Ramblin' Man

by Jackie Merritt

LOVE CHILD...
Casey Oliver froze when she heard the news. Jess Lonnigan was back! Jess, the devil-may-care rodeo star who'd captured her youthful heart during one breathless week of stolen ardor. But this time she planned to stay far, far away from him. For if he ever discovered the truth about her five-year-old son, she'd lose everything...

After a lifetime of wandering, Jess was finally ready to settle down - with Casey, the passionate, headstrong woman he still fiercely wanted. But she had a child now - a child who looked disturbingly familiar. Then Jess made an amazing discovery. And now he was more determined than ever ... to come home.

186 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

About the author

Jackie Merritt's first book was published in December of 1988, and since then she's been deeply engrossed in the writing game. While she's gone through dry spells, where she can't write a word that makes sense and every idea ends up in the trash can, for the most part she's usually working on a viable story.

Jackie honestly believes that anyone with a reasonable grasp of language and grammar can write a bookif they're self-disciplined enough to put in the time and effort that writing demands. Starting a book is easy; staying with it until it is finished is the part that stops many would-be authors. Jackie believes she had an advantage that a lot of people do not have. As a former accountant, she was used to working alone and completing long projects. Oddly enough, the same principles apply to writing.

Plus, of course, you have to love it. Jackie's first attempts to write fiction were so bad they were comical, but she still fell in love with writing. She had written hundreds of business letters before that, but never a word of fiction, and there, all of a sudden, was a whole new world for her to explore.

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ughh! This was such a horrid read with hateful characters. 17 year old heroine had a week-long affair with hero who was 27 six years back. He was a rodeo guy interested only in the physical and dropped words of love and she popped her cherry with him within hours of meeting him. Of course the naive fool was shocked when he left a week later; she loved him and then when was duh preggers, concocted a fake husband followed by fake divorce. When she runs into him six years later she is hateful to him; as if that is not suspicious at all. Our womanizing hero is SHOCKED shocked to hear she doesn't want to jump back into bed with him and is doubtful that she was only 17. Of course he used to be so free with his favours that he never really remembered or paid notice to her virginity or her youth;oh such a HERO he is. He is of course a jerk who keeps asking her out even when she says no. The way she behaved she was just asking for him to discover her son which he does, he wants to marry her for their kid, she says HELL NO and will not even tell her son truth about paternity coz you know she invented this whole Maddox person as her son's father. The hero was hateful, the heroine no better. Hero plays on her sexual attraction for him but she still doesn't agree to marry him and rightfully doubts his words of love. Honestly the romance was horrid and characters hateful.