Secondhand Bride (McKettrick Cowboys Trilogy #3)

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To win his father's ranch, a hard-living cowboy settles down and takes a wife -- another man's wife!

The youngest McKettrick brother, Jeb, is the wild one who never could stay out of trouble. And trouble is what he gets when he proposes to Chloe Wakefield. No sooner had he and the pretty schoolteacher tied the knot than Jeb discovers she's already married! After a major dustup with Chloe in a Tombstone barroom, an irate Jeb hightails it back to the Triple M Ranch, certain that his chances of winning the spread in a marriage race with his brothers are dashed.

Now Chloe has come to Indian Rock, hoping to find her beloved uncle John and a much-needed teaching post. But when she unexpectedly crosses paths with Jeb, her rage -- and passion -- flare even stronger than back in Tombstone. Chloe never intended to mislead Jeb about her previous marriage to a scoundrel of a man. But when she finds out Jeb needs a bride and a baby in order to inherit the Triple M, she is livid.

Learning to trust will be the hardest part of this mixed-up marriage -- until a stagecoach robbery and the return of a dangerous stranger prove to Jeb and Chloe that they need each other to love and honor as long as they both shall live.

Customer Reviews:

Secondhand Bride.......2007-08-12

One of the best books I have read, I have read the Trilogy and loved all three.

Secondhand Bride.......2007-08-10

This is great book if you read the other two books of the McKettrick family you will enjoy it. Dont forget to read about the last or should I say first brother of the McKettrick Cowboys. Title: "McKettrick Choice".

AMAZING SERIES!.......2007-08-07

Miller is an exquisite storyteller. I have read many of her titles--including every single McKettrick story beginning with Rafe and ending with Keegan (some more than once), and each one left me wanting more. I assure you you won't be disappointed.

Great Series!.......2007-08-01

If you like cowboys and romance then this is the series for you!
Love this story line!

Hated to reach the end of this book.......2007-06-14

Couldn't stop reading! Read High Country Bride and Shotgun Bride before reading this title.

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One of the Best I've read!
Hot, Hot, Hot!!!
everyone needs a tall dark cowboy
bummer
HOT! HOT! HOT!

A Tall Dark Cowboy
Mackenzie Mckade
Manufacturer: Elloras Cave Pub Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 141995590X

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One of the Best I've read!.......2007-06-08

This story was exciting, heart-warming, and very steamy! The author did a wonderful job writing so that you connect with the characters! I couldn't put it down! I recommend this book to everyone! A TRUE ROMANCE! The REAL thing!

Hot, Hot, Hot!!!.......2007-05-21

This is definitely a hot book. Not for the timid and certainly not for the faint at heart. Expect explicitely hot sex, great characters and storyline and you won't be disappointed!!

I have come to expect great things from this author and have not been let down with any of her books.

everyone needs a tall dark cowboy.......2007-04-03

This book was hot from page one and never let up. I'm ready to find my cowboy. Ms. McKade knows how to write about a man that every woman fantasizes about and make it believable. This won't be the last book i read written by Ms. McKade, i'm a big fan now. Job well done!!!

bummer.......2007-03-29

I was really looking forward to reading this book and was completely let down. It showed promise of being hot, and then fell short of that promise within the very first love scene. The sex was so boring I actualy found myself saying "yadda-yadda, get on with it" The dialogue between the characters is completely unbelievable and there was no foundation established to make it reasonable for them to get from one emotional plaine to the next. The problem is that I believe Mackenzie can write, there was such promise in this book, but it felt as though she was rushed along and that she just wasn't invested enough in this story to make it believable. Sorry to be so harsh, but after shipping and handeling I paid fifteen bucks for a book I didn't care enough about to even finish.

HOT! HOT! HOT!.......2007-03-16

This is my first time reading Mackenzie Mckade and I'm definitely hooked. I couldn't put this book down till I was done.

Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers

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Bits & Spurs: Motifs, Techniques and Modern Makers
Ned Martin , and Jody Martin
Manufacturer: Hawk Hill Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0965994740

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123 contemporary makers are featured in this book, with over 900 stunning color photographs of their work. Modern makers have made many innovations in both techniques and motifs in their craft. Extensive chapter on design motifs utilized over the centuries with myriad images of animals, birds, insects, flowers, geometric designs, human figures, and cowboy motifs and more.

