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Cody Daniel's Return
TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND LOVE ...
Border Patrolman Cody Daniels had been sent to work undercover for Mariah Butler. Someone on her ranch was smuggling South American orphans into the U.S., and it was his job to find out who. His bosses didn't care that it would mean lying to the woman he had once loved --- and could all too easily love again.
Mariah knew only that Cody had come home after so many years away. If she could just tell him about the children! But that would put them all in danger. What could she do? Was there any way to choose between the children she had grown to love and the man she could no longer live without?
Border Patrolman Cody Daniels had been sent to work undercover for Mariah Butler. Someone on her ranch was smuggling South American orphans into the U.S., and it was his job to find out who. His bosses didn't care that it would mean lying to the woman he had once loved --- and could all too easily love again.
Mariah knew only that Cody had come home after so many years away. If she could just tell him about the children! But that would put them all in danger. What could she do? Was there any way to choose between the children she had grown to love and the man she could no longer live without?
- GenresHarlequin
Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
20 people want to read
About the author
Marilyn Pappano
191 books126 followersAward-winning and bestselling author, international traveler, feted at a Hollywood premiere . . .
All true . . . but my regular life is a whole lot more routine. Deal with the five big puppers who share our house, babysit our grandson, battle the jungle that is our yard, pray for summer in winter and dream of winter in summer, and hunker down at the computer -- that's my real life.
I grew up in Oklahoma and had the fun of living in Georgia, Alabama, California and the Carolinas, thanks to my husband's Navy career. When he retired, we came home to Oklahoma and have lived in the same house for seventeen years. That's a real "Wow!" for someone used to the nomadic military life.
Writing was the perfect career for all that moving. Have computer, will travel. I've set books, or part of them, in every state we've lived in and been inspired by every place I've ever been. I've now written somewhere around 80 books, and I think I've got only about 8,000 stories left to tell.
My biggest hobby is starting new projects -- starting. Not completing. I'm still not done with the cross-stitched Army seal I started when our son joined out of high school. He did tours in Georgia, Colorado, Korea, Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan and Louisiana, and has been out for a few years. So I'm a little slow.
I like to think about getting organized, painting my living room in cool beachy colors, and turning my entire five-acre yard into a garden. I also dream about having every room in my house clean at exactly the same time, but I live by the motto of the woman who taught me to quilt: A clean house is the sign of a bored woman.
And I've never been bored.
All true . . . but my regular life is a whole lot more routine. Deal with the five big puppers who share our house, babysit our grandson, battle the jungle that is our yard, pray for summer in winter and dream of winter in summer, and hunker down at the computer -- that's my real life.
I grew up in Oklahoma and had the fun of living in Georgia, Alabama, California and the Carolinas, thanks to my husband's Navy career. When he retired, we came home to Oklahoma and have lived in the same house for seventeen years. That's a real "Wow!" for someone used to the nomadic military life.
Writing was the perfect career for all that moving. Have computer, will travel. I've set books, or part of them, in every state we've lived in and been inspired by every place I've ever been. I've now written somewhere around 80 books, and I think I've got only about 8,000 stories left to tell.
My biggest hobby is starting new projects -- starting. Not completing. I'm still not done with the cross-stitched Army seal I started when our son joined out of high school. He did tours in Georgia, Colorado, Korea, Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan and Louisiana, and has been out for a few years. So I'm a little slow.
I like to think about getting organized, painting my living room in cool beachy colors, and turning my entire five-acre yard into a garden. I also dream about having every room in my house clean at exactly the same time, but I live by the motto of the woman who taught me to quilt: A clean house is the sign of a bored woman.
And I've never been bored.
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June 25, 2019
3.5 stars
From the first couple of chapters which are in the hero's POV you would think the heroine was a heartless wealthy shrew but boy that is wrong. When we get her POV the hero only comes across as an immature man who wanted his way or the highway. The hero used to work on the heroine's family ranch and eight years ago they fell in love and got engaged. The heroine was studying and wanted to use that degree and have a career which wasn't possible in their small town where they could barely eke out a living. The hero gave her an ultimatum and before she could decide basically ran out of town without a word. Years later she married someone else, which ended after four years in an amicable divorce. Now she is back in her hometown trying to make the ranch profitable and hero needs to get employment there to find out who is getting in illegal kids left orphaned due to a bloody civil war in a nearby country. We of course learn the heroine is involved. The reason is simple: she can't leave those kids to needlessly die.
I think the author does a good job of showing both sides of the story especially the importance of humanity when the world is turning its back on refugees and we have little kids being found dead at sea and in deserts. I will say the hero did not deserve the heroine; I say this in a lot off Pappano books but he treated her like shit when she never deserved it. She was always willing to give him a 2nd, 3rd or 4th chance when he didn't give her the same love and respect. I was actually pleasantly surprised at the end; although the heroine's actions came out of humanity, she could have easily gotten away scot-free but she was courageos enough to earn her truth and its consequences.
From the first couple of chapters which are in the hero's POV you would think the heroine was a heartless wealthy shrew but boy that is wrong. When we get her POV the hero only comes across as an immature man who wanted his way or the highway. The hero used to work on the heroine's family ranch and eight years ago they fell in love and got engaged. The heroine was studying and wanted to use that degree and have a career which wasn't possible in their small town where they could barely eke out a living. The hero gave her an ultimatum and before she could decide basically ran out of town without a word. Years later she married someone else, which ended after four years in an amicable divorce. Now she is back in her hometown trying to make the ranch profitable and hero needs to get employment there to find out who is getting in illegal kids left orphaned due to a bloody civil war in a nearby country. We of course learn the heroine is involved. The reason is simple: she can't leave those kids to needlessly die.
I think the author does a good job of showing both sides of the story especially the importance of humanity when the world is turning its back on refugees and we have little kids being found dead at sea and in deserts. I will say the hero did not deserve the heroine; I say this in a lot off Pappano books but he treated her like shit when she never deserved it. She was always willing to give him a 2nd, 3rd or 4th chance when he didn't give her the same love and respect. I was actually pleasantly surprised at the end; although the heroine's actions came out of humanity, she could have easily gotten away scot-free but she was courageos enough to earn her truth and its consequences.
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