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Long, Tall Texans #20
A Man of Means
From the moment seductive cattleman Rey Hart sets eyes on Meredith Johns, he becomes mesmerized. Not only does Meredith stir his jaded soul, but he discovers she's a top-notch biscuit-baker and offers her a job as cook on his ranch. But Rey's plan to preserve his bachelorhood is on the verge of backfiring.
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 2002
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Diana Palmer
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Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle.
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Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980.
She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. James Press, The Writers Directory by St. James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards.
Inspired by her husband, who quit a blue-collar manufacturing job to return to school and get his diploma in computer programming, Susan herself went back to college as a day student at the age of 45. In 1995, she graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, with a major in history and a double minor in archaeology and Spanish. She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She hopes to specialize in Native American studies. She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of Amenca, the Planetary Society, The Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Sheriff's Association, and numerous conservation and charitable organizations. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music.
In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. They love riding around and looking at the countryside, watching sci-fi on TV and at the movies, just talking and eating out.
Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle.
(1)romance author
Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980.
She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. James Press, The Writers Directory by St. James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards.
Inspired by her husband, who quit a blue-collar manufacturing job to return to school and get his diploma in computer programming, Susan herself went back to college as a day student at the age of 45. In 1995, she graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, with a major in history and a double minor in archaeology and Spanish. She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She hopes to specialize in Native American studies. She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of Amenca, the Planetary Society, The Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Sheriff's Association, and numerous conservation and charitable organizations. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music.
In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. They love riding around and looking at the countryside, watching sci-fi on TV and at the movies, just talking and eating out.
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November 15, 2018
H/h meet cute when the heroine rescues the hero’s brother from a mugging in Houston. She is scantily dressed for a Halloween party and when the hero sees her at the hospital, he thinks she’s a prostitute. In fact, he has her arrested for the mugging because she had his brother’s cell phone and wallet in her purse for safe-keeping.
Heroine is not in hand cuffs for long before the cop recognizes and releases her. The hero doesn’t notice, but it’s obvious the heroine is well known and respected at the hospital. Hero makes sure the heroine gets home safely, yet he misses that h is nervous because her father is an alcoholic and she’s been out quite late.
The next morning, the hero’s brother wants to thank the heroine for saving him, so hero goes to the heroine’s house and discovers that she’s been badly beaten in the face by her father. The cops come and take him away while the heroine gets patched up at the hospital. She visits the brother and meets all of the biscuit loving brothers at once. They offer her a job at the ranch baking biscuits. She accepts because she can’t work with her face messed up and it would be good to get away.
Hero is still convinced the heroine is a prostitute or a lowly domestic of some sort. And he is fighting his attraction. He also has bad blood with his younger brother (the one who got mugged) because he deliberately flirted with his former girl friend and that’s how they discovered she was a prostitute.( It’s not explained. Just go with it.) Hero is paranoid his brother has the same taste in women and that the heroine will go for him and not his cranky self.
Meanwhile the heroine is making biscuits with olive oil and talking about cholesterol and healthy food choices. DP climbs back on her hobby horse about organic food and how the brothers are getting top dollars for their happy cows.
Slowly the heroine’s backstory is revealed. She is a nurse practitioner who was sixty pounds overweight in college, but she learned to eat healthy and now she’s a babe – a virgin babe – but a babe. Her mother and cop brother* were killed in a bank robbery. Her father, a professor of veterinary medicine was eaten up by guilt and started drinking and hitting the heroine. She has been working seven days a week to make up for lost income after her father lost his job for being a drunk. She is also a sharpshooter (taught by her brother)
The youngest brother quickly learns all of this, but the hero is still hanging on to his prejudices and the heroine lets him think the worst because she’s fighting her attraction, too. When he takes her out shooting skeet, she winds up helping an elderly man having a heart attack and her cover is blown. The tone of the story shifts as the hero is not longer suspicious and the heroine is no longer defensive.
Not the hero starts putting the moves on and the heroine starts to lighten up. She counters his “sophisticated games” by asking him to marry her. That turns lust into laughter and it’s the best part of the story as the H/h get to know each other and fall in love. This DP hero actually has a sense of humor and it made such a difference for a believable HEA.