All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)

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A Super Modern Western Adventure!
Cowboys!~
Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliet."
A wonderful reading experience
All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)
Cormac Mccarthy
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394574745
Release Date: 1992-04-21

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Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.

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Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews:

A Super Modern Western Adventure!.......2007-09-22

Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews. This review of "All the Pretty Horses" is pretty good. I didn't want to ruin the story by telling too much. Your "helpful" votes are appreciated.

This memorable novel caught me and wouldn't let go. Around 1948, two teenage boys from Texas ride their horses down into Mexico. From there, the adventure begins. For a while, they live at a cattle ranch where the one boy falls in love with the wealthy rancher's daughter.

Highly recommended.

McCarthy is a powerful writer, and his novel "Blood Meridian" is the most powerful novel I ever read (see my review where I compare his prose to that of Conrad).

Blood Meridian:

"That night they rode through a region electric and wild where strange shapes of soft blue fire ran over the metal of the hoses' trappings and the wagonwheels rolled in hoops of fire and little shapes of pale blue light came to perch in the ears of the horses and in the beards of the men. All night sheetlightning quaked and sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and lived like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear. The thunder moved up from the southwest and lightning lit the desert all about them, blue and barren, great clanging reaches ordered out of the absolute night like some demon kingdom summoned up or changeling land that come the day would leave them neither trace nor smoke nor ruin more than any troubling dream."

Compare above lines to similar lines in "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad:

"We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be subdued at the cost of profound anguish and of excessive toil. But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, , of eyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage. The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy. The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us--who could tell" we were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings; we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before an enthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse. We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign--and no memories."
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cowboys!~.......2007-09-18

This book is short but really interesting. Anybody can read it quickly. The only confusing part is that the book has many quotes but it doesn't say who is saying it. This is why sometimes you have to think twice about who said this and that. The lovestory is not like any typical teenage lovestory- in one word it is DIFFERENT.

Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliet.".......2007-09-10

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode island and grew up in Tennessee, but now lives in Tesuque, New Mexico. He is viewed by many as one of the more unusual and most talented of the current American writers. For example, Harold Bloom has written a number of things about McCarthy.

Some describe Mccarthy as a loner. Coincidentally, that is what one might call the protagonist in the present novel: John Grady. The novel is set in the 1950s time period and Grady is a young man or mature boy caught between the horse and buggy days of the old west and the new west connected by modern highways. Grady has a fascination for horses and is a talented rider.

The story is about two men who ride their horses into Mexico and work as ranch hands in Mexico. It is part love story and part a tale of justice and adventure, i.e.: Grady meets a woman in Mexico. The protagonist is a sympathetic character and most readers will find it to be a compelling read.

Some might not like it for the prose. The prose is complicated by design. I thought the first thirty pages were sometimes a bit awful but effective as well, but then McCarthy lightens up a bit on his writing. He reminded me a bit of the opening of Farewell to Arms where Hemingway tries to set the mood through the use of prose: Hemingway uses a narrative of the natural surroundings. McCarthy uses expressions such as "the sun sat blood red and elliptic," and these seem out of place when compared to the spartan dialogue of a father and son talking over a breakfast of eggs and coffee.

Also, McCarthy uses what is called polysyndeton, or the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. It is a stylistic scheme used to slow down the tempo. As pointed out by others, polysyndeton is used extensively in the King James Version of the Bible. For example:

"And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." Genesis 7:22-24

One of the best parts in the book - and exceptional writing by the way - is where he describes a dream in the middle of the book about horses running free on a plain and he does so in 18 continuous lines with no punctuation.

So, this is based on some universal themes, set in Texas and Mexico, and has some interesting and complicated prose. Once you get passed page 30 to 50, it is a novel that is hard to put down. I read most of the novel in an evening.

Highly recommended page turner: 5 stars.

A wonderful reading experience.......2007-09-09

This was one of the best reading experiences Ive ever had. What was most important to me was how true to the how people of this lifestyle actually are. I grew up in this type of atmosphere and its a big part of who I am even though it no longer defines me on a daily basis. Working with horses is a lifestyle. It what you live and breathe. McCarthy captures that. It had such an effect on me and took me back to a life I miss so much. Enjoy this book.

