Some Girls Do - Softcover

Banks, Leanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446611727 ISBN 13: 9780446611725

Publisher: Forever, 2003

Synopsis

Katie Collins, a tycoon's personal assistant, is assigned to find a suitable husband for his too-shy daughter. But in an unexpected turn, sparks soon fly between Katie and the tycoon's bodyguard--much to Katie's dismay. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Leanne Banks is a USA Today bestselling author with over 30 novels and novellas to her credit. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology, which she says qualifies her to treat only fictional characters. Winner of multiple writing awards, she never fails to be delighted when readers write her praising her books as fun, feel-good reads. Leanne's debut single title, Some Girls Do , is her response to readers' repeated requests for a longer book. Leanne lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and two children, but can usually be persuaded to take a trip to the beach at the drop of a hat.

From Publishers Weekly:

Category romance veteran Banks (The Playboy & Plain Jane, etc.) debuts in the single title arena with a cute but strained romantic comedy. Wealthy Ivan Rassmussen offers his assistant, Katie Collins, $100,000 to find a blueblood husband for his unattractive daughter, Wilhemina. Katie accepts-a decision that pairs her with grim but gorgeous Michael Wingate, a security expert similarly roped into the project. The matchmaking has barely begun when Wilhemina runs away to Texas to catch herself a cowboy. As Michael and Katie pursue her, Katie reveals the beauty and sexuality under her plain-Jane image, while Michael shows his caring side. They're halfway in love by the time they find Wilhemina, but so is she. Now, all the three have to do is explain to Ivan the Terrible how his well-guarded daughter managed to get pregnant by a hog farmer. Banks's prose sparkles with energy and heart, but the book's sexy veneer fails to mask its oddly dated premise. In addition, a plot chock-full of cliches (from the tyrannical tycoon to an unlikely inheritance) makes it difficult to bond with the characters. Only when the story lets itself relax into a gentler realism-during interludes between Wilhemina and her goodhearted farmer, for example-does it strike a true vein of gold.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forever
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0446611727
• ISBN 13: 9780446611725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352