My Big Old Texas Heartache [Mass Market Paperback]

Geralyn Dawson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2003

MY BIG OLD TEXAS HEARTACHE was a USA TODAY Bestseller!

Dear Friends and Neighbors: How did life become so complicated? One minute I'm dating the hottest man in Dallas and the next I'm back in Cedar Dell, Texas, surrounded by grannies, gossip, and green bean casserole -- and helping my dad recuperate from a car accident. Did I happen to mention that I caused a scandal in town when I got pregnant at seventeen? No one has ever forgiven me -- not my hard-hearted father, my brother Mr. Perfect, or my pregnant-for-the-first-time-at-forty sister who's gone totally hormonal.
As if this weren't enough, who should also be back in town but Max Cooper, the former high school football star, who is my teenage son's father. And now he wants to date me?!
Who ever thought that so many new horizons and second chances would open for me during one long, hot Texas summer?
Kate

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Joan Johnston Absolutely delicious! -- Review

About the Author

Geralyn Dawson is the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels. The three-time RITA finalist has won numerous awards, including the National Readers' Choice Award and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Star; First Edition edition (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743442660
• ISBN-13: 978-0743442664
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #766,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Geralyn Dawson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty-five novels written in a variety of sub-genres including historical romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and women's fiction. She is a three-time Finalist for Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award and a recipient of Romantic Times magazine's Career Achievement Award. Her novel THE WEDDING RANSOM was named one of Romance Writers of America's Top Ten Favorite Novels of the Year. The Detroit Free Press named her THE WEDDING RAFFLE as one of the best romances of the year.

Geralyn is currently writing romantic women's fiction for Ballantine Books under the pseudonym Emily March. Publishers Weekly named ANGEL'S REST to its Top 100 Books of 2011 list, and it along with HUMMINGBIRD LAKE and HEARTACHE FALLS each earned coveted starred reviews. The fourth book of the series, LOVER'S LEAP, is a January 2012 release with NIGHTINGALE WAY to follow in Fall 2012.

Geralyn invites you to visit her website at www.emilymarch.com and register for her e-newsletter, which includes contests and news about her upcoming releases.
You can follow her on Twitter at both @geralyndawson and @emilymarchbooks.

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Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I must be the only one!!!, January 6, 2004

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This review is from: My Big Old Texas Heartache (Mass Market Paperback)

Let me start off by saying that this book was extremely well written BUT I hated the hero, Max. He left the heroine when she was pregnant with his child, got angry with her because she wouldn't have an abortion, angry with her when she wouldn't give her son up for adoption, fell in love with and married another woman, had a child with her and then after his wife died decided maybe the woman he'd dropped might look pretty good after all. He let everyone in their hometown call their son a bastard, never once in 18 years admitting to being his father(although since they both lived in another city he did have a relationship with his son and did pay child support) So, after all that he pretty much expected Kate, the heroine to be grateful that he decided it was "the right time" for them to be together. Personally, if I was Kate, I'd have jumped on Nicholas(the good looking boss)and told Max to hit the road.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read, July 14, 2003

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Stephanie K. (Summer School in Florida--the home of Beach Reads) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Big Old Texas Heartache (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the kind of love story that stands above the crowd. Strong heroine, hero to die for, and a plot that is real and believeable. The reader CARES about the characters. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVED THIS BOOK, January 16, 2012

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Bette Hansen (Lutz, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Big Old Texas Heartache (Cedar Dell, Texas) (Kindle Edition)

This book touched my heartstrings. It was wonderful to read a love story where characters in the book were as flawed, complicated and confused as people are in life. The only bad part about this book is that I fell in love with the people of Cedar Dell and there are only two books in this series.