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A Wholesale Arrangement

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This story has a lot in common with its prequel, " In the Market." It, too, deals with the love that grows between two people who must juggle the competing demands of business and personal lives. It, too, features a larger-than-life hero whose intervention rescues a heroine whose business problems are basically consuming her life. In general I found Thor to be a slightly more complex and engaging hero than his brother Rainer had been, but as a heroine, Andrea seemed more dependent and maybe impulsive than her friend Jordan. A special part of this book for those who loved Leclaire's short story "A Man for All Seasonings" is the first appearance of a young, brash, womanizing and charming Joe Milano.
One problem with this book is that the reader, like the heroine, gets confusing mixed signals about what the hero really wants. And I personally found some of the business details a little beyond me. But the description of Thor and Andrea's traditional Norwegian wedding was beautiful, and the jokes which arose from Thor's constant additions to the vows were great. A nice read.

Back cover reads:
The Bride "needed" the groom.
The Groom "wanted" the bride.
A Wedding was the only solution!

A marriage of convenience. A business arrangement. A temporary measure. Andrea Constatine wasn't surprised when her former fiance, Thor Thorsen, proposed marriage as a solution to their mutual business problems. After all, he'd proposed to her for business reasons before.
Andrea had learned the hard way that business came first with the men in her life. But she'd vowed never to marry a man who put business before love.
Oh, Thor wanted her; she didn't doubt that. But it wasn't love, and it wasn't even why he was marrying her. Business first, pleasure second--that was Thor.