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The Case Of The Mesmerizing Boss
Former Texas Ranger Dane Lassiter knows all about wanting. He had wanted Tess Meriwether for years, but he had scared her away after nearly claiming her innocence in one out-of-control moment. But when Tess barely escapes a killer's bullet, Dane appoints himself her protector, whisking her away to his Texas ranch. Now his toughest challenge is convincing Tess to accept safety in his arms.
221 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1992
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Diana Palmer
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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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April 9, 2019
This was written during her “virgin whisperer” phase. Heroine is 19 when she falls in love with her soon-to-be step brother. Once his marriage is on the rocks after he is wounded in a shoot-out as a Texas Ranger, he finds succor in the heroine’s visits to his sick bed. He is seized by lust and makes a crude pass at her. Heroine is frightened.
Before they can work out their relationship, their parents die in an accident. Hero takes the heroine on as his secretary at this Detective Agency and for three years they have been at a stand off.
That changes when the heroine is shot by a drug dealer after she accidentally witnessed a drug deal. Hero puts her under his protection. They live together and eventually sleep together. Hero never wants to marry again because he thinks he’s sterile and cuts off their relationship. Heroine goes to work for another detective agency, finds she is pregnant and doesn’t tell the hero because she is in a risky pregnancy and it could all end badly.
Hero does find out she’s pregnant and he marries her and takes care of her, but he doesn’t know it’s a high-risk pregnancy until she delivers his son. They eventually talk it out for an HEA
The hero was cruel at first because of his own insecurities and then he’s cruel during her pregnancy because of his misunderstanding of her condition. As always, the 19 year-old is more mature than the older hero.
Diana Palmer checklist:
Hairy chest check
Breast Description no nipple color to report
Cigarettes like a chimney
Alcohol no
Town Descriptions Takes place in Houston. There are other characters who will get their own stories
Gardenia Scent No
LOL detail None
Cutesy detail An exchange with neighboring ranchers about bulls and geldings
DP hobbyhorse Virgins need a lot of foreplay
Before they can work out their relationship, their parents die in an accident. Hero takes the heroine on as his secretary at this Detective Agency and for three years they have been at a stand off.
That changes when the heroine is shot by a drug dealer after she accidentally witnessed a drug deal. Hero puts her under his protection. They live together and eventually sleep together. Hero never wants to marry again because he thinks he’s sterile and cuts off their relationship. Heroine goes to work for another detective agency, finds she is pregnant and doesn’t tell the hero because she is in a risky pregnancy and it could all end badly.
Hero does find out she’s pregnant and he marries her and takes care of her, but he doesn’t know it’s a high-risk pregnancy until she delivers his son. They eventually talk it out for an HEA
The hero was cruel at first because of his own insecurities and then he’s cruel during her pregnancy because of his misunderstanding of her condition. As always, the 19 year-old is more mature than the older hero.
Diana Palmer checklist:
Hairy chest check
Breast Description no nipple color to report
Cigarettes like a chimney
Alcohol no
Town Descriptions Takes place in Houston. There are other characters who will get their own stories
Gardenia Scent No
LOL detail None
Cutesy detail An exchange with neighboring ranchers about bulls and geldings
DP hobbyhorse Virgins need a lot of foreplay
December 21, 2018
Apologies Goodread Friends.
These two should not reproduce, but ignored my advice. Don’t get me wrong, they are perfect for each other.
He’s an idiot.
She’s an idiot.
They both had rotten, unloving parents so…issues.
She’s in love with him.
He’s in love with her.
Neither one is bright enough to figure it out despite…
She tells him she loves him.
He tells her he loves her.
He is the chick in the relationship and is a big vagina tease with the typical DP hairy chest he shows off to her.
They have sex, virginal sex..cataclysmic virginal sex (4 times/1 night) and he ditches her for her own good because he’s sterile.
She doesn’t tell him she’s pregnant (even though he mourned being sterile) because he told her he doesn’t want to ever be tied down.
