This Matter of Marriage - Softcover

"[Debbie Macomber] is skilled at creating characters who work their way into readers' hearts." -RT Book Reviews on Dakota Home

"I've never met a Macomber book I didn't love!" - #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller

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"Macomber offers a very human look at three women who uproot their lives to follow their true destiny." -Booklist on Changing Habits

If I want to get married and have a family (and I do), it's time for a plan!! 

—from Hallie McCarthy's diary  

 

The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing away. She's hitting the big three-0 and there's no prospect of marriage, no man in sight. But Hallie's an organized, goal-setting kind of person. She gives herself a year to meet Mr. Knight in Shining Armor. But all her dates are disasters. (There's the cheapskate and the sex fiend and...well, never mind.) 

 

Too bad she can't just fall for her good-looking neighbor, Steve Marris. He's definitely not her type. Anyway, Steve's busy trying to win back his ex-wife, Mary Lynn, who's busy getting married—but not to Steve. Life would be so much simpler if he could fall for someone else. Like...Hallie. 

 

They're friends, though—and sometimes friends become lovers. Sometimes friends become more....