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Twilight, Texas #2
The True Love Quilting Club
"The pattern of a quilt will always lead you back home."
Trixie Lynn Parks changed her name to Emma, shook the dust of Twilight, Texas, off her shoes, and vowed to make it big in the city. But after twelve years of shattered dreams, she heads back to the ladies of the True Love Quilting Club...and to her first love, Sam Cheek.
Some things—and some people—sure have changed. Sam has grown from a carefree boy to a single dad. And even though the chemistry between them sizzles hotter than ever, Trixie Lynn quickly discovers she must choose between the fame and fortune that have finally come her way—or the one true love who has the power to mend her patchwork heart.
Trixie Lynn Parks changed her name to Emma, shook the dust of Twilight, Texas, off her shoes, and vowed to make it big in the city. But after twelve years of shattered dreams, she heads back to the ladies of the True Love Quilting Club...and to her first love, Sam Cheek.
Some things—and some people—sure have changed. Sam has grown from a carefree boy to a single dad. And even though the chemistry between them sizzles hotter than ever, Trixie Lynn quickly discovers she must choose between the fame and fortune that have finally come her way—or the one true love who has the power to mend her patchwork heart.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 27, 2010
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Lori Wilde
397 books2,263 followersLori Wilde can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write.
She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out to Harlequin Duets and now, to Blaze.
Lori is an adventuresome soul who loves to travel. She’s taken flying lessons, completed two marathons, rode in a hot-air balloon, performed with a professional jazz band, traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone.
She lives in her native Texas, with her own real-life hero, Bill.
She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out to Harlequin Duets and now, to Blaze.
Lori is an adventuresome soul who loves to travel. She’s taken flying lessons, completed two marathons, rode in a hot-air balloon, performed with a professional jazz band, traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone.
She lives in her native Texas, with her own real-life hero, Bill.
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June 7, 2019
Incredibly predictable, terribly cheesy. Every sex scene, and there’s so many, were just too detailed and always “the best sex ever.” I assumed this would be a cozy mystery with some steaminess like the first one in this series is, but it’s definitely not. I’d hoped to have found a new series to read but this second one makes me uninterested in continuing.
May 29, 2012
The old saying, "You can't judge a book by its cover" certainly applies here. I thought it would be a wholesome book about love and friendship centered around a group of women who love to quilt. The story line was predictable (as far as girl falls in love with guy and they live happily ever after) and it was just too sexually graffic for my taste. I think it (the cover) would have been more in line with the book's content if it had Fabio on it.
May 20, 2010
Well, I finished it. But after pondering what was wrong with this book (and I actually like an occasional romance novel) it absolutely totally lacked character development. There were WAY too many cliche story lines and you didn't really get so you felt you knew the characters - except how "hot" they both were. Be real - it's not like you couldn't predict the end WAY at the beginning. Sorry, NOT a favorite.
January 12, 2016
I loved the carefree romance of he story. Charlie and the boarder collie were my favorite. Every thing seem to happen because the characters never talk about their true feelings. But Sam and Trixie were meant to be together. Trixie had a hard life, but kept a memorie of a good town and loving people.
March 20, 2022
Her mother abandoned her for Hollywood dreams but it didn't stop Trixie Lynn Parks for aspiring to become an actress. She left home at 18 for New York, changed her name but 16 years later, Emma is back in Twilight and down-on-her-luck. Hired to play in a regional show about the town's founders history, Emma can count on the nice people in the quilting club and she'll spend time with an old friend to get over her fear of dogs. Sam Cheek is happy to see his childhood crush again. The veterinarian and single dad might be ready to take another chance at love, after losing his wife at war, but is it compatible with Emma's big dreams?
It's not that I didn't enjoyed Sam and Emma's story. It's just that a lot of things were a bit too OTT for me that I had a hard time believing in all that was happening to these characters.
It's not that I didn't enjoyed Sam and Emma's story. It's just that a lot of things were a bit too OTT for me that I had a hard time believing in all that was happening to these characters.
December 25, 2017
The True Love Quilting Club is the second book in Lori Wilde’s Twilight Texas series. Ironically even though this book was published a few years ago I chose to read it now when the subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, especially in the entertainment industry is featured almost daily on the evening news. More on that in a minute.
If you haven’t read a Lori Wilde book yet be aware that she’s a talented writer whose stories overflow with warm gentle breezes, singing birds, blossoming flowers and all sorts of flowery prose. If you don’t like sappy you probably shouldn’t read one of her books. On the other hand when her heroine, naked and on all fours looks over her shoulder at her lover behind her and says, “Make me come Sam,” you know you’re not in G-rated Hallmark movie land either.