She doesn’t tell him she has placenta previa.
He finally finds out she’s pregnant, marries her, and is mean to her because...I don't know. His head is where it should be not?
Top marks in stupidity goes to the heroine though as she has placenta previa, dangerous to her and the baby, but is too afraid, hesitant, protective to tell the H.
Bye!
These two should not reproduce, but ignored my advice. Don’t get me wrong, they are perfect for each other.
He’s an idiot.
She’s an idiot.
They both had rotten, unloving parents so…issues.
She’s in love with him.
He’s in love with her.
Neither one is bright enough to figure it out despite…
She tells him she loves him.
He tells her he loves her.
He is the chick in the relationship and is a big vagina tease with the typical DP hairy chest he shows off to her.
They have sex, virginal sex..cataclysmic virginal sex (4 times/1 night) and he ditches her for her own good because he’s sterile.
She doesn’t tell him she’s pregnant (even though he mourned being sterile) because he told her he doesn’t want to ever be tied down.
She doesn’t tell him she has placenta previa.
He finally finds out she’s pregnant, marries her, and is mean to her because...I don't know. His head is where it should be not?
Top marks in stupidity goes to the heroine though as she has placenta previa, dangerous to her and the baby, but is too afraid, hesitant, protective to tell the H.
Bye!
March 19, 2016
This boss-secretary story was awesome. I adored all the angst the alpha male and the saintly heroine. Hero is quite tortured. After his disastrous first marriage Dane doesn't want commitment but all Tess wants is forever after.
When she ends up pregnant she hides her pregnancy from Dane cause there is a huge possibility she might lose the baby. She loves Dane so deeply she is willing to do anything and endure everything just to ease his pain. Loved how he learns to love again with Tess's help and his fear of losing Tess felt so real and raw to me. I was so happy for Tess! After so much pain and hurt she did get her dream of a warm house with a loving husband and a healthy baby.
When she ends up pregnant she hides her pregnancy from Dane cause there is a huge possibility she might lose the baby. She loves Dane so deeply she is willing to do anything and endure everything just to ease his pain. Loved how he learns to love again with Tess's help and his fear of losing Tess felt so real and raw to me. I was so happy for Tess! After so much pain and hurt she did get her dream of a warm house with a loving husband and a healthy baby.
January 6, 2019
“His eyes fell to her mouth and he bent toward it, his own mouth parting just as it touched hers. "Teach me how to be gentle....”
Well, DP can write very different alphas. This one didn’t know how to make love gently with a woman and that was why he scared heroine with his uncontrolled passion. But he asked the above question after 3 years. It’s really interesting.
“Despite the way I just was with you, in bed I'm rough and quick and my pleasure comes first," he said with brutal honesty. "Virgins aren't my style, and I'm sure as hell not yours.”
Fortunately for me, he was still an asshat jerk.
Heroine was totally another case. Come on girl, you must have been read lots of DP’s romances to chicken out from telling your pregnancy but you have high risk pregnancy and the poor jackass assumes himself as a sterile man. (I’ve been turn into my grandma, she also talkes to movie characters, lol)
Anyway, the romantic in me loved the angsty tearjerker story of Tess & Dane so 4,5 stars.
Well, DP can write very different alphas. This one didn’t know how to make love gently with a woman and that was why he scared heroine with his uncontrolled passion. But he asked the above question after 3 years. It’s really interesting.
“Despite the way I just was with you, in bed I'm rough and quick and my pleasure comes first," he said with brutal honesty. "Virgins aren't my style, and I'm sure as hell not yours.”
Fortunately for me, he was still an asshat jerk.
Heroine was totally another case. Come on girl, you must have been read lots of DP’s romances to chicken out from telling your pregnancy but you have high risk pregnancy and the poor jackass assumes himself as a sterile man. (I’ve been turn into my grandma, she also talkes to movie characters, lol)
Anyway, the romantic in me loved the angsty tearjerker story of Tess & Dane so 4,5 stars.
