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Fortunes of Texas: Reunion #1
Cowboy at Midnight
"You won't find a mule more stubborn than me, especially when it comes to women."
-- Rancher Steven Fortune
With his prosperous ranch and independence, Steven considers himself a lucky man. He's smart enough to stay far away from love -- he's learned it only brings heartache. But then he meets events planner Amy Burke-Sinclair, who has beauty and the brains to match -- and is just as cautious as he is. Despite that, she seduces him into a night of passion that leaves him stunned, and ready to admit that perhaps he doesn't have all the answers.
When they have to work together on a function honoring patriarch Ryan Fortune, Steven finds himself falling even harder. He soon changes his mind about the benefits of love and commitment...but will Amy change hers?
-- Rancher Steven Fortune
With his prosperous ranch and independence, Steven considers himself a lucky man. He's smart enough to stay far away from love -- he's learned it only brings heartache. But then he meets events planner Amy Burke-Sinclair, who has beauty and the brains to match -- and is just as cautious as he is. Despite that, she seduces him into a night of passion that leaves him stunned, and ready to admit that perhaps he doesn't have all the answers.
When they have to work together on a function honoring patriarch Ryan Fortune, Steven finds himself falling even harder. He soon changes his mind about the benefits of love and commitment...but will Amy change hers?
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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USA best-selling Ann Major writes short, sexy contemporary romance.
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USA best-selling Ann Major writes short, sexy contemporary romance.
Nora Roberts has described her work thusly: "Engaging characters, stories that thrill and delight, shivering suspense, and captivating romance." and Sandra Brown says, "Her name on the cover instantly identifies the book as a good read."
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April 19, 2017
This hooked me in by starting out with some intrigue. I assume there is another book that has the closure to this but we don't find out much in this one. Steven and Amy's story is enjoyable enough but Amy is sort of off-putting with all the guilt she is carrying and keeps pushing Steven away.
March 24, 2010
Título em português: O Cowboy da Meia-Noite
Tradução: Cíntia Braga
Sinopse: Independente e dono de um próspero rancho, Steve Fortune se considera um homem de sorte. É esperto o bastante para ficar longe de paixões que ele acredita só lhe trazerem aborrecimentos. Até que conhece a bela produtora de eventos Amy Burke-Sinclair, tão cautelosa no amor quanto ele. Mas basta uma tórrida noite de amor para Steve ficar completamente apaixonado e mudar seus conceitos. Será que Amy também mudará?
Tradução: Cíntia Braga
Sinopse: Independente e dono de um próspero rancho, Steve Fortune se considera um homem de sorte. É esperto o bastante para ficar longe de paixões que ele acredita só lhe trazerem aborrecimentos. Até que conhece a bela produtora de eventos Amy Burke-Sinclair, tão cautelosa no amor quanto ele. Mas basta uma tórrida noite de amor para Steve ficar completamente apaixonado e mudar seus conceitos. Será que Amy também mudará?
October 8, 2013
A lot of background was missing in this book. It felt like the reader was supposed to know the hero and his family, but no real info was provided. I never really connected with Steven Fortune. I felt like he was a cardboard cutout.
The heroine was a nutcase. She was freaking out over an accident years ago that had killed her best friend. We're supposed to like her anyway. Steve liked her anyway even after she went nutso with him in the car nearly killing both of them on a freeway full of people. She put everyone's life in danger. The response seemed so mild compared to what she did. It did not improve.
The whole novel seemed slapdash, another easy paycheck.
This is my first Ann Major book. She's on my do not buy list.
The heroine was a nutcase. She was freaking out over an accident years ago that had killed her best friend. We're supposed to like her anyway. Steve liked her anyway even after she went nutso with him in the car nearly killing both of them on a freeway full of people. She put everyone's life in danger. The response seemed so mild compared to what she did. It did not improve.
The whole novel seemed slapdash, another easy paycheck.
This is my first Ann Major book. She's on my do not buy list.
December 16, 2012
VERY slow moving, the story line is choppy and doesn't flow. I felt as if I was reading an idea journal with a bunch of different story ideas and then the author threw them all together to make one book. The book starts with a mystery, but never finishes it. The love story is rushed at the beginning(falls in love at first sight), but then drags through the whole book. Each of the characters are going through some sort of turmoil, but they are never embellished. I think that if the focus was on one story idea, then this might have worked. I believe this is a series, but I didn't even want to finish this book.
March 5, 2019
Leído en Agosto 2013
MOMENTO OPORTUNO
SINOPSIS:
No había hombre más testarudo que él… especialmente en lo relacionado con las mujeres.
