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Lone Wolf
MR. SEPTEMBER
Man: Wolf Conroe-half-breed Apache, best man at the wedding.
Mission: Getting to the church on time-never mind the reception!
Thwarted by: Falling into the clutches of dangerous criminals!
True Nemesis: Beautiful bridesmaid Kelly Corcoran.
What could be more peaceful than a wedding? Peaceful and... dangerous? Or so Wolf Conroe discovered as he got into the white limousine with the gorgeous maid of honor, Kelly Corcoran.
Little did they know they were in for the ride of their lives! Soon, Wolf and Kelly were on their way to South America instead of the wedding reception. And along the way, Kelly found herself wondering if she could persuade the best man to become the next groom!
Man: Wolf Conroe-half-breed Apache, best man at the wedding.
Mission: Getting to the church on time-never mind the reception!
Thwarted by: Falling into the clutches of dangerous criminals!
True Nemesis: Beautiful bridesmaid Kelly Corcoran.
What could be more peaceful than a wedding? Peaceful and... dangerous? Or so Wolf Conroe discovered as he got into the white limousine with the gorgeous maid of honor, Kelly Corcoran.
Little did they know they were in for the ride of their lives! Soon, Wolf and Kelly were on their way to South America instead of the wedding reception. And along the way, Kelly found herself wondering if she could persuade the best man to become the next groom!
- GenresRomance
186 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1991
51 people want to read
About the author
Annette Broadrick
215 books42 followersAnnette Broadrick was born on November 26. Her mother read to her until she read to herself. From that time on, books became her closest companions and teachers. She was an only child until the middle of her 16th year when her sister was born.
She married immediately after high school graduation in the middle of her 18th year. Twelve months later she had her first son. She ended up having four sons in seven years. People with children do not need to explain what their life was like for the next 20 years. Those people without children do not want to hear about it. Early on, she became a secretary to supplement the family income. Eventually she became a legal secretary and for 25 years she worked for attorneys in Arizona, Texas, Illinois, and Oregon.
Her love of books followed her throughout her career as a mother and a secretary. By the time her youngest son graduated from high school she decided to write a book of her own. After writing in a spiral notebook for six months, she rented a typewriter and rewrote the book, showed it to a creative writing teacher, who was also a friend, listened to her critique and rewrote her story. Next she showed it to another avid romance reader and carefully listened to her critique. She rewrote her story once again. Next she mailed the manuscript to the Silhouette office in New York. Two months later she received a phone call asking if she'd be willing to do extensive revisions, including cutting one hundred pages. She said yes. This was in January 1984. By the time the book, Circumstantial Evidence, came out in November of that year, she had sold a total of six books.
Since October 1984 Annette has supported herself with her writing. Her career as a published author has also supported her reading habit and in the past five years she has managed to establish a quiet life in the Hill Country of central Texas that soothes as well as stimulates her. She hopes to continue writing the kind of books that readers enjoy.
She married immediately after high school graduation in the middle of her 18th year. Twelve months later she had her first son. She ended up having four sons in seven years. People with children do not need to explain what their life was like for the next 20 years. Those people without children do not want to hear about it. Early on, she became a secretary to supplement the family income. Eventually she became a legal secretary and for 25 years she worked for attorneys in Arizona, Texas, Illinois, and Oregon.
Her love of books followed her throughout her career as a mother and a secretary. By the time her youngest son graduated from high school she decided to write a book of her own. After writing in a spiral notebook for six months, she rented a typewriter and rewrote the book, showed it to a creative writing teacher, who was also a friend, listened to her critique and rewrote her story. Next she showed it to another avid romance reader and carefully listened to her critique. She rewrote her story once again. Next she mailed the manuscript to the Silhouette office in New York. Two months later she received a phone call asking if she'd be willing to do extensive revisions, including cutting one hundred pages. She said yes. This was in January 1984. By the time the book, Circumstantial Evidence, came out in November of that year, she had sold a total of six books.
