Marry Me Author:Pat Booth From Booklist — Glamour and romance are associated with locales like Malibu, Miami, Palm Beach, and Beverly Hills. Typeset these place-names in italics, and you have the titles of Booth's previous best-sellers. Ever hip, Booth has moved inland, setting up shop in everyone's new favorite place to see and be seen, Santa Fe. The Southwest has been r... more »omanticized in many contexts, from a facile worship of Georgia O'Keeffe to an acquisitive interest in Native Americans. Booth grabs what she needs from the New Mexico mix, tossing in just the right amount of artiness and mysticism to spice up her latest fantasy about rich people in love. It all begins at an upscale spa where three gorgeous women are treating themselves to a week of pampering as they try to figure out what to do about men or the lack thereof. Tessa's husband disappeared somewhere off the coast of the Bahamas. Carol's college-age son had to open her eyes to her attorney husband's affair with his yuppie colleague, and Rachel, well, Rachel is a star in the Barbara Walters' mode, and she doesn't know if she should marry the media mogul who wants to marry her. And you thought you had problems. These gals become friends and end up falling in love with the same mysterious man, a millionaire painter as handsome and suave as Cary Grant. Do the ladies find love? Does anyone end up with Mr. Perfect? Booth is adept at this brand of aerobicized escapism, putting her happy readers through the paces they unabashedly desire. --Donna Seaman« less