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Heart's Delight
Fiery Irish immigrant Molly O'Brien, raising four orphans all on her own in Delight, Wisconsin, takes in two strangers with serious gunshot wounds--one who is an outlaw, and one who is a federal marshal--but is unable to figure out which one is which until her heart decides for her. Original.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 3, 2007
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R.C. Ryan
30 books244 followersNew York Times bestselling author R.C. Ryan has written more than ninety fiction novels, both contemporary and historical. Quite an accomplishment for someone who, after her fifth child started school, gave herself the gift of an hour a day to follow her dream to become a writer.
The Lost, an anthology of stories by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, and R.C. Ryan writing as Ruth Ryan Langan was published in Fall 2009. Ms. Ryan’s story, “The Legacy,” is an exciting tale of intrigue and other-worldly adventure.
In a career spanning more than twenty years, Ms. Ryan has given dozens of radio, television, and print interviews across the country and Canada, and has been quoted in such diverse publications as the Wall Street Journal and Cosmopolitan. She has also appeared on CNN News, as well as Good Morning America.
Also publishes under Ruth Ryan Langan
The Lost, an anthology of stories by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, and R.C. Ryan writing as Ruth Ryan Langan was published in Fall 2009. Ms. Ryan’s story, “The Legacy,” is an exciting tale of intrigue and other-worldly adventure.
In a career spanning more than twenty years, Ms. Ryan has given dozens of radio, television, and print interviews across the country and Canada, and has been quoted in such diverse publications as the Wall Street Journal and Cosmopolitan. She has also appeared on CNN News, as well as Good Morning America.
Also publishes under Ruth Ryan Langan
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May 27, 2019
Spinster Molly O'Brien is the adoptive mother of 4 girls on a farm in Wisconsin. She makes a variety of butter and cheeses to support her family. She uses those products to barter for the things her family needs. On the way back from Delight (the closest town, a day away from her farm), Molly comes upon two mortally wounded men. She soon finds that one is a marshal and the other is a thief and murderer. But which one is which?
There's sex in this book but little romance. The sex is rather jarring because Molly has not been attracted to any local man and has reached 'spinster' status. Suddenly, she gives up her virginity to a man who will leave her as soon as he is well enough to take his prisoner away.
When the murderer takes one of the children and leaves Molly's farm, Molly loads the remaining children in a wagon and trails after the marshal, hoping to get her child back. This made some sense (because of her loving concern for the girl), but didn't make sense because she was endangering the other three. And if Molly was harmed, the other children would suffer; who would take them if Molly was killed? This is an average tale; not one of Ruth Ryan Langan's best.
There's sex in this book but little romance. The sex is rather jarring because Molly has not been attracted to any local man and has reached 'spinster' status. Suddenly, she gives up her virginity to a man who will leave her as soon as he is well enough to take his prisoner away.
When the murderer takes one of the children and leaves Molly's farm, Molly loads the remaining children in a wagon and trails after the marshal, hoping to get her child back. This made some sense (because of her loving concern for the girl), but didn't make sense because she was endangering the other three. And if Molly was harmed, the other children would suffer; who would take them if Molly was killed? This is an average tale; not one of Ruth Ryan Langan's best.
July 17, 2016
First Impression: Cover. This takes place in the 1880s with a gritty marshal, not a 1990s ranch hand.
Story: Abysmal. No real romance, a naked man falls on her and she falls in love with him because he doesn't rape her in the night (middle of the book). The details of ranch life and the character interactions are what kept me going.
Plot: Who could the bad guy be? We will just tell you so all the mystery is gone (beginning of book).
Summary: Just a bad novel in terms of formula following and women being poorly depicted. Kids where cute as was the ranch life, but the middle is where it hit the fan. Ending was placid but I'm happy it ended on a bright side.
Story: Abysmal. No real romance, a naked man falls on her and she falls in love with him because he doesn't rape her in the night (middle of the book). The details of ranch life and the character interactions are what kept me going.
Plot: Who could the bad guy be? We will just tell you so all the mystery is gone (beginning of book).
Summary: Just a bad novel in terms of formula following and women being poorly depicted. Kids where cute as was the ranch life, but the middle is where it hit the fan. Ending was placid but I'm happy it ended on a bright side.
February 25, 2008
This one was a struggle. It was just too formula for me...way too formula.
You have a woman (the heroine)
She's raising 4 kids who aren't her own -- so she can be a virgin when the hero has sex with her.
You have a hero who just wants to retire in a far away city and have no responsibilities.
You have a bad guy who wants to kill the hero.
It can be any time, any place, any genre.
You have a woman (the heroine)
She's raising 4 kids who aren't her own -- so she can be a virgin when the hero has sex with her.
You have a hero who just wants to retire in a far away city and have no responsibilities.
You have a bad guy who wants to kill the hero.
It can be any time, any place, any genre.
March 28, 2009
was okay but just a little slow for me
December 31, 2009
For this to have been a $1.25 book from the dollor general store not bad.
January 8, 2010
A good story set in post civil war Wisconsin. It has a few tedious moments in the story-line, but that's fiction.
May 24, 2012
Okay. One of those books you wish your husband would live up to. Romance..... I can't to wait to rad more Ruth Ryan Langan books. Yep, I am a hopeless romantic.
July 12, 2015
Delightful read about a lawman, a spinster foster mother, and an outlaw. Easy read.
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