Legally Tender

by Michele Dunaway

Legally Tender by Michele Dunaway released on Jan 10, 2006 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373751044
• ISBN13: 9780373751044
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Harlequin American Romance
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

Reviewed by Angela Keck and Pam Trader Christina had the kind of life most women would envy, married to a professional athlete and living in a house that resembled a palace. From the outside everything looked picture perfect but the reality had been very different. To make matters worse, she wasn't going to find support to leave her husband from her traditional, Hispanic family who believed divorce was unthinkable and that a real woman could keep her man from straying. The last thing Christina wants to do is move back home to Texas so instead she agrees to the divorce terms stipulating she must stay in the mid-west and joins a small-town law firm, determined to put her degree to use after eight years away from legal life. Bruce knows he has one of the sharpest legal minds in the mid-west and making senior partner at the firm his family has been a part of for generations is inevitable, still being passed over for a woman who hasn't practiced law in eight years doesn't sit well with him. Finding out that the woman is his mental equal and is beautiful enough to turn his own brain to mush doesn't help. Despite his best intentions to consider Christina hands off, his heart has other plans. LEGALLY TENDER is a story that has everything from cultural diversity to a strong woman and a hero to sweep her off her feet. Michele Dunaway takes her unique story, adds interesting characters and leaves readers wanting more.

Excellent New Romance

I just bought this book and couldn't put it down until I'd finished it last night at 2 a.m. I give LEGALLY TENDER five stars for its perfectly layered characters, its believable plot progression, its smooth writing, and its attention to detail and research. LEGALLY TENDER is a story of two lawyers falling in love despite their myriad reasons to avoid it. Christina moves with her young daughter to a small town just within her divorce decree's 75-mile custody restriction to start a job as the newest senior partner in a law firm. Christina is still reeling from a recent ugly divorce and her controlling ex-husband who severely damaged her self-esteem. She wants to be respected for her legal abilities, to renew the independence she lost while married to an NFL player, and to create a cozy home for her daughter away from the glitz they used to know. Bruce, a Type A personality, is an associate in his father's firm, a brilliant legal mind, part-time firefighter who butts heads with Christina because she took the senior partner spot everyone thought would be his. Bruce is a decisive professional to whom work is everything. He doesn't want Christina -- a match for his brains and his wits -- taking over his job, his class action Title VII case, or his heart. Christina and Bruce's relationship proceeds at a realistic pace while they face emotionally complex issues wonderfully written by Ms Dunaway. I haven't read a Harlequin American Romance before, but I will be reading many more if this book is at all representative of the line.