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Rancher's Choice
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256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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About the author
Kylie Brant
82 books638 followersThe mother of five children, Kylie Brant claims she began writing to save her sanity. Plotting stories became her method of escape from the reality of constant ball games, chauffeuring kids, and refereeing "minor" disagreements between her perfect offspring.
In 1992 she was elated to get a call from Silhouette offering to buy her second novel. Home with laryngitis at the time, she still managed to croak out agreement, and her career was born. A few months later she went on to sell Rancher's Choice, the first manuscript she’d written.
Kylie is married to her high school sweetheart, and they make their home in Iowa. She insists that all her heroes are based on her husband of 23 years because he possesses that most heroic of make qualities — ironing skills. Those abilities come in handy, as she juggles a full time teaching job with writing and a family.
Doing things the easy way has never held much appeal for this multi award-winning author. She graduated with high honors from the University of Northern Iowa. A graduation photo shows her in cap and gown holding her two sons, one aged 16 months and the other three weeks. She went on to obtain a teaching job working with learning-disabled children while completing her master’s degree at night and during summers.
"There was a time in my life when I could imagine myself as a life-long student," she recalls. "I actually toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate. But instead, my life took a spin and I ended up writing romances. I’ve never regretted it!" Her family has since been completed by the birth of another son and a set of twins, a boy and a girl.
Kylie’s books are regularly featured on bestseller lists such as Waldenbooks and B. Dalton Bookseller. With over a million copies of books in print, her novels have been distributed in 20 countries and released in seven languages.
Family and friends are the main focus of Kylie’s life. When she isn’t writing or teaching, she enjoys reading and flower gardening. She loves traveling, preferring beach, ocean, and room service.
In 1992 she was elated to get a call from Silhouette offering to buy her second novel. Home with laryngitis at the time, she still managed to croak out agreement, and her career was born. A few months later she went on to sell Rancher's Choice, the first manuscript she’d written.
Kylie is married to her high school sweetheart, and they make their home in Iowa. She insists that all her heroes are based on her husband of 23 years because he possesses that most heroic of make qualities — ironing skills. Those abilities come in handy, as she juggles a full time teaching job with writing and a family.
Doing things the easy way has never held much appeal for this multi award-winning author. She graduated with high honors from the University of Northern Iowa. A graduation photo shows her in cap and gown holding her two sons, one aged 16 months and the other three weeks. She went on to obtain a teaching job working with learning-disabled children while completing her master’s degree at night and during summers.
"There was a time in my life when I could imagine myself as a life-long student," she recalls. "I actually toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate. But instead, my life took a spin and I ended up writing romances. I’ve never regretted it!" Her family has since been completed by the birth of another son and a set of twins, a boy and a girl.
Kylie’s books are regularly featured on bestseller lists such as Waldenbooks and B. Dalton Bookseller. With over a million copies of books in print, her novels have been distributed in 20 countries and released in seven languages.
Family and friends are the main focus of Kylie’s life. When she isn’t writing or teaching, she enjoys reading and flower gardening. She loves traveling, preferring beach, ocean, and room service.
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July 23, 2012
Well I have to admit the hero was a bit of an unlikeable and judgemental jerk at first when it came to women, having been burned by his ex a few years ago who was money minded he was quite adept at playing the field and his brother's past assistants had hit on him so he was not happy that the heroine would be taking residence at their ranch to help his brother out with his book. I liked how the heroine put him straight many time, even she had been burned but had thrown herself in her studies and had done so without family support. So, when the hero suddenly overcomes all opposition to their involvement and wants her to reciprocate she isn't that conducive to it because she doesn't want to be part of his long line of women.
I liked how she was cautious and wary of any involvement with him and that she kind of confused the hell out of him. The hero's journey from a jerk to a better person was well done. There were minor quibbles I had like I found some of the heroine's actions stupid, like when the hero warned her that someone could be involved in the cattle rustling she was too trusting of that person even though she didn't know him that well. I mean trusting some guy you don't know that well over the man you love, not very nice. I mean she did turn out to be right but that is not the point but besides this I liked the book, the hate to the lust to the love.
I liked how she was cautious and wary of any involvement with him and that she kind of confused the hell out of him. The hero's journey from a jerk to a better person was well done. There were minor quibbles I had like I found some of the heroine's actions stupid, like when the hero warned her that someone could be involved in the cattle rustling she was too trusting of that person even though she didn't know him that well. I mean trusting some guy you don't know that well over the man you love, not very nice. I mean she did turn out to be right but that is not the point but besides this I liked the book, the hate to the lust to the love.
August 30, 2017
Sweet
This is a departure from her other books. It's a very well written, sweet love story, with a smidge of intrigue thrown in for good measure! Very easy reading, I finished it in under 5 hours.
This is a departure from her other books. It's a very well written, sweet love story, with a smidge of intrigue thrown in for good measure! Very easy reading, I finished it in under 5 hours.
April 12, 2021
This wasn’t good. I didn’t care for either the H or h. He was a jerk and she had too many TSTL moments for me!
July 14, 2021
Once again if you know me you know that certain genre's get me and a cowboy is one of them. If it is a romance about a cowboy I am usual in and this is a romance about a cowboy!!
November 22, 2016
Two days to listen to 158 pages, according to Amazon, is a bad thing.
This is the simple story of ranch that had cattle being rustled and the attraction of a tough, smart-ASS cowboy that was sooo into himself he was really hard to like. It was a lot of pages of them fighting their attraction for each other, while he kept telling HER how much SHE wanted HIM, and ONLY him. It did get irritating, since it lasted through the entire book. I’ve read 6 or 7 books by Kylie Brant but I liked this one least of all. And the narration wasn’t as good as the other books either.
There was explicit sex, more than once, but there was no real swearing to speak of.
As to the narration: Coleen Marlo was just OK for me in this one. Our hero, Jackson, was a smoker (yuck) and Ms. Marlo made his voice sound like a two-pack-a-day smoker. She did well otherwise.
This is the simple story of ranch that had cattle being rustled and the attraction of a tough, smart-ASS cowboy that was sooo into himself he was really hard to like. It was a lot of pages of them fighting their attraction for each other, while he kept telling HER how much SHE wanted HIM, and ONLY him. It did get irritating, since it lasted through the entire book. I’ve read 6 or 7 books by Kylie Brant but I liked this one least of all. And the narration wasn’t as good as the other books either.
There was explicit sex, more than once, but there was no real swearing to speak of.
As to the narration: Coleen Marlo was just OK for me in this one. Our hero, Jackson, was a smoker (yuck) and Ms. Marlo made his voice sound like a two-pack-a-day smoker. She did well otherwise.
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