Elsie Hawkins · Book 3
Wife for Hire
- Published
- 1 September 1990
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780061470530
- Type
- novel

About this book
Wife for Hire (September 1990, 224 pages), the shortest entry, continues the series' quick-succession release pace with another standalone couple nudged together by Elsie Hawkins.
Its place in Elsie Hawkins
Wife for Hire is book 3 in the Elsie Hawkins series. It follows Smitten. It is followed by The Rocky Road to Romance. See the full Elsie Hawkins reading order.
Before Stephanie Plum, there was Elsie Hawkins: a sharp-tongued, matchmaking older woman who turns up in four early Evanovich category romances, nudging a different mismatched couple together in each one. Back to the Bedroom, Smitten, Wife for Hire, and The Rocky Road to Romance are all standalone romances with their own hero and heroine, but Elsie recurs across all four as a connective thread, and Evanovich has said the character was the direct inspiration for gun-toting, foul-mouthed Grandma Mazur in the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061470530