Texas Hold Him

by Lisa Cooke

To save her family from ruin, a Southern belle appeals to a high-stakes gambler to teach her poker, but he's more interested in giving her lessons in love. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843962542
• ISBN13: 9780843962543
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Great First Novel from Lisa Cooke

This is Lisa Cooke's debut novel, and what a hit! It has humor and intrigue. I have always been attracted to this period in our history, so that was a plus. But this was a terrific read regardless of the period. I am looking forward to other works by Lisa Cooke, I am definitely a fan!

A Royal Flush

Lisa Cooke provides a fresh new voice in the western historical romance fiction genre. What's not to like about a wide-eyed innocent with more gumption than sense and a sauve riverboat gambler with an honorable steak wider than the Mississippi River? Ms Cooke seamlessly blends historical detail, romance and humor with Poker lessons. I thoroughly enjoyed this fast-paced, romantic, humorous tale.

I loved this book!

This book really transported me from my everyday life to a world of excitement, enchantment, and energy. The strong ornery character of Dyer Straights made me eager to see what would happen between him and the beautiful innocent Lottie Mace. This book kept me guessing and most importantly made me believe in the power of love. Ms. Cooke has a real winner on her hands. I can't wait for Cooke's next book!

wonderful Post Civil War game of chance

In 1870 in New Orleans, Dyer Straights is one of the city's best cardsharps and almost as famous for his skill with the ladies. However, gambling and women are not his passion; he lives for one thing: vengeance. Southern belle Lottie Mason is in desperate need of money in order to keep her sick father out of prison. She enters a riverboat card tournament expecting to win though she has no idea how to play. She asks Dyer for some lesions. He has no time for a loser even one so beautiful so he asks for payment of her sleeping with him for tutoring lessons. He assumes she will flee back to whatever haven or hovel she has left; but she shocks him by calling his bluff. TEXAS HOLD HIM is an enjoyable lighthearted historical frolic due mostly to the antics of Lottie and the reactions to her exploits by Dyer; the interaction between them sort of reminded this reviewer of Solo and Leia (Episode IV). Poker is a metaphor for their relationship as the ante is the heart, bluffs are tried, countered, and called, and a royal flush straight cannot trump their strange romance. Lisa Cooke writes a wonderful Post Civil War game of chance in which the stakes are love and broken hearts. Harriet Klausner