The Oldest Living Married Virgin (Silhouette Desire) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Maureen Child (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 286 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Books (Mm); Lrg edition (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373047053
• ISBN-13: 978-0373047055
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,614,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

USA Today best selling author Maureen Child is the author of more than ninety romance novels and novellas. Maureen is a five time nominee for the prestigious Rita award from Romance Writers of America.

One of her novels, A POCKETFUL OF PARADISE, was made into a CBS-TV movie called The Soul Collector, starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood and Ossie Davis.

Maureen was not only on the Texas set to watch her characters come to life in front of the cameras, she was also tossed into the last scene by her husband and the producer, who both thought this would be a fun way to humiliate an author!

When her kids were small, Maureen started writing as not only a way to stay sane, but in the hopes of finding a job she could do and stay at home with them. Sanity is still an issue, but she did manage to write her way into a career she wouldn't trade for anything.

Over the years, she's written under lots of different names and she prefers the term 'pseudonym' to 'alias'. As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote not only Americana romances, but western paranormal romances as well. As Sarah Hart, she wrote one really spectacular western paranormal that is still one of her favorites. And once, Ann Carberry even wrote a Victorian historical which she absolutely loved doing.

Under her own name, Maureen writes short contemporary novels for Silhouette Desire--books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed story telling. Maureen is also writing funny, contemporary paranormal romances for NAL and darker paranormal stories for Silhouette Nocturne.

Life is busy but when she isn't writing you can find Maureen sitting under her 'thinking tree', coming up with new ideas for even more stories. When she isn't dreaming up a new book or writing a current one, Maureen loves to travel. Her favorite vacation spot is Ireland, with Scotland coming in a very close second. She and her husband love a good road trip and Maureen's looking forward to the day when she can actually drive to Ireland. Talk about the best of both worlds!

Maureen lives with her family in Southern California and loves to hear from her readers. Visit her online at www.maureenchild.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Ho-Hum read, November 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Oldest Living Married Virgin (The Bachelor Battalion) (Silhouette Desire) (Paperback)

Donna has gotten herself in trouble again. After a night of over indulgence - a pitcher of margaritas will do that to a girl - she finds herself in a strange man's room. Well not just any strange man's, he is her father's first sergent! And guess what? Daddy and all the Marines staying at the hotel for the Batallion Ball find out before Donna can even make her less than graceful exit in the morning thanks to a few gossips. To avoid disgracing her father again, Donna decides to go along with first sergent Jack Harris'idea of a marriage of convenience. But will this plan work? This book is third in a series of three.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK!!!!, November 6, 1998

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Tessie Duhon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oldest Living Married Virgin (The Bachelor Battalion) (Silhouette Desire) (Paperback)

I read lots of books, and I have to say that this was one of the best I've read! This book isn't about the same old things like falling in love then getting married! Instead the heroin of the book first meets the guy, marries him, gets pregnant, then falls in love! Not an ordinary day by day occurance, but the book was so good that I HAD to read it in one day!!! I just could bear to put it down!

4 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Is Ms. Child slightly obsessed?, March 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Oldest Living Married Virgin (The Bachelor Battalion) (Silhouette Desire) (Paperback)

Cowboys, outlaws, bank robbers, jarheads, shotgun weddings shotgun weddings shotgun weddings. Are we seeing a pattern yet?