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A Rancher's Claim: The Rawhide Man (n/a) & Reluctant Father
Enjoy two classic Western romances from
New York Times
bestselling author Diana Palmer!
The Rawhide Man
Jude Langston's cool green eyes are fixed on the company shares inherited by sweet Bess White when he agrees to a marriage of convenience. But Bess discovers the rough rancher has a surprisingly gentle side. And as much as she resists, Jude has captured her heart. Yet how can she stay in a marriage that is so much less than such a union should be?
Reluctant Father
Blake Donavan has spent so many years building a wall around his heart that he doubts anyone could ever break through. Then a little girl with his green eyes shows up on his doorstep! Little Sarah is accompanied by Meredith Calhoun, once a thorn in Blake's side and now a stunningly beautiful woman. Can Meredith melt Blake's hardened heart to create a family with the man of her dreams and his newfound daughter?
The Rawhide Man
Jude Langston's cool green eyes are fixed on the company shares inherited by sweet Bess White when he agrees to a marriage of convenience. But Bess discovers the rough rancher has a surprisingly gentle side. And as much as she resists, Jude has captured her heart. Yet how can she stay in a marriage that is so much less than such a union should be?
Reluctant Father
Blake Donavan has spent so many years building a wall around his heart that he doubts anyone could ever break through. Then a little girl with his green eyes shows up on his doorstep! Little Sarah is accompanied by Meredith Calhoun, once a thorn in Blake's side and now a stunningly beautiful woman. Can Meredith melt Blake's hardened heart to create a family with the man of her dreams and his newfound daughter?
- GenresHarlequin
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 12, 2021
About the author
Diana Palmer
1,011 books3,130 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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September 19, 2022
Blake and Meredith
They learned to accept each other faults and all. It almost cost them their marriage when Blake was unhappy about all Mere city's travelling. They wound up compromising and had Carson to go along with Sarah Jane and decided family was more important.
They learned to accept each other faults and all. It almost cost them their marriage when Blake was unhappy about all Mere city's travelling. They wound up compromising and had Carson to go along with Sarah Jane and decided family was more important.
October 14, 2024
Intriguing and very well written, enjoyed it all.
October 28, 2022
The Rawhide Man is about a man determined to get company shares from his enemy. The only way to get this accomplished though is by a marriage of convenience. What was supposed to be a simple business transaction may not be so simple after all.
You get the gist of the story quickly, though I was confused by the first few pages when the author tried to lay the foundation to the rest of the story. The correlations explained to the reader didn't make any sense and though the author tried to give the title explanation in these pages as well, it didn't help clear anything up. There were other smalls mistakes here and there throughout the story as well, along with some weird dialogue and interaction.
- Pg. 59: Jade instead of Jude
- Character 1 ruffles the hair of Character 2, though the scene they are in doesn't fit that type of interaction and wouldn't occur between these types of characters ever.
- Character 2 calls Character 1, 'Rawhide Man' on several occasions. It didn't sound right at all, and you still don't understand why that name is even being used.
Reluctant Father is about a man who finds a little girl, a child he never knew he had, on his doorstep in need of a home. How is he supposed to raise a child? To complicate matters further an old acquaintance is in town that he had hurt years before that could help or make matters worse.
Just as with the first book, you get the gist of the story rather quickly, but this book had some contradictory sections, along with some dialogue that didn't make sense.
-Character 1 explains to the reader that they hadn't started having feelings towards Character 2 until a certain interaction, but later on Character 1 says that it was actually earlier than that set interaction we were told, among other detail changes.
- Character 1 says that Character 2 needs to button their shirt or they will start screaming their head off. That statement alone doesn't make any sense, but it's also not remotely plausible for this character to say that type of thing either.
In both books the male characters have the same hair and eye color, so you could tell the author had a preference here. There was also a character in each book with the same name, so I initially thought these two stories were connected to some extent through this character, but that was not the case, and it caused a bit of confusion initially.
In both books the male characters have the same hair and eye color, so you could tell the author had a preference here. There was also a character in each book with the same name, so I initially thought these two stories were connected to some extent through this character, but that was not the case, and it caused a bit of confusion initially.
Both books also have sex scenes in them, that may make you a little warm under the collar depending on your tolerance level. I personally didn't mind these scenes because of the way they were presented to the reader.
While The Rawhide Man story got me emotionally, I enjoyed a couple character interactions from the Reluctant Father a bit more because they were not the usual you read in adult books.
I liked reading the stories for what they were, a quick read that didn't require too much effort, and would read another book by this author.
You get the gist of the story quickly, though I was confused by the first few pages when the author tried to lay the foundation to the rest of the story. The correlations explained to the reader didn't make any sense and though the author tried to give the title explanation in these pages as well, it didn't help clear anything up. There were other smalls mistakes here and there throughout the story as well, along with some weird dialogue and interaction.
- Pg. 59: Jade instead of Jude
- Character 1 ruffles the hair of Character 2, though the scene they are in doesn't fit that type of interaction and wouldn't occur between these types of characters ever.
- Character 2 calls Character 1, 'Rawhide Man' on several occasions. It didn't sound right at all, and you still don't understand why that name is even being used.
