This is a powerful story! The characters are well defined, the story flows well and the sexual tension was certainly all there just like it should be in a romance. I loved every minute of this book. I think Elaine did a great job with Mandy's emotional state .... It certainly takes a very strong person to come back after an accident like that and Elaine got it ALL right!
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This is a powerful story! The characters are well defined, the story flows well and the sexual tension was certainly all there just like it should be in a romance. I loved every minute of this book. I think Elaine did a great job with Mandy's emotional state after her leg is amputated. It certainly takes a very strong person to come back after an accident like that and Elaine got it ALL right!
IMPRESSIVE DEBUT!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Elaine Nichols is an author to watch, judging from her first release. What a powerful story! She writes about an amputee without resorting to clichés or predictable dialogue. The reunion romance is believable and keeps you rooting for the couple. I'm impressed with the blend of romance and women's fiction in what used to be cookie-cutter category stories. I'll be reading more Silhouette Special Editions if they deliver stories like this one.
Cowgirl Be Mine
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I don't often read category romance. Why? It's gotten the reputation for a cookie-cutter sameness. But not Elaine Nichols' Cowgirl Be Mine. In this book, the heroine Mandy Thomson breaks all the rules. She's a rodeo star who do to an accident loses a leg and ends-up in a wheelchair.What's great about Mandy is that once she's injuried most people can identify with her. I fear few of us would initially look inward and accept what's happened. We'd rant and rail, feel anger and a sense of loss, and most importantly a desire not to leave the wheelchair until we could walk on our new leg perfectly; all the emotions Mandy must deal with.The hero Jake is not only a man we'd all want at our sides if we found our lives turned upside down, but he's also a man who must fight has his own demons.Together, Mandy and Jake make a wonderful couple. Mandy's lightness of spirit is a perfect foil for Jake's seriousness. Yet it's this serious hero who shows Mandy you don't have to be perfect to walk or love.Thank you, Elaine for giving us a book about real people, ones who will stay will us for a long time.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Six seconds . . . that is all the time it had taken for Mandy Thomson's life to be turned upside down. The last face she remembered seeing was the man she had left her heart with ten years ago, Jake Miller. Suddenly she is involved in a freak rodeo accident that results in her right leg being amputated. Faced with the painful recovery of trying to adjust to the countless changes her disability presents she is unprepared for her building feelings for Jake. Will she have what it takes to win back her dream of going back to the rodeo? Or will her path lead to something she never anticipated?Jake Miller had loved Mandy Thomson ever since he was nineteen years old. It had been ten years since Mandy walked out of his life by choosing the rodeo over the love he offered her. Learning Mandy will be present at a local rodeo he decides to go and say a last final farewell. He is unprepared to see Mandy involved in a horrific accident. Being by her side as the paramedics rescue her still form from underneath a lifeless bull makes him realize his love still holds strong. Intent on aiding Mandy in her recovery he offers her a safe haven until she is able to cope with her dilemma. Having Mandy under the same roof heightens his awareness for all that he lost. Will he have a second chance at love or will he lose his heart completely to a woman married to the rodeo?Elaine Nichols COWGIRL BE MINE captures readers attention from page one. With descriptive language readers will be able to experience the pain and suffering of the heroine. With elements such as heartwarming, highly emotional and powerfully uplifting you cannot afford to miss out on this one.
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