Since October 1984 Annette has supported herself with her writing. Her career as a published author has also supported her reading habit and in the past five years she has managed to establish a quiet life in the Hill Country of central Texas that soothes as well as stimulates her. She hopes to continue writing the kind of books that readers enjoy.
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June 11, 2020
Okay the blurb should have warned me. "Half-breed Apache" hero? Oh, dear.
Hero's more than a "half-breed" (get out of my head, Cher). He's a geology professor and in the prologue, he is angry his bff is going to marry a Boston socialite, but he agrees to be best man.
The heroine is the bride's sister and is angry that such a good-looking hunk of manhood would be prejudiced against her sister. So she is rude and snobby to him.
Hero is frankly bewildered by the heroine's surliness since he has long-accepted his bff's choice and had no idea the heroine knew of his earlier doubts.
The animosity continues when the H/h are kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. They are taken to Columbia and held in a drug lord's lair. Luckily the drug lord never realizes he has kidnapped the wrong couple. The H/h sneak out that night and go for a week-long hike through the jungle.
Normally, I enjoy a wacky premise, but this was too ridiculous. The hero managed to assemble all the necessary camping gear (tent, sleeping bags, cookware, flashlights, rope, etc ) and food for a week in a drug lord's lair without alerting the guards.
The heroine does a complete personality shift from bitch on wheels to pollyanna (look at the view!). The hero is just . . . there.
There are so many trailing threads by the last page that I felt more insulted than amused by such a weak ending.
Hero's more than a "half-breed" (get out of my head, Cher). He's a geology professor and in the prologue, he is angry his bff is going to marry a Boston socialite, but he agrees to be best man.
The heroine is the bride's sister and is angry that such a good-looking hunk of manhood would be prejudiced against her sister. So she is rude and snobby to him.
Hero is frankly bewildered by the heroine's surliness since he has long-accepted his bff's choice and had no idea the heroine knew of his earlier doubts.
The animosity continues when the H/h are kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. They are taken to Columbia and held in a drug lord's lair. Luckily the drug lord never realizes he has kidnapped the wrong couple. The H/h sneak out that night and go for a week-long hike through the jungle.
Normally, I enjoy a wacky premise, but this was too ridiculous. The hero managed to assemble all the necessary camping gear (tent, sleeping bags, cookware, flashlights, rope, etc ) and food for a week in a drug lord's lair without alerting the guards.
The heroine does a complete personality shift from bitch on wheels to pollyanna (look at the view!). The hero is just . . . there.
There are so many trailing threads by the last page that I felt more insulted than amused by such a weak ending.
November 29, 2011
Another of my old category favorites. It just had something. I think it was the sexiness of the hero mostly. I always did find the tall Native-American features attractive.
Anyway. On her best friends wedding, Kelly immediatly butts head with the best man. She finds him terribly arrogant and unkind, he finds her shallow and too pretty to be smart. Prejudices everywhere!
Bad luck strikes however, because some mafia type mistakenly thinks they are a rival maffioso's daughter on their wedding day, and they are kidnapped to somewhere in South America. When they realize they are in a pickle, they decide to escape to the jungle. (Insert great scene where Wolf asks Kelly to pack stuff they need for survival, and she packs hand creme and make-up and stuff).
They head in the jungle, and it's awful (duh-uh), but while they face all kinds of jungle stuff, they slowly get to know each other, and emotions bloom.
Ok, so the plot is totally wacko, but most of it is them walking through the jungle, and their conversations where delicious. I just really liked Wolf, who was stern and taciturn and a nature lover and just delicious.
I think it reminds me a bit of Romancing the Stone, which was also wacko, but still fun and romantic.
Anyway. On her best friends wedding, Kelly immediatly butts head with the best man. She finds him terribly arrogant and unkind, he finds her shallow and too pretty to be smart. Prejudices everywhere!
