by Marion Lennox
Humorous and emotionally moving
romance with echoes of The Sound of Music
Marion Lennox's HIS
MIRACLE BRIDE
is a humorous and emotionally moving romance with playful echoes to a
classic film that will delight romance and movie fans alike. HIS MIRACLE BRIDE creates playful,
humorous and sometimes tender echoes to an all time favorite movie
classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC
--- enough word play and familiar situations to delight fans. At the
same time, Marion Lennox renews the theme with different details in
setting, plot and character, holding the reader's interest and creating
a bit of reading suspense to see how her creative variations on the
timeless theme will unfold.
Shanni Jefferson is homeless and penniless. She found her boyfriend and
partner in bed with another woman and reacting fast to the outrage, her
little art gallery suffered the consequences. She takes a job as a
nanny to Pierce MacLachlan's baby but Ruby did not tell her there were
more children, five children, in fact! With social services on the
family's heels, can Shanni whip the household into presentable shape?
The bigger question, of course, is the chemistry between Shanni and
Pierce. Can Pierce put away his past and reach out for love? Will
Pierce's love inspire Shanni to reach out for her inner dreams?
Readers may find the heroine Shanni a bit bossy in a few instances.
Although well-intentioned, her determination to direct Pierce has a
slight interfering feel at times. Nevertheless, Shanni is exactly the
kind of woman for this hero given his personality and need to open his
heart. Just as Baron Von Trapp needed Maria to make him see his
children differently, Pierce needs Shanni to waken him to his own
dreams. HIS MIRACLE BRIDE
provokes a genuine happy feeling at the end from the perfect match that
emanates not from the genre convention alone but from the very
characters and situation. HIS
MIRACLE BRIDE places the hero and heroine in a tense, hectic
change of scene from the onset, creating a wonderful humorous dimension
to this romance for the reader while opening up the hearts of her
characters. As the hero and heroine look into their pasts, their hidden
dreams awaken. HIS MIRACLE BRIDE
is both a humorous and emotionally moving romance.
Publisher: Harlequin
Romance (August 2007)
