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The Sheriff
There are no laws when it comes to love.
Kate Quinn arrives in Fortune, California, with little but a deed to a run-down Victorian mansion and a claim to an abandoned gold mine. But a beautiful woman on her own in a town of lonely, lusty miners also brings trouble.
Sheriff Travis McLoud has enough to handle in Fortune, where fast fists and faster guns keep the peace, without the stubbornly independent Miss Kate to look after. But when a dapper, sweet-talking stranger shows a suspicious interest in Kate, Travis feels it's his duty to protect her.
With her days spent searching for the glimmer of gold, Kate has no interest in the sheriff and his unnecessary warnings. But she can't prevent him from invading her dreams and showing her that a rough-around-the-edges lawman just might have more to offer than a well-heeled gentleman—including a heart of gold.
Kate Quinn arrives in Fortune, California, with little but a deed to a run-down Victorian mansion and a claim to an abandoned gold mine. But a beautiful woman on her own in a town of lonely, lusty miners also brings trouble.
Sheriff Travis McLoud has enough to handle in Fortune, where fast fists and faster guns keep the peace, without the stubbornly independent Miss Kate to look after. But when a dapper, sweet-talking stranger shows a suspicious interest in Kate, Travis feels it's his duty to protect her.
With her days spent searching for the glimmer of gold, Kate has no interest in the sheriff and his unnecessary warnings. But she can't prevent him from invading her dreams and showing her that a rough-around-the-edges lawman just might have more to offer than a well-heeled gentleman—including a heart of gold.
379 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 31, 2006
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About the author
Nan Ryan
44 books71 followersNancy Henderson is the middle daughter of a Texas rancher and postmaster. She's been married for many years to Joe Ryan, a television executive. Hisoccupation has taken them from border to border and coast to coast. Fortunately, writing is something that can be done anywhere - and Nan shouldknow. The Ryans have lived in Washington, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and their own home state of Texas. Nan says it was fun to move around the country and honestly believes that it has helped her writing. The library and the Internet offer a great deal of information on any given place, but there is nothing quite likeactually living in a locale where a book is set.
She began her writing career in 1981. She flirted with writing mysteries, but never finished any. Then, as fate would have it, she saw an article in Newsweek magazine entitled "From Bedroom to Boardroom." It was an interesting story on the women who were writing romance novels. Nan was intrigued. She had never read a romance. She bought a couple, read them, and knew she'd found her calling. She sat down at the Smith Corona typewriter and began her own romance. The first one never left her house. It is burieddeep in a trunk and Nan says it will never be shown to anyone. Her second book sold and she's been writing since. Twenty-two romance novels later, shestill enjoys writing and realizes she's been blessed to have found what she loves to do.
The winner of numerous awards, Nan Ryan says one of the nicest things ever written about her was printed in the St. Petersburg Times. Correspondent AnnV. Hull wrote: "Romance novelist Nan Ryan could step right into the pages of one of her paperbacks. Tall and slender, with smokey eyes and pearly skin,Nan Ryan looks like movie star Jessica Lange's older sister. Ryan writes the most imaginative and bold love scenes, some of which would surely shock herformer teachers at Abilene Christian University."
She began her writing career in 1981. She flirted with writing mysteries, but never finished any. Then, as fate would have it, she saw an article in Newsweek magazine entitled "From Bedroom to Boardroom." It was an interesting story on the women who were writing romance novels. Nan was intrigued. She had never read a romance. She bought a couple, read them, and knew she'd found her calling. She sat down at the Smith Corona typewriter and began her own romance. The first one never left her house. It is burieddeep in a trunk and Nan says it will never be shown to anyone. Her second book sold and she's been writing since. Twenty-two romance novels later, shestill enjoys writing and realizes she's been blessed to have found what she loves to do.
The winner of numerous awards, Nan Ryan says one of the nicest things ever written about her was printed in the St. Petersburg Times. Correspondent AnnV. Hull wrote: "Romance novelist Nan Ryan could step right into the pages of one of her paperbacks. Tall and slender, with smokey eyes and pearly skin,Nan Ryan looks like movie star Jessica Lange's older sister. Ryan writes the most imaginative and bold love scenes, some of which would surely shock herformer teachers at Abilene Christian University."
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September 23, 2019
HR, or any romance, depends on a formula, that much we know. However, there are writers who rise above the formula and Nan Ryan is not one of them (at least in this book). When you treat the formula formulaically then it makes for a big waste of time. The couple was stodgy-cardboard, their supposed love never arose above the flat and uninspiring niche in which the writer crammed it and it took down the lust and the sex with it. The latter make for a very boring and repetative read, and when your reader starts skipping the sex scenes you know your book is in trouble (or maybe you don't know but your editor should). The story's pace was also very uneven, so much so that what passes as development reads more like ideas pilled on top of each other pretending to construct a story and not stages growing organically out of the material. Nan Ryan has a following but this offering shows that the glory days may be firmly behind her.
March 14, 2015
Una historia que empieza con una ambientación buena, pausada pero que se precipita en su final y que incluye numerosas escenas de sexo una detrás de otra en ese final que consiguen que la historia pierda un poco de su sentido, sea floja, breve y ha terminado por no gustarme mucho.
April 25, 2025
The lady wo makes a new life
Boston borned changes her life moves to California to finds gold.Meets the Sheriff. Don't like him.She thinks he is beautiful. He think she's beautiful. He is not going to fall in love.Someone hurt him in his past.There is mystery to his past,Mystery to what happens Enjoyed this book.My first time reading this author.
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Boston borned changes her life moves to California to finds gold.Meets the Sheriff. Don't like him.She thinks he is beautiful. He think she's beautiful. He is not going to fall in love.Someone hurt him in his past.There is mystery to his past,Mystery to what happens Enjoyed this book.My first time reading this author.
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March 15, 2015
I thought I was really going to like this one, but it just turned out to be an OK book for me. It was really good at first, but then I found it lacking depth and passion regarding the characters' so called 'love' for each other. You get a glimpse of it a couple of times, but it seems like no more than lust most of the time. The sex is hot and steamy at first -at least half way through the story- but then it gets boring and repetitive. My rating started out as a 5, then turned into a 4, and finally ended up a 3.
It's also full of mistakes, such as: "kate knew immediately knew who the woman..." or "it would have a been sweet", which didn't bother me much at the beginning, but then started to get on my nerves.
I was surprised to find a printed book with so many mistakes in it. They should really be more careful with this sort of thing.
It's also full of mistakes, such as: "kate knew immediately knew who the woman..." or "it would have a been sweet", which didn't bother me much at the beginning, but then started to get on my nerves.
I was surprised to find a printed book with so many mistakes in it. They should really be more careful with this sort of thing.
June 11, 2010
Despite what the back of the book says (and consequently any site that has this book's description) the heroine's name is Kate VanNam not Kate Quinn and the hero's last name is spelled McCloud throughout the novel not McLoud. What's scary is this is not the first book I've bought where names and other things are incorrect on the back cover of the book! Do these publishers not employee proofreaders anymore?
April 9, 2016
La historia iba bastante bien, pero es que el final me ha parecido tan facilón y tan precipitado, que me ha chafado un poco el resto. Si hubiera alargado un poco la cosa, hubiera estado mejor rematada, pero aún así, ésta mujer es digna de ser leida.
May 8, 2010
Too slow for me.
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