A Stranger's Wife (Oeb) [Import] [Hardcover]

Maggie Osborne (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Twtp Assorted (April 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0759522294
• ISBN-13: 978-0759522299
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice romance with a twist., June 21, 2001

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mirope "mirope" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Stranger's Wife (Mass Market Paperback)

The initial premise of this novel - that a Colorado politician somehow finds his wife's double in an Arizona prison and persuades her to imitate his mysteriously missing wife during an upcoming campaign - is so implausible that some readers are unlikely to get any further. What were this guy and his cronies doing, holding a beauty pagent in prisons around the country? If you can suspend disbelief a little and get past this initial problem, you're actually going to find a very unusual and sweet romance. I particularly liked the heroine. This was a woman who admittedly made some very poor choices in her life, but she was smart enough to realize her mistakes and take advantage of an opportunity to change her life around. Osborne has some fun with the mystery of the missing wife. The sexual and emotional tension between the two lead characters is well done, and many readers will be surprised by the ending.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!, January 20, 2005

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S. Shanholtz (VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Stranger's Wife (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm a hopeless romantic & this book just feed those feelings in me. Yes if you pick it apart it is a bit far fetched but if you just read it without doing that it is very enjoyable. I couldn't put it down. I like Cinderella stories & this one keeps you guessing the whole time. It's exciting, surprising, it brings out all your emotions. It's different, maybe the author had to go a bit far fetched to accomplish this but I liked all the different twists & turns this book took.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars she's written much better books, October 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: A Stranger's Wife (Mass Market Paperback)

I wanted to like this book as well but I just couldn't. It starts off well and you think you're going to get another heroine like Jenny Jones but after the first third of the story the rest just drags. And drags. And drags. A cardboard villian is thrown in then conveniently killed off. The sinister man behind the politician threatens Lily all through the book to get her cooperation then accepts her decision to end the charade with almost no protests. The epilogue is also a big let-down. I would try The Promise of Jenny Jones, The Wives of Bowie Stone, The Brides of Prairie Gold or The Best Man before reading this one.