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Lone Star Country Club #5
Stroke of Fortune
LSCC MEMBER: Millionaire rancher Flynt Carson Brooding, sexy, tough outer shell --- hard nut to crack
SOCIAL STATUS: Handsome young widower
METHOD OF SEDUCTION: This elite member's guarded demeanor draws women like honey!
Eligible bachelor Flynt Carson struck a hole-in-one when his Sunday golf ritual at the Lone Star Country Club unveiled an abandoned baby girl. Although temporary fatherhood for Flynt Carson dredged up painful memories, this was jus the beginning of mayhem for Flynt and the town of Mission Creek. Flynt felt he had no business raising a child or reuniting with Josie Lavender, a woman too innocent for a man with his tarnished soul. But, the lovestruck nanny was determined to help him raise the mysterious baby --- and what happened next was anyone's guess ...
SOCIAL STATUS: Handsome young widower
METHOD OF SEDUCTION: This elite member's guarded demeanor draws women like honey!
Eligible bachelor Flynt Carson struck a hole-in-one when his Sunday golf ritual at the Lone Star Country Club unveiled an abandoned baby girl. Although temporary fatherhood for Flynt Carson dredged up painful memories, this was jus the beginning of mayhem for Flynt and the town of Mission Creek. Flynt felt he had no business raising a child or reuniting with Josie Lavender, a woman too innocent for a man with his tarnished soul. But, the lovestruck nanny was determined to help him raise the mysterious baby --- and what happened next was anyone's guess ...
243 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2002
About the author
Christine Rimmer
728 books429 followersNew York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer has written more than one hundred contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated seven times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and five times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.
A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.
She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.
A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.
She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.
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December 20, 2016
This book made my blood boil!
Flynt Carson is an ass! No two ways about it! He spends the WHOLE book thinking Josie abandoned her baby, and refuses to believe her when she says she's not the mother, trying to guilt her into confessing.
If he's willing to believe something so terrible about a woman he supposedly LOVES, and refuse to be shaken from that belief, what does that say about any sort of relationship they could have together? Every time something bad might happen, Flynt is going to blame Josie first! Right now he's probably blaming Josie for Donald Trump being elected President.
His three friends all seem to believe the same about the women they are with. Good grief! What planet is Christine Rimmer from?!? Has she ever had a conversation with a real man? Most men wouldn't so willingly believe the love of their life would ABANDON A BABY. There'd be considerable benefit of the doubt!
I liked Josie. She deserved far better than Flynt!
Flynt Carson is an ass! No two ways about it! He spends the WHOLE book thinking Josie abandoned her baby, and refuses to believe her when she says she's not the mother, trying to guilt her into confessing.
If he's willing to believe something so terrible about a woman he supposedly LOVES, and refuse to be shaken from that belief, what does that say about any sort of relationship they could have together? Every time something bad might happen, Flynt is going to blame Josie first! Right now he's probably blaming Josie for Donald Trump being elected President.
His three friends all seem to believe the same about the women they are with. Good grief! What planet is Christine Rimmer from?!? Has she ever had a conversation with a real man? Most men wouldn't so willingly believe the love of their life would ABANDON A BABY. There'd be considerable benefit of the doubt!
I liked Josie. She deserved far better than Flynt!
June 18, 2013
Great Series if you can find it some books are boring but the story of the baby that inter twines in this is wonderful!
May 21, 2026
Christine Rimmer is so gifted at creating vivid characters speaking strong dialogue in clear dialect with charm! With these skills and her scenic descriptions, she really weaves a sense of place and the people who live there.
The story starts at the country club when four of the wealthiest young bachelors of the county find a baby abandoned with a water-damaged note on the ninth hole of their Saturday golf game. Flynt Carson takes the baby home even though no name can be deciphered from the damaged note -- all because he assumes his one-time tryst with housekeeper Josie Lavendar would fit the baby's age! He sent Josie away immediately with money to start a life over somewhere else, but she sent him a check paying him back. But since she has just returned to the area to be with her ill mother, he feels his suspicion is righteous. While he awaits the paternity test, confrontations abound.
I loved the characterization of Josie! She is so grounded, salt-of-the-earth. In backstory we learn she helped Flynt break his guilt-induced drinking binge after his pregnant wife's death. And in the present. Josie challenges Flynt to now finally get that guilt monkey off his back. Josie is shown to be a rock, tough enough to turn-in her own brutish father to prosecution by the law and now to stand up to Flynt's upper crust mother and father! Josie even keeps the secret of the romance between Rose Wainwright and Matt Carson so the lovers need not come under fire in the long-time feud between the Wainwright and Carson ranching families. What is not to like about Josie! She is a gem.
Flynt Carson, however, is a character who is very problematic. Not only because of his drinking weakness, but because he is essentially self-centered and wounded and untrusting. His insistence that Josie is lying to him is very difficult to read.
At the center is innocent baby Lena. Like a little angel, it seems she is inspiring the characters to be their better selves!
This was a good cliffhanger to launch the series because it really makes one want to find out what happens to the sweet baby so strangely abandoned....and the feud that is reaching out to poison the younger generations....
The story starts at the country club when four of the wealthiest young bachelors of the county find a baby abandoned with a water-damaged note on the ninth hole of their Saturday golf game. Flynt Carson takes the baby home even though no name can be deciphered from the damaged note -- all because he assumes his one-time tryst with housekeeper Josie Lavendar would fit the baby's age! He sent Josie away immediately with money to start a life over somewhere else, but she sent him a check paying him back. But since she has just returned to the area to be with her ill mother, he feels his suspicion is righteous. While he awaits the paternity test, confrontations abound.
I loved the characterization of Josie! She is so grounded, salt-of-the-earth. In backstory we learn she helped Flynt break his guilt-induced drinking binge after his pregnant wife's death. And in the present. Josie challenges Flynt to now finally get that guilt monkey off his back. Josie is shown to be a rock, tough enough to turn-in her own brutish father to prosecution by the law and now to stand up to Flynt's upper crust mother and father! Josie even keeps the secret of the romance between Rose Wainwright and Matt Carson so the lovers need not come under fire in the long-time feud between the Wainwright and Carson ranching families. What is not to like about Josie! She is a gem.
Flynt Carson, however, is a character who is very problematic. Not only because of his drinking weakness, but because he is essentially self-centered and wounded and untrusting. His insistence that Josie is lying to him is very difficult to read.
At the center is innocent baby Lena. Like a little angel, it seems she is inspiring the characters to be their better selves!
This was a good cliffhanger to launch the series because it really makes one want to find out what happens to the sweet baby so strangely abandoned....and the feud that is reaching out to poison the younger generations....
April 3, 2020
A simple short cute romance. Just what the doctor ordered. I’d like the characters in though I started out the series with this book I didn’t feel like I missed a ton. I mean you get caught up. I have a feeling that I’m going to want to continue reading from this point forward though. This book left a few unanswered questions which I suspect is deliberate on the part of the author. That’s OK though because it makes you want to read more
October 27, 2013
Very good love story. Can't wait to read all of the books in the Lone Star Country Club Series. I have read other books by this author and I was very satisfied with the outcome. Keep the books coming to enjoy.
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October 7, 2008Lone Star Country Club: Stroke of Fortune by Christine Rimmer (2002)
July 18, 2015
not bad. light, easy read.
March 25, 2017
Jun 2002 LSCC #5. Baby is found, in a baby seat, on the golf course. The search is on to find her father and mother.
March 11, 2016
Quick easy read.
February 6, 2011
Nice light romance.
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