The New Man : Under One Roof (Harlequin Superromance No. 1166) [Mass Market Paperback]

Janice Kay Johnson (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373711662
• ISBN-13: 978-0373711666
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 3.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,636,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Janice Kay Johnson is the author of sixty-plus books for children and adults. Her first four published romance novels were coauthored with her mother Norma Tadlock Johnson, also a writer who has since published mysteries and children's books on her own. These were "sweet" romance novels, the author hastens to add; she isn't sure they'd have felt comfortable coauthoring passionate love scenes!

Janice graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. in history and then received a master's degree in library science from the University of Washington. She was a branch librarian for a public library system until she began selling her own writing.

She has written six novels for young adults and one picture book for the read-aloud crowd. ROSAMUND was the outgrowth of all those hours spent reading to her own daughters, and of her passion for growing old roses. Two more of her favorite books were historical novels WINTER OF THE RAVEN and THE ISLAND SNATCHERS which she wrote for Tor/Forge. The research was pure indulgence for someone who set out intending to be a historian!

Janice is divorced and has raised her two daughters in a small, rural town north of Seattle, Washington. She's an active volunteer and board member for Purrfect Pals, a no-kill cat shelter, and foster kittens often enliven a household that already includes a few more cats than she wants to admit to!

Janice loves writing books about both love and family -- about the way generations connect and the power our earliest experiences have on us throughout life.

In addition to her real name, she has also written under several pseudonyms through the years, including Janice Stevens, Janice Bartlett, Kay Bartlett and Kay Kirby.

Her Superromance novels are frequent finalists for Romance Writers of America RITA awards, and she won the 2008 RITA for Best Contemporary Series Romance for SNOWBOUND.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ~ Second Chance To Love Again ~, November 24, 2003

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Lisa (San Bernardino, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Man : Under One Roof (Harlequin Superromance No. 1166) (Mass Market Paperback)

After the death of Helens husband, she doesn't think she will ever love again and lose again, because the second time will be the worst. She feels that if she keeps busy with her 8 year old daughter then she will have no time to think about anything or anyone else. That all changes when she meets Alec Fraser, he is also a widower he has two kids a boy and a girl, his son has all this hatred toward life after is mom died. Alec has fallen in love with Helen but he is also scared to love and lose but he feels that it is all worth it in the end, he wants to marry Helen but she doesn't want marriage he has to find a way to change her mind. I loved this story about two people that they think after there loved one dies that they can't go on this story makes you believe that anything is possible.
HappyReading Lisa

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply Moving ending to trilogy, November 9, 2003

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Sarahbee (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Man : Under One Roof (Harlequin Superromance No. 1166) (Mass Market Paperback)

Helen Schaefer isn't getting married. That's what she's decided, anyway---because she simply can't stand to think she could love and lose again. After the death of her husband, she let her daughter down terribly and she's not about to risk hurting Gina a second time.

Meeting widower Alec Fraser---who's still dealing with his own grief---isn't enough to change her mind...at first. But after Helen spends some time with him, she starts to realize how much they have in common. Is it possible that Alec might want to have a relationship without commitment? And what will she do if he doesn't?

Under One Roof: Three women, two kids, one cat...and the three men who are about to change their lives. It's the family you choose that counts.

A read ending to the Under One Roof threesome. I highly recommend this book to any lover of romances. It is truly touching with real people in real life. Deeply moving!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply moving -- Very highly recommended, January 25, 2004

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C. Penn "WordWeaving" (Greenville, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Man : Under One Roof (Harlequin Superromance No. 1166) (Mass Market Paperback)

Helen Schaefer lost her beloved husband to a two year battle with cancer, and has no interest in marrying again. She and her daughter live with friends in an extended family relationship that works very well. While she dreams of creating a home for just the two of them, career opportunities dictate a different path for the time being. Right now Helen intends to leave behind a job in retail to market products she and her business partner have been manufacturing and selling.

When she meets widower Alec Fraser at a craft fair, however, Helen does not expect him to impact her plans and dreams so profoundly. Alec lost his wife in a stunningly short period of time after her diagnosis. Goodbyes were lost to necessity, unlike Helen. While she does not wish to marry again, Alec is not interested in a relationship without commitment. With much in common and yet such diverse views on love and marriage, Alec faces a tremendous challenge if he wants to convince Helen to risk again.

Author Janice Kay Johnson completes the Under One Roof trilogy with a powerfully told tale in THE NEW MAN. Grief threatens to insulate Helen from the joys and possibilities of love until Alec rocks her world. While loss of their spouses might have drawn them together, a whole lot more holds them together. Certainly Johnson demonstrates that it is not blood which creates a family but love. One of the strongest elements of the novel is that both Helen and Alec had good marriages filled with love that were ended by death not living issues. Often these types of plots reveal a less than happy previous marriage and it refreshing to find a story that allows happiness twice. A deeply moving story, THE NEW MAN comes very highly recommended.