Reining in the Rancher

Wed In The West #2

by Karen Templeton

"YOU'RE WHAT?"

Thea Benedict had been about to --- honest to God --- tell her ex-lover Johnny Griego she was pregnant. Until Johnny's teenage daughter beat her to it with her big news!

Thea knew Johnny wasn't a happily-ever-after kind of guy. And now he had his little girl's impending motherhood to think about. So you could have knocked Thea over when the sexy rancher asked her to be his wife! She should have guessed Johnny was the type to do the right thing by her. Except Thea had some crazy notion about marrying for love ...

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary Romance

214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

As the mother of five sons, now grown, Karen loves to write about real people dealing with the drama (and humor) of everyday life. Over the past fifteen years, Karen has written nearly 50 books for Harlequin/Silhouette and Red Dress Ink, and three of her Special Edition titles (A Mother's Wish (2009) Welcome Home, Cowboy (2011) and A Gift for All Seasons (2013) have won the RITA award, the romance industry's top prize for published authors. In addition, her November 2014 title, Santa's Playbook, earned the Romantic Times Gold Seal of Excellence, out of the hundreds of releases reviewed by the magazine for that month.

She is very active on Facebook, as both Karen Templeton and her full name, Karen Templeton Berger, running giveaway contests whenever she has a new release... or just feels like it. Or you can reach her via her website at www.karentempleton.com, which contains recent news as well as excerpts from both current and backlist titles.

Reviews

[Kelly]

Grandioso libro!! Esplendoroso

[Ginny Rodenberg]

I love Thea and Johnny, doesn't matter how many times I read it, it's always good.

[Rainbow Unicorn]

Sweet, clean romance nice light feel-good reading

[Keily Pamela]

“¡Aquel era el lugar perfecto para encontrar por fin el amor verdadero!”

Le doy 5 estrellas a este libro.

Me ha dejado muy marcada la historia de Johnny y Thea, en este libro se habla principalmente sobre temas tan importantes, pero que a pocas personas les llama la atención. El desamor, el temor a que se repita la devastadora sensación de perder a alguien o separarte de alguien a quien amabas, el maltrato, la desilusión, pero también trata sobre la superación, la valentía que todos poseemos.

Vale la pena que se escriban más historias de este estilo, ayudaría bastante.

[Joy]

The poor hero of this romance! His ex-girlfriend tells him she's pregnant right after his teenage daughter tells him she's pregnant. Parallel romances ensue as the younger and older couples face parenthood. I enjoyed the rural New Mexico setting in this book, and the characters were well-done also--the hero is a rancher with a troubled past and the heroine is waitress/artist living in a converted convenience store, and the young people are sympathetically yet realistically portrayed.

[Susannah Carleton]

Great story of friends (with benefits), but both with emotional baggage (his perhaps deeper than hers), becoming pregnant, getting married after a time (he offers immediately, but she refuses until she's in her seventh month), and eventually realizing they are in love (but not at the same time: she realizes it a lot sooner than he does).

Well written, with engaging characters, and enough plot twists to keep the story moving well. A very enjoyable and entertaining read.

[Gail]

Nice little story. Hero is raising a teenaged girl on his own, heroine has been having “friend” sex with hero—and she’s pregnant too. And they both wind up telling him on the same day. He proposes to heroine, heroine recoils in horror—they both have problem pasts, and hers involve multiple miscarriages. This is just a lovely, lovely typical Templeton story.

[Sheri]

I loved this book. Templeton's voice in this one is different--sophisticated, actually. We get peeks inside the characters--just enough to be intrigued, to like them, to pull for them. Don't want to do a spoiler, so won't mention my favorite scene, near the end of the book, but I loved it. This is a stellar series contemporary.

[Holly]

Karen Templeton is definitely one of my favorite authors for a reason. I adore her writing style and the emotion her novels induce. Definitely recommend this one.

[Mollie]

#2 in Wed in the West series

[Laura's]

A cute read.

[Lynn Calvin]

Amazon received,westernish