Wedding at King's Convenience [Hardcover]

Maureen Child (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Harlequin (2009)
• ASIN: B002VWDMSC
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Luck of the Irish, September 7, 2010

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This review is from: Wedding at King's Convenience (Silhouette Desire, No. 1978 / Kings of California) (Mass Market Paperback)

Jefferson is a movie producer in Ireland trying to get Maura to sign the contract to let a film be shot on her farm and she wants none of it. After a few trips to the pub and some witty banter she finally signs and they steal the deal with a hot sexy night in bed. Before the sweat dries he's out the door and back in Hollywood. Maura, still back in Ireland, discovers she's pregnant and so calls him everyday for 3 months but he never calls back, even after informing his secretary he got her knocked up. Only after the entire town finds out he left her high and dry does he turn up trying to keep the film from going over budget after the locals boycott the film makers in protest of Jefferson's abandonment of Maura. Once he wraps his head around the idea that he is going to be a father he proposes and will play both fair and foul to get her to say yes.

For some reason I just didn't care for this one and found myself skimming a LOT. I basically gave up after Jefferson didn't immediately fire his secretary, Joan. I can understand Joan might think Maura is lying or just a member of the enumerable hoards of women wanting to talk to Jefferson but after nearly a hundred calls and with the knowledge she was wanting to tell him he left her pregnant Joan should have at least asked if he was interested in speaking to Maura. And if I was Maura after Jefferson showed and she had conformation Joan refused to let her speak to him or give him a message in THREE MONTHS I would have called her up and laid into her enough to put the fear of god in her. At this point in the plot I was thinking it was because Joan was secretly in love with him and I thought a nice little love triangle was going to be formed, but the whole thing was just unceremoniously dropped the moment he asked her to marry him, with Joan actually being put in change of the wedding plans.

The other major thing that had me throwing up my hands (and just about everyone else's hands in the book) is the reason to keep the lovers apart (spoiler alert). Jefferson couldn't love Maura because he was previously married and he had to stay faithful to his first wife so he could never love again. I could almost buy that but he apparently was out having sex with no thought at all to his dead wife, enough to get Maura pregnant without a backwards glance and so his devotion seems to only crop up when it's convenient and disappears when it gets in the way. Sure I can get laid as much as I want every month is like baskin robins: 31 flavors, but Love, no I have to stay loyal to my beloved wife. Either you're ready to move on or you aren't because as is Jefferson seems like a womanizer of the worst kind, using his dead wife to justify his callus actions. I honestly don't get the appeal of a womanize and never did. The man can only stay faithful to his wife in his heart but not body because it's easy. Being celibate is hard but not putting yourself out there to get hurt again is very very easy. I am really tired of these emotionally retarded people who wouldn't know an adult committed relationship if it bite them in the butt. I have no problem with a man who sleeps around but when he's doing it in a premeditated way and he is using people to the point where he EXPECTS women to cry and beg him to stay when he walks out the door it doesn't make him a tortured hero, it just makes him a jerk.

I am usually a fan of Maureen Child but this one just didn't work for me.

2 stars.