Emma Parks (nee Trixie Lee) has had a really tough life. Her mother walked out on her when she was six years old to pursue her bliss, leaving her to the care of her father (who it turns out really isn’t) who provides for her physical needs but offers her nothing emotionally. As a father with daughters I can only imagine how devastating that must be to a young girl. Trixie and her stepfather spend on year in Twilight when she is fourteen. Trixie of course is rebellious acting out her pain over the lack of anyone in her life who loves her. She meets Sam Cheek a handsome, quiet thoughtful boy, her polar opposite, and opposites attract. But Trixie’s dad leaves his job and Twilight and forces her to go with him. One of the mysteries of this story to me is why one of the wonderfully caring women of Twilight (like Sam’s mother) who are aware of how sad Trixie’s home life is didn’t offer her an alternative option to stay with them? Fast forward sixteen years and Trixie, now Emma and now approaching her thirtieth birthday is a struggling, near destitute actress in N.Y.C. trying to get a break in the cutthroat acting profession. She and Sam Cheek our hero haven’t seen or spoken to each other over those sixteen years. She catches the eye of one of the most famous producers on Broadway who offers to trade sex for a role in one of his productions. She refuses and when he tries to force the issue she knees him in the nuts and runs out of the theater. Now here’s where one of the most unbelievable parts of the book occurs. The producer presses charges against Emma claiming she sexually assaulted him when he refused to give her a role in return for sexual favors. And despite the fact that Emma is about five foot tall and one hundred pounds dripping wet and that the producer has a long earned if not public reputation in the industry for being a sexual predator, the police arrest Emma and lock her up. But to her rescue come the women of the Twilight Texas True Love Quilting Club. Phone calls are made on her behalf charges are mysteriously dropped and Emma is released from jail the next day and offered a starring role in the Twilight Theater’s Thanksgiving production. Emma has nowhere else to go, no job prospects on Broadway and she’d always had fond memories of her brief time in Twilight (and memories of Sam have never been far from her) so of course she accepts the job offer.
The Twilight True Love Quilting Club pretty much consists of the same women that form the The Twilight Knitting Club of book one except Flynn who apparently can’t sew any better than she can knit. An important addition to the group is Nina a former star Broadway actress who now owns and operates the Twilight Theater. Flynn and Jesse our lovebirds in book one are mentioned in this in regard to their upcoming nuptials but don’t make an appearance which I found disappointing. But Sam’s Aunt Belinda does and Aunt Belinda has made a career out of reuniting first loves to help them find their happily ever after. And so it’s not too surprising to discover later in the book that she also played a part in Emma’s return to Twilight. Emma is immediately drafted into the Quilting Club and taught how to quilt and gains several new friends and mother figures in the process. It comes out over the course of the book that several of these women at one point in their careers faced unwanted sexual advances on the job and a couple accepted those advances as the only way to get ahead in their careers. See what I mean about ironic timing?
Beau the villain of the first book returns in this book. Nina who is big on giving second chances is allowing Beau who has never acted before to take the lead male role opposite Emma in her upcoming Thanksgiving production. And if that’s not hard enough to believe, here’s another completely unbelievable story line. Beau is an Iraq war veteran and hero and since the play is dedicated to the men and women from Twilight who have served in the military Nina feels her play is the perfect chance for Beau to redeem himself. This is the Beau who in Book #1 set up Jesse for a ten year prison term by planting drugs in his car, who blew up the bridge in Twilight and tried to pin it on Jesse, who burned down the building Jesse and Flynn had restored and put their businesses in and again tried to frame Jesse for it, (all while he’s the sheriff in Twilight) we’re told got probation for his crimes. Seriously? Jesse served eight years of a ten year sentence in Huntsville for a crime he didn’t commit thanks to Beau and Beau because he’s supposedly suffering from PTSD from his time in Iraq (which happened after he’d set Jesse up for a long jail term) doesn’t get a day of prison time? How’s that for justice?
