Annette Broadrick

Harlequin # 35 is another book from the attic. 

Finally at the 50/50  Harlequin/non Harlequin quota...lets see how close I can keep it.

The Book: 

Mr October

Tough Guy:

Tony Callaway. roughed-up rodeo cowboy--set in his wild ways.

Tender Gal:

    I found an old ('04) Christmas anthology to read. I wanted an antho as I have been very busy this week and thought short stories would be good and these 3 were.

    It's very HOT, our first hot spell, where I live so this was fun to read at this time.

This one kept moving lower in my tbr pile and now I am really sorry it did. I often have a difficult time with stories where they were married, but now they are not, BUT, this was such a good book. Greg is such a good guy once he learns a bit about himself. I liked the strength of Sherri in knowing that love does not necessarily conquer all.

     I got this By Request volume at Value Village and only because I wasn't sure if I had Annette Broadrick's story in its original form...  I should have known better, but it gave me an excellent opportunity to fall in love with the story all over again AND remember just why I began collecting all of her books / stories in the first place.
     While this story is all contemporary there's an undercurrent of what feels like magic running through it.  Soul mates from the very first glance, Beth and Dan experience an emotional connection from the instant that they first see each other.  Dan knows that this, this is the woman he has waited his whole life for.  There relationship doesn't go extremely smoothly, but neither are there any huge obstacles.  Just Beth's near-impregnable shield that she developed as grew up alone.  This is a beautiful, tender and very heartwarming contemporary fairy tale and I could, honestly, sit down and read it again right now.... Magic!  VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

RATING:
Excellence: Excellent to Outstanding ~ 4.5 stars
Steaminess: Romantic

Scandal!!!

This was a collection of 4 stories in 1, published by Silhouette in 2003. I enjoyed all of the stories.

The Christmas Bride by Heather Graham, Always and Forever by Lindsay McKenna, The Silent Gift by Marilyn Pappano, Christmas Magic by Annette Broadrick.

Very good,spicy with a little attitude to make it a great read!!

Greg and Sherri find themselves living with one another, yet again, after they have been divorced for almost two years.  Can this time be any different than the last?  When history repeats itself will the two of them make the same mistakes?