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Shelter Valley Stories #7
Born in the Valley
Bonnie Nielson's life looks perfect. She has everything she's always wanted—a husband and child she adores, a successful business, close family and friends, a town she loves. And yet she's not happy.
For some unaccountable reason, Bonnie is no longer satisfied with the life she and Keith have created in Shelter Valley.
She has to figure out why. And—more important—she has to fix the problem, whatever it is. Whatever it takes. Before she loses everyone and everything she loves.
For some unaccountable reason, Bonnie is no longer satisfied with the life she and Keith have created in Shelter Valley.
She has to figure out why. And—more important—she has to fix the problem, whatever it is. Whatever it takes. Before she loses everyone and everything she loves.
- GenresRomance
287 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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About the author
Tara Taylor Quinn
388 books1,459 followersTara Taylor Quinn began her love affair with Harlequin when she was fourteen years old and picked up a free promotional copy of a Harlequin Romance in a hometown grocery store. The relationship was solidified the year she was suspended from her high school typing class for hiding a Harlequin Romance behind the keys of her electric typewriter. Unaware that her instructor loomed close by, Ms. Quinn read blissfully on with one finger resting on the automatic repeating period key. She finished the book in the principal’s office. Forced to leave her romances in her locker after that, Ms. Quinn’s typing skills improved - a fact for which she is eternally grateful.
With over 80 original novels, published in more than twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestselling author with more than seven million copies sold. She is a winner of the 2008 National Reader's Choice Award, four time finalist for the RWA Rita Award, a finalist for the Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Bookseller’s Best Award, the Holt Medallion and appears regularly on the Waldenbooks bestsellers list. Ms. Quinn writes for Harlequin and MIRA Books. Reviewer, Cindy Penn, wordweaving.com says, “Amazing character development is the hallmark of author Tara Taylor Quinn’s work. Indeed, Taylor’s profound observations of human nature and intimate understanding of values and priorities lends extraordinary psychological depth to all her work.”
Tara Taylor Quinn was born and raised in Ohio. Though she wrote her first story at the age of seven, her professional writing career began ten years later when she was hired as a stringer with the Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio. She attended Wright State University and graduated from Harding College in Arkansas with a degree in English and Journalism. She published several magazine articles before turning to writing as a full-time occupation.
Ms. Quinn is a Past President of the Romance Writers of America and served for eight years on the Board of Directors of that association. She has a wide range of experience as a public speaker and workshop presenter for writers groups around the country.
When she’s not home with her owners, Jerry Lee and Taylor Marie, or fulfilling speaking engagements, Tara loves to travel with her husband, stopping wherever the spirit takes them. They’ve been spotted in casinos and quaint little small town antique shops all across the country..
With over 80 original novels, published in more than twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestselling author with more than seven million copies sold. She is a winner of the 2008 National Reader's Choice Award, four time finalist for the RWA Rita Award, a finalist for the Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Bookseller’s Best Award, the Holt Medallion and appears regularly on the Waldenbooks bestsellers list. Ms. Quinn writes for Harlequin and MIRA Books. Reviewer, Cindy Penn, wordweaving.com says, “Amazing character development is the hallmark of author Tara Taylor Quinn’s work. Indeed, Taylor’s profound observations of human nature and intimate understanding of values and priorities lends extraordinary psychological depth to all her work.”
Tara Taylor Quinn was born and raised in Ohio. Though she wrote her first story at the age of seven, her professional writing career began ten years later when she was hired as a stringer with the Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio. She attended Wright State University and graduated from Harding College in Arkansas with a degree in English and Journalism. She published several magazine articles before turning to writing as a full-time occupation.
Ms. Quinn is a Past President of the Romance Writers of America and served for eight years on the Board of Directors of that association. She has a wide range of experience as a public speaker and workshop presenter for writers groups around the country.
When she’s not home with her owners, Jerry Lee and Taylor Marie, or fulfilling speaking engagements, Tara loves to travel with her husband, stopping wherever the spirit takes them. They’ve been spotted in casinos and quaint little small town antique shops all across the country..
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February 4, 2015
Born in the Valley is the seventh book in the Shelter Valley Stories series by American author, Tara Taylor Quinn. Bonnie Nielson has a perfect life: a caring husband, a healthy toddler, a successful pre-school business, the support of a wonderful network of family and friends and all this in the wonderful town of Shelter Valley. So why is she unhappy? And who is vandalising her business?
This rather wordy romance about a woman having an early mid-life crisis incorporates a minor mystery that is somewhat clumsily solved close to the end. The naughty Pastor and his lover are probably the most interesting part. It would have benefitted from some judicious editing to avoid losing the reader’s attention. A very ordinary read.
This rather wordy romance about a woman having an early mid-life crisis incorporates a minor mystery that is somewhat clumsily solved close to the end. The naughty Pastor and his lover are probably the most interesting part. It would have benefitted from some judicious editing to avoid losing the reader’s attention. A very ordinary read.
January 3, 2013
I found this novel utterly boring and wrong on so many levels. I think it's the very first novel by Tara Taylor Quinn that I hate.
December 7, 2015
Finished this book and I still wonder how a woman can love her husband, children, home, and job and still be unhappy and pull away emotionally from her husband. She declares over and over verbally and mentally that she loves, loves, loves him but she is making him miserable and I never figured out what her problem was. In fact I was left wondering if she knew what was making her unhappy.
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