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Second Chance at Love #262
Eye of the Beholder
Tory Michaels finds herself pursued by the dashing Devon York, the handsome and fun-loving man who proposes to her the first time he sees her. Reprint.
- GenresRomance
192 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1985
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Kay Hooper
108 books2,456 followersKay Hooper (aka Kay Robbins) was born in California, in an air force base hospital since her father was stationed there at the time. The family moved back to North Carolina shortly afterward, so she was raised and went to school there.
The oldest of three children, Kay has a brother two years younger and a sister seven years younger. Her father and brother are builders who own a highly respected construction company, and her mother worked for many years in personnel management before becoming Kay's personal assistant, a position she held until her untimely death in March 2002. Kay's sister Linda works as her Business Manager, Events Coordinator, and is playing a major role in the creation and operation of The Kay Hooper Foundation.
Kay graduated from East Rutherford High School and attended Isothermal Community College — where she quickly discovered that business classes did not in any way enthrall her. Switching to more involving courses such as history and literature, she also began to concentrate on writing, which had been a longtime interest. Very quickly hooked, she asked for a Christmas typewriter and began seriously working on her first novel. That book, a Regency romance titled Lady Thief, sold to Dell Publishing in 1980. She has since published more than 60 novels and four novellas.
Kay is single and lives in a very small town in North Carolina, not far from her father and siblings. Deigning to live with her are a flock of cats — Bonnie, Ginger, Oscar, Tuffy, Felix, Renny, and Isabel — of various personalities who all like sleeping on manuscripts and whatever research happens to be spread across Kay's desk. And living amongst the many felines are two cheerfully tolerant dogs, a shelter rescue, Bandit, who looks rather like a small sheepdog, and a Sheltie named Lizzie.
The oldest of three children, Kay has a brother two years younger and a sister seven years younger. Her father and brother are builders who own a highly respected construction company, and her mother worked for many years in personnel management before becoming Kay's personal assistant, a position she held until her untimely death in March 2002. Kay's sister Linda works as her Business Manager, Events Coordinator, and is playing a major role in the creation and operation of The Kay Hooper Foundation.
Kay graduated from East Rutherford High School and attended Isothermal Community College — where she quickly discovered that business classes did not in any way enthrall her. Switching to more involving courses such as history and literature, she also began to concentrate on writing, which had been a longtime interest. Very quickly hooked, she asked for a Christmas typewriter and began seriously working on her first novel. That book, a Regency romance titled Lady Thief, sold to Dell Publishing in 1980. She has since published more than 60 novels and four novellas.
Kay is single and lives in a very small town in North Carolina, not far from her father and siblings. Deigning to live with her are a flock of cats — Bonnie, Ginger, Oscar, Tuffy, Felix, Renny, and Isabel — of various personalities who all like sleeping on manuscripts and whatever research happens to be spread across Kay's desk. And living amongst the many felines are two cheerfully tolerant dogs, a shelter rescue, Bandit, who looks rather like a small sheepdog, and a Sheltie named Lizzie.
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June 13, 2022
This is something different. Both H and h are intelligent and have knowledge about poetry, about literature, about history.
H is not a billionaire and has red hair. She has black hair. That’s a change from the stereotype blonde h. And this H makes breakfast, lunch and everything else because she hates cooking.
Their banter was amusing and it was sweet how he showered her with presents, with his attention, with his presence, with tons of marriage proposals. He couldn’t stay away from her.
She has been in a serious relationship with another man, she’s not a virgin, and all throughout the book I wondered why she was so scared to commit to this wonderful, determined H.
She came across in all those pages like a victim of domestic abuse or something like that, but she wasn’t. In the end that felt a bit silly.
H is not a billionaire and has red hair. She has black hair. That’s a change from the stereotype blonde h. And this H makes breakfast, lunch and everything else because she hates cooking.
Their banter was amusing and it was sweet how he showered her with presents, with his attention, with his presence, with tons of marriage proposals. He couldn’t stay away from her.
She has been in a serious relationship with another man, she’s not a virgin, and all throughout the book I wondered why she was so scared to commit to this wonderful, determined H.
She came across in all those pages like a victim of domestic abuse or something like that, but she wasn’t. In the end that felt a bit silly.
March 3, 2019
The morning after moving into her new home Tory Michaels was not in the best of moods. She wasn't a morning person but this morning was tougher then normal. Then she just had to answer her door and finds a stranger standing there never met a man like Devon York before. For the the first thing he does is propose marriage. But this fun loving, spontaneous, seductive, lovable, intelligent man is sincere and is determined to prove that he will only bring light, color, happiness, laughter and loads of love in Tory's life. But can she rish it all for love at first sight. Is she willing to give Devon a chance. For the both can be totally happy or the both would be totally devastated.
June 23, 2014
Please don't start this book. And if you do,don't have too much expectation on it. I started t expecting something,finished it cause I started it and it's something you can read in one day,took me 5 i neglected myself to finish it and at the same time pushed me to do it. Awful,just awful.
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February 8, 2008My favorite book of all time. Sweet, silly paperback romance. Not the best book I've ever written, but I love the characters, the banter and how things end up.
March 13, 2011
Started it because I thought it was something else....finished it because I started it.
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