Legally Mine (Harlequin Temptation) [Mass Market Paperback]

Kate Hoffmann (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (February 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373691637
• ISBN-13: 978-0373691630
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,890,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars amusing contemporary romance, January 31, 2004

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This review is from: Legally Mine (Harlequin Temptation) (Mass Market Paperback)

After being dumped, hunk Will McCaffrey talks to his neighbor Jane Singleton how he hurts and that if he is not married by the time he is thirty he will propose to her. Jane loves her friend, but hides her feelings from him because a stud like Will would never date let alone wed a plain Jane like her. Only Breakfast at Tiffany's serves as her sole romantic adventure and her personal George Pepperd (pre A-Team), Will, does not know how she feels about him and never will proposal or not.

Several years later Will informs Jane he was not joking when he told her he would marry her. Though she expects to be shattered she agrees to move in with him on a trial basis if he provides an engagement ring. He does, but she never expected him to want her in his bed too. To test him, Jane makes dishes that a normal person would avoid like the plague, but Will eats every bite and then devours Jane next. Finally she so feminizes his home, no male would want to stay there; bujt he tells her he loves her.

LEGALLY MINE is an amusing contemporary romance starring two charming lead protagonists. Though the four year gap seems weird (wild oats?), fans will enjoy the antics of Jane applying the Pygmalion Effect to prove her theory that a hunk at Pepperd's level would never remain with anyone less than an Audrey Hepburn. This is a fine time for the contemporary crowd with this romantic romp.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute story, June 6, 2004

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This review is from: Legally Mine (Harlequin Temptation) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book reminded me a little of the movie "How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days." Jane and Will were good friends in college and she was secretly in love with him. One day they made a marriage contract that if when he turned 30 they were both still single, they would marry each other. She is very mixed up about it when he shows up 6 years later to fulfill that contact. She tries goofy ways to convince him she is the fiance from hell, like making horrible dinners and hideously redecorating his house. He loves her anyway, and tries to convince her of that fact. They are both very likeable characters and the book is charming and funny. It is a wonderful Valentine's Day story.