Margie Walker is going to prove to Uncle Bonny that she is well able to deal with her inheritance before she is thirty. One way to do so is to marry her suave, sophisticated fiancé in a timely manner. Surely, once she was married to Uncle Bonny’s son - who is no relation to her - he would see that she was a responsible adult. It was a great plan. And then she literally ran into Jack Ivan at the bank.

Jack is a rancher on a desperate mission to stop his sister from marriage. Jack likes boring. Margie has never heard the word. After their second run-in, Jack learns something the other males in Margie’s orbit have always known: she has the "uncanny ability to take a bad situation and make it worse." Still, crash landings and jailhouse riots might not have been so bad if they hadn’t followed her Jaguar crashing into his Jeep, or the mad dash from Tampa to Miami.

The novel is based on a series of silly and simple misunderstandings that could be easily explained, but are not until Margie has made a bigger mess of things. Nonetheless, the novel is amusing, barely allowing the reader, or the characters, time to catch their breath between escapades.

Ms. Whitten takes a bad situation and makes it worse. If you were to picture Lucille Ball on the run, she would look like Margie! Overall, the characters are a little too cardboard-like, but appropriate for the genre. In Pursuit of Love is definitely a fun romp.