A Whirlwind Engagement (City Brides) (Harlequin Romance, No. 611) Larger Print [Large Print] [Mass Market Paperback]

Jessica Hart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2003

Josh and Bella have been friends for years, but suddenly Bella is starting to see her Josh in a very different light - she's falling in love. Worse, she's just agreed to pretend to be Josh's fiancee and spend a week in the Seychelles with him.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin; Larger Pri edition (September 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373181116
• ISBN-13: 978-0373181117
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,280,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

JESSICA HART

Jessica's earlier career was a haphazard one, including stints as foreign newsdesk secretary in London, cook on an Australian outback cattle station, TEFL teacher in Jakarta and interpreter on expedition in Cameroon. She first stumbled into writing as a way of funding a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, and since then she has written 58 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon's Romance/RIVA series. A multiple finalist and past winner of both a RITA (Christmas Eve Marriage, Best Traditional Romance 2005) and the UK's coveted Romance Prize (Contracted: Corporate Wife, 2006), Jessica was awarded the National Readers' Choice Award (Traditional category) for her 50th book, Last-Minute Proposal, in 2009 and again in 2010 for Cinderella's Wedding Wish.

Jessica lives in York, and is a freelance editor as well as a writer and tutor. To find out more about Jessica, visit her website, www.jessicahart.co.uk, and her new blog,
http://jessicahartromancewriter.blogspot.com/.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars What do long time friends do when their buddy is about to get married, November 14, 2005

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This review is from: A Whirlwind Engagement (City Brides; Harlequin Romance #3765) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a little more complex than the standard fake engagement romance. For a start this is the third book in the Jessica Hart series, City Brides. This one is about Bella and Josh. Bella is the last of the three friends who were sharing a house in Tooting on the outskirts of London

She has known Josh since university and he has loved her for all that time but he knows that sex just confuses things and he will lose his best friend if they get romantically involved. Bella likes that idea until he introduces her one day to Aisling - the woman he loves. Bella realises that Josh is not just her best friend, but he is in fact the one that she loves.

Josh knows something is wrong with Bella, but she convinces him she is in love with her last boyfriend who has dumped her. He believes it. She must make him believe it further when Aisling, now his fiance dumps him just before a big business trip. He is expected to go schmooze clients and needs her to take his fiances place.

Well it has more complications than that but that's the simplified version. There are confusions and misunderstandings, but it all ends well for the third Bride in the series.

Both Josh and Bella are likeable characters, not as witty and fun as some of the ones Hart Creates, but good fun nevertheless.