All the Pretty Horses.......2007-08-06

I was disappointed in the style of this book. I had just read "Water for Elephants" and was blown away. The reviews I read lead me to this author and the above book. The story line is good however he is slow to develop it. I appreciate discriptive text however a paragraph (or more) it seems to descibbe a dry river bed is a bit much especially when there is one on every page. Alas the last 1/3 of the book will go unread. And I will search for the next W.F.E.

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Touched My Heart And My Funnybone
Not Yer Typical Frilly Gal
My Aunt Mary's Book
Petticoat Ranch ~ Reviewed
Wacky, witty & wonderful...

PETTICOAT RANCH (Barbour Value Fiction)
Mary Connealy
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ASIN: 1597896470

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Sophie Edwards is doing just fine, until a strange-yet oddly familiar-man rides into her life, insisting on rescuing her and her four daughters. Can she find a way to love a headstrong mountain man? When Clay McClellan discovers his brother has been murdered, he's bent on finding the killers and seeing them properly hung. But first his Christian duty demands that he marry his sister-in-law. After all, Sophie needs someone to protect her - right? Faith and love help unruly wed newlyweds find common ground and a chance at love on the Texas frontier.

Customer Reviews:

Touched My Heart And My Funnybone.......2007-09-05

Petticoat Ranch by Mary Connealy really did touch my heart as well as my funnybone. That's why I gave it five stars.
I'm a native Texan, and like Mary, I write historical novels. As I read Petticoat Ranch, I kept wondering how Mary knew so much about my home state.
She mentioned bears and wolves. And I thought, "now I've got her." There are no bears or wolves in Texas. Just coyotes and bobcats.
Well, I was wrong. Not only do we have bears and wolves, a bear was found on a ranch not thirty miles from where I live within the last six months.
So, Mary Connealy knows a lot about Texas. She's a great writer, too.
Molly Noble Bull
www.mollynoblebull.com
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Not Yer Typical Frilly Gal.......2007-08-22

I'm not normally a big fan of frontier historicals, but Mary Connealy has blessed heroine Sophie Edwards with the heart of a modern woman. If you've ever struggled with the whole "submissive wife" concept (and who hasn't?), you'll identify with Sophie right away. I'd like to see this story in movie form, especially the climactic scene, with all the been-there-done-that nuances between the Edwards girls as they take on the bad guys. LOTS of fun.

My Aunt Mary's Book.......2007-08-06

I have not gotten a chance to read it yet, but I know it is going to be good. it is based of my aunt's family, full of love and laughter. I am excited to start it.

Petticoat Ranch ~ Reviewed.......2007-07-17

Petticoat Ranch depicted women back in the days of cowboys and cattle ranches. Women worked hard back then, sometimes even harder to survive being defiled by the men back then. This story shows how one woman protected her girls and showed them how to fend for themselves.

When Clay McClellan discovers his brother has been murdered he is set on revenge. But first, he believes, his Christian duty demands he marry his sister in law. After all, Sophie needs someone to protect her right? He would do the right thing by his brother's family.

The men that killed Clay's brother are still out to kill his family. Will they succeed in finishing the job they started? Stay tuned. This book will make you laugh out loud in parts. I can't wait for the next book to come out by to come out. This would make a great movie.

Reviewed by Nora St.laurent
Life Way Book Club

Wacky, witty & wonderful..........2007-07-17

are only three of the many, many words I could use to describe Mary Connealy's debut novel, Petticoat Ranch! Fun, unique, hilarious, and inspiring are other words that still fail to do the novel justice.

Mary has constructed a fantastic story that seems to breach all genres - who would have thought a suspenseful historical with a strong romance thread and a hilarious chick-lit voice would have been this great? This is one book that everyone can - and will! - read and enjoy.

A widow on the frontier, more daughters than she - or her new husband - can count, a dangerous surprise, and one stubborn cowboy make this story one you won't be able to put down!

I dare you to branch out today and pick up a copy of this fabulous book! You'll giggle, you'll sniffle, you'll constantly look over your shoulder...but most of all, you WON'T regret it!

