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Desert Angel
Could she escape the sins of yesterday...with the only man she would ever love?
March Evans was used to poverty. Born into a sprawling family barely able to keep a roof over their heads, she learned at a tender age how cruel and unjust life could be. And when her own father sold her innocence to the highest bidder, March discovered the true meaning of betrayal...and left her Arizona hometown in scandal, disgrace, and secret sorrow...
Then a job keeping house for a wealthy widower and his infant son at their desert ranch gave her the chance to start over. From the moment Jim Travis welcomed her into his home, March knew she was lost. She could no more deny the passion flaring between them than she could stop her lonely heart from yearning for more.
Would the shattering secrets of March's past destroy her one chance at happiness? Or was her love for this rugged rancher strong enough to build a brand new future -- together?
March Evans was used to poverty. Born into a sprawling family barely able to keep a roof over their heads, she learned at a tender age how cruel and unjust life could be. And when her own father sold her innocence to the highest bidder, March discovered the true meaning of betrayal...and left her Arizona hometown in scandal, disgrace, and secret sorrow...
Then a job keeping house for a wealthy widower and his infant son at their desert ranch gave her the chance to start over. From the moment Jim Travis welcomed her into his home, March knew she was lost. She could no more deny the passion flaring between them than she could stop her lonely heart from yearning for more.
Would the shattering secrets of March's past destroy her one chance at happiness? Or was her love for this rugged rancher strong enough to build a brand new future -- together?
414 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1994
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October 22, 2017
Looked this one up after it was posted on the reader group I joined on FB recently.
Heroine's father is a POS. She fell for a guy's sweet words, believing he was telling the truth when he spoke about marriage and kids and only after she slept with him did she find out her father basically sold her virginity to him. She ends up pregnant and her father beats her every day because she refuses to let her father pimp her out. She gives birth to a stillborn little girl. Of course, she was the one blamed for the whole thing. The guy wasn't even mentioned because his daddy was a powerful man in town.
Three days later, the hero comes to the shack they're living in (which is on his property) and he tells them they have to go because they're on his land. He's recently been widowed and left with a baby son who is only a few days old when the hero approaches the shack to tell them to leave. He decides to hire who he thought was the heroine's sister as his housekeeper so she can take care of the house and his son while he works the ranch. The father agrees, charges him money for his daughter and then tells the heroine she's the one who will leave with the hero. The heroine is still recovering from giving birth to her stillborn daughter and she doesn't know that her father lied and told the hero that she's just having her "womanly time."
She heads off with the hero, is told she needs to feed the baby and since she can't read or write, doesn't realize that the hero has cans of milk to feed his son so she nurses him, again thinking the hero knew her situation and that was why he requested she go with him. It's not until days later that the hero tells her to get the bottle of milk ready and she confesses that she doesn't know anything about cans of milk. The hero questions how she's been feeding his son if she hasn't been using the bottle and when she tries to walk away to go feed his son, he makes her do it in front of him because he still didn't understand what was going on. She nurses his son in front of him and it then clicks for him that she's had a child and she tells him everything that happened up to the point of him coming to the shack she was living in. She tells him she'll leave after she feeds the baby because she knows he wouldn't want someone like her around his child. He tells her he believes her and he doesn't want her to leave because his son is attached to her.
This was a slow build up on the romance. Months go by with her taking care of his son and his home before he starts seeing her as anything beyond his housekeeper. Because of his marriage, he swore he'd never marry again and because of her father, she had no desire to marry and put someone else in control of her life.
Heroine's father is a POS. She fell for a guy's sweet words, believing he was telling the truth when he spoke about marriage and kids and only after she slept with him did she find out her father basically sold her virginity to him. She ends up pregnant and her father beats her every day because she refuses to let her father pimp her out. She gives birth to a stillborn little girl. Of course, she was the one blamed for the whole thing. The guy wasn't even mentioned because his daddy was a powerful man in town.
Three days later, the hero comes to the shack they're living in (which is on his property) and he tells them they have to go because they're on his land. He's recently been widowed and left with a baby son who is only a few days old when the hero approaches the shack to tell them to leave. He decides to hire who he thought was the heroine's sister as his housekeeper so she can take care of the house and his son while he works the ranch. The father agrees, charges him money for his daughter and then tells the heroine she's the one who will leave with the hero. The heroine is still recovering from giving birth to her stillborn daughter and she doesn't know that her father lied and told the hero that she's just having her "womanly time."
She heads off with the hero, is told she needs to feed the baby and since she can't read or write, doesn't realize that the hero has cans of milk to feed his son so she nurses him, again thinking the hero knew her situation and that was why he requested she go with him. It's not until days later that the hero tells her to get the bottle of milk ready and she confesses that she doesn't know anything about cans of milk. The hero questions how she's been feeding his son if she hasn't been using the bottle and when she tries to walk away to go feed his son, he makes her do it in front of him because he still didn't understand what was going on. She nurses his son in front of him and it then clicks for him that she's had a child and she tells him everything that happened up to the point of him coming to the shack she was living in. She tells him she'll leave after she feeds the baby because she knows he wouldn't want someone like her around his child. He tells her he believes her and he doesn't want her to leave because his son is attached to her.
This was a slow build up on the romance. Months go by with her taking care of his son and his home before he starts seeing her as anything beyond his housekeeper. Because of his marriage, he swore he'd never marry again and because of her father, she had no desire to marry and put someone else in control of her life.
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September 4, 2016
O carte de excepție! Cu siguranta merita mai mult de 5 *...
Dragostea oferă celor norocosi si o a doua sansa la fericire! Emotiile sunt baza acestei carti. Iubire, prietenie, rapire si crima...toate combinate intr-o poveste de neuitat!
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Dragostea oferă celor norocosi si o a doua sansa la fericire! Emotiile sunt baza acestei carti. Iubire, prietenie, rapire si crima...toate combinate intr-o poveste de neuitat!
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April 30, 2019
There were many aspects of the story that I did enjoy... the heroine was a sweetheart despite her horrible upbringing. The hero was inconsistent and an all-around jerk, I thought. He would be talking to her like she was a complete idiot one moment and in the next breath refer to her as Angel. When they would go to town to buy supplies, the heroine would be extremely nervous for the townspeople to look down on her for being a loose women, etc and the hero did nothing to help that by walking around with her with his hand on her back and calling her angel. She was his housekeeper, not his lady love. Would he have done so with a 60 year old housekeeper? I don't think so. Nothing huge, but it made me feel bad for her. Overall the hero was hot and cold hateful to her... so it just ruined it for me.
February 27, 2011
March is only a teenager when her father sold her to take care of the ranch patron's child whose mother died after she gave birth. As her little girl died, she becomes attached to the child.She has to learn new things and so does the patron of the ranch.He is attracted by her looks and her happiness in only tasting some fruits or ice cream. I truly love this book for the most beautiful love story.
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