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    • Pub. Date: September 2001
    • 256pp

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      • Pub. Date: September 2001
      • Publisher: Harlequin
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 256pp

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      Marrying McCabeby Anonymous

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      December 03, 2002: I loved this book! In fact, I love all Fiona Brand's books! They all have terrific alpha heroes, great tension and sizzling chemistry--and Marrying McCabe fits right in there. Ben McCabe is a complicated man--he doesn't fall in love easily and he's been burned before so he's very wary, particularly since he has a daughter to think of. And Roma is a fire-cracker-- very gutsy heroine. I especially liked the scene where the shooting starts and he gets knocked unconscious so she pulls out the hero's gun ready to protect him at any cost. If you love Linda Howard's S.I.M. books, you'll really enjoy Fiona Brand. A talented new author who just doesn't publish the books fast enough!

      Marrying McCabeby Anonymous

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      October 20, 2001: Is anyone else getting tired of romance books that substitute loads and loads of gratuitous love scenes for any real plot line? Marrying McCabe joins the ranks of those books by its sheer absence of meaningful action or a real relationship between the major characters. Roma Lombard *might* be in danger, so a special forces friend of her brothers is hired to protect her. Like Whitney Houston in Bodyguard, Roma has a high profile job (modeling) and refuses to curtail her activities for her own safety. This contrivance of course makes it doubly difficult for Ben McCabe to protect her from the we're-still-not-sure-it's-a-real-threat. I wasn't sure who I wanted to shake more--Roma for her contrariness, or Ben for his stupidity. For someone supposedly well-versed in such situations, he reacts slowly and implausibly to almost every event as the story inches forward. For instance, he sees an envelope of photographs that are sent, and assumes they were taken by Roma's photographer, instead of wondering why the pictures showed Roma and him going about their lives. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer a bodyguard with a little more brain power, threat or no threat. Ben's distraction is explained away over and over in one way--the man's in heat. Seriously. He doesn't know Roma, but he actively dislikes her and wants her big time. Then he kinda gets to know Roma, doesn't dislike her quite as much, and beds her. All this within twenty-four hours. Once he beds her, he thinks maybe he likes her a little, and beds her again and again and again...well, you get the picture. The reader is treated to endlessly dull pages of introspection from the characters as a full-blown misunderstanding develops because they spend all their time in bed and none of it talking. The happily-ever-after is in question because the reader is never given a real sense that these two characters know each other on any real level, nor that they've developed any kind of meaningful relationship. It doesn't matter how frequent the love scenes, if the characters don't connect in any but the most physical way, the HEA falls flat. This was the case with Marrying McCabe.


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