A Hero's Kiss: The Founding Father/Wild West Wager/Snow Maiden [Mass Market Paperback]

Diana Palmer (Author), Judith Stacy (Author), Mary Burton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2003

For over a decade, New York Times bestselling author
Diana Palmer
has won fans' hearts worldwide with her tantalizing Long, Tall Texans tales! Now as a special holiday treat, this treasured storyteller brings you the story of how it all began.

The Founding Father by Diana Palmer
Discover how legends were made when Jacobsville founding father Big John Jacobs weds the daughter of a prosperous railroad tycoon! Will passion blaze when this fortune-seeking Long, Tall Texan brands his sweetly unassuming wife with his soul-searing kisses?

And from beloved Harlequin Historical authors Judith Stacy and Mary Burton

Wild West Wager by Judith Stacy
Rebecca Merriweather comes west to rural Colorado, only to alienate all eligible men in town! Now the "prim and proper" spinster must sweet-talk a devilishly handsome saloon owner into a most disreputable dalliance . . . .

Snow Maiden by Mary Burton
Dashing real estate magnate Adam Richmond is bah Humbugging his way through the holidays when he is driven to distraction by Russian beauty Sophia Petrovnova. Are Yuletide wedding bells about to ring?

Join them for A Hero's Kiss a brand-new collection from Harlequin Books!

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin; 3-in-1 edition (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373835620
• ISBN-13: 978-0373835621
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,186,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A Central Virginia native whose family's Richmond roots run as deep as the nation's, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton graduated from Virginia's Hollins University and began a career in marketing. After a decade she left her job and began writing. Her first novel, a romance, was published in 2000.

Following that book, Burton wrote sixteen novels and novellas for Harlequin and Silhouette before entering the dark world of multiple murderers and their motives with Senseless, Merciless, Dying Scream, Dead Ringer and I'm Watching You, as well as her novella Christmas Past, which appears in the 2008 New York Times bestselling holiday anthology Silver Bells.

Her commitment to realism has led to eye-opening interviews with law enforcement, to forensic seminars and to the firing range. She is a graduate of the Henrico County Citizens Police Academy and the Richmond FBI Citizen's Academy, and has participated in Sisters in Crime's Forensic University program. Recently, she attended the Writers Police Academy in Jamestown, North Carolina. There she attended seminars on autopsies, undercover work and the motives behind murder.

Mary Burton is an avid baker and an accomplished cook. When not writing, researching or baking, Mary practices yoga, enjoys her miniature dachshunds Buddy and Bella, volunteers at the University of Richmond's Culinary Arts Program, attends professional conferences, and visits with readers and booksellers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Hero's Kiss, January 7, 2004

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Nancy Compton (Boise, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Hero's Kiss: The Founding Father/Wild West Wager/Snow Maiden (Mass Market Paperback)

Pleasant stories and a fun read, but not dynamic. I will donate this book to the library.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yawn!!!, December 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: A Hero's Kiss: The Founding Father/Wild West Wager/Snow Maiden (Mass Market Paperback)

In Diana Palmers story The Founding Father I made myself finish it. There was no passion (very dull and ugly people).Diana's stories are usually about 2 people who can't keep there hands off one another. These barely kissed, he thought she was plain and did'nt change his mind through out the story. Big John never once came close to losing control, even after they married it was weeks before he touched her, then end of story. If this is going to be Diana's new style of writing I'll pass on buying anymore of her books. So if your expecting hot steamy romance I would pass on this book.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars three intriguing western romances, November 27, 2003

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Hero's Kiss: The Founding Father/Wild West Wager/Snow Maiden (Mass Market Paperback)

"The Founding Father" by Diana Palmer. Former Georgian farmer turned Texas rancher Big John Jacobs hopes to persuade New York tycoon Terrance Colby to swing a rail past his spread to expedite the moving of cattle. John offers a business marriage to Terrance's unmarriageable daughter Camilla Ellen. He would receive access to her father while she would gain her freedom, but neither expected love to emerge. This is a solid Tall Texan tale starring an honest hero showcased in an intelligent story line though one must question the change in Camilla from rug rat to heroine.

"Wild West Wager" by Judith Stacy. In 1888 Colorado, saloon owner Jack Delaney does the unthinkable when he becomes the first male to enter the Marlow Tea Room. Jack hires the tearoom co-owner Rebecca Merriweather to decorate his new house so that his eastern company will feel at home. Though she thinks he is bringing his fiancé west, they fall in love. This is a fine lighthearted western romance.

"Snow Maiden" by Mary Burton. In Colorado, business mogul Adam Richmond wants the construction of the new organ to fail because that will badly reflect on the new minister, who he wants to keep away from his sister. He offers the builder Russian emigrant Sophia Petrovnova money to leave town, but she refuses though the cash would enable her to go home. Sophia loves Adam, but knows his heart is colder than her homeland's winters though she had hoped to melt it. Fans will enjoy this warm yet simplistic tale of redemption.

All three intriguing western romances bring to life the late nineteenth century through strong lead couples and fine support cast.

Harriet Klausner