Cowboy's Caress (A Ranching Family) (Silhouette Special Edition No. 1311) (Special Edition, 1311) [Paperback]

Victoria Pade (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373243111
• ISBN-13: 978-0373243112
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,162,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New doc in town heals a heart, May 15, 2000

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Terri O'Hanlon (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowboy's Caress (A Ranching Family) (Silhouette Special Edition No. 1311) (Special Edition, 1311) (Paperback)

With the world waiting to welcome her, Carly says goodbye to her friends, expecting to immediately leave the town where she has spent her entire life. She has already rented her house to the new doctor and his young daughter expected to arrive the day she is scheduled to leave town. He's a citified cowboy doctor with family connections in Elk Creek. It's the time in his life when he can appreciate the small town Carly wants to leave. He has taken the job as the town's only doctor when the doctor who had been there for generations, Carly's father, passed away. But Bax has bitten off a lot to chew when Carly injures her ankle and cannot leave town. Their living arrangements place them in close proximity and they spend their energy stubbornly denying their strong immediate mutual attraction. Carly is invaluable to Bax, giving him information about the townspeople and their quirks and he joins everyone else in town who want to talk her into staying. Her wanderlust is so strong that, even after they acknowledge their feelings to each other, she is still compelled to leave. Bax's solution is a good one, but she remembers her ex-fiance's reaction being similar and revolts. As soon as her ankle is healed, she's leaving, and that's that. Wrong.

Nice storyline, but the narrative about their attraction and how they fought it was so repetitive, by the time they got together, I was almost past caring. Without the unnecessary and repetitive sexual tension, the book would be half as long. We got the point in Chapter Two.

Character development was scarce, not only with the main characters, but definitely with the secondary characters. I had to go back to the beginning and find the passage that explained some family relationships. The writing lacked meat to it; the author missed some obvious chances to make the town and the people more interesting.

Worth a read anyway.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy's Caress, March 28, 2000

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Roberta Cypert - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowboy's Caress (A Ranching Family) (Silhouette Special Edition No. 1311) (Special Edition, 1311) (Paperback)

The story of a yound woman who lives in a very small western town and wants to "SEE THE WORLD". She hurts he ankle at the Bon Voyage party and has to delay departure. Tall, sexy and handsome arrives to move into her empty (but not empty)house. He tempts her to stay and her fears of being trapped in one place forever scares her to death. I enjoyed watching her fight her fears and the hero try to convice her that she could have it all. She could travel and still have love.