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Just Kate
Just Kate by Linda Lael Miller released on May 31, 2005 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1989
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Linda Lael Miller
552 books3,217 followersThe daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane.
Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Linda explores that turbulent time in The Yankee Widow, a May 7, 2019 MIRA Books hardcover, also available in digital and audiobook formats.
Dedicated to helping others, “The First Lady of the West” personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters.
More information about Linda and her novels is available at www.lindalaelmiller.com, on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, nancy@nancyberland.com, 405-206-4748.
Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Linda explores that turbulent time in The Yankee Widow, a May 7, 2019 MIRA Books hardcover, also available in digital and audiobook formats.
Dedicated to helping others, “The First Lady of the West” personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters.
More information about Linda and her novels is available at www.lindalaelmiller.com, on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, nancy@nancyberland.com, 405-206-4748.
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October 2, 2018
It would be an understatement to say that Sean, the H, is a breast man.
Younger and nicer sister inherits older and nastier dead sister's husband and son. Adding confusion to the mix is the heroine's coke dealing deadbeat fiancee, overbearing father and sheeplike mother.
The heroine is a little schizophrenic as one minute she's glum about her father's dismissiveness of her and the next she's giggling and trying to seduce the hero.
Almost three stars.
P.S.
The hero is from Australia and is reinforced by calling the heroine sheila. 27 times. I am very afraid that this may have been inspired by Crocodile Dundee which came out a couple of years before this was published.
Younger and nicer sister inherits older and nastier dead sister's husband and son. Adding confusion to the mix is the heroine's coke dealing deadbeat fiancee, overbearing father and sheeplike mother.
The heroine is a little schizophrenic as one minute she's glum about her father's dismissiveness of her and the next she's giggling and trying to seduce the hero.
Almost three stars.
P.S.
The hero is from Australia and is reinforced by calling the heroine sheila. 27 times. I am very afraid that this may have been inspired by Crocodile Dundee which came out a couple of years before this was published.
January 21, 2023
Just Kate is a lovely sweet rural romance. Kate Blake loves only one person, her sister's husband, Sean Harris. When Abby Harris dies in a car accident, Sean and his son return to Australia, leaving Kate to keep her family together. However, Kate found out her family betrayed her, so she decided to go and visit Sean in Australia. The readers of Just Kate will continue to follow Kate and Sean to find out what happens.
Just Kate is another fantastic book by Linda Lael Miller. I engaged with this book from the beginning and continued to enjoy the book until the end. Linda Lael Miller did an excellent job highlighting issues between families when someone dies. I love Linda Lael Miller's portrayal of her characters and the way they interact with each other throughout this book. Just Kate is well-written and researched by Linda Lael Miller. I like Linda Lael Miller's description of the settings of Just Kate complemented the book's plot.
The readers of Just Kate will realise the consequences of drugs on a person and everyone around them. Also, the readers of Just Kate will learn about rural Australia by plane.
I recommend this book.
Just Kate is another fantastic book by Linda Lael Miller. I engaged with this book from the beginning and continued to enjoy the book until the end. Linda Lael Miller did an excellent job highlighting issues between families when someone dies. I love Linda Lael Miller's portrayal of her characters and the way they interact with each other throughout this book. Just Kate is well-written and researched by Linda Lael Miller. I like Linda Lael Miller's description of the settings of Just Kate complemented the book's plot.
The readers of Just Kate will realise the consequences of drugs on a person and everyone around them. Also, the readers of Just Kate will learn about rural Australia by plane.
I recommend this book.
May 20, 2014
Surprising rating, as I typically love this author. The premise is "yuck" I think (Kate is in love with her dead sister's husband). And he "plays Kate like a fiddle" -- she is practically his puppet. I don't usually say this, but save yourself some time and skip reading this book.
May 11, 2009
2.5 stars
Big huge problem! Big huge problem!
No, wait. We can resolve that in 90 seconds. grah.
Otherwise, 3 stars.
Big huge problem! Big huge problem!
No, wait. We can resolve that in 90 seconds. grah.
Otherwise, 3 stars.
February 8, 2013
Kate has been in love with Sean since the day she met him. One slight problem, he married her sister Abby. Years later Abby has died in a car crash and Kate is engaged to her Father's campaign manager.
At the opera Kate sees Brad her fiancé sell Cocaine to someone and leaves him. She decides to walk home and comes across a man being robbed at an ATM. Tired of feeling the victim she hits the robber in the head with her copper purse. And finds that the man being robbed is Sean. When her father hires someone other than Kate to take Brad's place, She decides she needs a change of pace.
