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Dreamkeepers
For the first time in more than a decade, two classic romances by the beloved Dorothy Garlock are back in print, now packaged together in one irresistible volume. Original.
432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
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Dorothy Garlock
86 books382 followersDorothy Garlock was a best-selling American author of over 60 historical romance novels, most of them set in the American West. More than 20 million copies of her books are in print, in 18 languages. Her books have been on the New York Times best seller list seven times. She was named one of the 10 most popular writers of women's fiction four years in a row, from 1985-1988. In 1997, she was awarded the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. Garlock is also a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame.
Garlock worked as an editor, agent and publicist for most of her writing career. She was a native of Texas who grew up in Oklahoma then married and moved to Iowa. Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the University of Iowa libraries.
Pen names include:
Johanna Phillips
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Glenn
Garlock worked as an editor, agent and publicist for most of her writing career. She was a native of Texas who grew up in Oklahoma then married and moved to Iowa. Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the University of Iowa libraries.
Pen names include:
Johanna Phillips
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Glenn
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June 14, 2019
This is a collection of two of Dorothy Garlock's earlier novellas.
STRANGE POSSESSION -- G
This story suffered from the problem of the husband being the bad guy. Because he really wanted the marriage to work, he dropped most of the work that demanded too much time, so he could concentrate on what went wrong.
MARRIAGE TO A STRANGER -- VG
Garlock had an excellent reason for two strangers to marry. It's a great story.
STRANGE POSSESSION -- G
This story suffered from the problem of the husband being the bad guy. Because he really wanted the marriage to work, he dropped most of the work that demanded too much time, so he could concentrate on what went wrong.
MARRIAGE TO A STRANGER -- VG
Garlock had an excellent reason for two strangers to marry. It's a great story.
February 4, 2025
Couldn't Make it through #1 but #2 was better. I'm just finding that the books from the early 80s are so dated that I just don't even want to finish them.
April 28, 2009
This is a book with two similar stories included. Since I hadn't read of Garlock's books I didn't know what to expect, but though it wasn't one of my favorites I found that her writing was quite good. Although the first of the two stories I felt was a little disjointed. If she has made the story a little longer she would have been able to more completely finish the story.
In story #1 Kelly is an Alaskan native that meets a man from Boston and is completely drawn to him. When they leave to live in his home town she finds that he is a very different person than what she know in Alaska. Jack is a man with a lot of money and treats Kelly like she doesn't fit in his world. After a time Kelly feels so alienated that she leaves and goes to Portland OR. She lives there getting her life back together for a year, saving her money to be able to go home and open the resort that her father left to her and her friends. Finally she has enough to go home and starts to get the Resort back into shape, but that is when Jack shows up. Angry and feeling betrayed Jack is there to make their relationship work. At first he is just angry that she left without talking about things, but over time he starts to calm down and become the man that Kelly first met again. But when she goes to Anchorage with him and he sends her to his apartment, she finds his sister and her step-daughter there. They make her belive that Jack hasn't changed at all, and that he has been setting her up to get a smaller settlement in their divorce. Heartbroken Kelly takes the train home. When Jack arrives they finally talk about what really happened in Boston, where Jack felt that he wanted Kelly to focus totally on him and felt jealous whenever she was around others, isolateing her. Though it isn't talked about his sister and her Step-daughter and their minipulations were definately a factor as well.