Bad luck strikes however, because some mafia type mistakenly thinks they are a rival maffioso's daughter on their wedding day, and they are kidnapped to somewhere in South America. When they realize they are in a pickle, they decide to escape to the jungle. (Insert great scene where Wolf asks Kelly to pack stuff they need for survival, and she packs hand creme and make-up and stuff).
They head in the jungle, and it's awful (duh-uh), but while they face all kinds of jungle stuff, they slowly get to know each other, and emotions bloom.
Ok, so the plot is totally wacko, but most of it is them walking through the jungle, and their conversations where delicious. I just really liked Wolf, who was stern and taciturn and a nature lover and just delicious.
I think it reminds me a bit of Romancing the Stone, which was also wacko, but still fun and romantic.
June 27, 2021
Wolf Conroe is horrified that his buddy is getting married, and wants him to be the best man, and isn't afraid to say so. This puts him at odds with the bride-to-be's sister, Kelly Corcoran, who is the maid of honour. They both think the other is a terrible person, of course. On the way to the reception after the wedding, in a limo, Wolf basically sexually assaults Kelly (but she secretly wants it, so it's okay), and I was seriously wondering if I could even finish this.
Anyway, it turns out they've been kidnapped by some sort of criminal kingpin in a ridiculous case of mistaken identity, and taken to Colombia. Wolf and Kelly find a ridiculously easy way to escape, and must trek through the jungle to Bogota, where there's an American embassy. So this is essentially an Intrigue-style story, where the hero and heroine survive through tough terrain and fall in love along the way. Except without any suspense or sense of palpable danger.
To be honest, of course, I wasn't really expecting suspense, as this is a Desire book, and that's not why I read it. In fact, I owned this as a young lass many years ago, but never read it, so I was excited to find it on Open Library, which feels more like reading an actual book than on a Kindle, since they scan the pages! Wolf's sexual assaults on Kelly probably wouldn't have had an impact on me back then, but reading it now was kind of stomach-churning. Wolf does later promise not to do that anymore, and I was like, "Yeah, you're a real stand-up guy, Wolf."
The hero and heroine's trek through the jungle did suffer because of the lack of high stakes. The whole kidnapped-by-accident subplot is kind of left up in the air. I understand Broadrick needed some way to isolate her characters in close intimacy in unfamiliar territory, but it was just too convoluted and silly to work. If you're going to put your characters in imminent danger, you need to follow through on it! There's some decent dialogue between Kelly and Wolf, and they came across as interesting characters (I liked Wolf's backstory.)
But the whole affair was mostly "meh", unfortunately! It didn't help that Wolf's behaviour in the first third was very inappropriate and rapey.
Anyway, it turns out they've been kidnapped by some sort of criminal kingpin in a ridiculous case of mistaken identity, and taken to Colombia. Wolf and Kelly find a ridiculously easy way to escape, and must trek through the jungle to Bogota, where there's an American embassy. So this is essentially an Intrigue-style story, where the hero and heroine survive through tough terrain and fall in love along the way. Except without any suspense or sense of palpable danger.
To be honest, of course, I wasn't really expecting suspense, as this is a Desire book, and that's not why I read it. In fact, I owned this as a young lass many years ago, but never read it, so I was excited to find it on Open Library, which feels more like reading an actual book than on a Kindle, since they scan the pages! Wolf's sexual assaults on Kelly probably wouldn't have had an impact on me back then, but reading it now was kind of stomach-churning. Wolf does later promise not to do that anymore, and I was like, "Yeah, you're a real stand-up guy, Wolf."
The hero and heroine's trek through the jungle did suffer because of the lack of high stakes. The whole kidnapped-by-accident subplot is kind of left up in the air. I understand Broadrick needed some way to isolate her characters in close intimacy in unfamiliar territory, but it was just too convoluted and silly to work. If you're going to put your characters in imminent danger, you need to follow through on it! There's some decent dialogue between Kelly and Wolf, and they came across as interesting characters (I liked Wolf's backstory.)
But the whole affair was mostly "meh", unfortunately! It didn't help that Wolf's behaviour in the first third was very inappropriate and rapey.
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