Back to the Bedroom
Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and...
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Dear Reader:
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around.
I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually thehouses inspired Back to the Bedroom.
Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake.
And for Plum fans, you'll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur.
Janet Evanovich
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780060598853 (0060598859)
ASIN: 60598859
Publish date: 2014-02-25
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Very enjoyable and a little bit crazy. (but in a good way)
OK, this is just undeniably cute and cleverI have been an Evanovich fan for a long time. Her stories are strong, well written, and have women characters that are realistic. They have trouble with money, men, jobs, all those things that the rest of us have problems with. Her books are side splittingl...
Funny action packed little story with a different type of hero who is a laid back easy going opposite of type A heroine and I always enjoy it when a man pursues the woman. Cellist Katie is helped by her neighbor Dave when something drops on her house.
I think this is one of her better romance novels. It's silly, predictable, unrealistic, and bizarre sometimes, but Elsie is a "pip." A lot of her Stephanie Plum inspiration is hidden in these novels, and Elsie Hawkins is the beginnings of Grandma Mazur.