With a little mystery and a little romance WANTED: AN HONEST MAN portrays Lindsey Lark searching for a balance between her love life and her teaching career. Deceived by the man of her dreams, then haunted by strange, threatening phone calls, she worries about a stalker and is grateful to have Wendell, her 180-pound mastiff, close by.She isn’t ready to go looking for new love, but men find her … find her anyway. A handsome college student involved in some tricky human research gets into trouble in more ways than one. His inherent propensity to play detective, though helpful at times, seems to attract Murphy and his darned Law far too often … and now his eyes are on Lindsey. Will his heart follow?
Come along with Lindsey as life leads her to the Grand Canyon, North Dakota, and the Zuni Mountains where she stumbles upon adventure, danger, and love.
“Charming … unexpected … emotionally charged!”
— Amylynn Bright, author of Finish What We Started
“Ms. Rohman’s entertaining novel, WANTED: AN HONEST MAN, has all the hallmarks of a bestseller including a cast of inspired characters that bring real-world authenticity to her tale.” — BookViral
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I was asked to read and review the 3rd book of this series which in my mind required me to read Books 1 and 2 first. Okay, so I have a little OCD. I am so glad I did. I enjoyed this book by Cricket Rohman greatly. Lindsey is a little too trusting, both of her husband and of the men who come into her life. The perfect blend of life, romance(s), humor and mystery.
When Lindsey’s husband leaves her, she feels destroyed. But she becomes stronger with every adversity, with an understanding of what real love is and what is important in her life.
i enjoyed this book because the unexpected kept happening. But what Lindsey valued the most: her friends, her kindergarten students and her pets, remained constant and supportive.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
A Year in the Life of a Kindergarten Teacher
Though teachers will love WANTED: AN HONEST MAN, I think mystery, romance, and adventure readers will enjoy it, too. Along with amusing, though sometimes heart-wrenching classroom scenes, Lindsey’s life path takes her to the Grand Canyon where a treacherous hiking experience occurs, North Dakota for an extraordinary conference, and the Zuni Mountains to hide out.
Her ex-husband, Anthony (he’s a rat) and Lindsey’s main nemesis, Shawna, (I’d describe her, but that would be a huge spoiler.) spend time in Venice and add shocking twists and turns to the story. I could relate to the grad student, Jake. And everyone will love Wendell, Lindsey’s mastiff. It’s an unusual and entertaining novel. I’m on to the second book in the series.
This book was very interesting! I just had to keep turning the pages. There were a lot of very different yet well developed characters. Since Lindsey was a teacher, even a few of her students were great characters that added to the story! I adored Wendell the dog and Malcolm her talking bird. There is some suspense, some romance, a lot of plot twists and some! I really enjoyed this story!
I received a copy of this book from BookSprout and the author, however, I voluntarily wrote an honest review. All opinions are strictly my own.
I found this book to be interesting starting with how well developed and engaging the characters are to the well thought out and flow of the storyline was.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
“But not now. I could never be with him again. I have a new understanding of what is important in love and in life, and he doesn’t fit the description. I’m certain of that. But what about you? What will you do now?“
Once upon a time, a newly divorced kindergarten teacher went to the ball. At the ball she met all sorts of people: her ex husband and his bizarre new girlfriend; a talking bird who became her new roommate along with the dog her ex had taken after the divorce; the pet sitter/bartender/delivery man who seemed to keep popping up; and social service people when they had to report a parent for hurting one of her kinder kids. Then there was an older Prince who wasn’t so charming, many schoolteachers who learned and taught one another, another prince who was more charming, and, finally, she got rescued by the man who loved her animals, leaving her with a choice or two about how the story ends….
This is a long term Mt.TBR for me, and I was also reading the second Lindsey Lark book at the same time. While the second is really in the mystery, this one’s more a contemporary romance novel, as well as reading like a first attempt at writing one. It’s not as compelling as book 2, but there are sad, funny and awkward parts that make sense all together. It’s an interesting story. Recommended 4.5
This is book one of the Lindsey Lark series and the main character is someone who was orphaned as a child and grew up remembering happier times by reading lots of fairy tales and uses them in her job as a kindergarten teacher, reading them to the children. She thought she was happily married to the love of her life, like in the fairy tales she reads, until she comes home ill one day and finds her husband in bed with another woman! He leaves, saying he is actually in love with this much younger and better looking model and even comes back to take away their shared dog, Wendell. She has to keep it together for the sake of the young and lively children that she works with in class, but finds it difficult to cope without someone at home to talk to or keep her company. Only the friendship of Laura, another early year’s teacher at her school, keeps her somewhat sane, whilst she hopes her ex-husband will come back!
Laura finds out the name of her rival and reveals that the other woman is called Shawna and is a dancer or stripper at a club called The Office! Lindsey ends up calling for a Chinese takeaway one night and gets a welcome surprise when the delivery driver, Jake, turns up with Wendell in tow! He has been asked by Shawna to look after him for a day or so, and it is all extra money for him as he works a couple of different jobs to support his studies. Lindsey doesn’t want to be alone, but soon finds herself attracting a few different men, some three months after her split, once she goes back out into the world a bit more. She finds Jake attractive, but believes him to be far too young for her and she isn’t ready yet, or so she tells herself. He is actually doing his thesis on women alone, and already has three subjects and finds himself writing and asking lots of questions of both Lindsey and Laura, not realising that the two know each other, until much too late.
Lindsey keeps herself busy with the children, but they are not always so easy to manage and a couple of them are raising some serious concerns. A new animal comes into her life, a bird found in her garden, that must have been someone’s family pet, and she names him Malcolm. He keeps her company for all those nights when she can’t get Wendell back round to hers. A series of attempts at new relationships leave her wanting more and unhappy with her progress, but the children always keep her going, even when she is at her lowest. She can throw herself into her work and a new production at school, to take up all her time. Jake continues his investigations into his subjects, finding out some hidden secrets along the way, as he begins to fall for one of them. Some interesting situations occur for Lindsey, along the way, as a new journey begins as her life changes.
An interesting read, which starts with the obvious wife finding her husband in bed with another, but goes off in so many different directions as she also ends up a stalker, gets strange phone calls and odd gifts left at her door and work. Losing her dog as well I think was more of a shock than her husband leaving, as he wasn’t the best company as she starts to realise, once she has time to think about their relationship. Whether she will find her happily ever after with one of the men she meets along her new life journey, is for you to read and find out. She is a survivor and whilst she lives for her work, it also helps to ground her in reality and her own fairy tale. This is the first book I have read by this author and I Ioved its complexity, so I bought it as well. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.