Texan's Wedding-Night Wager (Silhouette Desire) [Mass Market Paperback]

Charlene Sands (Author)

Book Description

Series: Silhouette Desire | Publication Date: September 8, 2009

No one walked away from this Texas mogul...especially not his wife! So when Cara chose to leave rather than play second fiddle to his company, Kevin plotted his revenge. Four years later, she returned, intent on finalizing their divorce. But Cara had no clue that Kevin had constructed the perfect payback plan. It's a wager she can't refuse. The divorce would be official...if she agreed to one last week of playing house. And nothing would be off-limits.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette; 1 edition (September 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373769644
• ISBN-13: 978-0373769643
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,349,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

BIO FOR CHARLENE SANDS

Charlene Sands is a USA Today bestselling author. To date, she's penned 30 novels, writing contemporary romance for Silhouette Desire and westerns for Harlequin Historicals. She's been honored with the National Readers Choice Award, the Cataromance Reviewers' Choice Award and the Booksellers Best Award.

She's an active member of Romance Writers Of America and belongs to the Orange County Chapter and the Los Angeles Chapter of Romance Writers of America where she volunteers her time as the Published Authors Liaison. Her sizzling Desires have landed on the USA Today Bestseller List and her current book, The Cowboy's Pride has been voted, The Long and Short Reviews (LASR) BOOK OF THE WEEK!

When not writing Charlene moonlights as a childbirth and baby care instructor. She's married to her high school sweetheart and loves happy endings! She enjoys Pacific beaches, playing tennis, great coffee, taking long walks with her hubby and reading from her list of favorite authors. She loves hearing from her readers. You can reach her at www.charlenesands.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Once Betrayed, Twice Shy., April 1, 2011

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SoCalGigi "Gigi's Nirvana" (San Marcos, CA, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texan's Wedding-Night Wager (Silhouette Desire) (Kindle Edition)

Kevin and Cara painfully realize that they are still madly in love with each other even though they have been separated for four years. In the final moments before signing their divorce papers, they have the long-awaited and overdue 'talk' thereby reconciling and saving their marriage.

Moral of the story is money does not buy happiness, and at times success can be disasterous. Good storyline with well developed characters and, of course, the obligatory 'happy ever after' ending.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed this book!, March 16, 2011

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RomReader22 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texan's Wedding-Night Wager (Silhouette Desire) (Kindle Edition)

I'm a reader of Sands' books and I thought this was a good addition to the Texas Cattleman's Club. The characters were interesting, but what I loved most was that the story was about second chances. Kevin is a rancher who initially wants to get revenge on his estranged wife by making her fall in love with him so he can then leave her, but what ends up shining through is all the love the two felt when they first met. A worthy read!

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful story that has nothing to do with a wedding-night wager, May 20, 2010

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J. Yu (Tallahassee, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Texan's Wedding-Night Wager (Silhouette Desire) (Mass Market Paperback)

I really can't find anything good to say about this book. Except, I guess, that it's short. Cara wants a divorce from her husband, Kevin, so she can get a loan from the bank. She left him four years earlier because he paid more attention to work than to her. He's naturally pretty upset that she began the separation by splitting in the middle of the night. He agrees to sign the papers if she lives with him for a week. Her counteroffer: one night of sex. (You've got to be kidding!) He insists she hang around for two weeks first. His plan is to make her fall in love with him again so he can reject her.

I hated both of their characters. Cara periodically thinks how mad she is that Kevin is "blackmailing" her, but she doesn't act mad. And their arrangement isn't blackmail! She negotiated the deal. She could have taken him to court instead. She keeps remarking how charming and sexy he is, but all I saw was an arrogant, sleazy creep who calls women "babe." Yuck.

There were a hundred things about the plot and the writing that irritated the hell out me, but suffice it to say the book is awful straight through to its quickly wrapped up (and completely unbelievable) happy ending.