"Engaging amusing contemporary romance"

In New York, to shut up her nosy neighbor "Yenta", Kathryn "Kitty" Lamb agrees to try the woman's matchmaking service. At Six in the City, Kitty meets Walker "Bear" Hart, a successful financial guru, who is filling in for his mother Yenta as she travels in Wales on her latest honeymoon. Bear and Kitty are immediately attracted to one another especially their shared warped sense of humor, but she wants love and marriage while he avoids commitment.

Kitty begins dating the men that Bear provides to her, but none seem to compare with her host. He, in turn, is jealous of each date he arranges for Kitty. However, though he wants her, Bear knows that relationships are fleeting as he learned observing his mother. Kitty knows who her true match is, but expects to miss out on the love of a lifetime because he cannot escape the lessons of a lifetime.

MISS MATCH is an engaging amusing contemporary romance that contains a serious undertone on what parents leave with their children including those grown up. The story line is fun due to the lead couple's reactions to one another and the antics of the five dates. Though done many times before, readers will enjoy Kitty's trip through the looking glass of singles dating in Manhattan because Leslie Carroll uses the eccentric cast to provide freshness to the scene. The ensemble thoroughly entertains the audience.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 19, 2002

Summary

High school drama teacher Kathryn Lamb, at the insistence of a pushy neighbor, enrolls with Six and the City, a dating service that guarantees her five fix-ups with eligible bachelors, all of whom are ostensibly interested in commitment. But from the second she meets Walker "Bear" Hart, the hunky manager of the matchmaking service, sparks fly and sexual tension crackles. The problem is that Kathryn has come to Six in the City to find a husband.

Bear has never seen a happy marriage in his life. His mother, the oft-married actual owner of Six in the City, keeps fixing herself up with her own clients and jetting off on honeymoons. And Bear finds nothing more depressing than matching up desperate singles. But his attraction to Kathryn makes him begin to question his firm conviction to remain a bachelor forever. And it's his job to find her five other possible husbands. Keeping his jealousy in check is nearly impossible.

Bear matches Kathryn up with an assortment of eligibles: a bad boy rock 'n' roller, an undercover narcotics detective, a Very Famous Actor, a high school English teacher, and an airline pilot. Any time things go dizzily wrong, guess who's there to rescue her?