Suddenly Married (Mother's Day: A Collection) [Mass Market Paperback]

Loree Lough (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mother's Day: A Collection | Publication Date: May 1, 2004

Finally a Bride

Teacher Dara Mackenzie loved kids with all her heart. Trouble was, she seemed destined to remain forever single, forever childless. Until two solemn, motherless tykes in her Sunday school class caught her eye, captured her heart -- and dragged her home to meet Daddy!

Miraculously, blue-eyed widower Noah Lucas was the kind of man Dara had waited a long, lonely lifetime for. And the harried dad clearly wanted a woman around the house. So, before she knew it, Dara was a bride! But Dara knew that it took more to make a family. Now it was up to Noah to open his heart to Dara's love.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373512961
• ISBN-13: 978-0373512966
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,270,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

At last count, popular Inspirational author Loree Lough had 82 award-winning books (more than 3,000,000 copies in circulation), 67 short stories, and 2,500+ articles in print.

The oft-invited guest of writers' organizations, colleges and universities, corporate and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, she loves sharing learned-the-hard-way lessons about the craft and the industry. Loree has traveled coast to coast and border to border, appearing on national, regional, and local TV and radio shows.

Although this once-upon-a-time traveling troubadour refuses to say when, exactly, she traded her Yamaha for a wedding ring, she IS willing to admit that, every now and then, she blows the dust off her six-string to croon a tune or two. But mostly, she just writes (and writes).

Loree and her husband split their time between a home in the Baltimore suburbs and a cabin in the Allegheny Mountains, where she continues to perfect her taleant for identifying critter tracks. Her favorite pass time? Spending long, leisurely hours with her grandchildren... all seven of them!

She loves hearing from her readers, and answers every letter, personally. You can write her @ http://www.loreelough.com, where "If you're patient, you'll hear some hauntingly beautiful music!"

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable book!, April 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Suddenly Married (Suddenly Series #3) (Love Inspired #52) (Mass Market Paperback)

In Suddenly Married, Dara Mackenzie is a math teacher who loses her job because of a scandal involving her father, who has since died. While searching for another job, Dara takes over teaching a first-grade Sunday School class. She immediately falls in love with two solemn children, who happen to be the children of Noah Lucas, the lawyer who is investigating her father's case. Initial antagonism between the two soon turns to friendship, then love. This book was the first of the Love Inspired books which I bought--and after reading it, I was hooked on the series. However, I have read and re-read Suddenly Married and it remains one of my favorites. I love Loree Lough's writing style and the characters who come alive each time I open the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to read Inspirational romance.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, August 18, 2011

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This review is from: Suddenly Married (Suddenly Series #3) (Love Inspired #52) (Mass Market Paperback)

I must admit that when this guy first proposed to Dara, I rolled my eyes because it was just SOOOO unbelievable. But by the time I finished reading it, I was convinced that he made the right decision to get the ball rolling...

This book is about a man, widowed, with two children. Though he loved his wife and she loved him, she wasn't the most pleasing woman in the world and had raised the children with a very firm hand (though if she had been dead for...what...four years, how could the children remember her and all her training?) I choose not to question this because then I'd have to rethink my rating, and any book that leaves me with that "everything's right int he world" feeling at the end deserves all five stars!!!

Another marriage of convenience - with benefits...

Though I don't really care for this author's writing style - goes from present day to back flashing...At one time I think she was backflashing during a blackflash...I found myself trying to figure out exactly what they were doing at the moment and when everything happened...My head started spinning at some points in this story...

The final chapter is...oh so heavenly...and I must say that the author does a fine job in making an innocent scene seem so hot!!! Boy howdy, but a simple thing like the only sound being the quilt hitting the floor left little to the imagination, yet the statement was completely innocent...I've noticed that in "Suddenly Daddy" as well...I'm don't recall there being "hot scenes" in Suddenly Mommy...were there?

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable book!, April 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Suddenly Married (Suddenly Series #3) (Love Inspired #52) (Mass Market Paperback)

In Suddenly Married, Dara Mackenzie is a math teacher who loses her job because of a scandal involving her father, who has since died. While searching for another job, Dara takes over teaching a first-grade Sunday School class. She immediately falls in love with two solemn children, who happen to be the children of Noah Lucas, the lawyer who is investigating her father's case. Initial antagonism between the two soon turns to friendship, then love. This book was the first of the Love Inspired books which I bought--and after reading it, I was hooked on the series. However, I have read and re-read Suddenly Married and it remains one of my favorites. I love Loree Lough's writing style and the characters who come alive each time I open the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to read Inspirational romance.