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May 26, 2017
I read this book before and i found a paper copy of it downstairs in my library dogeared and with my Mom's initials in it. She loved Diane Palmer. Made me miss her more. But I digress...
I did like the book actually The Hero was an idiot though and all that "I only know how to shove it in" stuff was just gross. If I had to hear that one more time I would have thrown up. He was a caveman. I liked that he hadn't had sex for three years since he was shot and his wife left him. He loved the h all along but he was such a jerk and then after that 'night' he became an even bigger jerk. I was like oh hell no. But then came the baby and the problems and I actually did cry when they were at the hospital and he thought she was dying.. So that is why I gave it a four. She really really loved him and her staying power was incredible. Cute ending and I do believe they will live happily ever after.
I did like the book actually The Hero was an idiot though and all that "I only know how to shove it in" stuff was just gross. If I had to hear that one more time I would have thrown up. He was a caveman. I liked that he hadn't had sex for three years since he was shot and his wife left him. He loved the h all along but he was such a jerk and then after that 'night' he became an even bigger jerk. I was like oh hell no. But then came the baby and the problems and I actually did cry when they were at the hospital and he thought she was dying.. So that is why I gave it a four. She really really loved him and her staying power was incredible. Cute ending and I do believe they will live happily ever after.
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February 29, 2016
Typical DP book however with the twist of the hero being a detective and her being a career girl. This was my favorite of the series cause the hero does clue in before the baby is born! I loved the scene when she has the baby! So sweet.
May 26, 2017
H is clueless.
December 5, 2021
Es una novela cortada a navaja desafilada. Cuesta identificarse con cualquiera de los personajes, y la trama es predecible y plana. No hay sorpresas ni giros inesperados. No hay emociones a destacar, como tampoco hay algo destacable.
July 1, 2016
this was slightly different than the usual DP plots...in the sense that the H wasn't too much of a jerk and that it wasn't too angsty. I could totally tell how much they loved each other and the H was a keeper for me!
I definitely recommend this for DP fans who want a break from her usual OTT jerk Hs.
5+++ stars!!
I definitely recommend this for DP fans who want a break from her usual OTT jerk Hs.
5+++ stars!!
December 20, 2011
I always enjoy re-reading her older books. They remind me of why she is still one of my favorite authors despite her weaker recent offerings.
June 25, 2021
No. After having read endless DPs, you do get quite used to them. Not worth my time yet another H with his head up where the sun don’t shine.
Dane and Tess meet each other when their parents are deciding to marry, sadly that never wears off. A close accident leads Tess to watch over Dane which he reads as provoking. His later attempts to get close to her scare off the doe eyed Tess and she’s ruined for life.
DP has to come up with at least some other tropes than follow ups of how an h fared after she was wrongly physically mutilated (in varying degrees) after a non-sexual encounter with the H.
I was done with Dane picking up on a long gone conversation of how Tess doesn’t date any other man and has likely never been intimate with anyone because his former advances on an adult Tess were really so traumatic. Also their chemistry was kinda dead. Tess was forever hiding from her offender whom she loved and Dane was just as boring with mommy and daddy issues.
Dane and Tess meet each other when their parents are deciding to marry, sadly that never wears off. A close accident leads Tess to watch over Dane which he reads as provoking. His later attempts to get close to her scare off the doe eyed Tess and she’s ruined for life.
DP has to come up with at least some other tropes than follow ups of how an h fared after she was wrongly physically mutilated (in varying degrees) after a non-sexual encounter with the H.
I was done with Dane picking up on a long gone conversation of how Tess doesn’t date any other man and has likely never been intimate with anyone because his former advances on an adult Tess were really so traumatic. Also their chemistry was kinda dead. Tess was forever hiding from her offender whom she loved and Dane was just as boring with mommy and daddy issues.
December 5, 2009
Tess Merriweather had been in love with her boss, Dane Lassiter, for ages, but he never seemed to give her a second thought. In the office, he was all business. He seemed to prefer brief, uncomplicated interludes with shallow beauties instead of any lasting relationships. Tess was certain he barely knew she existed. That is, until a killer’s bullet changed everything!