In story #2 Molly is young woman living in the wilderness of Alaska with her researcher father when her father is killed in an expedition accident. After the funeral her fathers will is read and her father has left her something special. A new husband. Adam is a man who wants Molly's fathers research and isn't sure he wants to go along with the plan to marry Molly to get that research, but the research will be destroyed if he doesn't marry her and Molly will have to live with her Aunt calling all of the shots with her money for the next five years. They decide to go through with the marriage with the condition that they will get a divorce in a year, and that Molly will make Adam's father beleive that their marriage is real, since he is dieing. At first they are stilted toward one another, but through time they grow close and start to build a great friendship, then a great love. But when Adam's friend comes to visit bringing with him Molly's evil cousin things start to fall apart. Molly's cousin is jealous that she didn't end up with Adam and tell's Molly that Adam bet his friends that he would be able to get her to sleep with him, and would win $6000. Molly is devistated. She realizes that she will have to leave her home and get away from Adam and their guests. She sets out to catch the train to Anchorage, but after trudging through the snow for more than two hrs. she is horribly lost and starts to shut down, thinking that she just wants to sleep. Adam and her live in Indian caretaker, find her but she is delerious, thinking that Adam is her father. She whispers to him that she made a terrible mistake, that Adam has been using her and that he bet with his friends. Adam is furious. When he returns to the cabin he tells his friend to take her cousin back to town in the morning and to keep her there. When Molly finally wakes from her ordeal Adam talks to her and tells her that there was really two wills from her father and that he could have gotten out of marrying her, but once he met her he couldn't let her go, being attracted to her and wanting to have a chance to love her. He never bet with his friends and that her cousin just was trying to break them up.
In story #1 Kelly is an Alaskan native that meets a man from Boston and is completely drawn to him. When they leave to live in his home town she finds that he is a very different person than what she know in Alaska. Jack is a man with a lot of money and treats Kelly like she doesn't fit in his world. After a time Kelly feels so alienated that she leaves and goes to Portland OR. She lives there getting her life back together for a year, saving her money to be able to go home and open the resort that her father left to her and her friends. Finally she has enough to go home and starts to get the Resort back into shape, but that is when Jack shows up. Angry and feeling betrayed Jack is there to make their relationship work. At first he is just angry that she left without talking about things, but over time he starts to calm down and become the man that Kelly first met again. But when she goes to Anchorage with him and he sends her to his apartment, she finds his sister and her step-daughter there. They make her belive that Jack hasn't changed at all, and that he has been setting her up to get a smaller settlement in their divorce. Heartbroken Kelly takes the train home. When Jack arrives they finally talk about what really happened in Boston, where Jack felt that he wanted Kelly to focus totally on him and felt jealous whenever she was around others, isolateing her. Though it isn't talked about his sister and her Step-daughter and their minipulations were definately a factor as well.
In story #2 Molly is young woman living in the wilderness of Alaska with her researcher father when her father is killed in an expedition accident. After the funeral her fathers will is read and her father has left her something special. A new husband. Adam is a man who wants Molly's fathers research and isn't sure he wants to go along with the plan to marry Molly to get that research, but the research will be destroyed if he doesn't marry her and Molly will have to live with her Aunt calling all of the shots with her money for the next five years. They decide to go through with the marriage with the condition that they will get a divorce in a year, and that Molly will make Adam's father beleive that their marriage is real, since he is dieing. At first they are stilted toward one another, but through time they grow close and start to build a great friendship, then a great love. But when Adam's friend comes to visit bringing with him Molly's evil cousin things start to fall apart. Molly's cousin is jealous that she didn't end up with Adam and tell's Molly that Adam bet his friends that he would be able to get her to sleep with him, and would win $6000. Molly is devistated. She realizes that she will have to leave her home and get away from Adam and their guests. She sets out to catch the train to Anchorage, but after trudging through the snow for more than two hrs. she is horribly lost and starts to shut down, thinking that she just wants to sleep. Adam and her live in Indian caretaker, find her but she is delerious, thinking that Adam is her father. She whispers to him that she made a terrible mistake, that Adam has been using her and that he bet with his friends. Adam is furious. When he returns to the cabin he tells his friend to take her cousin back to town in the morning and to keep her there. When Molly finally wakes from her ordeal Adam talks to her and tells her that there was really two wills from her father and that he could have gotten out of marrying her, but once he met her he couldn't let her go, being attracted to her and wanting to have a chance to love her. He never bet with his friends and that her cousin just was trying to break them up.
May 6, 2012
Two novels in one...what I call frothy books....loved the depictions of life in Alaska....hated Ms. Garlock's idea of a leading man.....the anger, and control they exhibit to women they love is not to my taste at all.
March 20, 2009
3 in one, alright!
October 20, 2015
Unexpected Garlock duo. Never read any of her books with such explicit sex scenes and I wonder if a ghost writer was present somewhere. Interesting storyline but not convincingly written.
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