Catherine Anderson, Author Avon Books $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-380-79937-4
Anderson's newest contemporary romance (after Simply Love) begins with a rescue: vagabond Rafe Kendrick prevents Maggie Stanley from being raped by boxcar bums. Saving Maggie and her baby gives Rafe's life meaning again, and he decides he'll do...
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Catherine Anderson, Author Signet Book $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-451-20794-4
The characters and plot twists in Only by Your Touch, Catherine Anderson's newest contemporary romance (after Always in My Heart), may feel familiar to the author's fans, but this by-the-numbers tale still possesses poignancy and charm. ...
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Catherine Anderson, Author HarperTorch $5.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-108060-9
Kate Blakely is trying to hold together a farm in Oregon near the turn of the century after her husband's reported drowning. Kate wishes she could erase the memory of his abusive behavior towards both herself and her traumatized four-year-old...
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Catherine Anderson. Signet, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-23948-8
Anderson’s fourth Harrigan Family romance (after Here to Stay) adds a supernatural twist to the sweet contemporary. Ceara O’Ceallaigh, a druid from 1574, travels forward in time to end an ancient curse on the Harrigan clan. A virgin daughter of the...
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Catherine Anderson, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-79936-7
Using narrative heavy with Larry McMurtry-style jargon, Anderson (Simply Love; Forever After) blends the crusty ambience of a cattle drive through New Mexico with the sensitively written shock of a young girl's trauma after she witnesses the brutal...
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Catherine Anderson. Signet, $7.99 ISBN 978-0-451-41834-0
Anderson’s series launch, set in Mystic Creek, Ore., recovers quickly from a sappy beginning where the heroine details her misery on strips of pink paper that she tosses to the wind outside her inadequate home. Plucky Amanda Banning and her daughter,
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Catherine Anderson. Signet, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-41835-7
Anderson returns to Mystic Creek with an uneven contemporary romance that’s disappointingly similar in plot to the first book in the series, Silver Thaw. Mystic Creek is a warm and friendly town in the Pacific Northwest, and among its most prominent
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Catherine Anderson. Berkley, $19 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-58631-6
Anderson (the Mystic Creek series) strikes a vein of romance gold with this tender contemporary tale of two feuding Montana families, the McLendons and the Conachers. Crotchety rancher Sam Conacher refuses to let his 26-year-old daughter, Kirstin,...
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Catherine Anderson. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-58634-7
Anderson’s fourth Mystic Creek contemporary makes good use of its lengthy word count as it explores the familial connection and separate love lives of Crystal Malloy and her grandfather, Tuck Malloy. Tuck’s friend Tanner Richards, a handsome single...
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Onyx $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-40989-8
Anderson (Baby Love, etc.) departs from traditional romantic stereotypes in this poignant, contemporary tale of a love that transcends all boundaries. Handsome rancher and reputed rake Ryan Kendrick and the beautiful paraplegic Bethany Coulter seem...
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Catherine Anderson, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-79102-6
Luke Taggart is bored. He's made his fortune in the Colorado gold mines and bought the best of everything, including women. But lately his life is like a glass of ale left out overnight-flat, with all the fizz gone. He longs for the warmth and...
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Catherine Anderson, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-77962-8
Seldom have the themes of trust and forgiveness been so well treated as they are in Anderson's (Annie's Song) latest. Ace Keegan, a legendary gunman, comes home to No Name, Colo., to avenge his murdered stepfather and learns that the killer's...
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Signet $7.99 (422p) ISBN 978-0-451-22277-0
Crusty Clint Harrigan (of the same Harrigan clan as Anderson’s Sun Kissed
), is, at 37, a Catholic cowboy who’s sworn off romance. The arrival of a cute Catholic clairvoyant in his hometown of Crystal Falls, Ore., challenges his resolve...
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Signet $7.99 (418p) ISBN 978-0-451-21895-7
One need not be an equine lover to appreciate Anderson's sweet contemporary romance centering on fiercely honest horse rancher Samantha Harrigan and handsome neophyte veterinarian Tucker Coulter, who meet while trying to protect a horse from its
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Signet $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-21380-8
Bestseller Anderson combines romance with a touch of suspense in the somewhat predictable fifth installment of her Coulter family series (after Bright Eyes
). Veterinarian Isaiah Coulter agrees to hire Laura Townsend as a kennel keeper at his clinic
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Signet $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-21216-0
Former rodeo star Zeke Coulter falls head-over-spurs in love with a talented single mom in Anderson's latest Coulter Family romance (following Blue Skies
). The story starts out when Zeke discovers that his house has been vandalized. He chases...
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Signet $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-21075-3
Anderson (Sweet Nothings
, etc.) again explores the ways in which a physical disability can impact a relationship in this moving contemporary romance, set in picaresque Crystal Falls, Ore. Blind since birth, Carly Adams is celebrating the surgical...
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Signet $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-20666-4
Anderson's newest contemporary romance (after Sweet Nothings) is a maudlin, predictable story that could have been told in half the time it takes here. After their third son dies in a motorcycle accident, Ellie and Tucker Grant drive each other...
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Catherine Anderson, Author . Onyx $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-451-41015-3
Pick a romance cliché and you're sure to find it in this lengthy, formulaic offering from one of the genre's veteran writers. After Molly Wells steals a badly abused race horse from her nasty ex-husband Rodney, she takes the animal to...
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Catherine Anderson, Author, Robinson, Author Avon Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-380-79104-0
Unfortunately, a really good book often brings pressure on a writer to produce another--and quickly. It's usually a formula for failure and seems to be what happened with Anderson's latest (after Simply Love). The author seems obsessed with the...
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Catherine Anderson. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (560p) ISBN 978-0-399-58638-5
The tedious sixth book in Anderson’s Mystic Creek series (after Strawberry Hill) splits focus between three separate but connected love stories without fully developing any of them. Mystic Creek, Ore., sheriff’s deputy Erin De Laney has been...
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