Marry Me Twice is about a marriage of convenience. The story's intro was really long, and the initial motivations are a bit suspect. But overall it's an enjoyable read.
Janie Adams, the newly minted producer, takes her sister Rosemary and cameraman Carlos to Rose Quartz New Mexico to do a featurette on the town's Valentine's festival. The town is also famous for lots of successful marriages, and the love stone, the actual rose quartz, that was supposed to keep the lovers true, which is where they meet Mason Hart, who was the owner of the mine that produced the quartz. Mason was in a bind, in that he had merely weeks to marry or else his ranch will go on the auction block (it's that strange will his daddy wrote, and so did his grandpa, and great grandpa...) As Janie struggles with overbearing producer back in HQ who demands an update every 15 minutes, and then forces her to take the story in a direction she did not want, she impulsively made a bargain with Mason... a marriage of convenience: she will help him get his inheritance by marrying him, he'll give her the seed money for her to get her small film production company off the ground. But as the two went through the wedding plans, they started having real feelings for each other...
Light-hearted (but not comedic) romance, the push-pull was fun, with backdrop of a local legend, a ranch, and more. The problem I have is why would a newly minted producer, i.e. just promoted reporter, be willing to defy her boss? Also, I'm a bit tired of these "weird will" plot devices.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Woman wanted to get out of bad job agreed to marriage of convenience with a rancher who needed a wife to inherit his family ranch...
Tropes: reporter, marriage of convenience, evil boss
Overall Rating: 4/5 (rounded up from 3.5/5)
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