Libby Malin Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Libby Malin

Red Dress, Oct 2005, $12.95, 320 pp.

ISBN: 0373895348

In Baltimore the accident changed Amy Sheldon's life starting with her fianc lawyer Rick White dumping her, and her public relations career flushed away. Two years later, after starting over, she finds her new life is in shambles as the place she works as a florist Flowers by Amy (karma at work as the shop is named for her) is closing, and Pete Switzer is selling the house she rents from him.

Irate customer attorney Henry Castle says she sent the flowers to the wrong woman. Amy is shocked to see Henry in person for the first time as she expected a tall handsome hunk, but the huggable man who changes women every month, and is the shop's most consistent customer, is probably a half an inch shorter than her and she is height challenged. After the cops come to take Henry away for "threatening" her, Amy straightens out the mix-up. They begin seeing each other. As she fears she has fallen in love with Henry, she believes he will soon send her flowers thanking her for a good time when he moves on to the next female.

Though a chick lit tale in which the lead female is the prime star, Henry refreshes the storyline as he proves hunks come in all sizes. The storyline centers on Ame (as her friends call her) struggling to reinvent herself for the second time in two years, while falling in love with a man she assumes is a womanizer. While Ame comes across as shallow in spite of her woes, she needs to make up her mind whether he loves her or loves her not. Fans will appreciate this fine contemporary romance.