"This is a funny one!"

At 35 years old, Kathryn "Kitty" Lamb is ready to settle down. She sees her younger sister happily married with a young child and pregnant with her second. She decides to try a dating service that specializes in perfect matches. When she arrives at Six in the City, she meets Walker "Bear" Hart. There is instant electrical attraction but he's off limits.

Bear is only filling in for his mother who is off on her honeymoon with her sixth or is that seventh husband. Bear has seen what marriage is all about with his mother and he wants no part of it, thank you very much!

The problem is Bear subconsciously sabotages all of Kathryn dates or so it would seem. Kitty can't believe that every man that Bear picks for her is a dud. What is up with that? Then when Bear asks Kitty if he can stay with her in her apartment because his mother's penthouse is leaking and the ceiling is in imminent danger of falling down, Kitty knows it's a mistake but she agrees. Turns out it IS a big mistake!

This book was so much fun to read. It is a comedy of errors from beginning to end with Bear and Kitty fighting their attraction for each other and then trying to find the person of their dreams. They just don't see the forest for the trees, so to speak! The men that Kitty ends up with all have their hang-ups and I especially enjoyed the way Kitty interacted with them all. All in all a great read!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 23, 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?