound, and she commutes to her writers' group in a 17-foot motorboat. She's been featured in the national media, including NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and is a popular speaker locally and nationally.

When her recent novel, FIRESIDE, hit #1 on the New York Times, the author reportedly reacted to the news by "putting on my lipstick and sweeping the patio." Why? Because she knew that within a matter of minutes, her girlfriends would show up to pop the bubbly and help her celebrate. [Update: FIRESIDE has been chosen of one of Amazon.com's Top Ten Romances of 2009.]

According to Publishers Weekly, Wiggs writes with "refreshingly honest emotion," and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is "one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book." Booklist characterizes her books as "real and true and unforgettable." She is the recipient of three RITA (sm) awards and four starred reviews from Publishers Weekly for her books. Her books make frequent appearances on Amazon's "best of" lists. Several of her novels have been listed as Indie Next picks and optioned as feature films. Her novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have made national bestseller lists, including the USA Today, Washington Post and New York Times lists.

The author is a former teacher, a Harvard graduate, an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier and terrible golfer, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We all have a little Twyla in us..., May 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Husband For Hire (Heart Of The West) (Paperback)

I kept hearing music in my head as I read this. Maybe the soundtrack to the movie "Hope Floats". It's the story of a small-town girl whose big city dreams didn't quite work out, her loopy mother in tennis shoes (keep kleenex handy), her funny little son who really really wants a dad...and a guy to die for (after he gets over his big-city lifestyle). The book is smart, sexy, and touching. The reader who thought the love scenes were tame just lacks imagination. When he told her to leave her hair long and wear the red high heels...whew! You don't really need to be hit over the head with clinical descriptions. This worked for me, big time.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NOT SUSAN WIGG'S BEST WORK..., September 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Husband For Hire (Heart Of The West) (Paperback)

Susan Wiggs is a great author and I love her historicals, unfortuntely this one did nothing for me. I am so disappointed because I was really looking forward to it. I really like the heroine and her cute little boy. But in a book I have to like the hero or it's a flop to me. The book would have been great but the hero had a girlfriend the whole time and lied about it. I can't stand that. He should have broken up with the girlfriend before sleeping with the heroine. She deserved someone better after what she went through. Also I don't feel the author really resolved the whole girlfriend issue at the end. I am so sorry to give this book a bad review. Read The Charm School by Susan Wiggs. Now that is a masterpiece! Don't judge this author by this lame book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great, I give this 2 1/2 stars!, October 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Husband For Hire (Heart Of The West) (Paperback)

Susan Wiggs is very talented. She writes stories about real people. Unfortunately I couldn't deal with Rob lying by ommision to Twyla about his girlfriend Lauren. I like characters that don't pull any punches. No nonsense, blunt characters like the ones Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown write. Ms. Wiggs writes clever stories that are different, but I can't bring myself to recommend this one. Her stories love scenes are very tame and since I'm 30 years old I like my romance a little steamier than this. Look, if you don't care about the tame love scenes and you don't have a probelm with a guy messing around with another women while he is in a commited relationship with someone else than you may like this story. Ms. Wiggs is very good at getting human emotions across. I really felt for Twyla's mom Gwen in this story.