"First Impressions Are So Important...Or Are They?"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted May 6, 2009
Romance Contemporary
Well at first glance Sam Sinclair can't believe his eyes.
His grandfather had sent this plump, frump partridge to act
as his proxy in choosing the next head of the company. The
company Bram Sinclair had started with nothing and built to
a well renowned business. As Willamina Kent steps off the
elevator her entrance is anything but graceful and acts as a
precursor for Sam's disbelief for who he has to deal with in
this important decision that will not only affect the
company but the lives of all three brothers vying for the
top spot. He immediately labels her a partridge with plain
brown rumpled feathers -- or in her case an outfit fit for
someone in their advanced years -- not a woman in her early
thirties. But Sam isn't prepared for her smile or eyes which
somehow diminish her outlandish clothing and have him think
of her as an angelic frump. Willamina is too busy trying to recuperate from the plane
and taxi rides from hell. She is fully aware that she is now
totally out of her comfort zone and isn't really all that
certain why Bram sent her in his stead. After all she had
only known him for a short time and her business experience
was limited to running a custom made casket business in a
very small town in Maine. She was far more comfortable
aboard a sail boat in boat shoes and jeans then in a board
room in a suit and heels. She was certain it was the heels
throwing her off balance in her dealings with Sam but she
couldn't deny that the man scowling at her made her wish she
had made a better entrance. Willing to follow his grandfather's wishes Sam tries to
mediate a very difficult situation between his brothers and
the board. But none are prepared for what Bram had up his
sleeves when he had his will rewritten. As Sam realizes that
his feelings for Willa are beginning to put his goal of
eternal bachelor in jeopardy he faces a bigger challenge. He
will have to convince her that his desire to have her in his
life has nothing to do with the will. And at all costs he is
willing to do anything to prove that to her. But Willa
doesn't have the slightest intention of marrying and
specially no dreams of family and happy ever after. THE MAN MUST MARRY is an interesting story about people
being put in unenviable positions of trying to do what is
best for someone or something other than themselves. Our
pasts definitely dictate our futures -- or do they? The past
has already been written in Sam's and Willa's lives but
their future can only be imagined. Whether it is to be with
each other or not is up for grabs but the reader hopes it
will work out for these two highly likeable souls. Both good
souls and perhaps that is what the grandfather was astute
enough to see.
SUMMARY
Trying to escape marriage,they are snared by love. When Sam Sinclair's self-made millionaire grandfather sends
Willa Kent, a woman none of the three Sinclair brothers
have even heard of, as his proxy to an ultra-important
meeting of the Sinclair shipping company, most people would
think the old man had lost his marbles. But Sam knows his
grandfather too well. For some reason, the wily old man has
decided that one of his three grandsons should marry Willa,
and this is his way of trying to force the issue.... So Willa and Sam team up on what seems like a wild-goose
chase to find some loophole in Grandfather Sinclair's crazy
notion. But as Sam crews Willa's yacht en route to Maine,
he finds to his surprise that his grandfather's offbeat
scheme is growing more attractive by the moment. Willa is
smart, beautiful...and has a wild streak that sends them
soaring together above the clouds. But Willa isn't about to let Sam fly away with her heart
until she knows his true motives. If the man wants to marry
for money, then the woman in her says that first he must
fall in love.
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