Tess witnessed a drug deal and the perpetrators were set on silencing her - permanently. To keep Tess safe, Dane had to keep her close and, despite his resolve, whenever they were together, they both went up in flames of passion. Dane taught Tess how to love, but he realized it was probably better for Tess if he walked away. Some day, she’d want a husband and children of her own, something the former Texas Ranger could never give her.
I loved the mystery surrounding Tess’ unexpected pregnancy as she endeavored to hide her secret from the man she loved. Miracles indeed come in small packages and how sweet is the embrace of the mesmerizing boss!
Tess witnessed a drug deal and the perpetrators were set on silencing her - permanently. To keep Tess safe, Dane had to keep her close and, despite his resolve, whenever they were together, they both went up in flames of passion. Dane taught Tess how to love, but he realized it was probably better for Tess if he walked away. Some day, she’d want a husband and children of her own, something the former Texas Ranger could never give her.
I loved the mystery surrounding Tess’ unexpected pregnancy as she endeavored to hide her secret from the man she loved. Miracles indeed come in small packages and how sweet is the embrace of the mesmerizing boss!
February 8, 2016
2.5 stars. This was my first DP book, and I am not sure that I started with the right one. I LOVE asshole heros that screw up. LOVE them. They usually have some redeemable quality(ies) that I can latch on to, and cheer for him. That wasn't the case here. If I heard Dane's excuse about why he almost raped her one more time, I would have DNFed this book. It didn't help that Tess had zero backbone, but I couldn't really hold that against the book, it's a Harlequin after all...I love the formula of the book, which is what saved it for me, and will push me to give DP another chance.
August 20, 2008
Buku pertama trilogi "The Case of.." ini mengisahkan perjuangan Tess Meriwether memenangkan cinta Dane Lassiter, pemilik Lassiter Detective Agency yang juga adalah calon kakak tirinya bila ayah Tess dan Ibu Dane jadi menikah.
Masa lalu penuh kekerasan yang dialami Dane membuatnya berpikir mereka tidak cocok dan dia tidak layak mendapatkan Tess yang begitu lembut dan penuh kasih.
Tess yang yakin bahwa dalam hati Dane sebenarnya mencintai Tess berusaha menyadarkan Dane akan perasaannya sendiri dengan terus mendampingi Dane serta menyatakan cinta pada Dane.
Bagian paling mengharukan dan membuat buku ini berkesan yaitu saat Tess hamil dan bagaimana tegarnya Tess yang menghadapi kehamilannya yg bermasalah. Tess yang khawatir akan reaksi Dane akan kehamilannya memutuskan menyembunyikan hal tsb. Ketika akhirnya bahwa mengetahui Tess sedang hamil, Dane sangat marah dan menuduh Tess pembohong padahal Tess pun merasa takut memberitahu Dane karena Dane yakin dirinya mandul. Jadi, bagaiman Dane akan percaya bahwa Tess mengandung anaknya?..
Saat Tess hendak melahirkan, Dane dihadapkan pada pilihan mnyelamatkan Tess atau anak yang sangat diinginkannya..
**spoiler** Dane memilih menyelamatkan Tess bila memang keadaan menjadi gawat. Tapi kemudian Dane berhasil mendapatkan dua hal yg dicintainya, Tess dan anaknya..
Masa lalu penuh kekerasan yang dialami Dane membuatnya berpikir mereka tidak cocok dan dia tidak layak mendapatkan Tess yang begitu lembut dan penuh kasih.
Tess yang yakin bahwa dalam hati Dane sebenarnya mencintai Tess berusaha menyadarkan Dane akan perasaannya sendiri dengan terus mendampingi Dane serta menyatakan cinta pada Dane.
