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The return of the Montana Tough cowboys who you can't help but fall in love with. Enjoy the first 4 books in the Rogue Stallion by Diana Palmer, The Widow and the Rodeo Man by Jackie Merritt, Sleeping with the Enemy by Myrna Temte and The Once and Future Wife by Laurie Paige.

989 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2006

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Diana Palmer

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle.

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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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February 15, 2019
Great series!

All four books are a great read, couldn't put it down. Can't wait for the next one. Author is amazing
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January 20, 2024
Book 1 - 4 stars
Book2 - 2 stars. Both stars for the hero, zero for the heroine! Did not like her at all.
Book 3 - 2 stars. Didn’t like this heroine either.
Book 4 - 3 stars. Is there no end to who killed who and the crap about Mary Jo? Do I have to read hundreds of books?
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May 6, 2016
Just reread The widow and the rodeo man. Luke Rivers a rodeo cowboy shows up at Mavis Wilder's ranch to collect a three thousand dollar IOU from her husband Ray. Luke was 35 years old and had been injured in a rodeo accident which injured his beloved horse who had to be put down. Mavis gave Luke the news that Ray was dead and she had no intention of paying his IOU. Broke and needing a job, Luke finally talked Mac is into a deal where he would break her green horses that Ray had bought before he died and with the proceeds of the sale of them, she could pay him off and never see him again. Neither Luke nor Mavis knew that their lives were about to change forever.
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