Sam Cheek our hero is now the town’s vet. We met him briefly in the first book. Steady Sam as he is called is practically a saint in this book. He’s exceptionally good looking except for an ugly scar at his hair line courtesy of an injured mountain lion he tried to help when he was a Boy Scout. Sam is described as kind, patient, non-judgmental and methodical to the point of being highly predictable. Sam married a young widow and single mom Valerie (who more than a little resembled Emma) mostly because Valerie who is a nurse and in the Army Reserves gets called into active duty in Afghanistan and has no one to care for her young son Charlie. Although Sam and Valerie care for each other, Valerie admits to Sam that she doesn’t feel the passion for him that she did for her late husband and Charlie’s father, her first love Jeff. And although he never says her name Sam knows he doesn’t feel the passion for Valerie that he felt for long gone Trixie/Emma. But they have similar personalities and are comfortable together and Val needs somebody to look after Charlie while she’s gone and Sam doesn’t ever expect to see Trixie again. Unfortunately Val is killed by an I.E.D. while in Iraq leaving Sam a young widower with a six year old son who after losing both of his biological parents, stops talking. Sam, unlike Trixe's father loves Charlie like he would if he'd been his biological father. Here’s about the only other point in this story that bothered me. It’s been 13 months since Sam buried Valerie and Aunt Belinda as well as the rest of his family and the town are criticizing him for not getting on with his life and dating again. Yes, life goes on but is a year really too long to mourn your late wife and not be ready to date again? I didn’t think so.
Well as with most modern romance stories the course of true love is neither easy nor straight. Sam is thrilled with Emma’s return butrealizes his place is in Twilight and Emma’s is meant to be a star either in Hollywood or Broadway. Emma realizes she can’t give up her dreams of stardom she’s dedicated her life to and suffered so much to achieve to settle down in Twilight to be the wife Sam needs and the mother Charlie needs no matter how much she loves them. But neither can resist the chemistry that has always been between them. So after a few torrid make out sessions that end with them both agreeing they need to not start an ill fated romance they finally give in to sixteen years of pent up desire and become lovers telling themselves its just about sex and friendship and that they’ll be able to walk away from each other when Emma’s time in Twilight is done. I won’t give away anymore of the plot line but I will tell you that while it’s not very unpredictable (is any modern romance story?) like life, it’s the journey and not the destination and Ms. Wilde makes it quite the beautiful heart strings tugging jo
If you haven’t read a Lori Wilde book yet be aware that she’s a talented writer whose stories overflow with warm gentle breezes, singing birds, blossoming flowers and all sorts of flowery prose. If you don’t like sappy you probably shouldn’t read one of her books. On the other hand when her heroine, naked and on all fours looks over her shoulder at her lover behind her and says, “Make me come Sam,” you know you’re not in G-rated Hallmark movie land either.
Emma Parks (nee Trixie Lee) has had a really tough life. Her mother walked out on her when she was six years old to pursue her bliss, leaving her to the care of her father (who it turns out really isn’t) who provides for her physical needs but offers her nothing emotionally. As a father with daughters I can only imagine how devastating that must be to a young girl. Trixie and her stepfather spend on year in Twilight when she is fourteen. Trixie of course is rebellious acting out her pain over the lack of anyone in her life who loves her. She meets Sam Cheek a handsome, quiet thoughtful boy, her polar opposite, and opposites attract. But Trixie’s dad leaves his job and Twilight and forces her to go with him. One of the mysteries of this story to me is why one of the wonderfully caring women of Twilight (like Sam’s mother) who are aware of how sad Trixie’s home life is didn’t offer her an alternative option to stay with them? Fast forward sixteen years and Trixie, now Emma and now approaching her thirtieth birthday is a struggling, near destitute actress in N.Y.C. trying to get a break in the cutthroat acting profession. She and Sam Cheek our hero haven’t seen or spoken to each other over those sixteen years. She catches the eye of one of the most famous producers on Broadway who offers to trade sex for a role in one of his productions. She refuses and when he tries to force the issue she knees him in the nuts and runs out of the theater. Now here’s where one of the most unbelievable parts of the book occurs. The producer presses charges against Emma claiming she sexually assaulted him when he refused to give her a role in return for sexual favors. And despite the fact that Emma is about five foot tall and one hundred pounds dripping wet and that the producer has a long earned if not public reputation in the industry for being a sexual predator, the police arrest Emma and lock her up. But to her rescue come the women of the Twilight Texas True Love Quilting Club. Phone calls are made on her behalf charges are mysteriously dropped and Emma is released from jail the next day and offered a starring role in the Twilight Theater’s Thanksgiving production. Emma has nowhere else to go, no job prospects on Broadway and she’d always had fond memories of her brief time in Twilight (and memories of Sam have never been far from her) so of course she accepts the job offer.
