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Male Wanted [Kindle Edition]

Betty Jo Schuler
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Book Description

Taylor Gayle advertises in The Town Crier for a male to date, but Max Stuart misprints her ad to indicate she’s looking for a “sadomasochistic male to mate” and includes her address. To atone for his mistakes, Max becomes her live-in protector. Now, who’s going to protect this high school librarian from the unbelievably sexy newspaper editor? And who’s going to save Max from this feisty Plain Jane’s charms?

Taylor Gayle names her plants, dulls her hair with a brown rinse, and envies her fraternal twin sister of her beauty. Max Stuart plays with noisy toys, brings home his sister's dog Muttso, and sets fire to Taylor's kitchen. The elevator in their apartment building is an accident-waiting-to-happen, but the landlady is more concerned with whether Taylor and Max are "cohabitating." Glorious Apartments are as misnamed as Progressive High School and Boomtown, Ohio. Nothing is what it seems in this slaphappy romance.

Max finds Taylor in her long skirts and oversized specs as tantalizing as a package in plain brown wrap with no return address. She thinks he looks like a CEO but can’t handle the simplest task. She thinks he’s short on ambition. He thinks she should relax. She wants a serious man. He wants a fun-loving woman. They want one another.

Neither are what they seem. But while these two fake their ways into each other’s lives, they find a love that’s real.


Product Details

  • File Size: 440 KB
  • Print Length: 217 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: BWLPP (Books We Love) (August 3, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005G5VCRY
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,428 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's a matter of Perception January 18, 2012
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This is my first story by this author and found that she writes an intellectual romance that interesting and thought provoking. Her characters are spunky and humorous, while also smart and stubborn. There is sex, but not of the kind the Taylor's ad was offering.

Taylor needed a date for the Homecoming Dance. No, she was not in high school, but she was impersonating a school librarian for her Master's research and she had told her co-worker that she had a fiancé. That qualified her for chaperone duty and now she needed to tell the truth or find a man. The ad she places with the bumbling, yet cute editor of the newspaper causes her to need protection and Max, the editor, steps in.

Max and Taylor don't really seem suited for each other and their relationship is not all that romantic, but they learn something about themselves as they fend off the men at her door. Taylor is a twin and identifies herself as the smart one while her sister is the beautiful one. She wants to be a professor and her studies involve dressing for the job. As a librarian, she dresses in boring clothes to ad to her intellectual acceptability while as a waitress at a pub she dresses more flamboyantly and sexy. She thinks that how you dress is how people will perceive you. Max, on the other hand believes that how you dress influences how you behave and vice versa. So not only does the act of what you wear affect others, but it affects the behavior of the one wearing the outfit also.

Both Max and Taylor discover they have both been deceitful with each other and to themselves on who they are. As they "come clean" and accept who they are, they find they can't live without each other and love the other for who they are and not what they do.

This was a romance with substance as it made a statement about prejudices and finding your own true identity. With that philosophical slant, it was also humorous and endearing. Both characters are very likeable and the family dynamics realistic. It was a fun afternoon read that got me thinking.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable January 14, 2012
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This story was a lot of fun. I was nicely surprised at the length this book as well. I do believe the author struggled with the love scences and it shows in the writing. The loves scenes weren't needed because the story was great without them.
I do feel this read would have flowed much easier if the author would have just not attempted a love scene or had someone else write it. It honestly took away from Taylor and Max's closeness and I was disappointed in that but this author is a definite talent and pleasure to read.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Double Your Reading Pleasure! August 8, 2011
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And double your reading fun when Taylor, the less glamourous twin to her sister Sheila, butts heads with Max, who becomes her live-in protector after mis-printing her personal ad to say that she is looking for a "sadomasochistic male." Taylor and Max have great chemistry and the story is sweet, funny and a fabulous read. I highly recommend it!
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More About the Author

An Indiana native, Betty Jo Schuler and her husband now live in Florida where she gazes out the window at sunshine and tropical scenery while pursuing her lifelong love of working with words. The author of twenty-two books, she writes for children, teens, and adults. A former elementary teacher with a BS and MA in education, Betty Jo is an instructor for Writers Digest University where she teaches online writing courses. She's taught romance classes and fundamentals of writing for children but most recently, she's been working with students who want to publish young adult novels. In her spare time, Betty Jo enjoys yoga, water aerobics, and fun with friends. She and Paul also love to get together with their four grown kids and their families whenever they can. Visit her website at http://bettyjowrites.com/

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