| Wife for Hire |  | Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Category: eBooks
In Stock
Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 11,184
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
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Product Description
Hank Mallone knows he's in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue's reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look? Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she's too intrigued by his offer to say no . . . and too eager to escape a life that made her feel trapped. The deal is strictly business, both agree, until Hank turns out to be every fantasy she ever had.
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 A great read July 22, 2010
S. Dunham (oxford, nc)
After discovering Janet's Stephanie Plum series, I wanted to read everything by her. I bought this pre-Plum re-release in paperback. Loved it. You can definately see the Plum style in her earlier writing. I just recently bought the Kindle edition to have for my collection. My mother is on my Kindle account and I know she would enjoy reading this as well.
It's an odd story about a guy who hires a woman from NJ to be his wife. He needs her to get his family off his back and get his business going. She is a writer that is working on a book about a family member with an unsavory past. Both think this set up would be perfect business deal. Of course, they didn't count on falling in love. Yes, it's an overly used plot, but Janet makes it work. I tried to read some of her other romances, but couldn't get into them. I just loved the story, loved all the characters, and of course...loved the ending.
Although I am not happy with the downward spiral of the Plum series, I have to give credit where credit is due. This was a great book. When Janet puts effort into her writing and she is on, we get a great story. Including some of the Plum books, this is one of my favorites that I have read by Janet. When I can't stop reading because I'm so into the book, it gets 5 stars. I couldn't put this book down.
 cute quick read March 16, 2010
Lisa G. Sterner (south central PA)
I've read everything by Janet. It's always a fun quick read when i need a pick me. Always find myself laughing at her charactors antics.
Early Janet Evanovich - Wife for Hire, NJ Tomboy Finds Love in Skogen, VT January 17, 2010
April Braswell (Las Vegas, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of Janet Evanovich's early madcap novels, pre-Stephanie Plumb, now reissued after being so long out of print. Of course, being one of her early works, it is not a mature a style and richly nuanced at her super popular (yes I AM a fan!) Stephanie Plumb novels. If you can read it with that in mind and want to get a fun romping glimpse into her early writing, you will love this book. However, if you're expecting it to be Stephanie Plumb Re Deux, you would be disappointed. Just wait for the next Stephanie Plumb or re-read one which you already have.
That said, our heroine is (yes!) a New Jersey Girl, Maggie Toone, who was a tomboy with a kooky independent streak in here having grown up in a brick-making town of Riverside. She is an English teacher who has recently inherited her Aunt Kitty's Madam of a Bordello's Diary. The action opens on her 27th birthday picnic and cake celebration where she has just left being a school teacher and announces her intentions to her mother and Aunt that she will take a year off and go write a book based on the diary.
To do that, she has answered and Advertisement (one of those fun tidbits which dates the writing of it that the ad wasn't placed online like at Craig's List, or could you imagine, Ebay? lol) for a Wife For Hire. Hence the name of the novel.
Our hero is Hank (dreamy masculine name, of course) Mallone is a former hockey player (well that grabbed my attention because being from NJ myself, I am, ergo a hockey fan!) now lately an organic farmer of apples.
I won't ruin the plot for you, but of course, there are mutual madcap escapades. A pre-Grandma Mazure character in the housekeeper Elsie. And you can see some similarities of personality and hair challenges of Stephanie Plumb in Maggie.
All in all, a delightful weekend read. I literally curled up on a weekend morning with cup after cup of hot tea in the winter to read this. To me that is an idyllic weekend - reading and hot tea.
Highly recommend for a cold weekend and some hot tea reading!
Great Seller! November 2, 2009
Jessica Carlton
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
We had some slight confusion, but the quick, thoughtful response made it all worthwhile. I will shop with this seller again in the future!
 Wife For Hire July 4, 2009
Kelly (Littleton, Colorado)
Maggie Toone is taking a sabbatical from teaching to write a book based on her Aunt Kitty's diaries. Aunt Kitty was a madam, so this book would be great in Maggie's opinion. Since she still needed some type of income to pay bills, she was looking for something she could do that would allow her to concentrate most of her time on the book. Hank Malone needed a wife. He didn't want to get married or do anything drastic like that, so he contacted an employment agency about hiring a wife. As it turns out, Maggie was the only one willing to move up to Vermont and pose as Hank's wife. He was trying to secure a loan to help his business Malone Apple Orchards, and needed to prove his stability. Hank had grown up in the area, and was quite the hell raiser, so he needed to prove to the community that he had indeed settled down. To make matters worse, his own father was the bank president, so he needed to prove himself to his father also.
As Maggie settled into her new temporary home, she found herself incredibly attracted to Hank. The feeling was mutual, and left Hank wondering if he had make the right decision bringing her to his home. He introduced her to everyone as his new wife, and had the entire town fooled including his family. As the weeks went by, both started feeling guilty about their deception, and even guiltier because they wanted their marital status to become reality.
This was a good light read. An earlier work of JE that doesn't compare to her work today, but it was enjoyable.
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