The Twilight True Love Quilting Club pretty much consists of the same women that form the The Twilight Knitting Club of book one except Flynn who apparently can’t sew any better than she can knit. An important addition to the group is Nina a former star Broadway actress who now owns and operates the Twilight Theater. Flynn and Jesse our lovebirds in book one are mentioned in this in regard to their upcoming nuptials but don’t make an appearance which I found disappointing. But Sam’s Aunt Belinda does and Aunt Belinda has made a career out of reuniting first loves to help them find their happily ever after. And so it’s not too surprising to discover later in the book that she also played a part in Emma’s return to Twilight. Emma is immediately drafted into the Quilting Club and taught how to quilt and gains several new friends and mother figures in the process. It comes out over the course of the book that several of these women at one point in their careers faced unwanted sexual advances on the job and a couple accepted those advances as the only way to get ahead in their careers. See what I mean about ironic timing?
Beau the villain of the first book returns in this book. Nina who is big on giving second chances is allowing Beau who has never acted before to take the lead male role opposite Emma in her upcoming Thanksgiving production. And if that’s not hard enough to believe, here’s another completely unbelievable story line. Beau is an Iraq war veteran and hero and since the play is dedicated to the men and women from Twilight who have served in the military Nina feels her play is the perfect chance for Beau to redeem himself. This is the Beau who in Book #1 set up Jesse for a ten year prison term by planting drugs in his car, who blew up the bridge in Twilight and tried to pin it on Jesse, who burned down the building Jesse and Flynn had restored and put their businesses in and again tried to frame Jesse for it, (all while he’s the sheriff in Twilight) we’re told got probation for his crimes. Seriously? Jesse served eight years of a ten year sentence in Huntsville for a crime he didn’t commit thanks to Beau and Beau because he’s supposedly suffering from PTSD from his time in Iraq (which happened after he’d set Jesse up for a long jail term) doesn’t get a day of prison time? How’s that for justice?
Sam Cheek our hero is now the town’s vet. We met him briefly in the first book. Steady Sam as he is called is practically a saint in this book. He’s exceptionally good looking except for an ugly scar at his hair line courtesy of an injured mountain lion he tried to help when he was a Boy Scout. Sam is described as kind, patient, non-judgmental and methodical to the point of being highly predictable. Sam married a young widow and single mom Valerie (who more than a little resembled Emma) mostly because Valerie who is a nurse and in the Army Reserves gets called into active duty in Afghanistan and has no one to care for her young son Charlie. Although Sam and Valerie care for each other, Valerie admits to Sam that she doesn’t feel the passion for him that she did for her late husband and Charlie’s father, her first love Jeff. And although he never says her name Sam knows he doesn’t feel the passion for Valerie that he felt for long gone Trixie/Emma. But they have similar personalities and are comfortable together and Val needs somebody to look after Charlie while she’s gone and Sam doesn’t ever expect to see Trixie again. Unfortunately Val is killed by an I.E.D. while in Iraq leaving Sam a young widower with a six year old son who after losing both of his biological parents, stops talking. Sam, unlike Trixe's father loves Charlie like he would if he'd been his biological father. Here’s about the only other point in this story that bothered me. It’s been 13 months since Sam buried Valerie and Aunt Belinda as well as the rest of his family and the town are criticizing him for not getting on with his life and dating again. Yes, life goes on but is a year really too long to mourn your late wife and not be ready to date again? I didn’t think so.
Well as with most modern romance stories the course of true love is neither easy nor straight. Sam is thrilled with Emma’s return butrealizes his place is in Twilight and Emma’s is meant to be a star either in Hollywood or Broadway. Emma realizes she can’t give up her dreams of stardom she’s dedicated her life to and suffered so much to achieve to settle down in Twilight to be the wife Sam needs and the mother Charlie needs no matter how much she loves them. But neither can resist the chemistry that has always been between them. So after a few torrid make out sessions that end with them both agreeing they need to not start an ill fated romance they finally give in to sixteen years of pent up desire and become lovers telling themselves its just about sex and friendship and that they’ll be able to walk away from each other when Emma’s time in Twilight is done. I won’t give away anymore of the plot line but I will tell you that while it’s not very unpredictable (is any modern romance story?) like life, it’s the journey and not the destination and Ms. Wilde makes it quite the beautiful heart strings tugging jo
December 2, 2012
The True Love Quilting Club by Lori Wilde
Her mother had abandoned her and her father, Rex next he was packing up their things as they were moving again and she wanted to know why he couldn't hug her. He told her and it sunk it causing her to run out of the house, running as fast as she could.
She only wanted to be an actress and she ran into Sam. He took her to the theater where they watched the stars.