Hawk's Way Rogues: Honey and the Hired Hand/ The Cowboy Takes a Wife/ The Temporary Groom

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#1, 5 and 9 in Hawk's Way Series...Good Buy For Fans, 3 Emotioanlly Charged Stories
Pleasant read
Hawk's way Rogues
Great read!

Hawk's Way Rogues: Honey and the Hired Hand/ The Cowboy Takes a Wife/ The Temporary Groom
Joan Johnston
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ASIN: 0373484453

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HONEY AND THE HIRED HAND
Tall, dark and grumpy, Jesse Whitelaw could scare away cattle rustlers with a single growl. But wary widow Honey Farrell knew just how to tame the mysterious drifter. And it started with a kiss . . .

THE COWBOY TAKES A WIFE
To own a piece of Texas, Carter Prescott had to say "I do" and agree to protect Desiree Parrish from her abusive ex-husband. He'd thought he could handle being just a bodyguard -- until he touched his new bride . . .

THE TEMPORARY GROOM
Single dad and "no-good half-breed" Billy Stonecreek and wild "Whitelaw Brat" Cherry Whitelaw met and married in a single night for all the right reasons -- except love. Could a marriage begun in haste and seasoned with passion lead to forever?

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#1, 5 and 9 in Hawk's Way Series...Good Buy For Fans, 3 Emotioanlly Charged Stories.......2007-06-05

Hawk's Way Rogues : "Honey and the Hired Hand", "The Cowboy Takes A Wife", and "The Temporary Groom"

If you are already a fan of Joan Johnston's Romance, Western Adventure and Historical novels, you are probably aware that there are several different series of stories to get caught up in, featuring different families,their adventures, their romances and sometimes feuds."Hawk's Way Rogues" is a 3 in 1 book and has #'s 1, 5 and 9 in the Hawk's Way Series", modern day western romance/adventure novellas centering on the Whitelaw family. These combo books are probably the best way to go for collectors and some(including this one) have the family tree, and book order inside the book which is a great help in following the family through the generations. For individual purchase of these and other stories in the series, click on the title link I have provided throughout the review.

If you weren't a fan before,Honey and the Hired Hand(#1), will have you hooked, especially if you love a steamy romance! The story of Honey Farrell and Jessie Whitelaw is a fabulous romance and promises a great series to follow.

Honey is the widow of a Texas Ranger. Trying to run her ranch, and raise two boys, one already a teen, on her own, is too much for her to handle alone. Enter Jessie Whitelaw, who talks his way into the job of helping her run the Flying Diamond. Although the beautiful Honey is hesitant, there is something about the rugged cowhand that draws her to him. He's Hired! Each trying to keep their distance for their own reasons, Honey, not wanting to get involved with a drifter, knowing she will be hurt when he moves on, and Jessie has ulterior motives for being there, knows he will be moving on and knows he can't get involved with the luscious Honey.But of course, we know these two will fall into each other's arms eventually. Johnston keeps the anticipation going with tantalizing circumstances between the two, and when they finally can't resist each other anymore, the romance sizzles with steamy scenes.

As always in a Joan Johnston novel, there is much more to the story. There is always some sort of adventure, mystery or conspiracy going on. Honey has been losing her cattle to rustlers. She hopes her new hired hand can help her stop the thieves. But when her prize bull turns up missing, along with her 13 year old son(who wasn't all too happy about Jessie being there in the first place), the evidence points towards Jessie. Can he be the culprit? Or has he hired on for another reason. Will her son turn up safe and sound? Can Honey resist Jessie even when she thinks he's the bad guy?

There was only one part of the story, I found a little hard to swallow. As a mother, there is no way, even if involved in a passionate affair, you would wait 24 hours to check on your 13 year old child, who is supposedly staying at a friends. But hey, as the reader, I wouldn't have wanted that delicious love scene cut short though!

Johnston keep the pace moving right along. The reader keeps turning the page to see what happens. I thought it was a great start to the Hawks Way series. Follow this one up withRancher And The Runaway Bride (Silhouette Desire, No 779). Johnston is real good at having one story flow to the next in all the series.

