title: Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic: How to Meet & Marry Your Match
author: Susan Shapiro
description: In this enthusiastic how-to, a happily married professional writer (<I>Five Men Who Broke My Heart</I>) and amateur matchmaker tells singles to use their friends, family and colleagues as signposts on the road to wedded bliss. She asserts that by making steps toward self-improvement (if necessary), swallowing their pride and asking those in their circle to set them up, readers will find prospects far more promising than anything they might find online or at the bar. Though many of Shapiro's suggestions are unique and intriguing, some still come off as a little desperate, despite her efforts to counter prejudices against this method of finding a mate. <I>(Jan. 2)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Three Matchmakers and a  
  Christmas Wedding
  
  Belle Calhoune
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
  To all the matchmakers out there. This one is for you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Dear Reader:
  
  > Thank you for joining me on this reunion romance set in Hope Valley. I love
  > writing about characters who find their way back to each other after
  > separation or a length of time that’s passed. Kit and Jayden London are on
  > the brink of divorce when they are forced together due to the actions of a
  > few matchmakers in their lives. I love the concept of friends and family
  > helping to save a marriage. When we attend weddings we are bearing witness
  > to the union, and we are participants in the love story. When things go
  > wrong we all shake our heads and sigh, but how often do we intervene and try
  > to help repair the marriage? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all became
  > matchmakers and tried to save marriages rather than stand by idly and watch
  > them crumble? Ultimately, it’s up to the couple to repair their marriage,
  > but 