The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride (Harlequin Desire, No. 1101) [Paperback]

Christine Rimmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1997 | Series: Harlequin Desire, No. 1101

DO YOU…HAVE TO GET MARRIED, ADORA BEAUDINE?

That's what all the town gossips were asking—and what else could she expect? Ladylike Adora was supposed to settle down to a life of solid respectability, and instead she was about to say "I do" to a motorcycle-riding outlaw named Jed Ryder. What, everyone wondered, had gotten into her?

What indeed? She told herself she was marrying Jed so he could get custody of his little sister. For the child's sake, she insisted, she was about to give up every shred of her respectable reputation. It had nothing to do with the unrespectable way she felt when he swept her into his arms….

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette (September 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373761015
• ISBN-13: 978-0373761012
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,448,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christine Rimmer has written more than seventy-five contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. A reader favorite, Christine's stories consistently appear on national bestseller lists, including the Waldenbooks and USA TODAY lists. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview's Reviewer's Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated three times for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award and four times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year. Christine lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who knew a biker could be so sexy?, May 7, 1998

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This review is from: The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride (Harlequin Desire, No. 1101) (Paperback)

I'm a fairly straightlaced romance reader (is there such a creature?), so I don't know what possessed me to pick up this romance, featuring Jed Ryder, biker extraordinaire. Perhaps I'm just bored with the usual romance hero--the law enforcer, the cowboy, the lonely self-made millionaire. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised, and have a whole new outlet of fantasy. Very sexy, very appealing. The crisis at the end is a little silly--doesn't this guy know anything about women, and isn't he being a little sensitive, especially for a tough guy?--but when his past is factored in and my desire to suspend disbelief comes into play, I'm willing to buy it.

3.0 out of 5 stars OK Story, August 10, 2011

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This review is from: The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride (Harlequin Desire, No. 1101) (Kindle Edition)

One of Rimmer's earlier works, newly available on Kindle.

I liked the hero, and his little sister. The Category Cliched Plot of marriage for custody of a child was done well. The villains (of various degrees) were not too over the top. Etc. But - and it's a Big But - I didn't like the heroine. Maybe I would have found her more believable at 25 than 35 years old, I don't know. Regardless, I didn't enjoy spending time with her, so I wasn't vested in their romance.

SPOLER ALERT: And at the end, where the hero declared that her talking to her sister about their personal life was a betrayal on par with his unjustly being accused of rape as a teenager, I lost all interest in him as well.

Rimmer has plenty of better books to choose from. (Any of the Bravo books, for instance).