Trixie had gone to NY and the after a few years the only thing she had left was a piece of jewelry from her grandmother. She needed $1000 for the talent classes. She got a lead to go see a director and as she ran out she knew she'd was done for in the acting business. As she is being kicked out of her apartment, she's no money to pay rent, the cops arrest her for sexual assault against the director.
Love the quiltisms at the beginning of the chapters, they are so true!
She got a part in Twilight, at the playhouse. Nina Gardner who did star on the stage was her savior once she learned what Scott had done.
Trixi Lynn/Emma Parks returns after 12 years to Twilight, TX after following her dream, dancing in the big city. and reunites with ther first love, Sam. He's now a vet, single dad and after his wife Valerie had died the boy, Charlie has stopped talking. Belinda and others have tried to set him up with dates.
She will stay at the inn for at least 2 months time and the quilting club has welcomed her with open arms. They attempt to teach her how to quilt...
She has some dog fears to get over with help from Sam so she can put the play into production for the town.
Her mother had abandoned her and her father, Rex next he was packing up their things as they were moving again and she wanted to know why he couldn't hug her. He told her and it sunk it causing her to run out of the house, running as fast as she could.
She only wanted to be an actress and she ran into Sam. He took her to the theater where they watched the stars.
Trixie had gone to NY and the after a few years the only thing she had left was a piece of jewelry from her grandmother. She needed $1000 for the talent classes. She got a lead to go see a director and as she ran out she knew she'd was done for in the acting business. As she is being kicked out of her apartment, she's no money to pay rent, the cops arrest her for sexual assault against the director.
Love the quiltisms at the beginning of the chapters, they are so true!
She got a part in Twilight, at the playhouse. Nina Gardner who did star on the stage was her savior once she learned what Scott had done.
Trixi Lynn/Emma Parks returns after 12 years to Twilight, TX after following her dream, dancing in the big city. and reunites with ther first love, Sam. He's now a vet, single dad and after his wife Valerie had died the boy, Charlie has stopped talking. Belinda and others have tried to set him up with dates.
She will stay at the inn for at least 2 months time and the quilting club has welcomed her with open arms. They attempt to teach her how to quilt...
She has some dog fears to get over with help from Sam so she can put the play into production for the town.
October 24, 2015
Lori Wilde’nin kaleme aldığı Yamalı Hayaller Sahnesi; küçük yaşta annesi tarafından babası zannettiği adamla yaşamaya mahkûm edilmiş Trixie Lynn’ın öyküsünü bizlere sunuyor.
Asıl öykümüz ise Trixie’nin babası zannettiği adamın işi yüzünden oradan oraya taşınmaktan sıkılması ve o güne kadarki yuvası hissettiği Twiligt’tan ayrılmak istememesi ve sonunda gerçekleri öğrenip evi terk etmesiyle başlıyor.
Trixie çocukluk aşkı Samuel Cheek’i (nam-ı diğer Sam) ve sevdiği kasabayı bırakıp yıldız olmak uğruna Newyork ’a taşınır. Geçmişten gelen ve hantal olduğunu düşündüğü ismini Emma Parks’a çevirir. Kahramanımız her şeyin bittiğini artık dibe vurduğunu düşündüğü bir anda hayat ansızın onu tek aşkı Sam ve Twilight’ın kollarına atıverir. Yuvasına geri dönen Emma buranın sıcaklığı ve Sam’i çok özlediğini ve bunca zaman ondan başka kimseye âşık olmadığını anlar. Onu sımsıkı saran kasaba halkı ve Sam karşısında nasıl tepki vermesi gerektiğini bilemez.
Kitap Twilight kasabasının tüm sıcaklığını bizlere sunarken bir yandan da kariyer-aşk arasında seçim yapmanın zorluğunu, hayatın insana ne gibi fırsatlar sunacağını bilemeyeceğimizi çok iyi anlatmış. Baştan sona okuyucuyu sarıp sarmalayan kitap sizi adeta yorgan edasıyla ısıtıveriyor. Yazar baştan sona dildeki akıcılığı ve hikâyenin etkileyiciliğiyle takdiri hak ediyor. Emma ve Sam arasındaki tutkunun anlatılış tarzı bazı yerlerde beni biraz rahatsız etse de aralarındaki aşkın büyüklüğü sizleri de etkileyecektir.
Kitabı okumaya başlama tarihim: 4 ekim 2015
Bitirme tarihim: 24 ekim 2015
Asıl öykümüz ise Trixie’nin babası zannettiği adamın işi yüzünden oradan oraya taşınmaktan sıkılması ve o güne kadarki yuvası hissettiği Twiligt’tan ayrılmak istememesi ve sonunda gerçekleri öğrenip evi terk etmesiyle başlıyor.
