Daddy Lessons (Harlequin American Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Victoria Chancellor (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (January 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373751028
• ISBN-13: 978-0373751020
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,778,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Victoria Chancellor grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, but married a Texan and moved west in 1971. She now lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas with her husband and a menagerie of animals, and spends weekends on Lake Holbrook in Mineola, Texas. While working as a financial analyst at EDS, she sold her first book, a historical romance, on proposal to Harper-Collins. She then sold a contemporary romance, quit her "day job," and began writing paranormal romances. As of 2011 she has 22 published romances. National awards include the HOLT Medallion and the Golden Quill for Best Paranormal Romance, and she is also a two-time Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Finalist. Her books have appeared on the Ingrams Top 50 list and the Waldenbooks bestseller list.

Her current "Brody's Crossing" series for Harlequin American Romance consists of six (as of 2011) contemporary romances set in a fictional west Texas town. Before the Brody's Crossing books, she wrote series romance set in the fictional Texas Hill Country town of Ranger Springs. Her native-Texan in-laws influenced her writing career by telling wonderful stories of their years in small towns. Victoria may be contacted via her website and an author page coming soon to Facebook, or @victoriachance on Twitter.

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4.0 out of 5 stars fine family drama, January 14, 2006

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This review is from: Daddy Lessons (Harlequin American Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Having divorced her womanizing spouse Ed, elementary school teacher Kate Wooden returns to Ranger Springs, Texas with her six year old son Eddie to be close to her Aunt Jodie and her brother Travis and his family since her son's dad abandoned the lad. Former Hollywood animal trainer stuntman Luke Simon has retired from the movies to settle in the ranch next door to that of Kate. He plans to establish a retirement home for aging performing animals even though some are a bit cantankerous.

Eddie keeps sneaking off to see the animals like the zebras next door. Surprisingly Luke is very patient with the boy. However, he soon has a big shock to cope with when a man insisting he was the brother to the late Shawna Jacobs informs him that his tryst with the deceased nine years ago led to a daughter Brittany. He is determined to create a home for Brittany, but has two weeks to learn how to be a father; Kate gives him lessons. Neither of the adults is prepared for how much their respective youngsters need same sex parenting and even less ready for how much in love with one another they become.

DADDY LESSONS is a fine family drama in which the romance comes later as the problems of rejection and abandonment place the two kids on the front burner. The quartet struggles with issues that are outside the scope of opposite sex parenting as Eddie needs a male in his life after his father left him and Brittany likewise a female after the death of her mother. The romance between Kate and Luke is sweet, but it is the needs of the children that drive this fine contemporary.

Harriet Klausner