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Rodeo Daddy
Rodeo champion Lark Anderson lived for the sound of crowds chanting his name. Now all he hears is a small voice saying, "daddy." A fall ended both his rodeo career and his marriage—leaving him a single dad.
The town is suspicious of its new "celebrity" resident, and town darling Sophie Baxter has been nominated to keep an eye on the hot-tempered cowboy.
But the sight of his strong arms hugging his daughter and tucking her in at night makes Sophie's heart ache with longing. Could this little family ever find a place in their hearts for her?
The town is suspicious of its new "celebrity" resident, and town darling Sophie Baxter has been nominated to keep an eye on the hot-tempered cowboy.
But the sight of his strong arms hugging his daughter and tucking her in at night makes Sophie's heart ache with longing. Could this little family ever find a place in their hearts for her?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
About the author
Soraya M. Lane
135 books2,197 followersSoraya M. Lane is the Amazon Charts & Kindle #1 bestselling author of THE SECRET MIDWIFE and THE ITALIAN DAUGHTER.
Soraya is the author of The Lost Daughters series, as well as best-selling historical women's fiction.
As a child, Soraya dreamed of becoming an author. Fast forward more than a few years, and Soraya is now living her dream! Soraya describes being an author as "the best career in the world", and she hopes to be writing romance and women's fiction for many years to come.
Soraya loves spending her days thinking up characters for books, and her home is a constant source of inspiration. She lives with her own real life hero and two sons on a small farm in New Zealand, surrounded by animals and with an office overlooking a field where their horses graze.
Add Soraya's latest novel, THE LAST DAUGHTER, and her next WWII novel, THE UNDERGROUND SISTERS, to your Goodreads shelf today!
For more information about Soraya, her books and her writing life, visit sorayalane.com or www.facebook.com/SorayaLaneAuthor, or follow her on Instagram @SorayaLaneAuthor. She would love to hear from you.
Soraya is the author of The Lost Daughters series, as well as best-selling historical women's fiction.
As a child, Soraya dreamed of becoming an author. Fast forward more than a few years, and Soraya is now living her dream! Soraya describes being an author as "the best career in the world", and she hopes to be writing romance and women's fiction for many years to come.
Soraya loves spending her days thinking up characters for books, and her home is a constant source of inspiration. She lives with her own real life hero and two sons on a small farm in New Zealand, surrounded by animals and with an office overlooking a field where their horses graze.
Add Soraya's latest novel, THE LAST DAUGHTER, and her next WWII novel, THE UNDERGROUND SISTERS, to your Goodreads shelf today!
For more information about Soraya, her books and her writing life, visit sorayalane.com or www.facebook.com/SorayaLaneAuthor, or follow her on Instagram @SorayaLaneAuthor. She would love to hear from you.
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July 21, 2018
"Sweet Romance". NO.............. Couldn't finish reading this one fast enough. Too much unhappiness for me. Yes the ending was sort of "happily ever after" but I didn't like the story line. Lark is such a lovely man and his little girl was very lucky to have such a gorgeous Dad. I wont go into details as it would spoil it for others but to me Sweet means a nice story but this one had too much other, not sweet, things that had happened. I realise that LIFE happens but I, personally, read these books to escape real LIFE.
August 8, 2020
So much angst, which normally angst doesn't bother me but it was almost too much. His angst over his wife abandoning him and their child when he was no longer a rodeo celebrity. Her angst over a patient dying on her table and her inability to ever have a child of her own. I shed a few tears towards the end.
April 30, 2024
Your typical Harlequin Romance. It has been years since I have read one. Love story, anyone could tell it. Not super involved with additional characters, not much plot development. I guess my reading has matured beyond these books.
September 16, 2012
Lark Anderson has a way with horses, and he used to make a career out of them--he was a rodeo man through and through. But now that his ex-wife has breezed out of his life and he's got a precious little daughter to take care of, he moves to New Zealand to start over and remove his ex-wife's meanness from Lucy, his little daughter's mind.
Sophie Baxter is a pediatric surgeon who has some issues of her own regarding children. She wasn't able to save a seven-year-old on the operating table, and she chose to abort her baby with the promises of a career luring her away from pregnancy. But she's back home in New Zealand to take a hiatus from everything involving kids. However, she doesn't expect to meet handsome Lark, a cowboy with a honey-laced drawl and an even sweeter daughter...
