I'm really waffling as to how to rate this book. I can't decide whether it should be 3 or 4 stars, though the more I think about it, it should be somewhere in between. Though I could change my mind. Hmm, yeah, I'm undecided. LOLWhether three or four though, the point is, I really liked this book....
Flint Creed needs a wife now that the woman he "loves" has chosen his brother to marry. There are stipulations for that marriage to happen, no sex ever! Emaline does not want to chance dying in childbirth like her mother. Flint heads out to find a bride, the first single woman he meets. Hannah We...
We jump straight in2 fam. probs. Her brother might not mak it&she was a blubbering baby&he seemed like a jerk.Case in point: “Wut the hell is wrong, Callie?”Is that wut u say wen sum1s shaken up? &she’s all, “There’s b-been an accident.” “He b-broke his neck.” It’s annoying&pathetic. Callie proce...
I always find the first book of a series a bit difficult to get totally absorbed by. This story started with the youngest of the Stewart daughters, Crickett. Crickett, is essentially a tom boy who is looking to please her father by being the son he has always wanted. However, Creed a Texas Ranger...
Overall Rating: 4.75Action: 3.0 / Emotion: 4.75 / Romance: 5.0 / Sensuous: 2.5 / Suspense: 3.5 // Laughter: 2 / Giggle: 2 // Tears: 2 / Teary: 1The Next Mrs. Blackthorne: 4.75:Since Joan Johnston is a favorite author, it was no surprise to find this book to be an enjoyable, easy, entertaining re...
The Blackthornes and the Creeds. Two powerful Texas dynasties–and lifelong enemies. Set in the heart of the modern-day West, New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston brings to passionate life the clash of wills between Blackthorne and Creed . . . as a man and woman discover a love stronger...
THE INNOCENT Too tall and entirely too outspoken, Miss Eliza Sheringham grew up thumbing her nose at polite English society. So when Captain Lord Marcus Wharton, called Beau for his stunning good looks set his rakish sights on her, Eliza thought nothing of rejecting his advances. Until a stolen k...
DAISY KNEW THAT SOMEDAY, SOMEHOW, SHE WOULD PAY FOR WANTING WHAT NO PROPER WOMAN WANTED ... The ravishing Duchess Daisy vowed to save Severn Manor by marrying Nicholas Calloway, a Texas bounty hunter come to claim his family's ancestral lands. But the moment they met, the slate-eyed barbarian to...
The independent sovereign of the Republic of Texas in 1844 was battling with conflicting interests whether to allow annexation to the United States or not. It was during this time Sloan Stewart discovered her deceased lover Antonio Guerrero used her to aid in the effort to sabotage annexation. Pr...
SHOTGUN WEDDINGWith three bossy, overprotective brothers looking over her shoulder, Tate Whitelaw was finding it impossible to become a woman. They still thought of her as a pigtailed little girl. So Tate hightailed it off the homestead—right into the manly arms of Adam Philips. She'd show everyo...
This had to be the worse book ever written. It's about tripletts, one born without a hand. When they are two years old the parents decide to put one of them up for adoption because of soaring medical cost for the one without the hand. HELLO, she was BORN without it. Other than a prostetic there s...
A story of an unforgettable first love in the heart of Texas . . . from New York Times bestselling author Joan JohnstonDelia Carson was only sixteen when she fled her Texas hometown. She left behind a web of lies that destroyed her family . . . and Marsh North, the irresistible bad boy she'd fall...
The Bodyguard
Reviewed for THC Reviews"4.5 stars" For a short novel, Honey and the Hired Hand was a surprisingly enjoyable read that kept me very emotionally engaged. Joan Johnston seems to have a talent for expressing a great deal using an economy of words. The pace moves along very quickly yet the story neve...
Overall Rating: 4.75:Action: 3.75 / Emotion: 5.0 / Romance: 5.0 / Sensuous: 2.0 / Suspense: 2.5 // Historical Flavor: 4.5 // Laughter: 1 // Teary: 3 / Tears: 5Comanche Woman: 4.75:Since Joan Johnston is a favorite author, it was not surprising that this exciting, entertaining, deeply emotional, w...
Estuvo bien, facil y rapida de leer...Desde el principio de la novela me encantó Nathan, su forma de cuidar de ella sin que lo supiera. Cómo se siente atraído por ella y decide tomar cartas en el asunto.Ambos protagonistas tienen miedos ocultos y algo que demostrar a sí mismos o a los demás. Me ...
Years after she is driven from England to the new world frontier, Lady Verity Talbot reencounters her lost love, the vengeful Miles Broderick, who is unaware that Verity desperately seeks their missing child.From the Paperback edition.
Texas Ranger Jake Kearney was astonished to discover that the "Kid" Calhoun he stalked, the same outlaw who saved him from ambush, was a woman--and an irresistible one at that! Now Anabeth Calhoun was an unwilling captive of the flinty-eyed Ranger as they pursued a gang of cold-blooded killers . ...
