"engaging contemporary romance"

Yorkshire Falls police officer Rick Chandler is known as much for his work holding up the law as for his reputation with the women. Several years ago, Rick married a pregnant woman, who eventually dumped him for the boyfriend who originally deserted her. Following that episode, in spite of the machinations of his ailing mother, Rick vows never again.

Rick pulls over to help stranded driver Kendall Sutton, who still wearing a bridal gown, was jilted by her fiancé. Kendall has moved into the home of her deceased aunt, an abode that needs lots of work. Rick offers her a deal. If she pretends to be his lover and thus help him ward off his mother's minions, he will fix her house and help her with her teenage sister. As they put up a pretense of a loving couple, Rick and Kendall find neither want the sham to end as they are in love, but both has been burned once before in a love relationship.

The second Chandler family contemporary romance, THE PLAYBOY, is an engaging tale that fans of Carly Phillips will fully relish. The story line focuses on two weary warriors whose wary looks at love make for a fine novel. Rick's two brothers and mom and her sister provide depth so that the audience will gain pleasure in this novel, obtain the previous book (see THE BACHELOR) and anxiously await the finale (the exempt brother's story).

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 31, 2002

Will this sexy single get down on one knee?

Summary

There isn't a woman in town who's immune to the legendary Chandler charm.

Yet so far single cop Rick Chandler has managed to fend off the marriage-minded advances of Yorkshire Falls' entire female population. A past mistake has taught him never to put his heart on the line ... until he answers the SOS of a real-life runaway bride. In spite of her pearly gown and tiara, Kendall Sutton vows to never wed - which makes her the ideal pretend lover who can ward off Rick's legion of admirers. When their passionate charade flames into the real thing, Rick is suddenly thinking about two words that spell forever after. But will Kendall ever say "I do?" Can awoman who's had it with weddings tie the knot with the town's most popular playboy?