The Rancher and the Redhead

Men of the Double-C Ranch #2

by Lorraine Hansberry

JUST WHAT THE RANCHER NEEDED...Rancher Matthew Clay was as solid as an oak, unmovable as granite. Until temporary housekeeper Jaimie Greene came to the Double-C. She was the queen of calamity--riskier than a Wyoming winter! And the feisty redhead's tempting innocence and sassy rebukes drove Matthew to sweet distraction. But experience had taught him that a tenderhearted city gal didn't belong on a remote cattle ranch...and that she wouldn't stay. Still, he'd never met a woman so determined to prove herself. Or one who loved the land the way he did. Was this confirmed bachelor suddenly ready to face his biggest challenge--love?

MEN OF THE DOUBLE-C RANCH:

Under the big, blue Wyoming sky, these five brothers discover true love.

Genres: Romance, Westerns

130 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.
After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she worked with other black intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggles for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry also wrote about being a lesbian and the oppression of gay people. She died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34 during the Broadway run of her play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window in 1965. Hansberry inspired the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", whose title-line came from Hansberry's autobiographical play.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well I really liked this book, it was romantic, engaging and not at all boring. This is Matthew's book, he is the brother who actually runs the ranch and for quite some time he has had the hots for his foreman's sister Jamie. They clash all the time and now that his housekeeper Maggie is pregnant, Jamie has over-taken her duties to help her sister-in-law out.

I loved seeing these two clash because their verbal exchanges were filled with undercurrents of sexual tension. Matt who has been satisfied running the ranch finds himself tempted by Jamie, who he feels is unsuitable, she is a city girl for one and ranch life is tough and he has seen people become victims of it (his ex-girlfriend who left him and his mother who died because she couldn't get help fast), plus he thinks she is way too young for him (he's 39, she's 27).

All her life the men in Jamie's life including her father, brother and ex-fiancee have been critical of her. She has changed jobs often since she never found her niche but she likes her new position if it only wasn't for Matt who loves to needle her.

I actually loved it when these two couldn't keeps their hands or to be more accurate lips off each other. Jamie wanted to be with someone who loved her but Matthew made her lose her mind. I loved seeing them dance around each other trying to stave off the inevitable and found the book to be sexy.

[Fizzydrinks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I got tired of what was basically the book's major flow: there was no real angst, no real reason why the H and h couldn't get together, when we had been seeing them spark with each other since the first book. All I got in the first half was tons of lusting thoughts being bounced around in each of their encounters all the fricking time, a kiss here and there - I guess I wanted it to be more complex. It's interesting for me that Matthew was a nice old 39 years of age with no truly tangible reason for being so super single with his personal CV.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars. Really enjoying reading these books about the Clay brothers finding their HEAs. This was Matthew's story, he is the brother that runs the Double C. When Jaimie arrives to help her sister in law Maggie (who is the Clay's housekeeper) while she is pregnant sparks fly between her and Matthew. This series of books are a really easy read and you find yourself immersed in the characters. Tho roughly enjoyable read.

[April Suter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book #2 in the Clay Series
It is Matthew and Jaimie's turn.