Schoolmarm Eden Devlin was too tall and too doggone smart. Most men in Sweetwater wouldn't tangle with her. Until Burke Kerrigan rode into town. Big, hard, and handsome, he wore a pair of six-guns and a bold, lazy smile. He came to settle the war between the nesters and the ranchers, but soon had...
Deputy Sheriff Sarah Barndollar finds herself emersed in turmoil as her husband has been missing for a year and a half, presumed dead, her three children are wanting more of her time, and playboy Drew DeWitt has set his eye on her. As if that weren't enough another girl has gone missing who happ...
She Was the Tomboy Tease He Remembered as a Kid...When the gorgeous blonde sashayed into Oakville, Ethan Hawk was a goner - until she told him her name: Patch Kendrick. The brat he remembered from Fort Benton, Montana was now a luscious lady hunting for her man: him! Nothing, not even his outlaw ...
From the book blurb:NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT!THE PAST: Although Texas in 1864 was no place for a lone lady traveler, feisty Angela Taylor had to get to San Antonio. She could outsmart any outlaw, so she wasn´t afraid when a bunch of no-good cowboys surrounded her. But when a rough and rugged stra...
This compelling volume contains two full-length novels in Johnston's captivating saga. The Virgin Groom and The Substitute Groom are two intensely emotional stories featuring powerful, appealing men characterized by the spirit of the untamed West. Reissue.
In fact, she had spent most of that time in a euphoric haze. Memories of Jesse’s lovemaking had preoccupied her in the morning, and their interlude in the barn, his proposal and their subsequent quarrel had kept her agitated until well after dark. It wasn’t until nearly nine o’clock Saturday even...
He felt a sharp pain, but the leg held. He gritted his teeth to keep from groaning. So far, so good. Mac kept his eyes focused on the area between the bars in front of him, willing his leg to work. He took an easy step with his right leg, then called on the left again. The pain was less sharp the...
Rebecca surreptitiously wiped the tears from her cheeks and glanced up into warm brown eyes that were caught in a tangled web of crow’s-feet. “I’m fine, Mrs. Fortunata. Just a little tired, I guess.” She and the short, rotund Italian woman had become friends because they both worked the graveyard...
However, she had a great deal of help, since she managed to hire two more maids, a groom, a falconer (she decided Carlisle would want gerfalcons once he realized he had a man to train them), a huntsman (whom she immediately sent out to find game), and a wizened gatekeeper named Cameron MacTavish....
He wasn’t a jealous man. At least, he never had been in the past. Before last night, he would have said he didn’t have a jealous bone in his body. But he’d gone nearly insane wondering what Kristin was doing with Steffan last night. He’d acted like a possessive fool when she’d shown up this morni...
“The skirt doesn’t even cover my limbs,” she protested in shocked tones. “It stops halfway down.” “That’s the whole idea,” Charlotte said. “You will be wearing white stockings with pretty red ribbons crisscrossed around them.” “My limbs—” “I have seen your legs, Livy,” Charlotte said, “and aside ...
I set it up next to the fireplace.” Hetty had desperately wanted a Christmas tree. But Karl had looked so forbidding over the past week since he’d discovered her deception, that she hadn’t dared to ask him for anything. She felt a rush of pleasure that he’d thought of bringing home a tree without...
Blackthorne 2Jocelyn felt her face flame in anger. How dare he shut the door in her face! After she’d driven so far to—A second wave of heat shimmered up her throat, as shame washed over her. She was well repaid for her arrogance. How stupid to think she could ever manipulate a man like North Gra...
As usual, she was dressed in jeans, boots and a T-shirt with some equally outrageous slogan written on it.Only this T-shirt had the neckline cut out so it slipped down to reveal one shoulder—and the obvious fact that she wasn’t wearing a bra. Anyone with eyes in his head could see she was naked u...
His pulse was still racing, and his stomach was still doing loops. He’d known Jennie was somewhere in the hospital, but it was clear that she’d been surprised—okay, shocked—to see him. His heart had jumped at the sight of her, and he’d known that, for him, nothing had changed. He was as much in l...
“You’re at my place, a cabin along the river about twenty miles from town. Don’t you remember the ride here in my Jeep?” “I...sort of. It’s all kind of fuzzy.” Tess’s gaze darted from the male face bathed in shadows beside the bed, to the natural pine log walls, to the wedding ring patterned quil...
As he left the cabin, where the young soldier was now relaxed and joking with Frank and a couple of the other vets, Connor realized that the sanctuary would be in big trouble if his father revoked his trust fund. And Angus was just vindictive enough to do it if he didn’t get his way. Connor’s lip...
He was close enough to touch. His shaggy black hair looked rumpled, as though he’d shoved both hands through it in agitation. When he started to move off the porch, Bay reached out and grasped his sleeve. A second later she was slammed back against the wall, a powerful male hand at her throat cho...