Ready for Marriage

Ready for Marriage is a romance by Debbie Macomber, published by Harlequin in 1994 and set among the wealthy families of Boston.

Mary Jo Summerhill is a kindergarten teacher from an ordinary background, and Evan belongs to a family that measures people by their connections and their money. She has been in love with him for as long as she can remember, and three years before the book opens she took herself out of his life rather than be the reason his family disapproved of him, which broke his heart as thoroughly as it broke hers. Now she is in serious trouble and needs his help, which brings her back into regular contact with the man she has spent three years trying to forget. What she wants, beyond the practical assistance she is asking for, is a second chance, and the novel works out whether the obstacles that separated them the first time have actually changed.

Macomber writes short contemporary romances in which the difficulties are ordinary and the families on both sides matter as much as the couple, and this book is one of a large run of related stories written for the Harlequin lines.