Trixie çocukluk aşkı Samuel Cheek’i (nam-ı diğer Sam) ve sevdiği kasabayı bırakıp yıldız olmak uğruna Newyork ’a taşınır. Geçmişten gelen ve hantal olduğunu düşündüğü ismini Emma Parks’a çevirir. Kahramanımız her şeyin bittiğini artık dibe vurduğunu düşündüğü bir anda hayat ansızın onu tek aşkı Sam ve Twilight’ın kollarına atıverir. Yuvasına geri dönen Emma buranın sıcaklığı ve Sam’i çok özlediğini ve bunca zaman ondan başka kimseye âşık olmadığını anlar. Onu sımsıkı saran kasaba halkı ve Sam karşısında nasıl tepki vermesi gerektiğini bilemez.
Kitap Twilight kasabasının tüm sıcaklığını bizlere sunarken bir yandan da kariyer-aşk arasında seçim yapmanın zorluğunu, hayatın insana ne gibi fırsatlar sunacağını bilemeyeceğimizi çok iyi anlatmış. Baştan sona okuyucuyu sarıp sarmalayan kitap sizi adeta yorgan edasıyla ısıtıveriyor. Yazar baştan sona dildeki akıcılığı ve hikâyenin etkileyiciliğiyle takdiri hak ediyor. Emma ve Sam arasındaki tutkunun anlatılış tarzı bazı yerlerde beni biraz rahatsız etse de aralarındaki aşkın büyüklüğü sizleri de etkileyecektir.
Kitabı okumaya başlama tarihim: 4 ekim 2015
Bitirme tarihim: 24 ekim 2015
June 27, 2013
The second installment in Lori Wilde's Twilight series, The True Love Quilting Club will sweep you off of your feet and won't put you down until the very last page.
Trixie Lynn Parks has been struggling in Broadway for twelve long years, and finally decides to pack it up and head back to the one place she was once happy, Twilight, Texas.
But when she is there, she runs into Sam Cheek, a boy she once has a crush on, a boy who told Trixie she was destined for bigger things. But now, Sam is all grown up and a single father. Can the two of them find that sizzle they had years ago? And when fame and fortune finally smile upon Trixie, will she choose it over her love for Sam?
The True Love Quilting Club is a sweet and heartwarming romance - perfect to curl up with any afternoon. The characters are likable and believable, and she writes with a flourishing way that will keep you turning and turning those pages - captivating!! Although it is the second in the series, you can read this book as a standalone. I did and did not feel I was missing anything. Don't miss out on this sensational romance!
February 5, 2017
Evet serinin ikinci kitabı da bitti ve çevrilen başka kitap yok malesef
Kitap derseniz sıcacık insanı içine alan bir konuyu almış
On dört yaşında ilk öpücüğünü alan kızımız sam i asla unutmaz ama onun hayali yıldız olmak annesinin terkedisi ve tek amaçla gidişini izliyor ve yıldız olmak için terkediyor Twilighti
Sam bir veteriner hayatında tek bir aşkı bulmuş onu da kaybetmiş sakin Sam
Hikayesi içeriği akıcılığı çok iyiydi gerçekten çok sevdim ve özelikle sonu
Böyle sıcak hikayeleri seven varsa hiç kaçırmasin derim
Kitap derseniz sıcacık insanı içine alan bir konuyu almış
On dört yaşında ilk öpücüğünü alan kızımız sam i asla unutmaz ama onun hayali yıldız olmak annesinin terkedisi ve tek amaçla gidişini izliyor ve yıldız olmak için terkediyor Twilighti
Sam bir veteriner hayatında tek bir aşkı bulmuş onu da kaybetmiş sakin Sam
Hikayesi içeriği akıcılığı çok iyiydi gerçekten çok sevdim ve özelikle sonu
Böyle sıcak hikayeleri seven varsa hiç kaçırmasin derim
April 21, 2010
The True Love Quilting Club was only my 4th book by Lori Wilde and so far my favorite.
What I really liked was that the hero, Sam was “normal”. He wasn’t super Alpha, or ex-CIA, FBI etc… He was just an everyday guy head over heals in love with his childhood sweetheart, Trixie Lynn. I really loved both Sam and Trixie Lynn from the start and the secondary characters were just as interesting. This was a sweet romance with some surprisingly hot love scenes. This one is a keeper for me!
