"Amusing contemporary romance"

In Santa Flora, California, matchmaker Maggie Connor decides to use the inherited talent that all her female ancestors have to make a living. Maggie, like her grandma, is fantastic at matchmaking for anyone except for herself as the Connor Curse insures that these females never succeed in finding the right mate.

Needing a strong opening act for PR purposes, Maggie blackmails Nick Kaplan into performing the deed by threatening to renege on her grandmother's deal to rent a room to him for six months while he works on a construction project. Reluctantly the motorcycle-riding hunk agrees to Maggie's terms. As they work on his makeover and his dates flop one after another, they fall in love. However, she dreads the curse and he is not in the market for anything permanent. Still there is the intervention of a meddling but 100 percent successful matchmaking granny.

HEARTS ARE WILD is an amusing contemporary romance starring two protagonists who want to believe in love, but fear commitments do not last. The story line engages the reader from the moment Nick parks his bike due to a strong cast. The lead couple is charmers though their nagging doubts slow down the pace of the tale. The secondary characters to include granny and some outrageous dating companions make this a delightful time for the audience. This is one author that displays the right stuff with a fun frolic.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 25, 2002

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Summary

The matchmaker meets her match

Maggie Conner might not have had much experience with men- okay, so she'd had absolutely no experience with men—but that didn't mean she couldn't find love matches for her female clients. All she needed was the right man...

Trouble was, she'd found exactly the wrong man—Nick Kaplan, a hard-muscled, love-'em-and-leave-'em type with a dangerously seductive smile. Not only was Nick pure temptations in a leather jacket, he was also Maggie's new roommate!

So why not make him over into somebody else's perfect man? Well, for one thing, the more up-close-and-personal time they spent together, the more Maggie wanted to keep Nick all to herself...