MY INVISIBLE HUSBAND - Shelia M. Goss
4AllSeasons Publishing
September 2004
SYNOPSIS: REMEMBER THE GAME CHARADES? Nicolette Montana has taken the game a step further. Nikki, a thirty four year old account executive, fakes a Las Vegas wedding--all at an attempt to please her family. On her return trip to Dallas, she meets the dashing Byron Matthews. When she gets caught up in her web of deceit, she's forced to ask Byron to step in to fill the void. As the story unfolds, will Byron take part in Nikki's scheme or will his own agenda be revealed?
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE: (3) Alvin Romer
REVIEW: Why in the world would anyone want to fake a wedding? Ask Nikki Montana, an insecure 34-year old career woman feeling
remorseful for not having lured by now the man of her dreams. Having someone question her marital status never came to fore in any
appreciative way among her peers, and when it surfaced she decides to use deception for marriage to work on her behalf. The ‘invisible’ in the
title gives the book a chance to be picked up just to see the what and why of it all.
Author Shelia M. Goss manages to weave a story about the main character that opts to fabricate an ideal situation that would answer questions
her peers have confronted her with not having a husband. This is used to diffuse the situation in silencing the questions and comparative
speculation about her single status. The one thing needed to facilitate her scheme was to find someone to help embellish her scheme for
acceptance. Now comes Byron Matthews who she met on an airplane flight back to Dallas. Everything falls into place and is the perfect anecdote
for what ails Nikki. Byron had mixed emotions after a love affair gone sour from his last relationship and never expected to get involved in
another. Fate, as it always does, manages to throw a wrench into the fray and lust becomes another illegitimate by-product of love.
The author did a credible job in portraying Nikki as a naďve patron to notions that such a move could be made in telling this type of story. I
would imagine that the purpose here is to make the storyline interesting and entertaining for truth and fantasy to come to fruition in
acquiring a justifiable end. As the story unravels, Byron comes with baggage of his own that further gave credence to the setting: baby momma
drama syndrome meets the guilty complex for not being married. Enough emotional anxiety, innuendo about sexual wants, and following Nikki’s
every move to validate the choice she made gives the story a nice flow for continuity.
Albeit laced with imaginative moxie, MY INVISIBLE HUSBAND probably would appeal to Ms. Gross' legion of fans, but for serious readers
it would probably be hard to fathom in a realistic sense. I feel that it’s still a good read if only to illustrate a maxim that should
always prevail – the morality of honesty in learning lessons of integrity in any relationship. If you’re in the market for something
different, read this book!
alvin@romanceincolor.com (1st February 2005)