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Romance Reviews Today : "Right from the first page, WINNER TAKES ALL is amusing. The dealer, Floyd, is the epitome of a shady salesman. He will stop at nothing to give you a good deal, as long as he gets the better deal for himself. Karen is trying to impress her disinterested parents. All her life she has tried to please them, with little results. Thinking a motor home would make a great gift, she wants to win badly. Not a bad gift, but maybe she should have taken the shush money offered by Floyd and walked away. Karen tries really hard to control the kids, but bribing them from the start is not a good way to control them. She also ends up in laugh out loud situations that help keep the laughter flowing in WINNER TAKES ALL."
"Tom didn?t even buy the raffle ticket himself; his brother did and put his name on it. But Tom figures if he wins, he will sell it and use the money to help put his younger siblings through college. Holding the winning ticket, he just knows Karen is also a scam artist and somehow forged the same numbers. As an "I told you so" attitude, he takes on the challenge but soon finds himself attracted to the perky Karen. Despite raising his siblings after their parents died, Tom is not fond of kids, and being trapped with three energetic boys is enough to make any man go insane. Somehow, Tom manages to keep his sanity intact. And speaking of the three little boys...I found their antics amusing at first, but their mouthy talk and "what could they get into next" situations soon became a bit tiring. I would?ve found a relative to take care of the kids as soon as possible. Children are cute, but sometimes can be too much in a romance."
"Get past the huckster salesman Floyd, the three hyperactive boys, and the wild ride in a motor home and you will find a burgeoning romance between Tom and Karen. It?s slow to burn, but once it does, these two light up the pages of WINNER TAKES ALL. I guarantee you will find yourself chuckling and shaking your head, but what a pleasant ride WINNER TAKES ALL is. Diane Amos has penned a winning recipe of love and comedy between two genial characters who fall in love amid the chaos of a contest and makeshift childrearing. Don?t miss this highly amusing tale."
--Romance Reviews Today, July 2005
harrietklausner.wwwi.com : "Readers will win with this amusing romantic road show as Diane Amos shows her talent by providing a fine love story with children, pets and unscrupulous Floyd dampening the heat between the lead couple. Karen Ann is a solid lead protagonist needing to be loved as her parents are aloof towards her; Thomas, showered with sibling love, needs space after raising his brothers and sisters following the deaths of their parents in a car accident. The kids, dog, and cat provide comic chaos while Floyd is someone readers will not want to buy a used car from. WINNER TAKES ALL is a fun contemporary."
--Harriet Klausner, June 2005
Book Description
Recipe for chaos: Start with a raffle for one brand-new Winnebago, a dishonest Winnebago dealer who doesn't intend to part with the prize, and a virus-infected computer that spits out two winning tickets. Add Thomas O'Leary and Karen Ann Brown, opposites who instantly dislike each other. Pack them into a motor home for thirty days with three misbehaved boys, a Siamese cat, and a black Lab. Let them fight it out in a highly publicized tour, "Survivor" style. Both Thomas and Karen will do anything to win the grand prize. But the more days-and nights-they spend in each other's company, not to mention the three boys, one dog, one cat, a possible stalker, and hordes of reporters following their every move, the more they realize that there is a much bigger prize at stake-each other.
Diane Amos lives with husband Dave, in a small town north of Portland, Maine.
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