Bring the Ring

By Janet Dailey

Book Overview

Remember, true love isn't just for fairy tales . . . Summer Mahogany That summer in Maine seems like yesterday . . . and Gina Gaynes was only eighteen when Rhyder Owens kissed her for the first time. Ten years later, he just kissed her again. Is it the moonlight or is it the man? The magic is definitely back. True love never really goes away--and sometimes you never see it coming Valley Of The Vapors Date? Tisha Caldwell would like to know what that means. Seems like every single guy in Arkansas defines a date as an afternoon of rooting for the Razorbacks. Hello, Roarke Madison. The sexy exec is the personification of smooth. Dinner at eight? Tisha couldn't say no . . . even if she wanted to.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420134477
• ISBN13: 9781420134476
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Zebra
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Five stars for the old books

These are revised and recycled books from the halcyon days of light romance, when Janet Dailey was queen. After gothic paperback novels and nurse-loves-doctor books fell out of favor, the new genre of choice was the light romance. The formula always included a heroine who was young and virginal, and a hero who was rich and had a first name of one strong syllable, like Roarke, Clay, Bret, or Judd. There was plenty of sexual tension, but the sex itself usually happened after the closing chapter, and one had to use ones imagination, which worked well at the time. If you wanted steam, the historical novel was making its debut, with Rosemary Rogers at the head of the pack. The story went at the time (1970s and early '80s) that Janet Dailey and her husband, Bill, had sold their construction company, bought a recreational vehicle and taken off to see the country. To pass the time, she read the new light romance paperbacks and developed a really bad opinion of the writing. She made the comment that she could write a better one, and her husband told her to prove it. After that, she whipped out some of the most popular, eagerly anticipated romance novels of the decade. She did it at a rate of about one every month or two, if you can believe that, and she used different states of the US in each one, eventually hoping to have one book showcasing each state. I don't know if she ended up with 50 books or not, before she took off on the Calder series and other projects, but I know I was usually waiting at the book store for them to unpack her latest. I wouldn't mind seeing all of Ms. Dailey's books reprinted in their original form, but I think a partially updated version is neither here nor there, and loses too much in the "translation". You can throw in as many references to computers and cell phones and career women as you want but, despite Janet's considerable talent as a writer, the attitudes and action in her old books are fairly dated. That's just my personal opinion. I thought these revamped books would be very puzzling to anyone under 40 or 50, but I see that some readers are finding the strong male character and the understated sex to be refreshing. Glad to hear it - maybe Janet will write some new books in her classic "old" style!