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The Coltons: Family First #1
Colton's Secret Service
"Striking a Secret Service agent will land you in prison."
But the petite redhead with the cowboy hat and tire iron seemed unfazed by Nick Sheffield's words. The Secret Service agent had come to the tiny Texas town to unmask a potential threat to his employer—a U.S. senator. Could his quarry be this captivating single mother who aroused in him a passion that was anything but innocent?
How dare this stranger show up and turn her life upside down! The last thing Georgeann Grady Colton needed was someone like Nick—handsome, suspicious, irresistible. As danger and desire collided, Georgie knew she was traveling a treacherous falling for a man who was taking them both to the point of no return.…
But the petite redhead with the cowboy hat and tire iron seemed unfazed by Nick Sheffield's words. The Secret Service agent had come to the tiny Texas town to unmask a potential threat to his employer—a U.S. senator. Could his quarry be this captivating single mother who aroused in him a passion that was anything but innocent?
How dare this stranger show up and turn her life upside down! The last thing Georgeann Grady Colton needed was someone like Nick—handsome, suspicious, irresistible. As danger and desire collided, Georgie knew she was traveling a treacherous falling for a man who was taking them both to the point of no return.…
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2008
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About the author
Marie Ferrarella
1,229 books276 followersMarie Rydzynski-Ferrarella
aka Marie Charles, Marie Michael, Marie Nicole, Marie Ferrarella
Marie Rydzynski was born on March 28 in West Germany to Polish parents. She moved to America at the age of four. For an entire year, Marie and her family explored the eastern half of the country before finally settling in New York.
Marie swears she was born writing, "which must have made the delivery especially hard for my mother." From an early age, Marie's parents would find her watching television or tucked away in some private place, writing at a furious pace. "Initially, I began writing myself into my favourite shows. I was a detective on '77 Sunset Strip,' the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on 'Bonanza' and the 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.' before there was a 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.,' not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories of 'The Mickey Mouse Club.'" Marie began to write her first romance novel when she was 11 years old, although she claims that, at the time, she didn't even realize it was a romance! She scribbled off and on, while dreaming of a career as an actress.
Marie was only 14 when she first laid eyes on the man she would marry, truly her first love, Charles Ferrarella. During her days at Queens College, New York, acting started to lose its glamour as Marie spent more and more time writing. After receiving her English degree, specialising in Shakespearean comedy, Marie and her family moved to Southern California, where she still resides today.
After an interminable seven weeks apart, Charles decided he couldn't live without her and came out to California to marry his childhood sweetheart. Ever practical, Marie was married in a wash-and-wear wedding dress that she sewed herself, appliqués and all. "'Be prepared' has always been my motto,"the author jokes. This motto has been stretched considerably by her two children, Nikky and Jessi, "but basically, it still applies," she says.
In November of 1981, she sold her first novel for Harlequin. Marie, who now has written over 150 novels, has one goal: to entertain, to make people laugh and feel good. "That's what makes me happy," she confesses. "That, and a really good romantic evening with my husband." She's keeping her fingers crossed that her reader's enjoy reading her books as much as she enjoyed writing them.
aka Marie Charles, Marie Michael, Marie Nicole, Marie Ferrarella
Marie Rydzynski was born on March 28 in West Germany to Polish parents. She moved to America at the age of four. For an entire year, Marie and her family explored the eastern half of the country before finally settling in New York.
Marie swears she was born writing, "which must have made the delivery especially hard for my mother." From an early age, Marie's parents would find her watching television or tucked away in some private place, writing at a furious pace. "Initially, I began writing myself into my favourite shows. I was a detective on '77 Sunset Strip,' the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on 'Bonanza' and the 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.' before there was a 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.,' not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories of 'The Mickey Mouse Club.'" Marie began to write her first romance novel when she was 11 years old, although she claims that, at the time, she didn't even realize it was a romance! She scribbled off and on, while dreaming of a career as an actress.
Marie was only 14 when she first laid eyes on the man she would marry, truly her first love, Charles Ferrarella. During her days at Queens College, New York, acting started to lose its glamour as Marie spent more and more time writing. After receiving her English degree, specialising in Shakespearean comedy, Marie and her family moved to Southern California, where she still resides today.
After an interminable seven weeks apart, Charles decided he couldn't live without her and came out to California to marry his childhood sweetheart. Ever practical, Marie was married in a wash-and-wear wedding dress that she sewed herself, appliqués and all. "'Be prepared' has always been my motto,"the author jokes. This motto has been stretched considerably by her two children, Nikky and Jessi, "but basically, it still applies," she says.
In November of 1981, she sold her first novel for Harlequin. Marie, who now has written over 150 novels, has one goal: to entertain, to make people laugh and feel good. "That's what makes me happy," she confesses. "That, and a really good romantic evening with my husband." She's keeping her fingers crossed that her reader's enjoy reading her books as much as she enjoyed writing them.
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August 15, 2021
Reviewed at Happily Ever After Romance
I have followed the more recent Colton mini-series from Harlequin and have enjoyed this ever-expanding family’s adventures in love and danger. Yet, because it is always expanding to other branches of the Coltons I realized that although I might have read the earlier stories years ago I have no clear memory of the family connections beyond it being mentioned that this is Joe Colton’s family type of thing. So I decided to go back a bit further and picked the Family First series as a beginning “Flashback” reading point. I’m glad I did, and perhaps you’ll also want to dig a bit deeper into this prolific family’s past stories as well.
When presidential candidate Joe Colton’s top Secret Service operative got wind of a dangerous email threat it didn’t take Nick long to leave the Senator’s side and head off to a tiny town to track down the supposed threat. What Nick didn’t expect was the spitfire who dared to threaten him with a tire iron when she discovers him in her home… her broken into, used as a squatter’s den, this is where the email was sent from home. Yeah. They both have some fast talking explaining to do – and neither are going to like the answers they get.