Bagian paling mengharukan dan membuat buku ini berkesan yaitu saat Tess hamil dan bagaimana tegarnya Tess yang menghadapi kehamilannya yg bermasalah. Tess yang khawatir akan reaksi Dane akan kehamilannya memutuskan menyembunyikan hal tsb. Ketika akhirnya bahwa mengetahui Tess sedang hamil, Dane sangat marah dan menuduh Tess pembohong padahal Tess pun merasa takut memberitahu Dane karena Dane yakin dirinya mandul. Jadi, bagaiman Dane akan percaya bahwa Tess mengandung anaknya?..
Saat Tess hendak melahirkan, Dane dihadapkan pada pilihan mnyelamatkan Tess atau anak yang sangat diinginkannya..
**spoiler** Dane memilih menyelamatkan Tess bila memang keadaan menjadi gawat. Tapi kemudian Dane berhasil mendapatkan dua hal yg dicintainya, Tess dan anaknya..
September 4, 2024
Оправдаването на сексуално посегателство не е секси. Ужасно
July 3, 2013
Sempre te Amei
Diana Palmer
Less é tão fofa, apesar de tudo, ainda acredita no amor de uma forma tão completa, que é capaz de se sacrificar.
Já o Dane é tão amargurado e descrente em relação às mulheres, que fico com dó do bobalhão.
Mesmo o amor já instalado em suas entranhas, ele continua lutando contra.
Como os típicos cowboys, da Diana Palmer, vão perder a luta, não sei por que eles insistem em ir contra a natureza humana.
Obs.: ...a história da calça apertada é verídica, há estudos que dizem que homens que usam calças, principalmente jeans, muito apertada, têm dificuldade de engravidar as mulheres.
Kkkkk...
Não resisti, apesar de ser verdade!!!!
ADORO!!!
RECOMENDADÍSSIMO!!!
Diana Palmer
Less é tão fofa, apesar de tudo, ainda acredita no amor de uma forma tão completa, que é capaz de se sacrificar.
Já o Dane é tão amargurado e descrente em relação às mulheres, que fico com dó do bobalhão.
Mesmo o amor já instalado em suas entranhas, ele continua lutando contra.
Como os típicos cowboys, da Diana Palmer, vão perder a luta, não sei por que eles insistem em ir contra a natureza humana.
Obs.: ...a história da calça apertada é verídica, há estudos que dizem que homens que usam calças, principalmente jeans, muito apertada, têm dificuldade de engravidar as mulheres.
Kkkkk...
Não resisti, apesar de ser verdade!!!!
ADORO!!!
RECOMENDADÍSSIMO!!!
November 18, 2016
Very happy i was able to download for free from the internet as it didn't end up being a very good book. It had some good potential, however not sure if it was jist a little dated for my taste but it just didnt hit the mark.
Hero was hot and cold which i usually dont have an issue with but when it was hot it got hot.
Heroine was a little annoying, not sure why, i guess i just found her a little hard to relate too. I felt there was room for improvement for character development with both characters. It may have made it easier to understand the characters, but honestly i skipped a whole heap of this book so maybe i just missed it. All in all it wasnt a bad book, i guess think it was a little dated and not in a period book kind of way.
Hero was hot and cold which i usually dont have an issue with but when it was hot it got hot.
Heroine was a little annoying, not sure why, i guess i just found her a little hard to relate too. I felt there was room for improvement for character development with both characters. It may have made it easier to understand the characters, but honestly i skipped a whole heap of this book so maybe i just missed it. All in all it wasnt a bad book, i guess think it was a little dated and not in a period book kind of way.
September 20, 2015
I felt so deeply for h that got emotional while reading. Although H was not the meanest heroes in DP's books, I wanted to smack him sometimes. I knew all of his experience with women was bad, but it was unfair to compare them to h when she proved to him again and again that she really loved him.
Hoped h made him suffered more before she forgave him. But we all knew DP's heroines always forgave easily.
Hoped h made him suffered more before she forgave him. But we all knew DP's heroines always forgave easily.
August 7, 2015
Rating: 4.5 stars.
