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Long, Tall Texans #17b
Christopher
Originally published in 1999 in Love With a Long, Tall Texan.
In this classic Long, Tall Texans tale from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer, a wounded tycoon finds love in the Lone Star State.
Injured years ago in a car accident, wealthy Christopher Deverell has every material item that he could ever want. But the jaded millionaire has never opened his heart to let a woman in—that is, until he’s confronted by determined journalist Della Larson. The pretty young woman is looking to track down Christopher’s wayward mother, Tansy, and will stop at nothing to get her story. Christopher refuses to discuss his personal life with someone who will just distort the truth, but there’s something about Della that might just change his mind and convince him to open his life to what could become forever love…
In this classic Long, Tall Texans tale from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer, a wounded tycoon finds love in the Lone Star State.
Injured years ago in a car accident, wealthy Christopher Deverell has every material item that he could ever want. But the jaded millionaire has never opened his heart to let a woman in—that is, until he’s confronted by determined journalist Della Larson. The pretty young woman is looking to track down Christopher’s wayward mother, Tansy, and will stop at nothing to get her story. Christopher refuses to discuss his personal life with someone who will just distort the truth, but there’s something about Della that might just change his mind and convince him to open his life to what could become forever love…
105 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2017
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Diana Palmer
1,038 books3,098 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle.
(1)romance author
Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980.
She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. James Press, The Writers Directory by St. James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards.
Inspired by her husband, who quit a blue-collar manufacturing job to return to school and get his diploma in computer programming, Susan herself went back to college as a day student at the age of 45. In 1995, she graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, with a major in history and a double minor in archaeology and Spanish. She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She hopes to specialize in Native American studies. She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of Amenca, the Planetary Society, The Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Sheriff's Association, and numerous conservation and charitable organizations. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music.
In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. They love riding around and looking at the countryside, watching sci-fi on TV and at the movies, just talking and eating out.
Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle.
(1)romance author
Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980.
She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. James Press, The Writers Directory by St. James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards.
Inspired by her husband, who quit a blue-collar manufacturing job to return to school and get his diploma in computer programming, Susan herself went back to college as a day student at the age of 45. In 1995, she graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, with a major in history and a double minor in archaeology and Spanish. She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She hopes to specialize in Native American studies. She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of Amenca, the Planetary Society, The Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Sheriff's Association, and numerous conservation and charitable organizations. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music.
In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. They love riding around and looking at the countryside, watching sci-fi on TV and at the movies, just talking and eating out.
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July 9, 2017
Short and sweet! I also love Tansy's antics 😂
December 12, 2020
Diane Palmer's characters always get their man!
January 26, 2022
Here is another novella from Diana Palmer. It moves quick. My friends as I read this story, I couldn’t help but think of the words dame, gumshoe, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard to name a few….
The H, Christopher, has quite the reputation as a ladies man, who has enough money to lead a life of leisure and garner unwanted publicity in the disreputable news rags.
As the story develops, we find there is more to the H then meets the eye. He had an epiphany a few years ago when he was involved in an accident which has left him scarred and blind in one eye. (Injuries be damned, he still gets the looks from the hot to trot dollies!) He is starting to long for something more….maybe a family? When his mother comes up missing, he gets involved with an up and coming news reporter. She is cute as a button an as innocent as new born babe.
He basically takes one look at her and tells her that she is too soft for the hard stuff. Within hours of meeting they are off to England, as the h believes she has the scoop on his missing mother.
Yes, my friends this is a story where our two characters are going to be involved in some intrigue. This is how I feel about that:
Look, I like a good mystery, but I’d rather watch it. Unlike, my romance which I’d rather read as movies rarely capture the angst that books do. Usually, I avoid intrigue. Since this was a novella, I decided to stick with it.
So here our dynamic duo go on a madcap adventure, falling more and more in love along the way.
It is a good thing our H was not only in the military but he also did some covert operations as a mercenary. It will come in handy when he has to help take down the bad guys who are holding the rather saucy 75 year old mom captive.
In between their sleuthing, the couple make time to get some dinner, swimming, and expert kissing in from the H. A rather attractive woman gives the H the sly eye at the swimming pool, but he shuts that down real quick. No need to make the h jealous, because she is ott in love already.
When it comes time to rescue the mom, they get help from the dark attractive Seth, who has a connection to the H’s family. Mom gets rescued, and the H introduces the h as her future dil. The h is happy but a little taken aback by the declaration. Then, Seth grabs the h in his arms as a celebratory kiss telling her he wish he saw her first. He takes off. The H asks her about the kiss, she says it was good but not good enough. Only the H can give her the kisses she wants. Everyone laughs and all are happy as they board the plane for the states.
Meeting them at the gate is the h’s equally saucy grandfather. It seems he and the H’s mom have some history. History worth repeating. So here we get a secondary romance between the older couple.
The h and H are married(in less than 2 weeks of meeting). They go on their honeymoon and the H and h are very compatible bedmates. Meanwhile, back in the states, the gramps and mother are making their own explosions.
So if you like a pretty clean romance with some humor and a light mystery you may enjoy this. To me it was a 2.5 but I rounded it to 3. I would never feel the need to reread it. To me, it was enjoyable like a carnival ride but not exhilarating like a ride at Cedar Point that you wait in line for over and over again!
The H, Christopher, has quite the reputation as a ladies man, who has enough money to lead a life of leisure and garner unwanted publicity in the disreputable news rags.
As the story develops, we find there is more to the H then meets the eye. He had an epiphany a few years ago when he was involved in an accident which has left him scarred and blind in one eye. (Injuries be damned, he still gets the looks from the hot to trot dollies!) He is starting to long for something more….maybe a family? When his mother comes up missing, he gets involved with an up and coming news reporter. She is cute as a button an as innocent as new born babe.
