Whirlwind Engagement [Hardcover]

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Mills & Boon
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263180417
• ISBN-13: 978-0263180411
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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 Of the three in the trilogy, I liked this one the best!, February 21, 2012

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KayLovesToRead (Canada) - See all my reviews

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

A Whirlwind Engagement by Jessica Hart
Harlequin Romance # 3765 - September 2003
City Brides trilogy - Book # 3

Imagine discovering one day that your very best friend in the world, the one who's always been there for you, is actually the man you've been looking for all your life, your one and only. One day Bella suddenly opened her eyes and seen Josh the man he'd matured to be, no longer the little bit geeky lanky college student she sat beside fourteen years ago. And he's getting married to someone else. Josh used to have a huge crush on Bella in college, and over the years he convinced himself that all he needs is for her to always be his best friend. But Bella's been acting strangely, and all he can figure out is that her heart is broken, she'd just been dumped by her boyfriend, and she had confessed to him that the one man she'd ever love would never be hers. When Josh's fiancée dumps him, Bella volunteers to a pretend engagement. He needs a fiancée for a trip with prospective clients, and it's couples only. Now it's Josh's turn to be thrown for a loop, because after their first kiss, he can't stop thinking of Bella in a very un-best friendly way. And all he can remember is how she'll always be in love with another man.

This is a wonderful story of two best friends who suddenly understand the reason why they've never committed to anyone is because they've really been saving themselves for each other. There are some very emotional moments when Bella's heart breaks at the realization that she's too late; Josh is taken. I liked the way we get to see Josh wake up to his feelings. Of the three in the trilogy, I liked this one the best. Maybe because everyone else could easily see that Josh and Bella were meant to be together, and were just waiting for them to come to their senses. Although each book in the trilogy stand alone, I recommend reading them in order, there are lovely tidbits in the first two that make this last one richer.

City Brides trilogy
Fiancé Wanted Fast! by Jessica Hart - Harlequin Romance # 3757 - July 2003
The Blind-Date Proposal by Jessica Hart - Harlequin Romance # 3761 - August 2003
A Whirlwind Engagement by Jessica Hart - Harlequin Romance # 3765 - September 2003

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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A. Woodley "Patroness, Janeites, the Austen list" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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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.