The heroine also has several encounters with snakes (shudder) in the chicken coop, which makes her legend with the men on the ranch.
The H/h visit her father in rehab. Hero offers him a job as ranch vet, complete with house. Heroine goes back to her grind at work in Houston. But on Thanksgiving day, her only day off, the hero and her father show up for dinner. Hero has an emerald engagement ring and a sweet declaration.
The brothers plan the whole wedding down to the heroine’s wedding dress and trousseau.
The day heroine returns from her honeymoon she makes biscuits for an HEA.
This one was sweet. I appreciated the chemistry of the H/h. DP isn’t writing long involved sex scenes/second base foreplay anymore, so it was nice to see connections between the H/h in other ways.
*pretty sure dead cop’s fiancé gets her own book. Her plane was shot down in Central America as she was on her way to missionary work. Sound familiar? All the other DP cops knew the dead brother and one of them was sweet on his fiancé.
Diana Palmer checklist:
Hairy chest But of course
Breast Description perfectly formed
Cigarettes – Times are a changing: I left twelve employees sitting in the boardroom with glasses of water and no ashtrays. At least six of them smoke, despite all the regulations. I expect they’ve attacked the other six with chairs by now, or vice versa.
Alcohol – Dad is in rehab. H tells stories of bar fights. Alcohol is bad, kiddos.
Town Descriptions – Nothing new. Hospital and Gun Club have already been established
Gardenia Scent – Heroine is scent sensitive!
LOL detail – A shoutout to Boogenhagen: She pictured hitting him across the jaw with the biggest frying pan she had. It was very satisfying.
Cutesy detail – Biscuits x 10
Heroine is not in hand cuffs for long before the cop recognizes and releases her. The hero doesn’t notice, but it’s obvious the heroine is well known and respected at the hospital. Hero makes sure the heroine gets home safely, yet he misses that h is nervous because her father is an alcoholic and she’s been out quite late.
The next morning, the hero’s brother wants to thank the heroine for saving him, so hero goes to the heroine’s house and discovers that she’s been badly beaten in the face by her father. The cops come and take him away while the heroine gets patched up at the hospital. She visits the brother and meets all of the biscuit loving brothers at once. They offer her a job at the ranch baking biscuits. She accepts because she can’t work with her face messed up and it would be good to get away.
Hero is still convinced the heroine is a prostitute or a lowly domestic of some sort. And he is fighting his attraction. He also has bad blood with his younger brother (the one who got mugged) because he deliberately flirted with his former girl friend and that’s how they discovered she was a prostitute.( It’s not explained. Just go with it.) Hero is paranoid his brother has the same taste in women and that the heroine will go for him and not his cranky self.
Meanwhile the heroine is making biscuits with olive oil and talking about cholesterol and healthy food choices. DP climbs back on her hobby horse about organic food and how the brothers are getting top dollars for their happy cows.
Slowly the heroine’s backstory is revealed. She is a nurse practitioner who was sixty pounds overweight in college, but she learned to eat healthy and now she’s a babe – a virgin babe – but a babe. Her mother and cop brother* were killed in a bank robbery. Her father, a professor of veterinary medicine was eaten up by guilt and started drinking and hitting the heroine. She has been working seven days a week to make up for lost income after her father lost his job for being a drunk. She is also a sharpshooter (taught by her brother)
The youngest brother quickly learns all of this, but the hero is still hanging on to his prejudices and the heroine lets him think the worst because she’s fighting her attraction, too. When he takes her out shooting skeet, she winds up helping an elderly man having a heart attack and her cover is blown. The tone of the story shifts as the hero is not longer suspicious and the heroine is no longer defensive.
Not the hero starts putting the moves on and the heroine starts to lighten up. She counters his “sophisticated games” by asking him to marry her. That turns lust into laughter and it’s the best part of the story as the H/h get to know each other and fall in love. This DP hero actually has a sense of humor and it made such a difference for a believable HEA.