Cowboy Takes A Wife (Hawk'S Way) (Silhouette Desire, No 842) is # 5 in the line up, and it is the first one that branches out to family members other then the core Whitelaw siblings. It also should not be confused with another romance by the same title by Lois Faye Dyer. If you have been following the series, you may remember briefly meeting Carter Prescott, as Faron Whitelaw's half brother in 3rd in the series,Cowboy And The Princess (Silhouette Desire, No 785) . Ms Johnston, gives enough background and interaction with the Whitelaw's, so that this book stand on it's own.

Joan Johnston is amazing as she always matches up two wonderful characters, that seem made for each other, while still keeping the plot interesting and fresh. In this one Desiree Parrish and her little daughter Nicole are in danger. Carter Prescott is looking for a place to set down roots and call his own. Desiree owns a ranch and needs a husband for protection. She carries the scars, physically and mentally of an abusive relationship and has no hopes for a future relationship. Offering Carter a place to call his own,in desperation she proposes to him, a man she met once in her childhood and hardly knows. So hardly knowing each other, but each with their own reasons, and each with the scars and secrets of the past,they marry. Desiree who never thought she could let another man touch her, or make a man happy in the bedroom discovers new feelings with this man who treats her so tenderly. Carter too, starts to fall for Desiree, can hardly keep from spending every waking minute with her, and also learns to care for Nicole as well. These two strangers learn about each other's past and the marriage becomes one much more than one of convenience .There's danger brewing though, in the form of Desiree's maniac of an ex-husband.

There is much to overcome and Johnston keeps the reader turning the pages, as this multi-faceted story unfolds at a great pace in this romantic and suspenseful novella. A very good entry and something a little different from the rest in the Hawk's Way series. Next up is Unforgiving Bride (Hawk'S Way) (Silhouette Desire, No 878),which start of the next generation of Whitelaw kids' stories.

Book #'s 2, 3 and 4, make up the Hawk'S Way Bachelors (Trade Paperback) (Silhouette Promo) 3 in 1 book.

Temporary Groom (Hawk'S Way) (Silhouette Desire, No 1004) is #9 in Joan Johnston's Hawk's Way series of romance novella's revolving around Whitelaw family. This one is the start of the third generation,the grandchildren of Garth and Candy Whitelaw who's story is told in novella #4 Wrangler And The Rich Girl (Silhouette Desire, No 791).

The Whitelaw kids of all generations, although eventual pillars of the community, have through each generation been a bit on the wild side and have been tagged 'The Whitelaw Brats'. Cherry Whitelaw, one of 8 adopted kids by Zach and Rebecca(Disobedient Bride (Man Of The Month, Hawk'S Way) (Silhouette Desire No 937)), has had a troubled past, has built a wall around herself when it comes to love, and just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Even when it's not her fault, blame seems to find her. Just as she is ready to graduate from high school, she is suspended and kept from graduation and berates herself for having failed her loving adoptive parents once more.

Neighbor Billy Stonecreek has problems and a reputation for being bad aw well. having lost his wife in an auto accident only a year before, trying to raise his 6 year old twin daughters and work his ranch on his own, the anger within him grows and can't seem to stay out of fights. His ex-mother-in-law, a vile woman, is preparing a law suite to take his children away from him.

When these two meet, both licking their wounds from the night's events, they find they each have something to offer the other. Cherry wants to get away somewhere where she can prove herself worthy of her family and Billy needs a mother for his children to show the courts he is providing a good home for his children. So they form a temporary alliance and what else?..they get married. But can these two "bad" influences prove they are fit for raising a family? And can they do it without losing their hearts to each other, and in Cherry's case to the little girls who want no part of their new "step-mother".

It's a touching and poignant story, and will be especially relatable to adoptive parents and children, and those "new" parents who may have found themselves with an "instant" step family. Ms. Johnston really pulls the emotional strings in this one. You can't help but find yourself rooting for this new family to make it,for Cherry and Billy to open their hearts, and also to turn the temporary situation into a permanent one. And of course, it wouldn't be a Johnston novel without some very intimate romantic moments as well.

It's a wonderful and fast read that I found hard to put down, and it is not necessary to have read any of the others in the series to get involved in this one.Next up in the series isVirgin Groom (Hawk'S Way). I'll review it as soon as I read it.

