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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780380808083 ISBN: 0380808080 Label: Avon Manufacturer: Avon Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 420 Publication Date: February 01, 2002 Publisher: Avon Release Date: February 05, 2002 Studio: Avon Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Ever since she was a teenager, children's book author Molly Somerville has been infatuated with handsome Kevin Tucker, quarterback for her sister's Chicago Stars football team. Unfortunately, Kevin doesn't know she's alive until one fateful weekend when they're marooned together at the family vacation cabin. When Molly gets carried away by her creative imagination and compromises Kevin, the results are disastrous and before the dust settles, Kevin's in trouble with his boss, Molly's in deep trouble with her emotions, and both of them are in danger of losing their hearts. Their journey to a happy ending is dicey, at best, and even if they can get past their outrageous and painful beginning, whether these two can lower their guards and let the other into their equally wary hearts is questionable. Bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips makes her hardcover debut with this wonderful contemporary tale that features two familiar faces from prior novels as the hero and heroine. The characters are complicated, with difficult pasts that have shaped the adults they now are, and Phillips uses a deft touch in sketching their personal growth as they're tested with tragedy and bound together with love and a healthy dose of humor. As always, Phillips brings her delightful wit and a warm family setting to this novel that is sure to captivate readers. --Lois Faye Dyer Product Description: Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance. Then there's her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns—that awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember Molly's name! One night Kevin barges into Molly's not-quite-perfect life and turns it upside down. Unfortunately, the Ferrari-driving riving, poodle-hating jock isn't as shallow as she wishes he were, and she soon finds herself at a place called Wind Lake. Surrounded by paintbox cottages, including a charming old bed-and-breakfast, Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life's most important lessons. Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it makes you mad as hell, and sometimes—if you're lucky—it can heal in a most unexpected way. Download Description: Take a children's book illustrator, who's a bit down on her luck; add a handsome new quarterback from the Chicago Stars; and throw in a poignant search for a birth mother. The result is This Heart of Mine, a mesmerizing tale from a bestselling author at the zenith of her storytelling powers. 384 pp. National ads. Author appearances. 100,000 print. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Boring and uninspiringI read about half of if and dumped it. It is so boring. I've read SEP's other books before like Nobody's Baby but Mine, Heaven Texas, It had to be You, Dream a Little Dream. Those were much more interesting. This seems like a cheap cop out during a writer's block. My main problem with SEP is that all of her books are the same: This is very similar to Nobody's Baby but Mine: both women trick the men into sleeping with them, women get pregnant, men force them to marry them because they ... Read More Rating: - Another witty and fun read from this author.Although I preferred the first three Chicago Stars football books to this one, I still rank this one with 4 stars as a good read. The first three books which I felt were great are: It Had to be You, Heaven, Texas, and Nobody's Baby But Mine. In this book, I didn't enjoy the two main characters as much as I enjoyed the characters in her other books. I'm not sure why. They both sought entertainment through risk taking. Molly was supposed to be very smart, so I couldn't understand why she would ... Read More Rating: - Not Really a Romance, but GoodThis was my first book by SEP and I read it in a day and a half. The dialoug was snappy, realistic and excellent, and I mostly enjoyed Molly and Kevin. However, this story never felt like a romance. It always seemed like there was too much going on and everyone had some kind of individual crisis to overcome. Things I didn't like: I did not like that Molly climbed into bed with Kevin and "raped" him. It seemed weird and out of place and could have been done much better. Like, perhaps ... Read More Rating: - Delightful romantic comedyThis little gem is part of the "Chicago Stars" series which revolves around the fictional Chicago pro football team. I've read the series out of order, but that didn't curtail my enjoyment. This one is about Stars quarterback Kevin Tucker and quirky children's book author, Molly Somerville. SEP creates a charming, comical, and sometimes exasperating love story with great secondary characters. This is a quick read that is very entertaining. I love the "happy ever after" ending. Rating:  - disappointing I couldn't wait to read this book after reading "Nobody's baby but mine" but I was sooo disappointed. I was hard to see where the characters fell in love. There were a few funny moments but nothing like in "Nobody's baby but mine" (which made me laugh out loud and cry). The secondary plot about the older couple didn't flow very well in this book...their relationship really made no sense to me, the whole time I was reading about them I was thinking "huh?" Maybe I just didn't understand the humor and the ... Read More 
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