Con su rancho y la independencia de la que disfrutaba, Steve se consideraba un hombre afortunado. Y era lo bastante listo para alejarse del amor… pues había aprendido que no provocaba más que dolor. Pero entonces conoció a Amy Burke-Sinclair, una mujer tan bella como inteligente… y tan prudente como él. Sin embargo, lo sedujo y le hizo vivir una noche apasionada que lo obligó a admitir que quizás no tuviera todas las respuestas.
Al verse obligados a trabajar juntos en una fiesta en honor del patriarca, Ryan Fortune, Steve se enamoró aún más de ella. Y no tardó en cambiar de opinión sobre el amor y el compromiso… ¿Cambiaria ella también?
MOMENTO OPORTUNO
SINOPSIS:
No había hombre más testarudo que él… especialmente en lo relacionado con las mujeres.
Con su rancho y la independencia de la que disfrutaba, Steve se consideraba un hombre afortunado. Y era lo bastante listo para alejarse del amor… pues había aprendido que no provocaba más que dolor. Pero entonces conoció a Amy Burke-Sinclair, una mujer tan bella como inteligente… y tan prudente como él. Sin embargo, lo sedujo y le hizo vivir una noche apasionada que lo obligó a admitir que quizás no tuviera todas las respuestas.
Al verse obligados a trabajar juntos en una fiesta en honor del patriarca, Ryan Fortune, Steve se enamoró aún más de ella. Y no tardó en cambiar de opinión sobre el amor y el compromiso… ¿Cambiaria ella también?
September 30, 2014
Ugh. No wonder romance as a genre gets no respect. Fortunately, I've read plenty of good books in the genre.
This is an entry in a "continuity series," which usually ends up being a very mixed bag of books with a common cast of characters. As a result, there are a lot of characters thrown in for no discernible reason, and there are even details about the main characters that apparently served some story purpose in another book in the series, but are just glossed over in this one. For example, our hero is a triplet. But it has zero effect on his personality or on the story.
But then, the hero has pretty much zero personality, so... Mostly, he's just wish-fulfillment material. The heroine is a disaster, and he's madly in love with her (because he first saw her in a spandex skirt with her lace--lace???--panties showing and instantly fell in LURRRVE), so he's incredibly patient and understanding and thoughtful no matter what she does.
The heroine.... She's been messed up emotionally since an accident that killed her best friend something like a decade ago (I don't care enough to look up the exact amount of time, but it's been many years). So she gives him a false name and sleeps with him, then when she meets him professionally later, gives him the cold shoulder.
I think we're supposed to sympathize with her trauma and emotional distress, but all I could think was that she seriously needed professional help. Particularly since one of her favorite ways of dealing with the ongoing distress is to get in a car and drive extremely fast and recklessly. (Which just makes the hero mildly concerned.)
I'm not sure how this got in my TBR pile, but I won't be looking for other books in this series, or by this author.
This is an entry in a "continuity series," which usually ends up being a very mixed bag of books with a common cast of characters. As a result, there are a lot of characters thrown in for no discernible reason, and there are even details about the main characters that apparently served some story purpose in another book in the series, but are just glossed over in this one. For example, our hero is a triplet. But it has zero effect on his personality or on the story.
But then, the hero has pretty much zero personality, so... Mostly, he's just wish-fulfillment material. The heroine is a disaster, and he's madly in love with her (because he first saw her in a spandex skirt with her lace--lace???--panties showing and instantly fell in LURRRVE), so he's incredibly patient and understanding and thoughtful no matter what she does.
The heroine.... She's been messed up emotionally since an accident that killed her best friend something like a decade ago (I don't care enough to look up the exact amount of time, but it's been many years). So she gives him a false name and sleeps with him, then when she meets him professionally later, gives him the cold shoulder.
I think we're supposed to sympathize with her trauma and emotional distress, but all I could think was that she seriously needed professional help. Particularly since one of her favorite ways of dealing with the ongoing distress is to get in a car and drive extremely fast and recklessly. (Which just makes the hero mildly concerned.)
I'm not sure how this got in my TBR pile, but I won't be looking for other books in this series, or by this author.
January 9, 2013
I had received this book as part of a promotional package from Harlequin book club. It wasn't a book I would have gone to the store and picked out, but the first chapter seemed to promise an intense mystery, hinting at supernatural premonition. I thought it would make a nice palate cleanser after some heavier reads. I'm open to all genres as long as there are richly developed characters who can hold my interest.
