Miss Match
Ivy/Ballantine
Contemporary Romance
March 26, 2002
ISBN-13: 0804119996
Available in: Paperback
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Miss Match
by Leslie Carroll
High school drama teacher Kathryn Lamb, at the insistence of a pushy neighbor, enrolls with Six and the City, a dating service that guarantees her five fix-ups with eligible bachelors, all of whom are ostensibly interested in commitment. But from the second she meets Walker "Bear" Hart, the hunky manager of the matchmaking service, sparks fly and sexual tension crackles. The problem is that Kathryn has come to Six in the City to find a husband.
Bear has never seen a happy marriage in his life. His mother, the oft-married actual owner of Six in the City, keeps fixing herself up with her own clients and jetting off on honeymoons. And Bear finds nothing more depressing than matching up desperate singles. But his attraction to Kathryn makes him begin to question his firm conviction to remain a bachelor forever. And it's his job to find her five other possible husbands. Keeping his jealousy in check is nearly impossible.
Bear matches Kathryn up with an assortment of eligibles: a bad boy rock 'n' roller, an undercover narcotics detective, a Very Famous Actor, a high school English teacher, and an airline pilot. Any time things go dizzily wrong, guess who's there to rescue her?
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Leslie Carroll's Bio
Leslie Carroll was born and raised in New York City. A professional actress as well as a novelist, over the years she has also worked in politics, advertising, public relations, law, and journalism. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University.
Although she always amused herself on long car trips by making up stories in her head and populating them with imaginary friends, Leslie's writing career gathered steam in 1998, when, during a long car trip, she proclaimed that she would like to be paid to write. What followed was the impetus for a career as a novelist as well as a return to the world of journalism: a stint as an Associate Editor at Back Stage, New York's leading trade paper for the Theatre professional, where Leslie wrote and edited industry news and features.
On stage, Leslie has played classical and contemporary virgins, vixens, and villainesses in New York and in regional theatre. She has appeared in commercials, voice- overs and talking books, and daytime dramas. Under the auspices of Survivor Productions, a not-for-profit professional theatre company that she founded in 1989, Leslie produced several seasons of "neglected" plays of the 19th century. She is also the author of three stage adaptations of 19th century/early 20th century English novels: Ivanhoe, The Prisoner of Zenda, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Additionally, Leslie is the dramatist of The Diaries of Adam and Eve, based upon the humorous writing of Mark Twain, and the author of The Anglophile's Guide to Afternoon Tea in New York, cheerfully co-researched by close tea-sipping, scone- munching friends. Leslie considers herself more or less "the ultimate anglophile," with a particular penchant for Bath. Her occasional wanderlust has led her to other favorite (and wildly romantic) locales such as Venice and New Orleans.
Surrounded by hundreds of books, her own needlework, family mementos, and a plethora of pre-Raphaelite prints, Leslie lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side in a rambling pre-war apartment once shared with her grandmother. "Three generations of my family have lived here over the years. I jokingly refer to it as 'Tara.' "
She is a member of the Dramatists' Guild and both the national and New York chapters of Romance Writers of America.