Review: Simply sweet with a great message
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
How can you love someone, when you never knew love yourself? Jonah is a perfect example of the old saying, "Money can't buy happiness." Growing up in boarding schools, never having family around to lead or care for him, he holds no belief in either love or marriage. Which causes something of a problem when Jonah's grandfather decides Jonah must marry - and stay that way for at least a year - or the one thing that means anything Jonah, the family castle and surrounding lands will be sold off. Panicking at the possible loss of the only home he ever knew, when not in boarding school, Jonah decides to marry his secretary. But, when the secretary bugs out, he is left bereft on the sidewalk in front of Maggie's coffee shop.Maggie is in a bad emotional way. In her grief over the death of her beloved grandmother, she slips and sleeps with a friend and becomes pregnant - and the daddy is now AWOL. Given the opportunity to give the baby a father figure, Maggie agrees, against her better judgement, to marry Jonah for the required year. What happens next is formulaic, of course, but still well written, sweet, and emotionally fulfilling for the reader.Read and enjoy if you like cozy, uplifting romantic comedies with heart and style.