"A Marriage of Inconvenience"

Vicki Sorenson is on the verge of receiving a marriage proposal from the perfect man. Graham is handsome, if somewhat pretentious, and comes from a very high class family in Florida. He deals in antiques and is perfectly suitable for her, a woman who wants to come up in the world and be more than the little farm girl with lazy and uncaring parents. There is just one small matter that must be taken care of before she can marry -- she must divorce her first husband, Jamie.

Jamie came from Ireland and desperately needed a green card to stay in the country thirteen years before. She agreed to marry him for $5,000.00 so that she could help out her parents but now this decision has come back to haunt her.

She locates Jamie and flies to North Carolina where he lives on a house boat. He is willing to sign the divorce papers but the storm delays everything and she is stuck on his houseboat overnight. They both genuinely like each other but Vicki is determined to open her new antique shop and follow through on her plans. Jamie is not so sure that all is lost and when he comes to Florida to visit her, certain events take place that may change Vicki's mind and her future.

Cynthia Thomason is a first time author for me and I enjoyed her book very much. She writes like a veteran with good dialog and a smooth and interesting story line. I really enjoyed Jamie who is much more than he appears as well as being sinfully handsome and charming. THE HUSBAND SHE NEVER KNEW is in the Marriage of Inconvenience series of Harlequin's SuperRomance line and if the other books are as good as this one, I hope to read more of them. THE HUSBAND SHE NEVER KNEW is a first-rate story by Cynthia Thomason.

Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted January 20, 2004