He basically takes one look at her and tells her that she is too soft for the hard stuff. Within hours of meeting they are off to England, as the h believes she has the scoop on his missing mother.
Yes, my friends this is a story where our two characters are going to be involved in some intrigue. This is how I feel about that:
Look, I like a good mystery, but I’d rather watch it. Unlike, my romance which I’d rather read as movies rarely capture the angst that books do. Usually, I avoid intrigue. Since this was a novella, I decided to stick with it. So here our dynamic duo go on a madcap adventure, falling more and more in love along the way.
It is a good thing our H was not only in the military but he also did some covert operations as a mercenary. It will come in handy when he has to help take down the bad guys who are holding the rather saucy 75 year old mom captive.
In between their sleuthing, the couple make time to get some dinner, swimming, and expert kissing in from the H. A rather attractive woman gives the H the sly eye at the swimming pool, but he shuts that down real quick. No need to make the h jealous, because she is ott in love already.
When it comes time to rescue the mom, they get help from the dark attractive Seth, who has a connection to the H’s family. Mom gets rescued, and the H introduces the h as her future dil. The h is happy but a little taken aback by the declaration. Then, Seth grabs the h in his arms as a celebratory kiss telling her he wish he saw her first. He takes off. The H asks her about the kiss, she says it was good but not good enough. Only the H can give her the kisses she wants. Everyone laughs and all are happy as they board the plane for the states.
Meeting them at the gate is the h’s equally saucy grandfather. It seems he and the H’s mom have some history. History worth repeating. So here we get a secondary romance between the older couple.
The h and H are married(in less than 2 weeks of meeting). They go on their honeymoon and the H and h are very compatible bedmates. Meanwhile, back in the states, the gramps and mother are making their own explosions.
So if you like a pretty clean romance with some humor and a light mystery you may enjoy this. To me it was a 2.5 but I rounded it to 3. I would never feel the need to reread it. To me, it was enjoyable like a carnival ride but not exhilarating like a ride at Cedar Point that you wait in line for over and over again!
November 2, 2025
rilettura amatoriale
Christopher “Chris” Deverell e Della Larson
Christopher è cugino di Emmett “Una fidanzata per papà Ltt #10”
e fratello di Logan nominato con la moglie Kit e il figlioletto Bryce “The Case of the Missing Secretary Most Wanted #03” (inedito)
Most Wanted è una serie correlata a LTT inedita
nominata l'agenzia investigativa Lassiter e Dane Lassiter (proprietario) “The Case of the Mesmerizing Boss Most Wanted #01” (inedito)
nominato Ted Regan capo e socio di Emmett “Orgoglio e amore LTT #11”
Troviamo la mamma Tansy già conosciuta nei libri dedicati ai Deverell sopra indicati.
Divertente i battibecchi tra i due vecchietti del libro.
Christopher “Chris” Deverell e Della Larson
Christopher è cugino di Emmett “Una fidanzata per papà Ltt #10”
e fratello di Logan nominato con la moglie Kit e il figlioletto Bryce “The Case of the Missing Secretary Most Wanted #03” (inedito)
Most Wanted è una serie correlata a LTT inedita
nominata l'agenzia investigativa Lassiter e Dane Lassiter (proprietario) “The Case of the Mesmerizing Boss Most Wanted #01” (inedito)
nominato Ted Regan capo e socio di Emmett “Orgoglio e amore LTT #11”
Troviamo la mamma Tansy già conosciuta nei libri dedicati ai Deverell sopra indicati.
Divertente i battibecchi tra i due vecchietti del libro.
September 27, 2022
Ugh, I just want to be done with this series.
February 3, 2023
Christopher and Della
Was ok. A little too short and I didn't feel like I knew the characters that well. Np.
Was ok. A little too short and I didn't feel like I knew the characters that well. Np.
December 23, 2017
I am a huge fan of Diana Palmer. This is the second time that I have read this book and loved it just like I did the first time. Christopher's mother, Tansy, has disappeared and he can't find her. A reporter, Della, tells him that his mother is in England and is accused of murder. Christopher and Della had to England to find Tansy and to hopefully clear her name. This is a short, delightful story with twists and turns.
May 17, 2017
Another wonderful story
I like that Chris and Dell's make a perfect couple and that they were able to save his mother. Tansy knowing Herb was a bonus.
I like that Chris and Dell's make a perfect couple and that they were able to save his mother. Tansy knowing Herb was a bonus.
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July 8, 2017Miniseries: Long, Tall Texans
October 2, 2017
If i could post a zero, I would.
This book lacked in every way. Who jumps on a plane with a complete stranger on a minutes notice... I do not recommend wasting the time.
This book lacked in every way. Who jumps on a plane with a complete stranger on a minutes notice... I do not recommend wasting the time.
December 16, 2017
Really liked it.
October 12, 2018
Great!
Funny, sexy and exciting all rolled together in a great story. A little short for my taste which made it feel rushed. I still loved the story though.
Funny, sexy and exciting all rolled together in a great story. A little short for my taste which made it feel rushed. I still loved the story though.
November 17, 2018
Too Days Gone By
This was in no way a modern story, and it just rubbed in some wrong ways for me. I didn't like either of the main characters, and the story didn't thrill me.
This was in no way a modern story, and it just rubbed in some wrong ways for me. I didn't like either of the main characters, and the story didn't thrill me.
April 18, 2020
3.5 stars
I read this before under a different title. It was diverting, but as it was a novella, things happened quickly. Could have used a little more character development.
I read this before under a different title. It was diverting, but as it was a novella, things happened quickly. Could have used a little more character development.
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