The heroine also has several encounters with snakes (shudder) in the chicken coop, which makes her legend with the men on the ranch.
The H/h visit her father in rehab. Hero offers him a job as ranch vet, complete with house. Heroine goes back to her grind at work in Houston. But on Thanksgiving day, her only day off, the hero and her father show up for dinner. Hero has an emerald engagement ring and a sweet declaration.
The brothers plan the whole wedding down to the heroine’s wedding dress and trousseau.
The day heroine returns from her honeymoon she makes biscuits for an HEA.
This one was sweet. I appreciated the chemistry of the H/h. DP isn’t writing long involved sex scenes/second base foreplay anymore, so it was nice to see connections between the H/h in other ways.
*pretty sure dead cop’s fiancé gets her own book. Her plane was shot down in Central America as she was on her way to missionary work. Sound familiar? All the other DP cops knew the dead brother and one of them was sweet on his fiancé.
Diana Palmer checklist:
Hairy chest But of course
Breast Description perfectly formed
Cigarettes – Times are a changing: I left twelve employees sitting in the boardroom with glasses of water and no ashtrays. At least six of them smoke, despite all the regulations. I expect they’ve attacked the other six with chairs by now, or vice versa.
Alcohol – Dad is in rehab. H tells stories of bar fights. Alcohol is bad, kiddos.
Town Descriptions – Nothing new. Hospital and Gun Club have already been established
Gardenia Scent – Heroine is scent sensitive!
LOL detail – A shoutout to Boogenhagen: She pictured hitting him across the jaw with the biggest frying pan she had. It was very satisfying.
Cutesy detail – Biscuits x 10
October 27, 2018
Another in the Hart brother series. DP seems to have settled down a tad with the Hart brothers as she keeps the slut-shaming and STUPID assumptions to a minimum. I said to a MINIMUM.
The heroine is dressed in a naughty girl costume (What was DP thinking), when she saves Leo, the youngest brother, from a mugging. When Rey shows up he assumes she's a prostitute because he is a DP hero, and to be fair it was a burlesque outfit. Of course, being a DP hero if she had on a Peter Pan collar or a nun's habit she would still be a Jezebel. He has bad feelings for a while despite the h being absolved by the police, his brother and, I think, the Pope. She's hired to bake biscuits on the ranch where Rey waffles between seducing her and not. Some pretty cute banter where she pretends to propose to him and he doesn't pretend to freak out. One nice point is he totally underestimates her education and career level then gets schooled.
DP's quote about the H. He was the sort of man who could have attracted women, except for his personality.
That's not good.
Banter. Biscuits. Snakes. Hidden kissing.
What can I say except the Hart brothers plan the wedding, order her dress, and her flowers. The honeymoon and seduction was very sweet which means on a scale of 1 to 10 for a DP hero he is 8.
The heroine is dressed in a naughty girl costume (What was DP thinking), when she saves Leo, the youngest brother, from a mugging. When Rey shows up he assumes she's a prostitute because he is a DP hero, and to be fair it was a burlesque outfit. Of course, being a DP hero if she had on a Peter Pan collar or a nun's habit she would still be a Jezebel. He has bad feelings for a while despite the h being absolved by the police, his brother and, I think, the Pope. She's hired to bake biscuits on the ranch where Rey waffles between seducing her and not. Some pretty cute banter where she pretends to propose to him and he doesn't pretend to freak out. One nice point is he totally underestimates her education and career level then gets schooled.
DP's quote about the H. He was the sort of man who could have attracted women, except for his personality.
That's not good.
Banter. Biscuits. Snakes. Hidden kissing.
What can I say except the Hart brothers plan the wedding, order her dress, and her flowers. The honeymoon and seduction was very sweet which means on a scale of 1 to 10 for a DP hero he is 8.
July 2, 2021
What an unusual DP...
No angst, or very low indeed.
A hero who is not a bastard SOB.
Are we sure that is a DP original????
I'm joking of course.
This was a pleasant book, the heroine saves the hero's brother from assault, she has an Halloween costume as a burlesque dancer and the hero thinks she's a hooker.
