The New York Times bestselling author of Bet Me, Tell Me Lies and Welcome to Temptation delivers her long-awaited novel Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiance and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A … him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything.
When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren’t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What’s worse, Andie’s fiance thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie’s dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that’s not the only haunting.
What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-inlaw, and, of course, her jealous fiance. And just when she thinks things couldn’t get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them.
If Andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts, she’s pretty sure she can save the kids, and herself, from the past. But fate might just have another thing in mind
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I am A HUGE Jenny Crusie fan. Huge – like, I read this and Bet Me a couple times a year.
So, I wanted to share this book with my Quirkies because I honest to goodness don’t think it gets enough attention.
Maybe This Time is about what happens when soulmates don’t make it work…the first time around. Unlike Bet Me, MAYBE is lighter on the …
Jennifer crusie is always a good read, with heroines I truly enjoy spending time with.
** spoiler alert ** Great characters. Well-written. Interesting plot/story. Almost 5 stars. – – In the beginning, maybe the first third of the novel, the main character Andie kinda annoyed me. She was frigid. Her droning on about the the life/marriage she left behind and how she didn’t want it, but she really did, but then again she didn’t. It …
Andy Miller is ready to move on with her life. She and her first husband, North, divorced ten years ago. Now, she wants to marry her fiance, Will, so she visits North to finally have closure and no ties with him for good. But she gets a different proposal from him; to take care of two children that he was awarded custody for a month living in a …