The Forgotten Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Kara Lennox (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373750560
• ISBN-13: 978-0373750566
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,021,096 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kara Lennox (a.k.a. Karen Leabo) published her first book when she was in the eighth grade. She wrote a children's book as a class assignment, then convinced her yearbook publisher to print up bound copies, which she distributed herself to friends, relatives and neighbors. Though this was hardly a high-profit venture, the urge to see her work in print never deserted her.

Kara began her first novel in college, a truly awful gothic that was best left in a drawer. Then graduation, finding a job, marriage and moving cross-country got in the way. She toiled in anonymity for the Texas Society of CPAs, writing brochures for their continuing education program. Naturally, with such scintillating subject matter to occupy her days, her imagination ran wild at night, and soon she was working on her second novel.

The horrible first job gave way to an even worse second job (writing insurance policies in plain English) and a third. But she never completely lost sight of the dream of earning her living as a writer--a real writer, with a byline.

She worked several years as a nonfiction magazine writer with hundreds of articles to her credit. She would get up at five every morning to work two hours on her novels before tackling her various freelance jobs. Three years and five novels later, Kara sold her first book, Roses Have Thorns (by Karen Leabo) to Silhouette Romance.

Determined to earn a living as a novelist, Kara focused relentlessly on her goal to sell at least three books per year (the minimum she figured she could live on). And during the past fifteen-plus years, that's exactly what she's done (if you average things out!). Writing has always been her priority, and in sixty-plus books, she has missed only two deadlines (both only by a few days).

Kara has written for seven different category lines (for Harlequin, Silhouette and Bantam Loveswept). In addition, she's written ten screenplays (three of which have been optioned, none produced, alas) and numerous novels and proposals that haven't sold (yet). She also blogs, tweets and spends way too much time on Facebook. The blank page doesn't frighten her.

Kara's books have finaled in several romance industry contests including the National Readers' Choice Awards, the Holt Medallion competition and the Rita. Her Harlequin American PLAIN JANE'S PLAN won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice.

Currently Kara writes a romantic suspense series for Harlequin Super Romance, PROJECT JUSTICE. She lives in a 105-year-old fixer-upper Victorian house in California with her husband Rob, also a writer, and various pets. When she is not writing, she enjoys an ever-changing array of activities that currently includes bicycling, yoga, mosaic-making and selling vintage jewelry online.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lennox's strongest Harlequin American yet!, December 3, 2004

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This review is from: The Forgotten Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

When she wakes up from a car accident, Willow Marsden discovers that she has a form of amnesia that makes her unable to recognize familiar things--like well-known faces. She still has all of her memories, like the way too-handsome cowboy Cal Chandler ruined her life, but she doesn't remember exactly what Cal looked like. When she meets a handsome man at a wedding, he sweeps her off her feet, charming her, kissing her, and asking her out on a date. He knows her, but she can't even begin to guess who this mysterious man might be. Still, anyone would be better than Cal--and now that her dreams of becoming a doctor are on the rocks (a doctor who couldn't recognize things, like lungs or hearts, would be a hazard), she needs to think about what else to do with her life.

Cal Chandler has always loved Willow. But since her parents caught them in the act of making love, Willow has cut him out of her life, blaming him for her parents' decision not to let her go away to college. He's elated when she smiles at him, seems to enjoy being with him, actually kisses him, after years of rejecting him. When he finds that she's kissing a stranger and still thinks of him as her nemesis, he's shaken. Still, he won't stop until he explores the fascination. And now that Willow has to give up on her dreams of being a doctor, maybe she'll have time to make his dreams come true.

Willow and Cal explore the passions that each has kept smoldering for years, and Willow helps Cal develop his business dream--working with difficult horses and other animals to help them adjust to their lives. He's helping Willow adjust to her life too--until everything changes and he realizes that she is giving up her dreams to let him pursue his own. Dreams are important. Can a love, however strong, survive if it is based on one of the lovers giving up everything she has built her life around?

Author Kara Lennox weaves an emotional story that explores important issues of relationships and dreams. Lennox makes both characters sympathetic, and their relationship powerful. Because with each step toward deepening the relationship. the fundamental conflict between their goals becomes more clear. In THE FORGOTTEN COWBOY, Lennox may have her strongest Harlequin American yet!