She has an alcholist father that beats her.
When the hero finds out that she's been badly hurt he offers to be his biscuit cooker (!!!!) for some time, until her father is in rehab.
The hero falls in lust with her but she's an innocent and he doesn't want marriage, so there's a very mild drama where she hears him talking with his brother and of course telling him very nasty thing about her.
All because he doesn't want his brother to know he cares for her.
He's 36 but 14 in mind.
After explanation there are some lusty moments and then the heroine go back to her life and her home, but after some weeks the hero is back with a ring and a proposal.
Sweet story with nice characters (according to DP standards)
- Cute thing about those big brothers crazy for biscuits.
- cute thing about A-Jobs and B-jobs (not those b jobs you naughty!) : a nurse is an A job, a cook is a B job
-Nice interlude with a snake.
- it was quite short or so I perceived.
- some tragic events with gory details, as usually happens to DP heroines, that must lead always a difficult life.
No angst, or very low indeed.
A hero who is not a bastard SOB.
Are we sure that is a DP original????
I'm joking of course.
This was a pleasant book, the heroine saves the hero's brother from assault, she has an Halloween costume as a burlesque dancer and the hero thinks she's a hooker.
She has an alcholist father that beats her.
When the hero finds out that she's been badly hurt he offers to be his biscuit cooker (!!!!) for some time, until her father is in rehab.
The hero falls in lust with her but she's an innocent and he doesn't want marriage, so there's a very mild drama where she hears him talking with his brother and of course telling him very nasty thing about her.
All because he doesn't want his brother to know he cares for her.
He's 36 but 14 in mind.
After explanation there are some lusty moments and then the heroine go back to her life and her home, but after some weeks the hero is back with a ring and a proposal.
Sweet story with nice characters (according to DP standards)
- Cute thing about those big brothers crazy for biscuits.
- cute thing about A-Jobs and B-jobs (not those b jobs you naughty!) : a nurse is an A job, a cook is a B job
-Nice interlude with a snake.
- it was quite short or so I perceived.
- some tragic events with gory details, as usually happens to DP heroines, that must lead always a difficult life.
April 1, 2020
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Sweet entertaining read but kinda forgettable. I enjoyed the story about his little brother Leo much more.
But it's a fun easy read.
Rey likes to jump to conclusions, especially when his bachelorhood is threatened.
Meredith is happy to let him hug his foolishness close cause he pisses her off with his stupid assumptions. He never gives her the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe he could have ignored her if she wasn't able to make awesome biscuits, lol.
Slowly the truth about her character and background is revealed and Rey loses his defensiveness.
They start to dance around each other and it's pretty cute.
Safety is good
Sweet entertaining read but kinda forgettable. I enjoyed the story about his little brother Leo much more.
But it's a fun easy read.
Rey likes to jump to conclusions, especially when his bachelorhood is threatened.
Meredith is happy to let him hug his foolishness close cause he pisses her off with his stupid assumptions. He never gives her the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe he could have ignored her if she wasn't able to make awesome biscuits, lol.
Slowly the truth about her character and background is revealed and Rey loses his defensiveness.
They start to dance around each other and it's pretty cute.
Safety is good
October 28, 2018
Not enough angst and sex after marriage at the end.
June 14, 2016
3.5 stars
December 4, 2017
2.5 Estrellas
Si te gusta Diana Palmer, su estilo y sus historias de vaqueros te va a gustar sino pasa a otra cosa.
Los personajes carecen de profundidad y son incongruentes en algunas ocasiones. Ella es una enfermera capaz de tratar situaciones límites, como infartos repentinos, sin que le tiemble el pulso pero después de tratar con una serpiente sin ningún problema se desmaya al enterarse que es venenosa y teniéndola ya bien lejos. Esto por decir un caso aunque hay más.
