A Week From Sunday

By Dorothy Garlock

Book Overview

Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him A WEEK FROM SUNDAY. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately to a new life. Caught in a violent rainstorm, she collides with an oncoming truck. Quinn Baxter, the driver of the truck, demands repayment for his lost cargo. They reach a bargain: she will live in his home, tutor his bedridden younger brother, and play piano in Quinn's tavern to pay off her debt. Drawn to the rugged Quinn, challenged by the interaction with the tavern patrons, she also must deal with an intractable foe--Quinn's housekeeper who is scheming to become his wife. And all the while, the spurned lawyer is following Adrianna's trail, determined to find her and force her to marry him.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446577928
• ISBN13: 9780446577922
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Nice read

Layed back reading. Very interesting story. Ms. Garlock has the ability to capture your attention and you do not want to put the book down, because you just know something else is just about to happen. Excellent read.

A Week From Sunday

As always Ms. Garlock has written a book I couldn't put down. Your either love or hate her characters and this book was no different. I feel this was one of her best ever!

Great book!!

This was a super book!! It was interesting and kept my attention all the way through!!

A Week From Sunday

Dorothy Garlock is one of my favorite authos. Being from Mason City Iowa and also living in Clear Lake Iowa at one time, I started reading her books when one of them was published in the Mason City Globe Gazette. I now have all the books she has written and looking forward to her next book. I thoroughly enjoyed A Week From Sunday. She writed about times that I or my parents were very familiar with. Keep up the good work. Ardys Koller

Good old-fashioned romance

Reviewed by Maria Elmvang Adrianna Moore is just 25 when she loses her father. Still reeling from the shock of suddenly becoming an orphan, grief turns to despair when her father's colleague, Richard Pope, tells her that he is the executor of her estate, and it was her father's wish that she should marry him, otherwise she would get nothing of her inheritance. From the very start there is no doubt that Mr. Pope is a psychotic and creepy older man - how creepy is not fully revealed until later - and Adrianna does the only thing possible at that time - she runs away. But on the wet streets in the pouring rain she loses control over her car, and crashes into a truck. Fortunate to survive the crash, the female doctor from the nearby town recommends that she stays with Quinn, whose truck she crashed into, in order to keep away from Mr. Pope-and at the same time, help Quinn with his brother. Reluctant at first, she agrees and soon becomes good friends with Quinn and brother Jesse-and sworn enemies with Quinn's househelp who has long had her eyes on Quinn. Tempers rise until it all comes to a head when Richard Pope comes to town. As a good old-fashioned romance in the style of Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown, A Week from Sunday is a delightful historical novel filled with conniving lawyers, murderous housemaids and of course, the indispensable rugged hero. A Week from Sunday cannot claim to be anything but a light read, but even so it is totally addictive as it draws you into a quiet Louisiana town of the 1930s. While I did think Mr. Pope got off much too easily for his pompous, and honestly, rather stalker-ish behaviour, the ending was very satisfactory and nicely tied up all loose ends. Armchair Interview says: Highly recommend A Week from Sunday for a few hours' escapism.