Somehow, I thought that Tess and Dane's story was in Boss Man and not this. However, I loved this book when I first read it. I think I might just go on another DP binge again and reread the book I've already read by her.
Somehow, I thought that Tess and Dane's story was in Boss Man and not this. However, I loved this book when I first read it. I think I might just go on another DP binge again and reread the book I've already read by her.
December 2, 2009
keren banget....covernya khas hq zaman zebot...dimana co nya masih suka di gambarin topless en gak di ganti ama gambar rumput or kuda2 an hehe....
luv this book...dane keren sangat bo ^^
December 23, 2022
Dane and Tess
I liked it. I loved that there wasn't another woman and that hero was celibate for years (since before he was shot 3 years previously, as well as months if not years before that because his wife quit sleeping with him and started having affairs). He stayed celibate because of an incident with heroine.
I liked them together, hero discovering tenderness for the first time and only ever wanting to be tender for heroine was so sweet. I liked heroine as well, she was not a total doormat. He said go and she went, he had to seek her out. She was not about to chase after him.
Even though he was a jerk, by reading from his perspective what he did and said made sense, he thought he was infertile and that it would be best for her to not be stuck with him not being able too.
I did really like that he had to suffer for months and experience what life without her was like.
He was definitely a huge jerk alot, especially when she was pregnant and he called her lazy. He had no idea why she wasn't exercising but even if she didn't have a life-threatening condition that's still horrible to say to a pregnant woman. I liked that he did suffer alot at the end with her almost dying and how guilty he felt. Then he had to try to convince her for weeks to actually believe he loved her because of all he said to her to make her believe he didn't love her and only wanted a baby. P.
I liked it. I loved that there wasn't another woman and that hero was celibate for years (since before he was shot 3 years previously, as well as months if not years before that because his wife quit sleeping with him and started having affairs). He stayed celibate because of an incident with heroine.
I liked them together, hero discovering tenderness for the first time and only ever wanting to be tender for heroine was so sweet. I liked heroine as well, she was not a total doormat. He said go and she went, he had to seek her out. She was not about to chase after him.
Even though he was a jerk, by reading from his perspective what he did and said made sense, he thought he was infertile and that it would be best for her to not be stuck with him not being able too.
I did really like that he had to suffer for months and experience what life without her was like.
He was definitely a huge jerk alot, especially when she was pregnant and he called her lazy. He had no idea why she wasn't exercising but even if she didn't have a life-threatening condition that's still horrible to say to a pregnant woman. I liked that he did suffer alot at the end with her almost dying and how guilty he felt. Then he had to try to convince her for weeks to actually believe he loved her because of all he said to her to make her believe he didn't love her and only wanted a baby. P.
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January 24, 2018
I'm going to preface this by saying the plot and characters in this do not work by modern romantic or ethical standards. This book, like many romances, is very much a product of its time (late 80s - mid 90s) when a guy could be a total asshole, but he has a soft spot for the main meek, virginal, naive heroine and everything is going to work out at the end.
I feel like Romances have cycles to them depending on what the market has decided is 'hot' for that five or ten year cycle. As an example I like jerks with a heart of gold, but I wasn't into the later accidental baby wave of romance novels. They were after my personal reading time. For many readers in the genre they have a certain time period they love, for others they can read any romance novel regardless of what is trending.
I'm in the former and while I love this book and find both Dane and Tess incredibly sexy and cried at all the appropriate down points in the plot and when the conflict is ultimately resolved the story is really problematic by modern standards and I wouldn't hand it to a modern day pre-teen/teen as their first romance.
I feel like Romances have cycles to them depending on what the market has decided is 'hot' for that five or ten year cycle. As an example I like jerks with a heart of gold, but I wasn't into the later accidental baby wave of romance novels. They were after my personal reading time. For many readers in the genre they have a certain time period they love, for others they can read any romance novel regardless of what is trending.