En general no hay mucho más que decir salvo que es una historia más de la autora, llena de malos entendidos, con un vaquero cabezota y una damisela en apuros que debería ser fuerte pero que en realidad es bastante debilucha, como todas las protagonistas que salen de la pluma de la autora quien vive atascada en un siglo pasado donde la mujer vivía por y para atender la casa y cuidar de su marido y sus hijos. Ojo, que no estoy menospreciando a las mujeres que deciden dedicar su vida a eso si así lo quieren y ahí está su felicidad pero creo que ya va siendo hora de que haya una sola protagonista femenina de la autora con una carrera y vida laboral propia, que no tenga que renunciar a ella una vez que conoce al protagonista y consigue que este quiera sentar cabeza.
Aún así seguiré leyendo a la autora. Sigue siendo mi pequeño placer culpable.
Si te gusta Diana Palmer, su estilo y sus historias de vaqueros te va a gustar sino pasa a otra cosa.
Los personajes carecen de profundidad y son incongruentes en algunas ocasiones. Ella es una enfermera capaz de tratar situaciones límites, como infartos repentinos, sin que le tiemble el pulso pero después de tratar con una serpiente sin ningún problema se desmaya al enterarse que es venenosa y teniéndola ya bien lejos. Esto por decir un caso aunque hay más.
En general no hay mucho más que decir salvo que es una historia más de la autora, llena de malos entendidos, con un vaquero cabezota y una damisela en apuros que debería ser fuerte pero que en realidad es bastante debilucha, como todas las protagonistas que salen de la pluma de la autora quien vive atascada en un siglo pasado donde la mujer vivía por y para atender la casa y cuidar de su marido y sus hijos. Ojo, que no estoy menospreciando a las mujeres que deciden dedicar su vida a eso si así lo quieren y ahí está su felicidad pero creo que ya va siendo hora de que haya una sola protagonista femenina de la autora con una carrera y vida laboral propia, que no tenga que renunciar a ella una vez que conoce al protagonista y consigue que este quiera sentar cabeza.
Aún así seguiré leyendo a la autora. Sigue siendo mi pequeño placer culpable.
April 21, 2023
3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK or decent reads.
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Relido em 20 de junho de 2016
A Man of Means (Diana Palmer)
"What do you do?" he asked curiously. "Is it house-cleaning or working as a cook in a restaurant?"
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"Rey was too prone to conclusion-jumping and rushing to judgment."
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"She has no ambition, no intellect. Besides that, she's so inexperienced, it's unreal. I never thought kissing a woman could be boring, until she came along," Rey added coldly, trying not to let Leo see how attracted he was to their housekeeper. "She's so naive, it's nauseating."
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★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚ ˛˚ ♥ 。✰˚* ˚ ★
.•°*”˜˜”*°•. ˜”*°• •°*”˜ .•°*”˜˜”*°•.
.•°*”˜Diana Palmer's Marathon, 2023˜”*°•.
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★ *˛ ˚♥* ✰。˚˛˚ ♥ 。✰˚* ˚ ★
Relido em 20 de junho de 2016
A Man of Means (Diana Palmer)
"What do you do?" he asked curiously. "Is it house-cleaning or working as a cook in a restaurant?"
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"Rey was too prone to conclusion-jumping and rushing to judgment."
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"She has no ambition, no intellect. Besides that, she's so inexperienced, it's unreal. I never thought kissing a woman could be boring, until she came along," Rey added coldly, trying not to let Leo see how attracted he was to their housekeeper. "She's so naive, it's nauseating."
February 9, 2014
Not bad but I like my heroines vulnerable and Meredith was a bit too strong and confident for my taste. She emasculated the hero and I couldn't warm up to her. Plus I needed a cute babies epilogue!
January 3, 2022
Rating:** 3 stars**
Meredith was the first DP FL I read who wasn't the typical doormat with a serious or naive disposition. Not that she stood out much either cause she forgave Rey easily for his harsh words still much better than others in my estimate. I loved her playful and teasing banter with Rey
Rey was an angel in comparison to to other DP ML's still was annoying none the less like his weird obsession with FL's career and looking down on women who are domestic??!! As soon as he came to know she was a professional health care worker the man suddenly wants to be involved with her when previously on assuming she was doing a menial job he was reluctant in starting anything...What a judgemental ass
P.S: What's with DP's obsession with mentioning professional health worker 5-10 times in a story like the FL was some unicorn and the world never saw something this amazing before.
