Society Bride

Fortune's Children: The Brides #2

by Elizabeth Bevarly

Fortune's Children: The Brides: Meet the Fortune Brides - six special women who perpetuate a family legacy greater than mere riches!

IT WAS A BAD TIME TO BE A GOOD GIRL...

Debutante Renee Riley's getaway weekend at the Final Destination Ranch had brought the dutiful virgin up close and personal with the man of her dreams -- six-feet-plus of pure, unbridled sex appeal.

But Garrett Fortune was no ordinary cowboy. Renee was sure he could teach a woman all sorts of things. Still, she was a week away from marrying Mr. Wrong -- unless she could lasso Garret's heart!

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Category Romance

181 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[Anne Holly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poor little rich girl; woman hatin' rich cowboy-type. Lust set against a backdrop of high society draconian machinations - you get the drill. The writing is fine, and well edited, and it killed a few hours. If this is your sort of thing, it might be a good distraction for an afternoon.

[TINNGG · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the better ones. I kept thinking I'd read a book about a Fortune. Took a bit of digging but I found it. No idea about connection beyond the Hs in the two are related...somehow. Anyway...

So a corporate shark approaches the h's dad, telling him he's next unless his daughter marries him. Dad lays a guilt trip on her, she runs into the H at a wedding, while mulling over the situation. She later accepts the offer. A week before the wedding, her feet are not just cold; they're downright frostbit. She runs into the H's aunt, who sends her off to what amounts to a dude ranch the H owns.

The H is cynical, and makes a lot of assumptions about her and her situation, in between kissing them both senseless. She finally decides she wants to give her V card to someone she's actually attracted to rather than the shark (who doesn't really deserve it. Really, his plan is to fly home for the wedding, and fly back out afterwards - on business). And well...

Normally I really don't like the whole "engaged to a great guy but this one's better" thing but since this was more of a corporate marriage, and the h was about to bolt anyway, I'll let it slide. The H... ah...maybe if he'd spent at least some time investigating her, for want of a better word, maybe he wouldn't have been so...judgmental. That did bother me. Of course, he got hoisted from his own petard sometime around the insertion of tab A into slot B, and she let him twist in the wind since he seemed more interested in giving her a better memory than convincing her to oh, I dunno, marry him instead. So there was that. It was an enjoyable read though.

[Judy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh...predictable, easy read. It was on the shelf at a resort and worked as a beach read. No thinking required...

[Cherry Williams · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love this book!!

[Priscilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Segundo volume da série Fortune's Children: The Brides.

Previsível, mas a escrita é boa.

Pode valer a pena para quem só quer passar o tempo ou ler mais um pouco dessa saga gigantesca.

[Andrea Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a nice fast read did not want it to end

[Desi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leído el 03/09/2010

Encuentro Con El Amor - Elizabeth Bevarly
La escapada de fin de semana de la joven Renee Riley al rancho El Destino Final, le dio a la obediente y virginal muchacha la oportunidad de estar muy cerca del hombre de sus sueños: más de un metro ochenta y cinco de erotismo puro y desenfrenado.
Pero Garrett Fortune no era un vaquero cualquiera. Renee estaba segura de que él podía enseñarle a una mujer todo tipo de cosas. Aun así, le faltaba una semana para casarse con el hombre equivocado... a menos que fuera capaz de echarle el lazo al corazón de Garrett.

[Kym McNabney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first book that I read by this author, and let me tell you, I couldn't put it down. It was incredibly well written, a good story with heartwarming characters. I'm an inspiring writer and was captivated by her use of words, as this story was packed full with one great line after another.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Modern

[AndreaH · Rating 2 out of 5]

More about lust than love

[Cecelia]

I actually really enjoyed the writing and the ploting of this story and I love the charachters. I really identify with Renee

[Theresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the doom but r we changing the covers of all our Fortune's book cause this cover is not on the book I have. please need to know. this is one of my favorite series.