Well at first glance Sam Sinclair can't believe his eyes. His grandfather had sent this plump, frump partridge to act as his proxy in choosing the next head of the company. The company Bram Sinclair had started with nothing and built to a well renowned business. As Willamina Kent steps off the elevator her entrance is anything but graceful and acts as a precursor for Sam's disbelief for who he has to deal with in this important decision that will not only affect the company but the lives of all three brothers vying for the top spot. He immediately labels her a partridge with plain brown rumpled feathers -- or in her case an outfit fit for someone in their advanced years -- not a woman in her early thirties. But Sam isn't prepared for her smile or eyes which somehow diminish her outlandish clothing and have him think of her as an angelic frump.

Willamina is too busy trying to recuperate from the plane and taxi rides from hell. She is fully aware that she is now totally out of her comfort zone and isn't really all that certain why Bram sent her in his stead. After all she had only known him for a short time and her business experience was limited to running a custom made casket business in a very small town in Maine. She was far more comfortable aboard a sail boat in boat shoes and jeans then in a board room in a suit and heels. She was certain it was the heels throwing her off balance in her dealings with Sam but she couldn't deny that the man scowling at her made her wish she had made a better entrance.

Willing to follow his grandfather's wishes Sam tries to mediate a very difficult situation between his brothers and the board. But none are prepared for what Bram had up his sleeves when he had his will rewritten. As Sam realizes that his feelings for Willa are beginning to put his goal of eternal bachelor in jeopardy he faces a bigger challenge. He will have to convince her that his desire to have her in his life has nothing to do with the will. And at all costs he is willing to do anything to prove that to her. But Willa doesn't have the slightest intention of marrying and specially no dreams of family and happy ever after.

THE MAN MUST MARRY is an interesting story about people being put in unenviable positions of trying to do what is best for someone or something other than themselves. Our pasts definitely dictate our futures -- or do they? The past has already been written in Sam's and Willa's lives but their future can only be imagined. Whether it is to be with each other or not is up for grabs but the reader hopes it will work out for these two highly likeable souls. Both good souls and perhaps that is what the grandfather was astute enough to see.

Book Summary

Trying to escape marriage,they are snared by love.

When Sam Sinclair's self-made millionaire grandfather sends Willa Kent, a woman none of the three Sinclair brothers have even heard of, as his proxy to an ultra-important meeting of the Sinclair shipping company, most people would think the old man had lost his marbles. But Sam knows his grandfather too well. For some reason, the wily old man has decided that one of his three grandsons should marry Willa, and this is his way of trying to force the issue....

So Willa and Sam team up on what seems like a wild-goose chase to find some loophole in Grandfather Sinclair's crazy notion. But as Sam crews Willa's yacht en route to Maine, he finds to his surprise that his grandfather's offbeat scheme is growing more attractive by the moment. Willa is smart, beautiful...and has a wild streak that sends them soaring together above the clouds.

But Willa isn't about to let Sam fly away with her heart until she knows his true motives. If the man wants to marry for money, then the woman in her says that first he must fall in love.