She flies to Australia to visit with Sean, and get to know her nephew Gil. Passion soon follows, but Sean starts to worry because his father in law had been behind a kidnapping attempt on Gil. He wonders if this could be just a setup and let's his paranoia set in.
Nice all around story.
At the opera Kate sees Brad her fiancé sell Cocaine to someone and leaves him. She decides to walk home and comes across a man being robbed at an ATM. Tired of feeling the victim she hits the robber in the head with her copper purse. And finds that the man being robbed is Sean. When her father hires someone other than Kate to take Brad's place, She decides she needs a change of pace.
She flies to Australia to visit with Sean, and get to know her nephew Gil. Passion soon follows, but Sean starts to worry because his father in law had been behind a kidnapping attempt on Gil. He wonders if this could be just a setup and let's his paranoia set in.
Nice all around story.
August 11, 2021
4.5 stars out of 5
Kate Blake was a month shy of getting married when she found out her fiancé wasn't a good guy. She caught him secretly selling cocaine to someone at the opera. She immediately leaves the opera and happens upon her former brother-in-law, Sean who's getting robbed at an ATM. That was the perfect setup for the story. From that point on, conflicts of all sorts arise; two of which have the most impact and drive the story -- Kate's strong attraction for Sean, who had been married to her sister Abby (but Abby passed away), and Kate's relationship with her parents, who blame Sean for Abby's death. There's a lot of passion, hurt, and healing that takes place before Kate and Sean can get their happily-ever-after.
I thought the ending was a bit rushed, but overall it was a memorable story.
Heat level: steamy.
Kate Blake was a month shy of getting married when she found out her fiancé wasn't a good guy. She caught him secretly selling cocaine to someone at the opera. She immediately leaves the opera and happens upon her former brother-in-law, Sean who's getting robbed at an ATM. That was the perfect setup for the story. From that point on, conflicts of all sorts arise; two of which have the most impact and drive the story -- Kate's strong attraction for Sean, who had been married to her sister Abby (but Abby passed away), and Kate's relationship with her parents, who blame Sean for Abby's death. There's a lot of passion, hurt, and healing that takes place before Kate and Sean can get their happily-ever-after.
I thought the ending was a bit rushed, but overall it was a memorable story.
Heat level: steamy.
April 6, 2019
Loved this book by Linda Leal Miller Kate Black has been through so much lately betrayed by two men in here life than she runs into her crush whole also happens to be her x brother in law but she has had a crush on him for awhile Sean Harris realises he married the wrong sister Kate and Sean have there ups and downs but they work through it can't wait to read more books by Linda Leal Miller
June 18, 2015
Can't get past 35%. It's seems that every other scene they're having sex. If I have to read about him touching her breasts one more time I will swear off sex scenes completely. No hope for the rest of this book. And I'm not in the mood to trudge through it. (5/3/13)
Couldn't sleep so I read this. Sigh. Seems very much like it's earlier, crude work. Characterizations were poor and weak; all-around unlikable. Plot, what plot? All they seem to do is shag. Gil is entirely too accepting of the quickly changing roles, especially considering he's a young child. Nope. Just nope.
Couldn't sleep so I read this. Sigh. Seems very much like it's earlier, crude work. Characterizations were poor and weak; all-around unlikable. Plot, what plot? All they seem to do is shag. Gil is entirely too accepting of the quickly changing roles, especially considering he's a young child. Nope. Just nope.
December 29, 2014
It was a bit disappointing this story as the characters are just not really likable.
A heroine so weak and not interested in talking with her fiancee about a difficult dituation but switching from in love to afraid mode... nahhh doesn't ring true. At least have a talk before handing back the ring.
A hero so tough and prejudiced that he seems too unforgiving but can take her to bed immidiatly.
Also disturbing, the whole sister thingy. It plainly weirded me out and it seemed too easy to paint the older sister in a bad light.
A heroine so weak and not interested in talking with her fiancee about a difficult dituation but switching from in love to afraid mode... nahhh doesn't ring true. At least have a talk before handing back the ring.
A hero so tough and prejudiced that he seems too unforgiving but can take her to bed immidiatly.
Also disturbing, the whole sister thingy. It plainly weirded me out and it seemed too easy to paint the older sister in a bad light.
August 15, 2013
All of Mrs. Miller's books are a GREAT read!! Always worth read over again!
October 4, 2013
This is one of Lindas early books and it was very good. I went into reading it thinking that it was about a cowboy and then Linda surprised the reader.
June 5, 2014
Great read by Linda!!
June 30, 2015
IT JUST RIDICULOUS.HOW CAN YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR DEAD SISTER'S HUSNAND.BUT I ENJOYED READING THIS BOOK.IT WAS FANTASTIC.
