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Summary: What if you had the chance to be somebody you weren't...
Review: Kathleen O'Leary took the chance with a borrowed dress and jewels, and fell in love with Dylan Kennedy, a wealthy and desired bachelor. So the story ends here, right? Of course not... it's a romance, and we must have turbulence, passion, fire (ha! no pun intended...)! Both were not what they pretended to be, and through a heedless marriage the truth comes out. What's a 12:01 Cinderalla and a dethroned Prince Charming to do? It's a story about how you can find your identity, your peace, in the one you love, and how unlikely that love can sometimes be; it's not unlike The Charm School, another book by Wiggs, that paired together a hero and a heroine that, under normal circumstances, wouldn't even have looked at each other on the street. Well-written and heartwarming, set against the famous fire in Chicago and the stunning effects it had on people's (real and fiction) lives, The Mistress is a lovely, polished gem to spend your day with.
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Summary: I loved this more than words could ever say....
Review: Oh, this book. I want this to be my life. I was so much like Kathleen, wanting things so bad and thinking once I got them my life would be perfect. But no - THIS is perfect, to have someone care about you the way Dylan did, even when he was trying not to. To love what you have, not crave what you lack. This sounds like a sappy country song but read this book, its not sapy, it's very real and so right-on about the way love works in the real world. If this is romance than I'm a fan.
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Summary: A good start, but slow finish
Review: This romance started out with an intersting story, setting and heroine. Somehow it fizzled out in the end with a little too much moralizing. It was fairly sensous, but it just could not hold my attention through the end.
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Summary: And now for something completely different.....
Review: Well, I loved this author's last book, THE HOSTAGE, and I wanted to love this one, too. It's totally different, but it left me with the same warm-inside feeling as the first one. It's a story about figuring out who you are and what's most important in life. This book surprised me in several places. Truly satisfying, I would reccommend it to anyone!
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Summary: Ever been on the outside, looking in?
Review: What does it feel like to be on the outside, looking in? Towish for something so hard that you'll do anything to make it come true? Kathleen O'Leary grew up poor, but in the midst of the Chicago Fire of 1871, she seizes a chance to reinvent herself. In a borrowed dress and Tiffany jewels, she catches the eye of Dylan Kennedy, the most eligible bachelor in Chicago. For one magical evening, Kathleen pretends she was born to the wealth and privilege she's always craved. But it's midnight for Cinderella. As fire sweeps through the city, the young lovers are cornered, with no hope of rescue. Desperate to share their last moments together, Kathleen and Dylan impulsively marry. Incredibly, they survive. And as the smoke clears, Kathleen must inform her new husband that he has married a fraud. Now the joke's on her, for Dylan Kennedy is no gentleman. He's a con artist, gambler and ne'er-do-well, and when he realizes the heiress he married is a penniless maid-and the daughter of the woman accused of starting the Great Fire-he knows he's been caught in his own masquerade. Now the real sparks are about to fly. Humor, hijinks and hot sex abound in this outrageous mismatch, but at the heart of the story lies a home truth: Be careful what you wish for-you just might get it. When fire burns everything away, the stage is set for one of the most enduring fantasies in the human imagination-Who would you become if you could start all over again? Susan Wiggs P.O. Box 4469 Rolling Bay WA 98061-0469...
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Summary: Susan Wiggs at her very best
Review: With a backdrop of the Great Chicago Fire, THE MISTRESS features a counterfeit heiress who marries a fraudulent bachelor under false pretenses. Kathleen O'Leary (yes from *that* O'Leary family) has always wanted to be rich -- so under a veil of deception she attends a society function and meets the wealthy man of her dreams who isn't all he pretends to be. Dylan Kennedy is a grifter. Down on his luck, he figures what better way to attain great wealth than to marry an heiress? The lovely Kathleen seems the perfect candidate. Susan Wiggs has written another winner of a story. I can't wait to read the third in this series, Lucy's story, THE FIREBRAND.
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