What I really liked was that the hero, Sam was “normal”. He wasn’t super Alpha, or ex-CIA, FBI etc… He was just an everyday guy head over heals in love with his childhood sweetheart, Trixie Lynn. I really loved both Sam and Trixie Lynn from the start and the secondary characters were just as interesting. This was a sweet romance with some surprisingly hot love scenes. This one is a keeper for me!
March 3, 2019
Okay
I’ve read a couple of the books in the series out of order and enjoyed them. This one took me longer to get into. I enjoyed the storyline and the HEA, not so much the sex and talk of porn. This could have been better.
I’ve read a couple of the books in the series out of order and enjoyed them. This one took me longer to get into. I enjoyed the storyline and the HEA, not so much the sex and talk of porn. This could have been better.
June 18, 2021
Alrighty, so I've come to the conclusion that this just really isn't the series for me. The titles are what drew me in (I'm a quilter) and I was all ready for a nice cozy, pleasant story with some quilting. I guess there was quilting? Sorta mentioned offhand and maybe a pattern or two's name thrown in. But that was about it. Sheep herding trials got more detail in this book.
Truthfully I felt like this book (and its predecessor) kind of have an identity crisis. You've got these cozy crafty names, pure-intention-ed plot lines, and then wham, you're in the middle of a bunch of nipples and moans. Don't get me wrong, I like a good romance novel with the best of them. But when you throw it my way unexpectedly or overshadow the crafty parts I was expecting, I just don't think it works for me.
The characters were decent in this. Everyone is in everybody's business, which I'm sure as a small town isn't out of the ordinary. And while you've got some unlikely romances, that's not really too atypical for the genre either. I just didn't really have any one character that I connected with.
I've told myself I don't have to be a completionist with this series (despite the other titles also being activities I enjoy). I'm sure this is a good book out there for someone, but as for me I'll keep my crafts and my highly detailed sex books separate.
Review by M. Reynard 2021
Truthfully I felt like this book (and its predecessor) kind of have an identity crisis. You've got these cozy crafty names, pure-intention-ed plot lines, and then wham, you're in the middle of a bunch of nipples and moans. Don't get me wrong, I like a good romance novel with the best of them. But when you throw it my way unexpectedly or overshadow the crafty parts I was expecting, I just don't think it works for me.
The characters were decent in this. Everyone is in everybody's business, which I'm sure as a small town isn't out of the ordinary. And while you've got some unlikely romances, that's not really too atypical for the genre either. I just didn't really have any one character that I connected with.
I've told myself I don't have to be a completionist with this series (despite the other titles also being activities I enjoy). I'm sure this is a good book out there for someone, but as for me I'll keep my crafts and my highly detailed sex books separate.
Review by M. Reynard 2021
February 13, 2024
This is the 2nd book of the Twilight, Texas series.
This book is about Trixie Lynn Parks aka Emma Parks who is in Twilight briefly when she is 14. She has a makeout session with Sam Cheeks and then she moves again with the man she thinks is her dad. Her mom has left previously to try and become a star on Broadway. Trixie later finds out that the man she thinks is her father isn't her father, he is just going to take care of her. He doesn't even love her. Trixie becomes 18 and moves to NYC herself to try and follow her mother and become a star on Broadway. She is just scraping by before she makes the national news but not for the right reasons. She now has an opportunity to come back to Twilight to perform in a local theatre production. In Twilight, she runs into Sam again, and sparks fly. Will she stick around Twilight or continue to chase her dreams of becoming a star? Love or fame?
Beau Trainer, the Sheriff in the first book of the series, makes an appearance in this book. He is going to be the co-star with Emma in the local production.
Three to four softcore porn chapters takes a good story and sullies it.
This book is about Trixie Lynn Parks aka Emma Parks who is in Twilight briefly when she is 14. She has a makeout session with Sam Cheeks and then she moves again with the man she thinks is her dad. Her mom has left previously to try and become a star on Broadway. Trixie later finds out that the man she thinks is her father isn't her father, he is just going to take care of her. He doesn't even love her. Trixie becomes 18 and moves to NYC herself to try and follow her mother and become a star on Broadway. She is just scraping by before she makes the national news but not for the right reasons. She now has an opportunity to come back to Twilight to perform in a local theatre production. In Twilight, she runs into Sam again, and sparks fly. Will she stick around Twilight or continue to chase her dreams of becoming a star? Love or fame?
Beau Trainer, the Sheriff in the first book of the series, makes an appearance in this book. He is going to be the co-star with Emma in the local production.
