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Hearts Untamed: Risky Business / Boundary Lines
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts come two classic stories about finding love in the most unlikely places…
Risky Business
Dive shop owner Liz Palmer has made an idyllic life for herself in Cozumel. But everything changes when her boarder is murdered and his grieving twin brother storms into Liz's life with revenge in his heart. At first, Liz is reluctant to get involved. She has a business to run, a daughter to raise—and handsome Jonas Sharpe is proving to be a major distraction. But Liz soon discovers how impossible it is to resist both the mystery…and the passionate man trying to solve it.
Boundary Lines
A feud has been simmering for years between two Montana families, and Jillian Baron and Aaron Murdock seem determined to carry it into another generation. But a threat from a common enemy forces feisty Jillian and irresistible Aaron to finally come a little bit closer. Now their historical mistrust is pitted against an unexpected passion neither is able to deny. They say good fences make good neighbors, but true love can easily tear those fences down…
Risky Business
Dive shop owner Liz Palmer has made an idyllic life for herself in Cozumel. But everything changes when her boarder is murdered and his grieving twin brother storms into Liz's life with revenge in his heart. At first, Liz is reluctant to get involved. She has a business to run, a daughter to raise—and handsome Jonas Sharpe is proving to be a major distraction. But Liz soon discovers how impossible it is to resist both the mystery…and the passionate man trying to solve it.
Boundary Lines
A feud has been simmering for years between two Montana families, and Jillian Baron and Aaron Murdock seem determined to carry it into another generation. But a threat from a common enemy forces feisty Jillian and irresistible Aaron to finally come a little bit closer. Now their historical mistrust is pitted against an unexpected passion neither is able to deny. They say good fences make good neighbors, but true love can easily tear those fences down…
496 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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Nora Roberts
1,209 books59.7k followersNora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Hideaway, Under Currents, Come Sundown, The Awakening, Legacy, and coming in November 2021 -- The Becoming -- the second book in The Dragon Heart Legacy. She is also the author of the futuristic suspense In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.
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September 11, 2017
Two decent stories but I tended to want them to be longer, suppose I'm not one for short stories.
January 18, 2016
Risky Business - 3/5 - So this isn't the worst of Nora's early books by any stretch of the imagination. Compared to some of her other early works this was very readable. The suspense was pretty good, as the Hero and the heroine try to work out who killed the Hero's twin brother, Jerry. I didn't suspect the bad guy until right before the reveal. The Hero was not my favorite - Jonas was something of a selfish ass coming in planning to use the heroine however he had to in order to get his revenge for his brother's murder. He just inserts himself into her life, bosses her around, demands she take him places (for her own safety supposedly) and he comes across for much of the book as cold and unfeeling. So imagine my surprise when after days of the hero being an ass the heroine realizes she's falling in love with him. Why? Later in the book he kinda becomes a different character... And yes, even I think he's too pushy/creepy there at the end.
The heroine was even more annoying. Set aside by her daughter's father and left to have her baby alone, Liz is basically an emotional coward who hides and runs from her feelings and stubbornly insists on being independent in everything - despite times when it would make sense to ask for help. She frustrated me more than she earned my sympathy. And Nora Roberts struggles at writing believable kids. Faith, who we meet briefly at the end of the book is supposed to be nearly 11 years old. Yet when we meet her, she's just lost two teeth in an obvious location revealed by her smile (at her age she should be losing molars..). But that's kind of nitpicky. It's when they get around to her dialogue - she speaks in simple baby sentences, talks about how she tried to run really fast in her new sneakers, fell down and skinned her knee and didn't cry. She leaps into Jonas's arms when he comes to visit. I'm telling you, I know kids this age and they're a touch more mature. She's written like a six-year-old...not a girl on the verge of adolescence. Other than the characters, the book was pretty good.
Boundary Lines - 2/5 - Jill is running the Baron ranch, having lost her curmudgeon grandfather - she's grown up rough and she's pretty much a bitch, only she's very insecure (since some guy hurt her by saying he loved her and then not really loving her). Aaron is a Murdock, a neighboring family with whom her Jillian's family has been enemies for years. Only, despite the blurb claiming that this is about a feud, it's really about an insecure woman who is too stubborn to ask for help and a man who can't take no for an answer. Oh, and there's someone out to sabotage Jillian's efforts, but that's pretty secondary.