You can find more of Joan Johnston's series and full length novels, and the order they should be read by clicking onto my So You'd Like To Guide of the series and their order through my profile page.

Individually I gave 2 of these 4 stars and one(The Temporary Groom") 5 stars, but going with 5 stars for the three together in this economical 3 pack.

Enjoy the read.....Laurie

Pleasant read.......2006-12-25

I found three high interest stories within Hawk's Way Rogues.

With Honey and the Hired Hand and The Cowboy Takes A Wife, there are two very strong women and men who are unusually steadfast in their way until they find Honey and Desiree respectively. In The Temporary Groom, both Billy Stonecreek and Cherry Whitelaw are impulsive characters, which leads them into all sorts of collective trouble.

While Honey and the Hired Hand felt like a plot line that has been repeatedly revisited (widow falls for hired help), its intent did not detract from the purpose of Honey's reluctance or grief for her late husband.

In The Cowboy Takes A Wife, Desiree is a much more desperate woman to Carter Prescott, but he too keeps deep secrets about his past. As Carter heals himself, he finds his love with Desiree something he knew he had yet to experience in his past.

I had a harder time believing in The Temporary Groom that a man would believe that marrying a 18-year-old high school drop out would be the solution to all his problems. But in the end, the real truth of family's love, forgiveness, and inner strength reigns.

In addition to these stories, inside this edition of Hawk's Way is a family tree to help you sort out the complex family of Hawk's Way Ranches. This family tree links the stories and the anthologies also written by Joan Johnston.

Hawk's way Rogues.......2005-09-11

I love this author so I knew without a doubt that the book was going to be great. I also liked using your service because I have not been able to get the book in the stores.

Great read!.......2002-12-08

Fun, sexy and exciting. Lots of romantic tension. Liked it as uch as "Anything, My Love" by Cynthia Simmons and "New Mexico sunrise" by Peterson.

Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)

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Absolutely magnificent
Perfect!!!
New Favorite
One of great masterpieces of our time
Stunning!

Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
Larry McMurtry
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 068487122X

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Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an S&S Classic Edition.

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was.

A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.

Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.

Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other's deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.

Call's dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters:

-- Lorena, the whore with the proverbial heart of gold, whom Gus (and almost everyone else) loves, and who survives one of the most terrifying experiences any woman could have...

-- Elmira, the restless, reluctant wife of a small-time Arkansas sheriff, who runs away from the security of marriage to become part of the great Western adventure...

-- Blue Duck, the sinister Indian renegade, one of the most frightening villains in American fiction, whose steely capacity for cruelty affects the lives of everyone in the book...

-- Newt, the young cowboy for whom the long and dangerous journey from Texas to Montana is in fact a search for his own identity...

-- Jake, the dashing, womanizing exRanger, a comrade-in-arms of Gus and Call, whose weakness leads him to an unexpected fate...

-- July Johnson, husband of Elmira, whose love for her draws him out of his secure life into the wilderness, and turns him into a kind of hero...

Lonesome Dove sweeps from the Rio Grande (where Gus and Call acquire the cattle for their long drive by raiding the Mexicans) to the Montana highlands (where they find themselves besieged by the last, defiant remnants of an older West).

It is an epic of love, heroism, loyalty, honor, and betrayal -- faultlessly written, unfailingly dramatic. Lonesome Dove is the novel about the West that American literature -- and the American reader -- has long been waiting for.

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Absolutely magnificent.......2007-09-10

A phenomenal achievement, Lonesome Dove could well be considered the Great American Novel. Part road trip, part character study, this amazing novel should be on everyone's reading list!

Mr. McMurtry has succeeded admirably in creating a cast of characters that any writer could be proud of, and especially of absolutely nailing a complex relationship between the two principle characters. In August McCrae and Captain Woodrow Call, McMurtry has gifted us with two of the best and most complete characters ever written, let alone loosed upon the Western landscape. Add to them a host of other rich characters, and an understanding of the trials and dangers of a complete north-to-south transverse of America, and you've got Lonesome Dove.

Desperately moving, though often humorous, this is American writing at its very best. Despite its length, it's a quick read. That's probably true because, as other reviewers here have said, once you begin this beautiful book it will accompany you everywhere you go until it's finished.

