Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for my gifted copy of the book to write my honest review.
Two people. Two personal tragedies. Can an outrageous lie bring them together?
Harmony Payne is at breaking point. She’s survived being dumped, losing her musical career and a lifesaving operation that rendered her childless. But when she discovers an abandoned newborn, the door to her agonising past re-opens. Hope and longing for motherhood grow—but can she keep the baby? Being engaged might increase her chances of adopting the foundling but the only eligible man she knows is her judgemental new neighbour…
James Traffurth is still grieving for his wife and younger child. Moving into a cottage opposite the children’s home where Harmony lives and works, the fresh start he wishes for with his wayward older son becomes complicated. The last thing James needs is a fake engagement yet…
Life is never simple with troubled youngsters, a clueless employee and mums with adorable babies. While Harmony’s yearning to build a family, James is valiantly trying to rescue what’s left of his.
Will Harmony ever become a mother—and will she and James find happiness together?Love & Misdirection: A funny, thought-provoking, fake engagement, small town romantic comedy set near Bristol, UK.
Heat level: mild – sometimes described as ‘fade to black’ – and comedic.
Language: mild.
LOVE & MISDIRECTION is the comical THIRD standalone book in the LOVE & MISHAPS QUIRKY ROMANTIC COMEDY series. If you like deeply wounded souls, farcical moments, stories with children and babies, bittersweet storylines and wonderfully heartwarming endings, then you’ll love MARI JANE LAW’S quirky romantic comedy. Buy LOVE & MISDIRECTION for an engaging and entertaining read today!
The third book in the Love & Mishaps Quirky Romantic Comedy Standalone series, Love And Misdirection. I read each book one after the other, this being the latest one. I was looking forward to see if the quality of writing was just as good and the story as unique. I didn’t need to worry. This book was just as good!
I loved it that characters from the previous books pop in, too. This just made me feel like I was at home. This book is another one that deals with emotional issues around pregnancy and loss.
The fact that I’m a mother myself made me so invested in these characters. Harmony, I felt for immediately. She definitely had me on an emotional rollercoaster with everything she has been and is still going through in the book. James touched my heart also. His plight made me so sorry for him. This author can make me feel for all her characters, whichever book it is.
Even saying I found it emotional, Mari Jane Law, again brought the unique story telling that injects humour into whichever story I read. She finds that balance, and it pays off tenfold. A great set of books that is only enhanced by the addition of Love and Misdirection..
Author Bio
Mari Jane Law lives in the UK and loves cats and chocolate – and books, TV series and films that make her laugh. Through her writing, she discovered she could make other people laugh too.
Her Catholic upbringing gave her ideas for some great fictional characters in the Love & Mishaps Quirky Romantic Comedy Standalone Series. Although there is a new story in each book, the world in which the characters live remains the same and there are major sub-plots involving characters from previous books. So it is better – although not essential – to read them in order to maximise enjoyment.
She hopes those who buy or borrow her work have as much fun reading it as she had in writing it.
She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s New Writers’ Scheme and The Society of Authors.
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