The murder mystery teased in the beginning is only further teased near the end of the book, indicating that it is meant to be a story line for another book, possibly for the series as a whole? The story ended up being a romance between Steve and Amy, if you can call it that. There isn't much in the way of real character development and there seems to be a considerable amount of anger and tears.
I wasn't left with the warm fuzzies, but instead annoyed that I read through the whole book waiting for this murder mystery to reappear. Not a great start to a series, which I now understand has a different author for each book.
The murder mystery teased in the beginning is only further teased near the end of the book, indicating that it is meant to be a story line for another book, possibly for the series as a whole? The story ended up being a romance between Steve and Amy, if you can call it that. There isn't much in the way of real character development and there seems to be a considerable amount of anger and tears.
I wasn't left with the warm fuzzies, but instead annoyed that I read through the whole book waiting for this murder mystery to reappear. Not a great start to a series, which I now understand has a different author for each book.
March 15, 2012
What a waste of paper and ink. It starts and ends as if it were a mystery, but does nothing with it in-between. The hero puts on affectations, and at one time contemplates rape. The heroine dithers throughout the book, the "un-dithers" inexplicably. The characters are such stereotypes as to be un-engaging, and the sex scenes could have been phoned in. The euphemisms used for the penis are so silly they harken the the Reader's Digest article, "I am Joe's Man Gland." The hero's role model is such a jerk one questions the judgement of the hero.
March 8, 2012
I had to quit reading this book because I hated the dialog between the two main characters...
May 14, 2019
The story starts out with an event that doesn't really have a direct purpose to this novel's storyline but rather the series as a whole. Just say a mystery that will probably be solved in the final book of the series. Not sure if the author has my curiousity peaked to the point where I will go out and buy the remaining novels in this series (I don't think I have them all). Overall I enjoyed Steve and Amy's story. A quick read for those that enjoy novels in the romance genre.
December 20, 2023
Primeiro volume da série Fortunes of Texas: Reunion.
É um romance lento devido a uma característica básica do casal: a desconfiança. Não pense que essa será uma história de acusações, é mais algo como aprendizado.
Recomendo.
É um romance lento devido a uma característica básica do casal: a desconfiança. Não pense que essa será uma história de acusações, é mais algo como aprendizado.
Recomendo.
June 3, 2013
Contemporary Texan romance with two thirty-somethings with lots of emotional baggage. Steven Fortune has reinvented himself before so he is resilient even though hurting from the abandonment at the alter by his ex-fiance when she ran off with his college best-friend and business partner. We open up this story with Steven cutting ties with those people and trying to heal.
Miss Amy Burke-Sinclair has walled herself off from life, she only works her job as an events planner and hides from feelings and dating for the past 8 years since the accidental death of her childhood best-friend Lexie. So they jump eachother's bones right after meeting, but then have the slow road of healing, redemption and learning to actually date and trust someone in a relationship. Steven is amazingly well balanced and knows that hard work is involved in making his love story work with the very damaged and scared Amy.
I love that Amy gave a fake name to Steven so that she could escape from the one-night stand without him being abl to find her... she just doesn't take into the equation that the world is a small place and when you want to avoid someone that is exactly when you see them everywhere.
So I found even more books in the Fortune's of Texas series at a used book store and I was weak so I picked up all twelve up (I'm so helpless to not get sucked into this insane stories which is filled with fun and light plots about a wealthy Texan family which makes me think my crazy family is almost normal!).
223 pages with additional pages of Family tree charts (a must with so many characters!)
2 stars
Miss Amy Burke-Sinclair has walled herself off from life, she only works her job as an events planner and hides from feelings and dating for the past 8 years since the accidental death of her childhood best-friend Lexie. So they jump eachother's bones right after meeting, but then have the slow road of healing, redemption and learning to actually date and trust someone in a relationship. Steven is amazingly well balanced and knows that hard work is involved in making his love story work with the very damaged and scared Amy.
I love that Amy gave a fake name to Steven so that she could escape from the one-night stand without him being abl to find her... she just doesn't take into the equation that the world is a small place and when you want to avoid someone that is exactly when you see them everywhere.
So I found even more books in the Fortune's of Texas series at a used book store and I was weak so I picked up all twelve up (I'm so helpless to not get sucked into this insane stories which is filled with fun and light plots about a wealthy Texan family which makes me think my crazy family is almost normal!).
223 pages with additional pages of Family tree charts (a must with so many characters!)
