"Wonderfully warm and witty."

The Family Feud by Carol Finch. In Oz, Oklahoma Jan Mitchell is frustrated with her parents separating after three plus decades of marriage. Her dad wants to go touring while her mom wants her dress shop to succeed. Hardware storeowner Morgan Price tries to help Jan negotiate a compromise and peace settlement between her parents even as he has his own personal agenda to marry Jan. Carol Finch provides an amusing tale of discordant relationships that will keep the audience laughing especially with mom's theory of the male's spot in nature's food chain.

Stop The Wedding! by Jennifer Drew. The hunt for her wedding dress has so far proven futile for Stacy Moore. In her fifth store, two thugs kidnap Stacy. Nick Franklin, accompanying his mother on her wedding dress quest, tries to intercede, but is knocked out with a six- pack. Stacy and Nick need to work as a team if they are to escape from their kidnappers. As they flee, Stacy and Nick fall in love. Jennifer Drew combines a very humorous romantic romp that is almost short of impossible into a wonderful satirical tale that keeps the reader amused with the antics of the cast.

These two irrelevant stories are what Duets is all about: wild, weird, and wacky, but wonderfully warm and witty.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 12, 2002

Summary

The Family Feud by Carol Finch
In the small town of Oz, Jan Mitchell's wacky family is fast falling apart! Her parents are fighting, her sister's lost it and to top it off, Jan's high school crush is now in the middle of everything! Morgan Price always had the ability to make her knees buckle and her senses race. But now the man's just infuriating...especially with his foolproof plan to settle the Mitchell family feud ? a race to the altar with Jan as his bride!

Stop the Wedding! by Jennifer Drew
Nick Franklin doesn't know what he wants. He doesn't have the right job, and he certainly can't find the right woman. When he's accidentally kidnapped trying to rescue someone, he doesn't know what's going on! Stacy Moore's whole world is upside down! She's getting married, but is falling fast for some guy she's just met. What happened to buying the dress, walking down the aisle and living happily ever after? Maybe her fairy tale has hit a snag...and Nick's her true knight in shining armor!