Perfect!!!.......2007-09-09

Reading this book is was one of the best experiences of my life. Truely it soaks into your soul and becomes a part of who you are. Its is something that you never forget. How it made you feel. Each of the characters and how you still pull for them despite their fictional exsistance. Physically it has its effect on you as well. Especially since you have to put it down to wipe your eyes many times through out. Read! Experience! Enjoy!

New Favorite.......2007-09-05

My husband read this some 16-17 years ago and told me I should read it one day. Well, I just read it and Lonesome Dove is now one of my top 5 favorite books ever. I absolutely loved it. It was truly sad at the end, all those characters were with me for those wonderful days of reading and now I'm done. I'll just have to read it again....

One of great masterpieces of our time.......2007-07-30

I read this book about 15 years ago, and I never read another western since. Nothing can measure up to this masterpiece. Even though it started out slowly and I almost gave it up, I stayed with it and I am so glad that I did. This is a true classic.

Stunning!.......2007-07-15

I found this book a little slow at the start but I'm glad I persevered. This is a magnificent novel. One of the best I've read in years.

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COWBOY BEBOP
Good but Could be Better
Bebop novels don't disappoint
Great collection of quality manga

Cowboy Bebop Boxset
Hajime Yadate , Yutaka Nanten , and Cain Kuga
Manufacturer: Tokyopop
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Binding: Paperback

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The hippest bounty hunters in the galaxy are back! Spike Spiegel, Jet Black and Faye Valentine are on the hunt for new targets, inspired by the hit anime series. Cowboy Bebop blends science fiction, spaghetti westerns, film noir, and jazz music into a new genre that's all about style. As each volume features four stand-alone adventures, this is the perfect time to find out what all the excitement is about.

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COWBOY BEBOP.......2005-02-09

i didnt even know that there was a manga series i love the show and i love the movie so im getting this along with the complete series :) i recomend this to anyone who likes or loves anime

Good but Could be Better.......2004-11-25

Im a huge CowBoy Bebop fan so it was a no brainer that I'd by the entire series of Manga, but when I got it I was slighlty dissapointed. The art work was definitly not what I had been expecting and while it was still very good, it definitly had room for improvment and differd greatly from the art work used in the series. The story lines were good and easy to follow but I wouldn't suggest this series to somone if they don't already watch the show

Bebop novels don't disappoint.......2004-02-02

... but you may want to see the series first. I bought the manga before I owned the TV series, having heard all about Cowboy Bebop, but I'll warn you, it can get a little confusing if you're not already familiar with the characters. The first three books read like a typical episode of Cowboy Bebop, and they don't waste time on introductions and character development. If you've finished the series, these books are a good way to see your fave characters reunited again in more origianl and wacky plots to get cash. The manga is exquisitely drawn, and is presented in "100% Authentic Manga style" ((it reads right to left.))
One of the cutest stories is about Ed's past, when she meets an old firend under unusual circumstances.. but I won't spoil it for you!! *wink*
For die-hard Bebop fans, this is a must have. If you want an introduction to the series... well, it worked for me, it was just a little confusing at first. I think you'd enjoy it none the less...

Great collection of quality manga.......2004-01-23

I'm fairly new to reading manga, so I figured my first encounter would be with a series I'm familiar with from my anime collection. This series as an anime is great and the manga is just as wonderful. The first 3 books of this collection go around the crew of the Bebop as they take on the most dangerous and sometimes wacky bounties in the solar system. Plenty of action and comedy for all. The second 2 books, stardust memory, is basically what the anime series was loosely based on. Even if you have the anime, its worth reading this collection. Overall I give this set a great score not only because of its high quality writing and artwork, but also because this set has inspired me to keep increasing my manga collection.

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Good Cowboys
LUKE
LUKE
LUKE
The Cowboy Series is Wonderful!!!!

The Cowboys: Luke (Cowboys)
Leigh Greenwood
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
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Good Cowboys.......2007-06-27

I have enjoyed all of Leigh Greenwood's Cowboys. My favorite is always the one I most recently read and Luke is my most recent. It is a neat love story with just the right dash of the old west. Of course I am a sucker for a happy ending. Luke is the kind of man that all of us ladies is hoping to find and thank goodness our heroine was clever enough to see this.

