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A contemporary romance with matchmaking

August 11, 2014 by Malin 2 Comments

Annabelle has taken over her dead grandmother’s matchmaking service, and is determined that this is the business she will actually manage to make successful. Her mother wants her to become an accountant (her successful older brother could get her a job in his firm), but Annabelle is having none of it. Of course, making a living as a successful matchmaker is difficult when most of her current clients are her grandmother’s old clients, mainly pensioners, who insist on getting the same prices as they did […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Match Me If You Can, matchmaking, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Malin's CBR6 Review No:86 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Match Me If You Can, matchmaking, Susan Elizabeth Phillips ·
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More Contemporary Romance, But with One and a Quarter Tirades

July 26, 2014 by Mrs. Julien 8 Comments

All of the books in the Chicago Stars contemporary romance series are built around the world of professional athletes and the women who want to climb them like trees. It’s a rarefied wealthy bubble that allows for the same kind of lifestyle fantasy as the aristocratic and wealthy world of historical romance. Almost every story also features an older couple getting a second chance at love. It Had to Be You Heaven, Texas Nobody’s Baby But Mine Dream a Little Dream This Heart of Mine […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, It Had to Be You, Match Me If You Can, Nobody’s Baby But Mine, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine

Mrs. Julien's CBR6 Review No:58 · Genres: Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, It Had to Be You, Match Me If You Can, Nobody’s Baby But Mine, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine ·
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