Unlikely Hero (The Flanagans, Book 2) (Love Inspired #287) [Mass Market Paperback]

Marta Perry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2005

Executive assistant Claire Delany’ s experience with teens? Only when she’ d been one. Yet somehow she was teaching a rowdy group of them how to apply for jobs. It wasn’ t her idea of a good time, but in exchange Pastor Brendan Flanagan would help her plan the wedding of her best friend and Brendan’ s cousin.

Claire had confused feelings about the handsome, opinionated Pastor Flanagan. She didn’ t want a family, or even religion. So why was she pouring out long-held-in feelings to Brendan? And why was he gaining a stronghold on her heart?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Steeple Hill (February 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373872976
• ISBN-13: 978-0373872978
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,061,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I realized I wanted to be a writer at age eight, when I read my first Nancy Drew novel, The Secret of the Old Clock. Most little girl reach the end of that book wanting to be Nancy. I wanted to be the person who created the story!
The dream lay hidden for years while I became a teacher, married, had children...all the usual things. But eventually it re-surfaced, and I began to write, beginning with short children's stories for Sunday school take-home papers. It seemed a long time until that first acceptance, but eventually I began to sell. After some three hundred published short stories, I finally found the courage to work on the novel I'd always wanted to write.
Thirty-some published novels later, I still feel the same excitement every time I begin a new book--a mix of not believing I can do it combined with an overwhelming urge to see the story on the page.
A lifetime spent in rural Pennsylvania and my own Pennsylvania Dutch roots eventually led me to the books I'm writing now about the Amish. The Pleasant Valley Amish series from Berkley Books are longer, more complex emotional stories with Amish main characters, while my forthcoming HQN suspense novels are more adventure-filled books set in Pennsylvania Dutch country. I'm also writing a Love Inspired series, The Bodine Family, set on the South Carolina coast where we have a second home.
When I'm not writing, I'm busy with church activities, traveling, and spending time with my three children and six beautiful grandchildren.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to Flanagan-land, September 25, 2005

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Peggy Blann Phifer "Peg" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unlikely Hero (The Flanagans, Book 2) (Love Inspired #287) (Mass Market Paperback)

Claire Delany, single, successful executive assistant, is planning the wedding of her best friend. She runs into immediate flack when she approaches Brendan Flanagan, single, handsome pastor of the church where the wedding is to take place. Claire needs Brendan's cooperation in getting the wedding exactly the way Claire has envisioned it.

Brendan, on the other hand, doesn't believe this huge wedding is what the groom, Brendan's own cousin, really wants. Brendan's abrasive `know-it-all' attitude irks Claire, and their independent and strong personalities clash instantly. First is that he is a pastor and Claire wants nothing to do with religion. In fact, if she didn't need the church for the wedding plans, she would never put foot inside to begin with.

But, she does need to get Brendan on her side, so they strike a reluctant, uneasy bargain: Brendan will help with the wedding if Claire will help him with a questionable group of teens that he has meeting-unsanctioned-at the church. This is another thorn in Claire's side. She has no experience with teens, except when she had been one. Now, Brendan expects her to mentor these rowdies - namely, to teach them how to present themselves to potential employers and help prepare them for a respectable and productive future.

These are all the ingredients for a romance strewn with problems, misunderstandings, mischief and faith. As Claire works with the kids she realizes she is actually enjoying herself. Brendan is drawn to Claire, but holds back because she is not a believer. Claire cannot deny her attraction to him but there is this God-thing she can't quite get into. both are wary and hold back their attraction, stifling their emotions and feelings for each other.

UNLIKELY HERO is another good read from Steeple Hill and author Marta Perry. You'll love these characters. This is book two of The Flanagans - HERO IN HER HEART (April 2004) is book one. But you don't need the other book to thoroughly enjoy this one. Both Brendan and Claire are great characters that you will want to love, cheer on, and throttle all at the same time.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, July 19, 2005

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This review is from: Unlikely Hero (The Flanagans, Book 2) (Love Inspired #287) (Mass Market Paperback)

Althought I haven't read it yet it came very promptl. I'm happy with it's qualit and the company that shipped it.