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Convenient Husband

by Joan Hohl

Published 1992187 pagesISBN 978-0-3730-5732-0

MR. AUGUST Convenient Husband: Jasper "Main" Chance--over six feet of lean, muscled trouble--who had a few things a certain beautiful, broke farm girl desperately needed ... Disgruntled Wife: Stacy Hunsberger--a woman with a ranch to run, bills to pay, absolutely no money and a dry-eyed deal to marry a man who didn't love her... Passionless Marriage? Not if these two shared a bedroom! Jasper "Main" Chance wasn't the type to settle down--heck, one place and one woman had always bored the Texan to tears. But when he suddenly inherited half of Stacy Hunsberger's financially needy farm, Main instantly became the marrying kind. Oh, he had his reasons, and the fact that Stacy was a smart-mouthed, stubborn redhead who needed a chance didn't hurt any....

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Convenient HusbandJoan Hohl
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Reading lengthA shorter read187 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1992
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3730-5732-0
Language
English
Edition record
OL9651104M
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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.