Three to four softcore porn chapters takes a good story and sullies it.
December 20, 2023
Much better than the first book of the series.
"The pattern of a quilt will always lead you back home."
Trixie Lynn Parks changed her name to Emma, shook the dust of Twilight, Texas, off her shoes, and vowed to make it big in the city. But after twelve years of shattered dreams, she heads back to the ladies of the True Love Quilting Club...and to her first love, Sam Cheek.
Some things—and some people—sure have changed. Sam has grown from a carefree boy to a single dad. And even though the chemistry between them sizzles hotter than ever, Trixie Lynn quickly discovers she must choose between the fame and fortune that have finally come her way—or the one true love who has the power to mend her patchwork heart.
"The pattern of a quilt will always lead you back home."
Trixie Lynn Parks changed her name to Emma, shook the dust of Twilight, Texas, off her shoes, and vowed to make it big in the city. But after twelve years of shattered dreams, she heads back to the ladies of the True Love Quilting Club...and to her first love, Sam Cheek.
Some things—and some people—sure have changed. Sam has grown from a carefree boy to a single dad. And even though the chemistry between them sizzles hotter than ever, Trixie Lynn quickly discovers she must choose between the fame and fortune that have finally come her way—or the one true love who has the power to mend her patchwork heart.
July 14, 2020
OK, this was a story that will make you smile and warm your heart. "....Emma fully understood that family didn't always come from whom you were born to, but from those who saw you for who you really were deep inside, past the defenses and the fears and self-doubts, past the mistakes and missteps. Family was where you hung your heart, ..." This totally sums up the relationship between Trixie Lynn Parks and Sam Cheek and the years between when they met and when she showed back up in Twilight, Texas fourteen years later. Great story
December 30, 2016
I bought this book at a garage sale in the States. It's a really chick book and well, if I read this in my mother tongue, I definitely don't read it. However, I LOVE reading romantic books in English. So, I really enjoyed it.
I want to read more books from the author. Even though this book is for adults, it's not difficult to read at all. Next year I want to read at least one of her books in English.
I want to read more books from the author. Even though this book is for adults, it's not difficult to read at all. Next year I want to read at least one of her books in English.
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May 5, 2021I listened to the first audio book in this series, The Sweetheart's Knitting Club, and couldn't even rate that one with one star. I borrowed this one from my library to give the author a second chance hoping her writing had magically improved. It hasn't. I had to stop listening less than 10 minutes in. Don't waste your time.
March 27, 2023
Emma Parks met Sam Cheek in Twilight, Texas, as a 14 year old. She knew then she wanted to be a star. Sam never wanted to leave Twilight and is now the town veterinarian. Emma gets asked to come back to Twilight to star in the town play. Soon sparks are flying again between Emma and Sam.
Great story by Lori Wilde. This book is an oldie but a goody!
Great story by Lori Wilde. This book is an oldie but a goody!
November 27, 2017
I’m quickly falling for the town of Twilight, TX! The characters are great and the stories surrounding this little town could be members of any small town!
Enjoyed Trixie Lynn’s and Sam’s story and hope they are a part of more stories in this series!
Enjoyed Trixie Lynn’s and Sam’s story and hope they are a part of more stories in this series!
April 20, 2018
This story was about lost and found love along with theme of how opposites attract. So many times when opposites attract it is a story of hard and brittle edges but this story tells you about a love that is soft and uplifting, exciting and calming along with roots and wings. I adored this story.
November 6, 2019
What a wonderful book!
The setting, characters and storyline were fantastic and unfortunately I couldn’t find enough time to read it all in one sitting. I recommend this to anyone who loves sweet romance!
The setting, characters and storyline were fantastic and unfortunately I couldn’t find enough time to read it all in one sitting. I recommend this to anyone who loves sweet romance!
September 18, 2017
Awesome!
November 1, 2017
A wonderful feel-good story!
I really loved this story of strength, steadfastness and true love. It makes a person want to be a part of Twilight, Texas forever!
I really loved this story of strength, steadfastness and true love. It makes a person want to be a part of Twilight, Texas forever!
December 21, 2017
Sehr emotional und mit Problemen behafteten Figuren, die die Handlung tragen!
July 12, 2018
Contemporary romance.
January 30, 2019
Cute series
March 12, 2019
This book made me laugh several times. I loved Patches, the Border Collie, and Charlie, who wouldn't talk after his Mother died. Sam and Emma made a fun and wonderful couple in this etory.
July 16, 2019
I am not a quilter but would love to be. I really enjoyed this book and the characters in it.
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