2 stars
April 29, 2014
Interesting story about a woman who has been trying hard not to have a life since her best friend had died and she blamed herself. She is an event planner and on her birthday her best friend (now)backed out of going out to dinner, and she got her a stand in to go out with her. Reluctantly she goes and she meets a guy who has some baggage of his own. They are very attracted to each other and end up spending the night together. She leaves in the morning before he is awake and he can't stop thinking about her. He plans on trying to find her , but not knowing she gave him a false name.
But in the end they do meet at an event that was being planed at his ranch. The rest you'll just have to read. Also a hard one to put down.
But in the end they do meet at an event that was being planed at his ranch. The rest you'll just have to read. Also a hard one to put down.
July 8, 2012
In Major's romance novel, Steven owns a prosperous ranch and is proud of his independence. Having suffered from a broken heart once already, he's determined to protect that heart from further harm. And then along comes events planner Amy Burke-Sinclair and he realizes he has met his match in that department. Thrown together on a ranch function honoring patriarch Ryan Fortune, Steven and Amy find themselves fighting their attraction while they reach to protect their hearts.
The first book in The Fortunes series is fast-paced and well written.
The first book in The Fortunes series is fast-paced and well written.
February 12, 2012
I am not a big romance reader but I do read suspense-romance off and on so when this came in my monthly books from eharlequin, I decided to give it a try. It was an extremely easy read and I liked the main characters. I will say it was very formulaic but I enjoyed that it was set in Austin, Texas. I love this city.
I actually would not mind reading the other Fortunes of Texas books because you catch of glimpse of another story in this book and it sounds intriguing.
I actually would not mind reading the other Fortunes of Texas books because you catch of glimpse of another story in this book and it sounds intriguing.
March 5, 2012
Hot, Steamy and Erotic but it had one big problem and the problem was, the author didn't mention what happened to the dead body that was found in the Lake Mondo and she just finished the story with cliche happily ever after formula. Actually, she talked about someone who wanted to kill Ryan Fortune and Thunderhawk who interrogated Ryan for that dead body but she didn't even mention what was the result
March 1, 2014
A great story of how guilt can rule your life, or lack thereof.
Amy was blamed for her best friend, Leslie's death. For eight years she refused to allow herself any joy in day-to-day life, until a man in a cowboy hat awakened her desires to live a life she'd long ago forsaken. But the person who really needed to forgive dear Amy, was Amy herself.
She needed to live, especially since Leslie did not - she owed her to live life to it's fullest and welcome love when it was offered. Four stars!
Amy was blamed for her best friend, Leslie's death. For eight years she refused to allow herself any joy in day-to-day life, until a man in a cowboy hat awakened her desires to live a life she'd long ago forsaken. But the person who really needed to forgive dear Amy, was Amy herself.
She needed to live, especially since Leslie did not - she owed her to live life to it's fullest and welcome love when it was offered. Four stars!
February 15, 2015
Steve Fortune has it all, but not love. His fiance left him at the altar and the contractors are taking too much time finishing his ranch house where he's supposed to host a big party for his mentor. Then he meets Amy Burke-Sinclair, the events planner in charge of arranging the part of Ryan Fortune.
Unfortunately, Amy's demons make her certain she's not worthy of love, especially not from a man like Steve. He has to change her mind, but can he do so?
Unfortunately, Amy's demons make her certain she's not worthy of love, especially not from a man like Steve. He has to change her mind, but can he do so?
June 30, 2012
Really not my kind of book as in too much sex. You can have a great story and not have to describe the sex in it. But I got it free and read it. Other than that it was a good book. Story was good and was fun to follow Amy and Steve in their troubled relationship.
September 7, 2016
one of the series which have overarching mystery/problem which carries from book to book and this is the only one of series available unless I want to buy them. (SO annoying for me as a compulsive reader of everything is a series.)
August 12, 2014
I like the book. Love it was in TX. Always enjoy Ann Major's cowboys. Some of the book was a little drawn out. Need to read the rest to solve the mystery i really liked the Hero not the heroine much.
March 2, 2016
Prologue had really NO connection to the story or plot. I feel like it was just added with no reason. The plot was very repetitive the same stuff with different words happened over and over. Bleh boring not well written
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December 27, 2014Miniseries: Fortunes of Texas: Reunion
Category: Contemporary Romance
Category: Contemporary Romance
October 17, 2013
It was a cute quick read. I liked it, and it was exactly what I was looking for - quick to the point, and nothing I had to think too hard about to read :)
October 21, 2014
Thrilling, and shocking never would have believed it. Great story
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October 31, 2014Amy was an incredibly obnoxious character who needed years of therapy.
October 31, 2015
Thoroughly enjoyable romance.
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