Meredith was the first DP FL I read who wasn't the typical doormat with a serious or naive disposition. Not that she stood out much either cause she forgave Rey easily for his harsh words still much better than others in my estimate. I loved her playful and teasing banter with Rey
Rey was an angel in comparison to to other DP ML's still was annoying none the less like his weird obsession with FL's career and looking down on women who are domestic??!! As soon as he came to know she was a professional health care worker the man suddenly wants to be involved with her when previously on assuming she was doing a menial job he was reluctant in starting anything...What a judgemental ass
P.S: What's with DP's obsession with mentioning professional health worker 5-10 times in a story like the FL was some unicorn and the world never saw something this amazing before.
January 14, 2012
Meredith Johns agrees to go to a Halloween party, against her better judgement, hoping to have a fun night in what has been a long time. Instead she ends up finding a man in the middle of a mugging and rescuing him, promising to stay by his side as he is sent to the hospital.
With one glance Rey Hart has decided the woman in front of him, is a streetwalker and thief. Allowing no room for her to explain, he has her carted off to jail as he watches his brother remain unconsciously from a blow to the head. Rey is about to swallow some pride, when his brother Leo hires Meredith to cook their coveted biscuits while she recovers from her own injuries. Everything about Meredith is driving him crazy, her intellect is unparalleled, her spunk a perfect match for him, and every time he thinks he has figured her out, she does something to catch him off guard. Rey he has no desire to marry and he knows an Innocent when he sees it, but he can't seem to keep his hands, lips, and desires to himself when she is around.
I liked this one a lot, he is not as mean as some of Diana Palmer's characters can be. Also love the addiction to biscuits, such a small thing but brings a lot of laughs.
With one glance Rey Hart has decided the woman in front of him, is a streetwalker and thief. Allowing no room for her to explain, he has her carted off to jail as he watches his brother remain unconsciously from a blow to the head. Rey is about to swallow some pride, when his brother Leo hires Meredith to cook their coveted biscuits while she recovers from her own injuries. Everything about Meredith is driving him crazy, her intellect is unparalleled, her spunk a perfect match for him, and every time he thinks he has figured her out, she does something to catch him off guard. Rey he has no desire to marry and he knows an Innocent when he sees it, but he can't seem to keep his hands, lips, and desires to himself when she is around.
I liked this one a lot, he is not as mean as some of Diana Palmer's characters can be. Also love the addiction to biscuits, such a small thing but brings a lot of laughs.
August 21, 2021
Cuando una piensa que los Hart son buenos hombres, y además dan buenos consejos en las demás historias, pero cuando la historia es la de ellos mismos, te das unos chascos totales, sip...
June 23, 2021
Book 4 of the Hart brothers. One more brother to go after this, and I will be done with the biscuit brothers. I love DP(guilty pleasure) but 4 books in 2 days of just DP and I need a cleanser book soon. Too many reviews in a short span of time, so I am going to refer to Stmargarets review again as she also includes a checklist.
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This may be more of a 3 star for me, but I really liked the heroine. The story itself was lower on the angst scale. Of course our hero Rey liked to jump to conclusions on a regular basis. Then to downplay his attraction for the h he was caught bad mouthing her to his brother. Our little heroines are really stealthy, they often hear about themselves accidentally(as they carry empty water glasses with them everywhere and hold them to the wall). Then they turn on the cold chill which really stumps and riles our H’s into action. Overall, Rey was a pretty caring guy when he wasn’t trying so hard to fight his attraction for the h. I like how the h in the story likes to sit back and watch the H make assumption after assumption. She could easily clear things up for him, but what’s the fun in that. There is also a lot of playfulness between them. They basically share their feelings under a guise of “just kidding”.
