Hasty Wedding by Debbie Macomber (1993, Paperback)

This is a great book. This is about a woman who just is put off again by her fiance. He doesn't want to attend a friends wedding dinner with her eventhough he said he would. She ends up going alone. At the dinner she meets up with a friend, that just happens to be an Indian. They quickly find that they are attracted to each other. This leads to him telling her that he has been admiring her from afar for a long time. She finds him attractive. They want to make love but he refuses until they are married. She takes that as a proposal. They do get married.
This causes a big fuss. What does she tell her parents or her fiance? He thinks that she wants a divorce. They eventually find their way to each other. She gets sick with the flu and is too sick to go to the doctor. He goes to her house and finds her deathly sick. He takes her to the doctors and then to his home where he can keep and eye on her. He nurses her back to health. Then her parents get wind of the situation. They think that the big, bad Indian has kidnapped their daughter. They come with the sheriff to take her home. What a delightful picture Debbie creates with this one. They arrive with no warning and want their daughter. This is when she has to explain that they are amarried and that she will be going no where with them. This is also where she tells them that she is expecting the Indians baby. What a shock to her parents who have to learn to except their new son-in-law.
This was a nice story. I enjoyed reading it but it could have been a bit more original. I liked the fact that they got married and then they tried to work things out before they took any action as to what they would do next. If you get the chance to read this one, take it. It is worth the effort it takes to read it.

I love Debbie Macomber. She is not raunchy and her characters are realistic. I get lost in her stories and can escape from the "real world" when reading one of her books.