At first, I hated Aaron. He was fond of the "attack kiss." His mouth kept crashing down on hers and she'd say no, yell and stomp off in a huff, but everytime he saw her his mouth just kept crashing on to hers. After enough of those, she just couldn't resist him. I'm of the opinion that when a woman decides she wants nothing to do with you, even if she's attracted, she means it and you should just leave her alone. But then we wouldn't have a "romance" would we? But then, after Jillian has begun to accept that he kisses her and she likes it, her insecurity just takes over. She can't trust him, she can't ask him for help, her ranch is the most important thing to her. She couches all of this in excuses involving her ex-boyfriend, but it's a pretty thin justification. So much so that when she rejected his "I love you" and let him walk out and then waited three weeks and was ready to just let him go if he didn't come to her, I was ready to throw the Kindle. Why should he come to her? She rejected him! It really pissed me off that she couldn't suck it up and set aside her pride for just a moment out of love - because that tells me that she values her pride more than him and it ruins the romance for me. Because she doesn't really love him.
The heroine was even more annoying. Set aside by her daughter's father and left to have her baby alone, Liz is basically an emotional coward who hides and runs from her feelings and stubbornly insists on being independent in everything - despite times when it would make sense to ask for help. She frustrated me more than she earned my sympathy. And Nora Roberts struggles at writing believable kids. Faith, who we meet briefly at the end of the book is supposed to be nearly 11 years old. Yet when we meet her, she's just lost two teeth in an obvious location revealed by her smile (at her age she should be losing molars..). But that's kind of nitpicky. It's when they get around to her dialogue - she speaks in simple baby sentences, talks about how she tried to run really fast in her new sneakers, fell down and skinned her knee and didn't cry. She leaps into Jonas's arms when he comes to visit. I'm telling you, I know kids this age and they're a touch more mature. She's written like a six-year-old...not a girl on the verge of adolescence. Other than the characters, the book was pretty good.
Boundary Lines - 2/5 - Jill is running the Baron ranch, having lost her curmudgeon grandfather - she's grown up rough and she's pretty much a bitch, only she's very insecure (since some guy hurt her by saying he loved her and then not really loving her). Aaron is a Murdock, a neighboring family with whom her Jillian's family has been enemies for years. Only, despite the blurb claiming that this is about a feud, it's really about an insecure woman who is too stubborn to ask for help and a man who can't take no for an answer. Oh, and there's someone out to sabotage Jillian's efforts, but that's pretty secondary.
At first, I hated Aaron. He was fond of the "attack kiss." His mouth kept crashing down on hers and she'd say no, yell and stomp off in a huff, but everytime he saw her his mouth just kept crashing on to hers. After enough of those, she just couldn't resist him. I'm of the opinion that when a woman decides she wants nothing to do with you, even if she's attracted, she means it and you should just leave her alone. But then we wouldn't have a "romance" would we? But then, after Jillian has begun to accept that he kisses her and she likes it, her insecurity just takes over. She can't trust him, she can't ask him for help, her ranch is the most important thing to her. She couches all of this in excuses involving her ex-boyfriend, but it's a pretty thin justification. So much so that when she rejected his "I love you" and let him walk out and then waited three weeks and was ready to just let him go if he didn't come to her, I was ready to throw the Kindle. Why should he come to her? She rejected him! It really pissed me off that she couldn't suck it up and set aside her pride for just a moment out of love - because that tells me that she values her pride more than him and it ruins the romance for me. Because she doesn't really love him.
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April 15, 2016
I enjoyed reading this book. I found it funny at times. The characters in Risky Business that rent the boat to go out in are different. Boundary Lines show how long time arguments with neighbors can continue through the family and then change with the children.
November 9, 2014
I'm rating eith five stars only Risky Business, I did not read the other book because it was not included in the version that I bought. HIGHLY RECOMMEND RISKY BUSINESS. Really, really good.
July 25, 2016
I really liked both of these stories. Both had strong female characters and equally strong men. They were all likable and the romance was believable.
October 13, 2015
I thoroughly enjoyed both of these stories.
October 23, 2015
The stories were alright but the characters weren't all that likeable as other characters that the author has made in other books.
January 21, 2016
Nice and easy listening while doing chores
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