Reluctant Father is about a man who finds a little girl, a child he never knew he had, on his doorstep in need of a home. How is he supposed to raise a child? To complicate matters further an old acquaintance is in town that he had hurt years before that could help or make matters worse.
Just as with the first book, you get the gist of the story rather quickly, but this book had some contradictory sections, along with some dialogue that didn't make sense.
-Character 1 explains to the reader that they hadn't started having feelings towards Character 2 until a certain interaction, but later on Character 1 says that it was actually earlier than that set interaction we were told, among other detail changes.
- Character 1 says that Character 2 needs to button their shirt or they will start screaming their head off. That statement alone doesn't make any sense, but it's also not remotely plausible for this character to say that type of thing either.
In both books the male characters have the same hair and eye color, so you could tell the author had a preference here. There was also a character in each book with the same name, so I initially thought these two stories were connected to some extent through this character, but that was not the case, and it caused a bit of confusion initially.
In both books the male characters have the same hair and eye color, so you could tell the author had a preference here. There was also a character in each book with the same name, so I initially thought these two stories were connected to some extent through this character, but that was not the case, and it caused a bit of confusion initially.
Both books also have sex scenes in them, that may make you a little warm under the collar depending on your tolerance level. I personally didn't mind these scenes because of the way they were presented to the reader.
While The Rawhide Man story got me emotionally, I enjoyed a couple character interactions from the Reluctant Father a bit more because they were not the usual you read in adult books.
I liked reading the stories for what they were, a quick read that didn't require too much effort, and would read another book by this author.
October 19, 2023
The Rancher's Claim is a collection of two novellas from bestselling writer, Diana Palmer. Her writing instantly engages readers from the first page. I was hooked!
The first tale features a man who is so rough to love that his woman has to teach him how to love and to be loved. He hurts the only woman he ever wanted. Somehow, he has to figure out how to fight for her and make her love him. He slowly learns how to be the man he needs to be for her and their soon to be child.
The second story includes a reluctant father. He finds the last woman he seduced and left him, had his daughter. A daughter that she and her new lover treated terribly. It takes a lot for a man who knows nothing about love, to display the love and kindness to a young girl. He also needs to learn how to be the man to the woman he and his daughter love. The one woman he loved growing up has feelings for him but is afraid. It will take both adults to learn and open up to each other if they're to have a future.
Diana Palmer creates stories that are sexy as hell and ones that tug at the heart strings. I cried and laughed so hard with each of these stories. Diana Palmer still remains one of the best romance writers!
The first tale features a man who is so rough to love that his woman has to teach him how to love and to be loved. He hurts the only woman he ever wanted. Somehow, he has to figure out how to fight for her and make her love him. He slowly learns how to be the man he needs to be for her and their soon to be child.
The second story includes a reluctant father. He finds the last woman he seduced and left him, had his daughter. A daughter that she and her new lover treated terribly. It takes a lot for a man who knows nothing about love, to display the love and kindness to a young girl. He also needs to learn how to be the man to the woman he and his daughter love. The one woman he loved growing up has feelings for him but is afraid. It will take both adults to learn and open up to each other if they're to have a future.
Diana Palmer creates stories that are sexy as hell and ones that tug at the heart strings. I cried and laughed so hard with each of these stories. Diana Palmer still remains one of the best romance writers!
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September 10, 2023Another great book by Diana Palmer finding more of her books that I have not read yet loved these two stories two d demanding men and two shy woman who doesn't take any of their bad attitude I cried in both stories two men and two women meant for each other but almost missed out because of being stubborn in the first story Jude Langston's only wanted the shared left to Best White but they didn't like each other and the only way to get that share is they have to get married
In the second story Blake Donavan got a surprise one night when a little girl shows up at his door and he finds out that she is his daughter they didn't hit it off right away he use to be alone and she had a bad life so far and than someone from his past comes back to town
In the second story Blake Donavan got a surprise one night when a little girl shows up at his door and he finds out that she is his daughter they didn't hit it off right away he use to be alone and she had a bad life so far and than someone from his past comes back to town
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July 18, 2026Two great stories
In the first one Judd Langston only wants the company shares that Bess White has and the only way to get them is to marry her she doesn't want that they are enemies but she has always loved him and he has been nothing but mean to her
In the second story Blake Donavan finds himself with a little girl he didn't know he had they butt heads from the beginning than Meredith Calhoun comes back to town the one woman he has always loved and wanted
Love these two stories two tough men find their kind caring women
In the first one Judd Langston only wants the company shares that Bess White has and the only way to get them is to marry her she doesn't want that they are enemies but she has always loved him and he has been nothing but mean to her
In the second story Blake Donavan finds himself with a little girl he didn't know he had they butt heads from the beginning than Meredith Calhoun comes back to town the one woman he has always loved and wanted
Love these two stories two tough men find their kind caring women
February 1, 2021
Two books in one - A Rancher's Claim and Reluctant Father. Light reading that I enjoyed. In Reluctant Father, the computer system mentioned really dates the story to the 1980s though. I chuckled a bit in places. Both stories though reminded me why I don't normally read category Romance.
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