This was a so-so book in the beginning but definitely picked up later on. At first, Sophie and Lark seemed two-dimensional cardboard stick figures to me, and Lucy looked like the only fleshed-out character in the whole story. Then I really started delving deeper into Sophie's internal conflict, and I found myself liking her a lot more.
However, there was one issue I had that carried all the way to the end of the book. I didn't find any changes in Lark at all. He was already the lazy, sexy cowboy at the beginning of the book, and at the end, he hasn't achieved any important personal goals. Sure, he's a great dad, but what about his outlook on life? Did he have an epiphany? When I try to fall in love with a hero, I look for a strong guy who'll bend over backward for his heroine and changes drastically because of his sweet romance. But that didn't happen here.
I also didn't like the writing style very much. The characters seemed to be a little too deliberate in their thoughts, as if basically restating everything they know to themselves just to make sense to the reader. When you have to make every thought of your characters count, you know that your plot needs some serious altering. I wish the backstory would have been weaved in with more experiences between Sophie and Lark rather than flashbacks and thoughts.
However, I came to love Lucy. She's a sweet little girl who has a determined resolve and will do anything for her father and pony. She's following in Lark's footsteps, determined to be a strong pony rider, when she falls and breaks her arm. She was an adorable character that I really came to like.
And just one more problem I had with this book: the author left me hanging at the love scene! Maybe Harlequin Romance books don't go into detail, but then why bring up making love if you're not going to show it? It's two sentences urging me to read the next chapter to find out about their sex by the fire, and before I know it, they're waking up in the sheets. I didn't like being played like that...growl.
But this was a sweet book where the heroine shined through especially strongly. If you're looking for a book that'll satisfy you as far as the female main character, then this is the novel to read. However, don't expect too much change or conflict resolving from the hero here.
Sophie Baxter is a pediatric surgeon who has some issues of her own regarding children. She wasn't able to save a seven-year-old on the operating table, and she chose to abort her baby with the promises of a career luring her away from pregnancy. But she's back home in New Zealand to take a hiatus from everything involving kids. However, she doesn't expect to meet handsome Lark, a cowboy with a honey-laced drawl and an even sweeter daughter...
This was a so-so book in the beginning but definitely picked up later on. At first, Sophie and Lark seemed two-dimensional cardboard stick figures to me, and Lucy looked like the only fleshed-out character in the whole story. Then I really started delving deeper into Sophie's internal conflict, and I found myself liking her a lot more.
However, there was one issue I had that carried all the way to the end of the book. I didn't find any changes in Lark at all. He was already the lazy, sexy cowboy at the beginning of the book, and at the end, he hasn't achieved any important personal goals. Sure, he's a great dad, but what about his outlook on life? Did he have an epiphany? When I try to fall in love with a hero, I look for a strong guy who'll bend over backward for his heroine and changes drastically because of his sweet romance. But that didn't happen here.
I also didn't like the writing style very much. The characters seemed to be a little too deliberate in their thoughts, as if basically restating everything they know to themselves just to make sense to the reader. When you have to make every thought of your characters count, you know that your plot needs some serious altering. I wish the backstory would have been weaved in with more experiences between Sophie and Lark rather than flashbacks and thoughts.
However, I came to love Lucy. She's a sweet little girl who has a determined resolve and will do anything for her father and pony. She's following in Lark's footsteps, determined to be a strong pony rider, when she falls and breaks her arm. She was an adorable character that I really came to like.
And just one more problem I had with this book: the author left me hanging at the love scene! Maybe Harlequin Romance books don't go into detail, but then why bring up making love if you're not going to show it? It's two sentences urging me to read the next chapter to find out about their sex by the fire, and before I know it, they're waking up in the sheets. I didn't like being played like that...growl.
But this was a sweet book where the heroine shined through especially strongly. If you're looking for a book that'll satisfy you as far as the female main character, then this is the novel to read. However, don't expect too much change or conflict resolving from the hero here.
December 4, 2011
Good book. I really liked the way Lark was with his daughter. He was obviously a loving father who wanted the best life possible for his daughter. Sophie really liked Lark, but she was afraid of the way Lucy made her feel. Her past issues have made her afraid to be around children. I liked the way things worked out for them.
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January 22, 2017
Easy to read - would read more from this author.
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