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This may be more of a 3 star for me, but I really liked the heroine. The story itself was lower on the angst scale. Of course our hero Rey liked to jump to conclusions on a regular basis. Then to downplay his attraction for the h he was caught bad mouthing her to his brother. Our little heroines are really stealthy, they often hear about themselves accidentally(as they carry empty water glasses with them everywhere and hold them to the wall). Then they turn on the cold chill which really stumps and riles our H’s into action. Overall, Rey was a pretty caring guy when he wasn’t trying so hard to fight his attraction for the h. I like how the h in the story likes to sit back and watch the H make assumption after assumption. She could easily clear things up for him, but what’s the fun in that. There is also a lot of playfulness between them. They basically share their feelings under a guise of “just kidding”.
February 24, 2018
Seperti yang dikatakan Leo, Rey itu cepat menarik kesimpulan (yg buruk) & cenderung menghakimi. Begitupula perlakuan Rey ke Meredith tetapi seperti biasa novel2 DP, setelah menerima kata2 nyelekit dari Rey tetap saja Meredith klepek2 kalau dirayu Rey fiuhhh. Romance-nya biasaaa banget, tidak ada greget2nya.
2,4🌟
2,4🌟
May 26, 2025
#82 - 2025
Genre: Harlequin Romance, Cowboy
Genre: Harlequin Romance, Cowboy
October 1, 2008
I like The banter between the H/H. At times it was very funny. Rey kept misjudging Meredith. I now have to search out Leo's story... I hope she saw fit to give him one. I'd like to see where she takes his story.
August 22, 2023
H was rude to h at first, even look down on her, misunderstood her as a call girl, then thought she only had high school diploma, etc. Gradually, they got to know each other and build up their relationship.
October 2, 2014
I really loved and enjoyed this story so much!
August 4, 2015
Rating: 4.5 stars.
I loved that Meredith used to be fat and that she worked hard to lose the weight! And I especially love the Hart Brothers and their biscuit mania.
I loved that Meredith used to be fat and that she worked hard to lose the weight! And I especially love the Hart Brothers and their biscuit mania.
August 25, 2017
Esta mujer siempre me produce esa sensación de amor - odio en sus libros. Debe ser que soy masoca.
December 5, 2017
Esta es la historia de Rey y Meredith. No es un instalove, el sentimiento va naciendo de forma lenta entre los dos. Fue entretenida y rápida de leer.
May 8, 2018
Disfruté de esta historia con todo y el obtuso Rey y la no siempre entendible Meredith. Mea culpa.
March 15, 2018
I don't know what it is about this particular series that draws me in. Perhaps it's the biscuit crazy brothers and their odd ways or the hilarity that ensues when they play matchmaker, I'm not sure.
"A Man of Means" is about Rey and Meredith, and when I began my adventure into their world, seeing as how three of the brothers were already married, leaving only Rey and Leo as confirmed bachelors, I realized I was in for a treat.
I enjoyed Rey in the previous novels about Cag, Callaghan, and Simon, but at the beginning of this one, I found him slightly off. I did enjoy how protective he was over her when her father got on a drinking binge and hit her, and he offered to take her home while her father sought help, seeing as how she saved Leo early on. No, I won't go into details, but I will say that Rey's thinking of Meredith as, basically, an idiot and money grubber was full of misjudgment. He does get put in his place later when Meredith finally shows what she is capable of, and Rey realizes how perfectly she does fit into his life.
Their chemistry is sizzling and so full of fun that I have read this book at least twice in one week. Leo, the youngest of the Hart brothers, is always a hoot, and the ending had me laughing so hard I couldn't sit straight!
A wonderful addition to the Long Tall Texans and to the Hart brothers! Love Rey and Meredith!
"A Man of Means" is about Rey and Meredith, and when I began my adventure into their world, seeing as how three of the brothers were already married, leaving only Rey and Leo as confirmed bachelors, I realized I was in for a treat.
I enjoyed Rey in the previous novels about Cag, Callaghan, and Simon, but at the beginning of this one, I found him slightly off. I did enjoy how protective he was over her when her father got on a drinking binge and hit her, and he offered to take her home while her father sought help, seeing as how she saved Leo early on. No, I won't go into details, but I will say that Rey's thinking of Meredith as, basically, an idiot and money grubber was full of misjudgment. He does get put in his place later when Meredith finally shows what she is capable of, and Rey realizes how perfectly she does fit into his life.