May 10, 2020
Panty hose sure dates this book, originally published in 1989, but still an entertaining read. Kate Blake's father is a very powerful Senator, who has bullied his younger daughter, into giving up her dream of being a elementary school teacher, to working for him, although not giving her the credit or position she has earned. When she see her fiance, her father's campaign manager, selling cocaine at an event, she has had enough. Fleeing the event, she runs into (actually saves from a mugger) her ex-brother in law, Sean Harris, a man who she had been in love with since her older sister, Abby, had brought him home to meet the family. But her sister had died in an accident (or commited suicide?) and Sean has refused to come back from Australia with his son, Gil. When Kate finds out the next day, that not only do her parents not support her broken engagement, but her father gives the campaign manager to someone, not her, she quits her job and decides to take a trip to Australian to see her nephew. The situation between Sean and Abby are not what she believed and as things heat up between Kate and Sean, can they keep Abby' s ghost from ruining their possible future together?
I have never read a book by LLM, that i did not enjoy. As always, engaging characters and an interesting story.
I have never read a book by LLM, that i did not enjoy. As always, engaging characters and an interesting story.
March 3, 2019
This was a bit of a meh read. I didn't really like the characters except for Gil, Kate claims to have been in love with a man she didn't even know, she even states she never knew her sister's husband but then says she's been in love with him for a decade.
She's also very quick to believe that her sister was the evil one in the situation and doesn't really seem to consider that her sisters' husband MAY have been involved in her death.
Also the kidnapping storyline was bonkers and I don't understand why they then let her parents visit Gil and their kids.
A quick easy read, not bad but not that goo either.
She's also very quick to believe that her sister was the evil one in the situation and doesn't really seem to consider that her sisters' husband MAY have been involved in her death.
Also the kidnapping storyline was bonkers and I don't understand why they then let her parents visit Gil and their kids.
A quick easy read, not bad but not that goo either.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 28, 2018
Disjointed, I often had to back up and re-read a passage because it jumped irregularly. The transition of their relationship was awkward as well. I did like that they had issues to work on and challenges to face but it was not a smooth read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 29, 2017
AUDIO. Typical harlequin type romance. Ok story with Aussie setting. Too many sex scenes. Skipped a lot of tracts.
April 21, 2020
A quick, cute read.
August 31, 2020
Enjoying these books.
January 20, 2025
Insta-love/lust. No real character development.
June 6, 2021
I usually like, if not love, every Linda Lael Miller book I read, but this was just not it. The romance wasn't believable and I didn't think the main character was a strong female character, even though I thought she was supposed to be. She lives in her dead sister's shadow, and can tell that her parents don't really love her as much as they did her dead sister. She has been in love with her brother-in-law for years, and that's who the romance happens between. Her father admits later in the book to trying to kidnap his grandson from Australia, where he lives, which is crazy and never really addressed. The book kind of just ends. Both the main character and love interest have issues that are never really dealt with and they fall in love instantly, but still spend the rest of the story being annoying and hiding things from each other. Maybe it's because it is such an old book? I was more interested in the romance between the friends they went to visit at their farm in the outback, which was about two chapters in the book, than the actual romance that was playing out.
February 11, 2017
It is quite funny seeing how an American writer thinks Australians talk.
Being an Aussie, i have never heard the use of the term "Sheila" (Which for those who did not know, is the Aussie slang for a female) Used as liberally in a conversation as we would use the word "Mate" (Which for those who did not know is Aussie Slang for Friend)
Maybe 100 or more years ago this could have been the case, but I was not around in or before 1917 to know.
(The only exception to this, would have been if the lady someone was talking to was actually named Sheila)
Being an Aussie, i have never heard the use of the term "Sheila" (Which for those who did not know, is the Aussie slang for a female) Used as liberally in a conversation as we would use the word "Mate" (Which for those who did not know is Aussie Slang for Friend)
Maybe 100 or more years ago this could have been the case, but I was not around in or before 1917 to know.
(The only exception to this, would have been if the lady someone was talking to was actually named Sheila)
July 24, 2013
Desejo Sem Fim
Linda Lael Miller
H.C.P. Sucessos 36
2013
Os romances da Linda Lael Miller, sempre são garantias de uma boa leitura.
Neste livro temos uma mocinha que vive a sombra. Sua falecida irmã era perfeita. Então, ela tenta manter as expectativas.
Mas, na opinião dos pais, ela não consegue ser a filha perfeita como foi a irmã.
Imagine a situação:
O pai esta concorrendo ao Senado americano. O noivo que trabalha na campanha do pai, mas nas horas vagas vende drogas. A mãe se submete a qualquer palavra do pai.