I'm in the former and while I love this book and find both Dane and Tess incredibly sexy and cried at all the appropriate down points in the plot and when the conflict is ultimately resolved the story is really problematic by modern standards and I wouldn't hand it to a modern day pre-teen/teen as their first romance.
December 9, 2019
Dane and Tess
Tess have been in love with Dane for years with no hope of having her feelings returned. However when she finds herself in a dangerous situation and get shot, Dane lets his ward down and they get close sharing a explosive night of passion. Soon however reality intrudes and the H breaks it up, unknowingly leaving behind more than a broken heart. Fast forward a few months and Tess is bed ridden due to a risky pregnancy witch she fails to disclose to the H when he quickly marry them, still furious that she didn't tell him about the baby. Everything comes to a head when she almost dies given birth and her motives become clear. One of my favourite books. Highly recommended
Tess have been in love with Dane for years with no hope of having her feelings returned. However when she finds herself in a dangerous situation and get shot, Dane lets his ward down and they get close sharing a explosive night of passion. Soon however reality intrudes and the H breaks it up, unknowingly leaving behind more than a broken heart. Fast forward a few months and Tess is bed ridden due to a risky pregnancy witch she fails to disclose to the H when he quickly marry them, still furious that she didn't tell him about the baby. Everything comes to a head when she almost dies given birth and her motives become clear. One of my favourite books. Highly recommended
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April 11, 2019
Enjoy it for what it is
You know what you’re getting when you read a Diana Palmer old style classic. You’re going to have a total jerk of a hero. Your heroine is going to be a soft spoken virginal doormat. There will be misunderstandings, the H will mistreat the h horribly, but it all works out in the end. I don’t even know many years it’s been since I read this book originally, but it is definitely an older book. But there is just something irresistible about a classic DP like this one.
Now I think I’ll go dig up another DP old school book....
You know what you’re getting when you read a Diana Palmer old style classic. You’re going to have a total jerk of a hero. Your heroine is going to be a soft spoken virginal doormat. There will be misunderstandings, the H will mistreat the h horribly, but it all works out in the end. I don’t even know many years it’s been since I read this book originally, but it is definitely an older book. But there is just something irresistible about a classic DP like this one.
Now I think I’ll go dig up another DP old school book....
February 9, 2020
Great Love That Never Ends
As always lovely passionate romance. You never let your fans down. I'm just so happy to read anything that you've written have read over 15 some from and Amazon kindle wish I could find all your books but being disabled have slight problems so going out is difficult but read almost everything available so I'm just ecstatic to have the ones I've found I was reading them when younger so it's always great to find them. I thoroughly hope I find the older ones so thank you from a Texas 66 yrs old fan Carmen
As always lovely passionate romance. You never let your fans down. I'm just so happy to read anything that you've written have read over 15 some from and Amazon kindle wish I could find all your books but being disabled have slight problems so going out is difficult but read almost everything available so I'm just ecstatic to have the ones I've found I was reading them when younger so it's always great to find them. I thoroughly hope I find the older ones so thank you from a Texas 66 yrs old fan Carmen
September 6, 2019
This is the first of a trilogy set in Dane Lassiter’s detective agency. All three books are good, this one is memorable and I’ve read it 10+ times. Dane and Tess Lassiter are featured in several of Diana Palmer’s which points to the fact that their creator finds them fascinating!
September 25, 2022
two absolute morons pass in the night -- multiple times -- and reproduce! neither knows what s/he wants and both characters are clueless when it comes to reading other people's emotions. these two could have been middle-schoolers for all they understand about humanity.
August 26, 2024
This was tough to rate. Between 3 and 4. Parts of it I loved; not tons of nothing but make out scenes. They actually get to do the deed. Parts of it I didn’t; it took him a whole year to pull his head out of his a**! Not a bad book overall.
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January 5, 2018
A very enjoyable read
May 7, 2018
Passion!
This was an awesome story!! The passion and tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife!! Her books get better and better.
This was an awesome story!! The passion and tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife!! Her books get better and better.
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