Who Needs Cupid?: An Anthology

by Debra Salonen, Molly O'Keefe, Susan Floyd

Down with Cupid Elle Adams, Rebecca Potter and Lucky Morgan all have valid reasons for distrusting Cupid. And with February 14 coming on fast, they decide to take matters into their own hands. If the plucky little cherub can't do his job, they'll sweeten the odds. But it looks as if Cupid wasn't out to lunch. He was just waiting for the right moment to make things interesting. Now find out what happens when he finally launches those arrows.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373713924
• ISBN13: 9780373713929
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Down with Cupid!

What great stories! Elle owns the Cup O' Love coffee bar and restaurant that Elle, Becca & Lucky have their get-together on Friday nights and end up planning the Valentine Party at Cup O' Love to help Elle get more business and Max has volunteered to install WiFi for this promotion. Everyone how signs up has their own webpage to get to meet that special person and the party is to be held on February 14th! Debra Salonen gives us the middle-age couple in Elle & Max in, THE MAX FACTOR. Elle is 51! They went through school together, she was the popular cheerleader and he was the geek! Lots of years later, with his widowhood and her divorce behind them they find love. Of course he has to be her friend before she can see that they are a great couple. Molly O'Keefe has written Becca's story. Elle is Becca's aunt and Becca is 27, her mother wants her to be an accountant with Mom & Dad's firm and she is but she's really an artist and makes wonderful valentines for Elle to sell in her coffee bar and Lucky to sell at her Lucky Duck Collectibles. She has an after-school art program in the room above the Cup O' Love. One of her pupil's is 10 y.o. Penny and Becca has a crush on Penny's dad Will. Penny and Aunt Elle try to be cupid for Becca & Will. Susan Floyd has the nicest story of Lucky and her best friend, Josh, that she's fallen in love with so has he but he's trying to make a new life and knows Lucky doesn't want to leave Fenelon Falls, Il. We get to watch them each learn what *love* means

Sit back, relax, fill your own Cup O' Love and be prepared for an enchanting trio of stories with Wh

Courtesy of CK2S Kwips and Kritiques Sit back, relax, fill your own Cup O' Love and be prepared for an enchanting trio of stories with Who Needs Cupid?. In The Max Factor we meet Elle Adams and her two dearest friends as they plot ways to get back at Cupid for all the disastrous love they've had in the past. It starts as a joke, but when Elle decides to run a Valentines dateathon in hopes up drumming up more business for her failing coffee shop Cup O' Love, she gets more than she bargained for. Max loved Elle dearly in the past and had his heart broken when she stood him up for the Valentine's Dance in high school. He has since married and been widowed but has never forgotten his first love... Elle. Now he schemes to prove to her he's the only man she needs. This story is as much about family relationships as it is the romance between Max and Elle. While their story is strong and heartwarming as we see them find they love they both deserve, we get as much of a glimpse into their other relationships as well. Elle and her sister Jane have struggled with their relationship for years and it takes a little help from others to realize how much their battles are hurting them and everyone around them. There is also Max's relationship with his grown children, his grandchild, and the chess team he coaches at the high school. The chess team actually provides a lot of humor to the story through their antics and endear themselves to us. The second story in the collection, A Valentine for Rebecca, allows for us to meet Rebecca "Becca" Potter, the artistically gifted niece of Elle stuck in a job she hates and has to hide her work teaching art classes to the kids in town and her personally designed line of Valentines cards from her unaccepting parents. And it certainly doesn't help matters any that she has a crush (but is it really just a crush?) on Will Blakely, the father of Penny, one of her young students. Penny just happens to think Becca would make a perfect girlfriend for her dad. So with a little help from some friends, they decide to make all of Will's and Becca's dreams come true. Becca is torn between her perceived duties to her family and her true desire to make a living with her art. As she struggles with the weight of her family battles, she has not forgotten how to help other families. She touches the hearts of some very special children in her class, not the least of which is Penny, who is turning inward to get over the pain of her family breaking up. Through Will's relationship with his daughter we see the immense amount of love he has to share, if only he could find the right person. Watching these two reluctant lovebirds find happiness together is enough to warm anyone's heart. In the concluding story, Lucky in Love, we finally get to see Lucky win her man. Her dearest friend in the world is Pastor Joshua Watts, so much so she can't imagine life without him. So when she proposes on New Year's Eve and he rejects her, Lucky's heart is in p

three lighthearted romantic romps

"Lucky in Love" by Susan Floyd. Lucky Morgan loves Pastor Josh, but he seems unable to reciprocate. She has decided to make him her forever Valentine. "The Max Factor" by Debra Salonen. Coffee shop owner Ellenore "Elle" Adams says bah humbug to Valentine's Day until schoolteacher Arnold shows her how great is to be someone's special valentine. "A Valentine for Rebecca" by Molly O'Keefe. Art teacher Becca Potter wants Will to share the joy of love as Valentine's Day nears. However, so far Cupid has misfired until she gets some mortal assistance. These are three lighthearted romantic romps that celebrate Valentine's Day with gusto. Harriet Klausner