É obvio que Kate se sente perdida neste ambiente de falsidade, intriga e disputa de poder. E neste momento triste e horrível, seu ex-cunhado aparece para dar sentido a sua vida.
Sendo assim, a mocinha se arrisca, embarcando para a terra Natal de Sean, para a Austrália.
Já na Austrália, sem a influencia do pai e do ex-noivo. Kate começa a pensar em suas prioridades, além de se entregar a paixão nos braços de Sean.
Mesmo tão longe, os tentáculos de poder de seu pai, chegam para destruir toda e qualquer confiança que Sean tem por Kate.
E agora? Kate carrega o futuro deste amor. Será que Sean vai perceber a injustiça que cometeu? E Kate, vai perdoar Sean?
ADORO!!!
RECOMENDADÍSSIMO!!!
Linda Lael Miller
H.C.P. Sucessos 36
2013
Os romances da Linda Lael Miller, sempre são garantias de uma boa leitura.
Neste livro temos uma mocinha que vive a sombra. Sua falecida irmã era perfeita. Então, ela tenta manter as expectativas.
Mas, na opinião dos pais, ela não consegue ser a filha perfeita como foi a irmã.
Imagine a situação:
O pai esta concorrendo ao Senado americano. O noivo que trabalha na campanha do pai, mas nas horas vagas vende drogas. A mãe se submete a qualquer palavra do pai.
É obvio que Kate se sente perdida neste ambiente de falsidade, intriga e disputa de poder. E neste momento triste e horrível, seu ex-cunhado aparece para dar sentido a sua vida.
Sendo assim, a mocinha se arrisca, embarcando para a terra Natal de Sean, para a Austrália.
Já na Austrália, sem a influencia do pai e do ex-noivo. Kate começa a pensar em suas prioridades, além de se entregar a paixão nos braços de Sean.
Mesmo tão longe, os tentáculos de poder de seu pai, chegam para destruir toda e qualquer confiança que Sean tem por Kate.
E agora? Kate carrega o futuro deste amor. Será que Sean vai perceber a injustiça que cometeu? E Kate, vai perdoar Sean?
ADORO!!!
RECOMENDADÍSSIMO!!!
April 11, 2016
Author: Linda Lael Miller
First published: 1989
Length: 247 pages (Large Print)
Setting: Contemporary. Between Stone Creek and Indiana Rock, Arizona.
Sex: Explicit very early. Frequent. Heading to 80s erotica.
Hero: Widower with son. Pilot.
Heroine: Senator father’s press secretary.
80s erotica with a career woman who really wants to be a housewife and a wounded hero needing someone to protect and adore.
The descriptions of Australia and Australians wasn’t perfect and little things niggled (like making out in the Australian outback, naked on the “grass” ouch! or a hero that is constantly “suckling” her breasts) but overall enjoyable.
For what it was, it worked.
2.5 stars rounded down.
References:
Author's website: http://www.lindalaelmiller.com/books/...
(ISBN 97807886281053)
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First published: 1989
Length: 247 pages (Large Print)
Setting: Contemporary. Between Stone Creek and Indiana Rock, Arizona.
Sex: Explicit very early. Frequent. Heading to 80s erotica.
Hero: Widower with son. Pilot.
Heroine: Senator father’s press secretary.
80s erotica with a career woman who really wants to be a housewife and a wounded hero needing someone to protect and adore.
The descriptions of Australia and Australians wasn’t perfect and little things niggled (like making out in the Australian outback, naked on the “grass” ouch! or a hero that is constantly “suckling” her breasts) but overall enjoyable.
For what it was, it worked.
2.5 stars rounded down.
References:
Author's website: http://www.lindalaelmiller.com/books/...
(ISBN 97807886281053)
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April 11, 2013I did NOT read this book, the first in a bundle of two. I was given it but after reading the reviews I'll skip it. Having nine sisters its one of my least favourite themes. I simply couldn't imagine stepping over that line - ever.
However the next story about second chances looks interesting 'The Only Wife by Cathy McDavid.
However the next story about second chances looks interesting 'The Only Wife by Cathy McDavid.
October 26, 2014
This is one of the author's' very early books, and it shows. The reader is given no reason for the great love that exists between Kate and her dead sister's husband, or the reason that they immediately become sexually involved. There is very little plot interspersed between sex scenes involving a breast fetish. Skip this one.
August 16, 2012
Reminded me why I love this author so much
March 30, 2012
(audiobook) - Did not....could not.... finish. Ugh. Just jumped right into Just Kate hooking up with her dead sister's husband, that she's always loved. Whatever.
Want to read
June 24, 2012Found this box of books.
Want to read
October 20, 2012Very little meat to the story. Like a short story expanded to a novel. Not her best.
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