Colton’s Secret Service starts off on a tense note and doesn’t let up until the final page… but that ending. Even if this book has been out for a long time now, the way this one ended only amplified my need to read the rest in order to get the ultimate answer – which I did get, eventually. Nope, not going to spoil this one for a new reader, like me. I enjoyed the characters, definitely rooting for Georgie and Nick to get past themselves and admit that they belong together and adored a little 4-year-old who has a very old soul. We’ll meet folks who will have their stories told eventually and spend some tense moments as Georgie and Nick track down the real threat to the Senator.
I found it fascinating to go back and read an older title from an author that I read a lot of their work. Small differences, little adjustments as the years, and the changes in acceptable topics in romances changed from 2008 to today in 2021… what almost thirteen years. I will always pick up a book by Marie Ferarrella, no doubt, I simply found it interesting to see the differences in writing from about a decade ago. Nonetheless, I had fun going back to Colton’s Secret Service and actually have binge-read the series already so the next review up will be Rancher’s Redemption by Beth Cornelison.
I own a Kindle edition of Colton’s Secret Service.
I have followed the more recent Colton mini-series from Harlequin and have enjoyed this ever-expanding family’s adventures in love and danger. Yet, because it is always expanding to other branches of the Coltons I realized that although I might have read the earlier stories years ago I have no clear memory of the family connections beyond it being mentioned that this is Joe Colton’s family type of thing. So I decided to go back a bit further and picked the Family First series as a beginning “Flashback” reading point. I’m glad I did, and perhaps you’ll also want to dig a bit deeper into this prolific family’s past stories as well.
When presidential candidate Joe Colton’s top Secret Service operative got wind of a dangerous email threat it didn’t take Nick long to leave the Senator’s side and head off to a tiny town to track down the supposed threat. What Nick didn’t expect was the spitfire who dared to threaten him with a tire iron when she discovers him in her home… her broken into, used as a squatter’s den, this is where the email was sent from home. Yeah. They both have some fast talking explaining to do – and neither are going to like the answers they get.
Colton’s Secret Service starts off on a tense note and doesn’t let up until the final page… but that ending. Even if this book has been out for a long time now, the way this one ended only amplified my need to read the rest in order to get the ultimate answer – which I did get, eventually. Nope, not going to spoil this one for a new reader, like me. I enjoyed the characters, definitely rooting for Georgie and Nick to get past themselves and admit that they belong together and adored a little 4-year-old who has a very old soul. We’ll meet folks who will have their stories told eventually and spend some tense moments as Georgie and Nick track down the real threat to the Senator.
I found it fascinating to go back and read an older title from an author that I read a lot of their work. Small differences, little adjustments as the years, and the changes in acceptable topics in romances changed from 2008 to today in 2021… what almost thirteen years. I will always pick up a book by Marie Ferarrella, no doubt, I simply found it interesting to see the differences in writing from about a decade ago. Nonetheless, I had fun going back to Colton’s Secret Service and actually have binge-read the series already so the next review up will be Rancher’s Redemption by Beth Cornelison.
I own a Kindle edition of Colton’s Secret Service.
September 16, 2021
Two Different Lives
Georgie Gray and Nick Sheffield were two very different people doing two very different jobs. Would they mesh these two careers together and become a family. After many mishaps, a murderer to boot is there still someone after Georgie? Will they marry and live happily ever after?
Georgie Gray and Nick Sheffield were two very different people doing two very different jobs. Would they mesh these two careers together and become a family. After many mishaps, a murderer to boot is there still someone after Georgie? Will they marry and live happily ever after?
April 16, 2018
Appealing characters, a swift romance and an interesting story
February 14, 2018
Reread: looked this up 1/2 a day ago & didn't see I had already read them, lol. Since I didn't remember it. Glad I got to reread it.
Nick comes to find Georgie Grady and take them in for the problems he's causing Senator Joe Colton. Presidential candidate and literally is accosted by both GeorgeAnn Brady Colton and her 4 her daughter - after about 2 days of helping Georgie to of course find out how she was guilty, he came to understand she was innocent and how much he respected her.
Another day or two and he's completely enamored with a 4 year old little girl who's acts more like an adult, and her red headed, pistol of a mother.
Once things wrap up, it took only two days back in California to know he couldn't be Nick Sheffield, secret service and protector of Joe Colton anymore, the presidential candidate.
What we are left with is a deputy's account of his paying for his true love's burial and how not only were the Coltons suppose to pay, but Sheffield will pay for his beloveds death.
Lol, think Mrs. Marie should do every entry to Colton series, maybe she has. But after just reading her entry to the Shadow Creek Colons, she lays the ground work in a fantastical narrative that truly sets up the series of stories that are about to unfold.
Nick comes to find Georgie Grady and take them in for the problems he's causing Senator Joe Colton. Presidential candidate and literally is accosted by both GeorgeAnn Brady Colton and her 4 her daughter - after about 2 days of helping Georgie to of course find out how she was guilty, he came to understand she was innocent and how much he respected her.
Another day or two and he's completely enamored with a 4 year old little girl who's acts more like an adult, and her red headed, pistol of a mother.
Once things wrap up, it took only two days back in California to know he couldn't be Nick Sheffield, secret service and protector of Joe Colton anymore, the presidential candidate.
What we are left with is a deputy's account of his paying for his true love's burial and how not only were the Coltons suppose to pay, but Sheffield will pay for his beloveds death.
Lol, think Mrs. Marie should do every entry to Colton series, maybe she has. But after just reading her entry to the Shadow Creek Colons, she lays the ground work in a fantastical narrative that truly sets up the series of stories that are about to unfold.
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