Their chemistry is sizzling and so full of fun that I have read this book at least twice in one week. Leo, the youngest of the Hart brothers, is always a hoot, and the ending had me laughing so hard I couldn't sit straight!
A wonderful addition to the Long Tall Texans and to the Hart brothers! Love Rey and Meredith!
March 31, 2020
Diana Palmer is my go to on a cloudy, rainy day. Rey is alpha male with an attitude, lack of trust and a willingness to jump to conclusions (that are usually wrong). He is part of a loving sibling group that love and protect each other. They are all hard workers and have no trouble attracting females even if they do not trust them.
Enter the h: educated, feisty, and caught in a bad situation at home. After attending a Halloween party in a very revealing costume, she saves one brother only to be accused by the other of the crime. Following an incident with her father, she needs a place to heal and the saved brother is so appreciative that he offers her their ranch. Naturally sparks between the accuser and the h ultimately result in love and an HEA-after the snake, a heart attack, and biscuits.
Enter the h: educated, feisty, and caught in a bad situation at home. After attending a Halloween party in a very revealing costume, she saves one brother only to be accused by the other of the crime. Following an incident with her father, she needs a place to heal and the saved brother is so appreciative that he offers her their ranch. Naturally sparks between the accuser and the h ultimately result in love and an HEA-after the snake, a heart attack, and biscuits.
July 11, 2018
Rey and Meredith meet when she saves his younger brother, Leo, when he is attacked. Rey however doesn't believe the good Samaritan performance, beliving her responsible for his brother's condition ( he is unconscious from a blow to the head )and calls the police that takes poor Meredith to prison. She is a nurse dealing with her own problems. Mainly, her dad. Not been able to cope with the death of her son and wife, he drinks and abuses her daughter, which lands her in hospital. Rey doesn't understand this uncomfortable feelings for Meredith but he knows he is a bachelor and will remain one! Or will he?! Very enjoyable read and I highly recommend
February 7, 2019
Bagus, latar cerita sampai gaya bahasanya nyaman, nggak bertele-tele, dan karakter tiap tokohnya juga kuat. Paling suka sama Leo Hart walau dia support cast, hidup aja kalau ada dia. Terua latar pekerjaan Meredith juga keren sih, perawat spesialisasi ilmu nutrisi, S-2 lagi. Penggambaran Rey aja yang kurang detail. Sebenarnya dia layak dikagumi karena lulusan Harvard, tetapi dia tetep kaya raya karena juragan sapi. Wkwk
February 2, 2022
A Man of Means? More like a Man who IS Mean. The hero was cruel and demeaning and is the kind of man the hero in a book is usually saving a woman from. I know he was lied to and hurt in the past by a woman but that in no way gives him the right to be so awful to her. Towards the end there was some great humorous banter that I wish would have been throughout the whole book instead of just the end. It might have changed how I perceived the hero to be and would have made the book so much better.
July 31, 2024
Pretty decent book! Didn’t read like a typical DP book! The H was gruff but not really mean. One scene was a little tough. But otherwise H was a DP gem! Heroine was lovely! Spirted and strong and independent!
Definitely recommend this read!
Definitely recommend this read!
August 29, 2024
1.75⭐️’s
‘‘𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓶𝓮 𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓘 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 𝓘’𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴.’’
Tropes:
🤍 Forced Proximity
🤍 Boss X Employee
🤍 Small-town
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‘‘𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓶𝓮 𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓘 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 𝓘’𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴.’’
Tropes:
🤍 Forced Proximity
🤍 Boss X Employee
🤍 Small-town
⚠️Please check for triggers before proceeding to read⚠️
September 23, 2025
Baru baca series Hart yang ini jadi belum bisa bandingin sama yang lain. Tapi ceritanya bagus, cukup ringan. Suka banget sama cerita kek gini cowok angkuh, dingin yang akhirnya bertekuk lutut sama wanita.
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