LUKE.......2002-05-16

I really liked LUKE , the Characters, LUKE and Valeria were so good together, when I was reading the book I almost felt like I was there, the only thing about the book was I don't understand how Valeria , a rich ,spoiled self-involved young women could change her ways so fast, but it was only a book, I think in the real world it wouldn't happen
DJ

LUKE.......2002-05-16

The Cowboy Series is Wonderful!!!!.......2001-10-27

I have read all of the Cowboy series books and have enjoyed each one. Greenwood does a wonderful job of bringing each character to life. I am eagerly anticipating the rest of the series and hope that they will be completed soon!! I fell completely in love with Luke!

Make-Believe Cowboy (Harlequin Superromance)

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Romancing a movie star....

Make-Believe Cowboy (Harlequin Superromance)
Terry McLaughlin
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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Romancing a movie star...........2006-09-16

MAKE-BELIEVE COWBOY by Terry McLaughlin
September 15, 2006

Rating ****

Some of us fantasize having romantic ties to a movie star. In MAKE-BELIEVE COWBOY, Ellie Harrison has loaned her ranch out to a movie production company, and movie star Fitz (Fitzgerald) Kelleran is the star. She couldn't care less, and doesn't want to have anything to do with him. She's in it for the money, as she could use whatever she can make to keep the ranch afloat. But her pre-teen daughter is infatuated with the fact that this movie star is hanging out on their property. Fitz is smitten by Jody, and Ellie warns him not to hurt her daughter, as she sees Jody latching on to him as if he was a father figure, and Ellie knows he's only in town for a few weeks.

In the mean time, Fitz who normally is attracted to a certain type of woman, cannot figure out why he is attracted to the feisty Ellie. She's plain compared to the women he's been seen with, but there is something about her that has caught his eye. As his friendship with her daughter grows, Ellie's animosity towards him grows as well. At least Ellie's mother-in-law/adoptive mother Jenna seems to like Fitz.

While the main story revolves around Ellie and Fitz, Jenna has her own story. She's a young widow but hasn't been with a man since her husband passed away. Will, who has worked on the ranch for years, has been in love with Jenna for as long as he's known her, but always from afar. Now that Jenna is available, he has yet to make any moves, afraid he would scare Jenna away. There is a lot of tension between the two, and it is obvious they feel something for each other, but Jenna refuses to acknowledge those feelings because Will is 12 years her junior.

This was a fun superromance with a lot of humor. The reader will enjoy the interaction between Fitz and his fastidious British personal assistant Burke, as well as the interplay between Fitz and Ellie. One may even picture Tom Selleck as Fitz, (or possibly some other popular actor) who is tall and good-looking and an all-around nice guy. Fitz is looking for that big break, but it hasn't happened yet for him. He's got a movie in mind that he wants to make, his dream movie that he continuously has to put off due to other commitments. The relationship between Jody and Fitz is probably what helps bring Fitz and Ellie together, as Ellie has to constantly come to Jody's "rescue" as the overprotective mother, not wanting Fitz to interfere in their lives because she knows he will be leaving soon.

The story takes place amidst the backdrop of the Montana outdoors, the wide-open spaces giving the reader a sense of freedom from constraints of city living. Ellie loves her ranch, and the fact that she may lose it because she can barely keep their finances above water is tearing her apart. She also wants this life for her daughter, regardless of what her daughter really wants. Ellie always saw this place as a refuge, the home that saved her from an unhappy childhood. And ever grateful to her mother-in-law Jenna, Ellie's first priority is to keep the ranch going, and to ensure that her daughter will always have a home.

Jenna's quiet infatuation for the younger ranch hand Will is almost an enigma, as throughout the story the two of them circle each other, but neither of them attempts to make a move. Their story comes together and to a close when a crisis brings the two together, which in turn also helps bring together Ellie and Fitz, a very unlikely couple.

Overall, MAKE-BELIEVE COWBOY was an enjoyable romance with that hint of a fairy tale romance. Two unlikely people who for some reason or another are attracted to each other, the reader will be left guessing as to how the two will finally be united as a couple. This reviewer felt the story worked, even though it was somewhat of a fairy tale, but those are the best types of romances. - courtesy of Loveromancesandmore.

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