SAVING GRACE (SENSATION S.) [Paperback]

RAEANNE THAYNE (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: silhouette (2000)
• ASIN: B000OVQFOU
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

More About the Author

I'm not one of those people who knew from birth she was destined to become a writer. I always loved to read and throughout my childhood I could usually be found with a book in my hands. To the disgust of my friends, I even enjoyed creative writing assignments that made them all groan. But I had other dreams besides writing. I wanted to be an actress or a teacher or a lawyer.

Life took a different turn for me, though, when my mother made me take a journalism elective in high school (thanks, Mom!). I knew the first day that this was where I belonged.

After I graduated from college in journalism, I took a job at the local daily newspaper and I reveled in the challenge and the diversity of it. One day I could be interviewing the latest country music star, the next day I was writing about local motorcycle gangs or interviewing an award-winning scientist.

Through it all -- through the natural progression of my career from reporter to editor -- I wrote stories in my head. Not just any stories, either, but romances, the kind of books I have devoured since junior high school, with tales about real people going through the trials and tribulations of life until they find deep and lasting love.

I had no idea how to put these people on paper, but knew I had to try -- their stories were too compelling for me to ignore. I sold my first book in 1995 and now, more than 30 books later, I've come to love everything about writing, from the click of the computer keys under my fingers to the "that's-it!" feeling I get when a story is flowing.

I write full-time now (well, as full-time as I can manage juggling my kids!) amid the raw beauty of the northern Utah mountains.

Even though I might not have dreamed of being a writer when I was younger, now I simply can't imagine my life any other way.

I love to hear from readers. You can reach me at my email address, [e-mail] or through my website http://www.raeannethayne.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emotional, Suspenseful Category Romance, May 17, 2000

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Tina "tinaellorascave" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saving Grace (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 995) (Paperback)

Grace Solarez's 11-year-old daughter Marissa was killed in a drive-by shooting exactly one year ago from this night. Desperate to end the pain, Grace finds herself contemplating the taking of her own life.

Before Grace attempts anything drastic, Fate intervenes and she finds herself pulling a kidnapped 5-year-old girl out of a car about to explode. She saves the girl's life, but leaves the scene before she can be asked any questions by the authorities.

A week later, Jack Dugan stops at nothing to find the woman who saved his daughter Emma's life. He isn't certain if Grace was on the scene because she was a part of the kidnapping plot or if she was simply a very brave, heroic woman who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Either way, he owed her for saving Emma's life.

This was an extremely well written category romance. In shorter books such as these, either the character development or the plot or the romance tends to suffer because of the constraining 250 pages given to the author to work with. Ms. Thayne worked well within the limits and none of the points of the book suffered.

The character development was beyond excellent, the plot was engaging and suspenseful, and the relationship between the hero and heroine was superbly written. "Saving Grace" is a definite winner.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Saving Grace, March 28, 2000

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Roberta Cypert - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saving Grace (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 995) (Paperback)

Can you imagine anything worse than the loss of a child? Grace's daughter died a year ago. Then she saves the life of a small girl. Can the girls father help Grace want to live? Will she fight him off till the end? Who is trying to kidnap the little girl and why? Can Grace learn to live and function again? Does she want to? A book to keep you wanting to know what happens next. And who the bad guy is.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Redemption, December 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Saving Grace (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 995) (Paperback)

Back Cover description: A SECOND CHANCE...When a beautiful stranger saved the life of Jack Dugan's daughter, Jack knew he had to find this mystery woman. He would do anything to repay her. But Grace Solarez turned out to be more than he expected, for her sad brown eyes told him she needed to be saved, too. AT LOVE? After losing the one thing most dear to her, Grace felt she had no hope. Until the night she saved Jack's little girl. Soon Grace began to care again about something--about this sexy single dad and his daughter. But would it all disappear when she found out the truth about Jack Dugan?

I agree with the reviewer from Florida. Great story and interesting plot. The author has done a remarkable job given the size of these types of books. You like and feel for both Grace and Jack. The plot description is slightly misleading in that Grace starts to care, but it's about finding the people who sold the guns that killed her daughter. As this part of the plot develops, she realizes that she has to live. The author's feel for the grief that this woman is going through is amazing. Hopefully, the author will write about Grace's partner, Beau Riley.