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Description edit
Lucy Valentine is as smart as can be, as single as you can get, and so not qualified to run a matchmaking service. But when her parents temporarily step down from the family business, Valentine, Inc., it’s Lucy’s turn to step up and help out—in the name of love. Plus, her rent is due. ... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Lucy Valentine: She is from a matchmaking family who has the talent to put people together. BUt Lucy lost her talent to see auras. She can find lost things. She doesn't know her place in the world. She has to take over the busines and stumbles on to a murder. Lucy is like a lot of us women. Unusre of herself and trying to find her place in the world. She develops a relationshio with Sean(who has his own secrets) Together they make a great couple.
- Sean Donahue: sexy private eye who's office is in the Valentine, Inc. building
- Dovie: Lucy's grandmother
- Marisol: one of Lucy's 2 best friends
- Butch: Lucy's blind date, set up by Dovie
- Rachel Yurio: Knew Michael Lafferty.
- Michael Lafferty: Lucy's client at Valentine, Inc.
- Raphael: Max's butler/major domo/ right-hand man, like a second father to Lucy
- Elena Hart: Old friend of Micheal Laferty.
- Grendel: Lucy's 3-legged cat
- Jennifer Thompson: Micheal Laferty's ex-fiancee.
- Oscar Valentine: Lucy's father
- Suzannah: receptionist for Valentine, Inc., she knows all their secrets
- Thoreau: Sean's dog
- Em Baumbach: one of Lucy's 2 best friends, engaged to be married
- Maggie: runs the restaurant on the first floor of the Valentine, Inc. building
- Preston Bailey: reporter
- Aiden: cop
- Marilyn: Add a description of this character.
- Sam: Sean's brother and a PI
- Ruth Ann
- Melissa Antonelli
- Cara: Sean's ex
- Judie Valentine: Lucy's mother and Oscar's secretly ex-wife
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
There comes a time in every girl's life when she realizes her father isn't perfect.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter One - Chapter Twenty Five
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in Lucy Valentine. (standard series)
Followed by Deeply, Desperately.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Heather Webber (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780312946135
Page Count: 316
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780312946135
Page Count: 316
Awards edit
- Agatha Award (Finalist, 2010: Best Novel)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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