Neesa Hart, Want Ad Wedding

Want Ad Wedding

Neesa Hart

Harlequin American, Jan 2004, $4.75, 249 pp.

ISBN: 0373750080

Reporter Molly Flynn wrote the want ad as a joke and a way to release some frustration. She never meant for it to go public especially placed in her boss's newspaper, the Payne Sentinel, but sometimes bad stuff happens. Thus a personal ad asking for a "confident woman to mend" the behavior of her arrogant boss of six weeks Sam Reed is not a good way to start the day.

Molly writes her letter of resignation in lieu of his firing her. However, Sam, already under pressure from his family since his brother Ben married to settle down, punishes Molly in a worse manner than simply canning her. After reminiscing about paper routes, he asks her to dinner as he offers her the opportunity to meet the ad's requirements. Molly seeing a new side to her employer agrees. While investigating local corruption, they fall in love, but his silver spoon past has demons that make anything permanent seem doubtful.

WANT AD WEDDING is a fun journalistic romance that fans will enjoy due to the lead couple. Molly and Sam are a fine pair sharing a love for newspapers and each other. Though the corruption subplot never fully pans out, contemporary readers will report that this novel consists of plenty of heart.

Harriet Klausner