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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The Wedding Heiress

The Wedding Heiress, October 2008
Going Back
by Pamela Ford

Harlequin Superromance
Featuring: Mike Connery; Delaney McBride
256 pages
ISBN: 0373715218
EAN: 9780373715213
Mass Market Paperback
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"The Best Laid Plans"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Wedding Heiress
Pamela Ford

Reviewed by Beth Swanson
Posted January 14, 2009

Romance Contemporary | Series

Delaney McBride never thought she'd ever go home to Wisconsin. She thought she'd finally escaped being "Pumpkin" McBride. Then her aunt passed away and she had to go back. She had to help complete the conditions of her aunt's totally crazy and unconventional will. You see, Delaney is just one of several people in her hometown that stand to inherit once the conditions of the will are met. The catch is that each of them have been given a task to complete by a certain date, and if everyone doesn't complete their task, no one gets anything, and the entire estate will go to Delaney's uncle. The tasks range from the restoration of an old car to Delaney's own task, of completing the planning on the three remaining wedding's that her aunt had started prior to her death. Ordinarily, Delaney wouldn't even consider it, but she just her job and her savings are about gone. She has no other choice, but to go home to Wisconsin, face her childhood, and earn her inheritance. Mike Connery knows that it's a stretch. It's not going to be easy keeping "Pumpkin" McBride around long enough to complete the terms of the will; but he doesn't have a choice. He has to keep her around for his daughter, for his town, for his friends, and for himself. He had no idea when "Pumpkin" came back that she'd have grown from the chubby little redhead next door to being the drop dead gorgeous woman that had actually shown up. Delaney has multiple problems being back at home. Mike Connery being number one on that list. She'd had feelings for Mike for as long as she could remember, and as much as she'd like to deny it, they all came rushing back as soon as she laid eyes on him again. Among her other problems are the complete lack of knowledge and experience planning weddings; not to mention the fact that she didn't fall in line with the whole "Happily Ever After" thing. She learned a long time ago that there's no such thing as Prince Charming and she sure as heck wasn't Cinderella. As time passes and each of them make progress on their individual tasks it becomes clear that someone doesn't want them to succeed; and that someone is sabotaging Delaney's weddings. It's just been sheer luck that she's been able to divert disaster. So when an opportunity presents itself and she has a way out of this whole inheritance thing, she has a choice to make. Follow through with what she promised to do, and possibly find out who's been trying to cause her failure, or move on and go back to what she thinks she wants. THE WEDDING HEIRESS is an easy read that has every element that you could want in a good romance. It has the intrigue that make you wonder who could be sabotaging Delaney, her unrequited childhood love for Mike, and the possibility of a new love with the very same man. Everything you could possibly want for a cold winter weekend curled up on the couch. Enjoy!

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SUMMARY

Who'd have thought that Delaney McBride would come back to her Wisconsin hometown—where Mike Connery still lives!—to plan weddings? Not Delaney, the upwardly mobile career woman who doesn't believe in storybook endings. Certainly not Delaney, the insecure teenager who never got over her girlhood crush on Mike. If it weren't for her inheritance, Delaney would be so out of there, as far away from the irresistible-as-ever man as she could get. But it's either take over her great-aunt's wedding-planning business or lose everything. So here she is, creating happy endings for real-life Cinderellas while still secretly pining for Mike. At the rate she's going, Delaney's heading straight for happily never after. Unless— is it possible?—the single father is just as secretly pining for her.…


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