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The Reluctant Foster #2
Reluctant Bodyguard
THE THREAT
Dear Chad,
I'm waiting for you. We'll be together soon.
Rose, your phantom lover
THE TARGET: Tall, dark and handsome, Chad Foster is hardly aware of the effect he has on women. The popular TV station manager is recognized wherever he goes, and his easygoing charm wins him friends and admirers everywhere. Now one admirer has gone too far.
THE BODYGUARD: Sergeant Jenna Wakefield's job is to protect Chad. She's living in his house, pretending to be his lover in order to flush out the stalker. But Chad plays his role so well that Jenna's having difficulty deciding where the acting ends and real life--real love--begins.
Dear Chad,
I'm waiting for you. We'll be together soon.
Rose, your phantom lover
THE TARGET: Tall, dark and handsome, Chad Foster is hardly aware of the effect he has on women. The popular TV station manager is recognized wherever he goes, and his easygoing charm wins him friends and admirers everywhere. Now one admirer has gone too far.
THE BODYGUARD: Sergeant Jenna Wakefield's job is to protect Chad. She's living in his house, pretending to be his lover in order to flush out the stalker. But Chad plays his role so well that Jenna's having difficulty deciding where the acting ends and real life--real love--begins.
- GenresContemporary Romance
299 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
About the author
Lorna Michaels
29 books6 followersThelma Zirkelbach was born and raised in Austin, Texas. At age four, she composed a poem that went, "Happy as a chicken, Happy as a pig, Happy as a rabbit that danced a little jig" and announced that someday she would be a writer. Okay, she had a ways to go, but her goal was clear. It would, however, take several decades to realize that goal. As a child she loved pretending. She and her friends dressed up in her mother's old clothes and imagined they were movie stars or shipwrecked on a desert island. Or she created elaborate stories about a set of paper dolls that lived in, of all places, an orphanage. Her other favorite thing to do was read. She was always being accused of having her nose in a book. She still does.
Pretending gave way to more realistic activities in high school and college—football games, parties, school activities. When she had to declare a college major, she impulsively chose speech pathology because she had recently read an article about it in Seventeen magazine. It's a choice she never regretted. Near the end of her junior year, her college career was interrupted when her dress blew into a gas stove and she was severely burned. She spent three months in a burn ward and four more in bed at home. She had to learn to walk all over again, but she also learned that she had the fortitude to overcome pain and the determination to return to her normal life. Within a year she was back in school.
After graduation she moved to Houston where she worked as a speech pathologist in the public schools for a year and then quit to get married, have babies, drive carpools, and bake cookies. She had become June Cleaver. Divorce brought that phase of her life to a close. She returned to college for a masters degree, met her present husband, and the two of them combined their families. She'd moved from Leave it to Beaver to The Brady Bunch.
She was busy—working as a speech pathologist, going back to school again for a doctorate, and raising a rambunctious family of three kids. Then one day she picked up a Silhouette Romance and got hooked. Soon, reading wasn't enough; she was determined to write a book of her own. She joined Romance Writers of America, started attending conferences and entering contests. Finally on day she got "the call." She'd sold her first book. She combined her two children's names—Lori and Michael—to come up with her pen name Lorna Michaels, and saw her first book published in 1991. She also wrote as Thelma Zirkelbach and Thelma Alexander. She has continued her private speech pathology practice and written 10 more books. How does she find the time? Except for an occasional special program, she doesn't watch television. But the sacrifice has been worth it. She's fulfilled her lifelong dream of being a writer. Today, she has 3 grown children, 2 grandchildren, and 2 demanding cats.
Pretending gave way to more realistic activities in high school and college—football games, parties, school activities. When she had to declare a college major, she impulsively chose speech pathology because she had recently read an article about it in Seventeen magazine. It's a choice she never regretted. Near the end of her junior year, her college career was interrupted when her dress blew into a gas stove and she was severely burned. She spent three months in a burn ward and four more in bed at home. She had to learn to walk all over again, but she also learned that she had the fortitude to overcome pain and the determination to return to her normal life. Within a year she was back in school.
After graduation she moved to Houston where she worked as a speech pathologist in the public schools for a year and then quit to get married, have babies, drive carpools, and bake cookies. She had become June Cleaver. Divorce brought that phase of her life to a close. She returned to college for a masters degree, met her present husband, and the two of them combined their families. She'd moved from Leave it to Beaver to The Brady Bunch.
She was busy—working as a speech pathologist, going back to school again for a doctorate, and raising a rambunctious family of three kids. Then one day she picked up a Silhouette Romance and got hooked. Soon, reading wasn't enough; she was determined to write a book of her own. She joined Romance Writers of America, started attending conferences and entering contests. Finally on day she got "the call." She'd sold her first book. She combined her two children's names—Lori and Michael—to come up with her pen name Lorna Michaels, and saw her first book published in 1991. She also wrote as Thelma Zirkelbach and Thelma Alexander. She has continued her private speech pathology practice and written 10 more books. How does she find the time? Except for an occasional special program, she doesn't watch television. But the sacrifice has been worth it. She's fulfilled her lifelong dream of being a writer. Today, she has 3 grown children, 2 grandchildren, and 2 demanding cats.
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August 29, 2023
3.5 Stars.
First he thought she has an ordinary face that he would not pay attention to her if he cross the street until he saw her eyes. A few pages later he thought she was striking and gorgeous. Make up your mind. How in 1 second she has an ordinary face and then in another second she is beautiful.
I don't feel that he really loved her. He didn't got one second worried that as a bait she would get in danger unitl 95% of the book when the lunatic threaten the h in the letter, in 95% of the book he care less about the Jenna's safety. I know that it's her job to protect him, but he never behaved like a protective H, he alwyas let her put him behind her. All the time he was worried about himself because of Rose, and because of his freedom to him and to his job, and not one time he thought about Jenna. At 98% of the book she got shot twice and saw her in a pool of blood then he realized that he truly loved her. Really? Sorry I don't buy it.
That he fell for his first wife very rapidly and married her and for Jenna in his thoughts at the beginning she was only a challenge and later almost at the end his only thought that he cared for her and that he LOVED HIS JOB, at the same thought. I can see the only thing he truly care and love it is his job and not her. I can see in the future he would choose his love of his job over her, and if they get married they soon will be divorced.
And she let me down. So much for caring about the abducted boy, that near the end she didn't even blink to let others hand to retrieve Nick so she could be with Chad because he was in danger. She soon became clingy and not responsible not only in her work/duty as an officer of the law but in her own conscience. It's like in one minute the boy was so important and the next he is a nuisance so she could clingy and protect a guy that even care less about you. Love make the heroines stupid and forget themselves. I see that over 70% or 80% that it were the heroines that got phisically hurt because of the Hs, it only shows they are the truly stupid ones that truly loved the Hs and not the other way around.
First he thought she has an ordinary face that he would not pay attention to her if he cross the street until he saw her eyes. A few pages later he thought she was striking and gorgeous. Make up your mind. How in 1 second she has an ordinary face and then in another second she is beautiful.
I don't feel that he really loved her. He didn't got one second worried that as a bait she would get in danger unitl 95% of the book when the lunatic threaten the h in the letter, in 95% of the book he care less about the Jenna's safety. I know that it's her job to protect him, but he never behaved like a protective H, he alwyas let her put him behind her. All the time he was worried about himself because of Rose, and because of his freedom to him and to his job, and not one time he thought about Jenna. At 98% of the book she got shot twice and saw her in a pool of blood then he realized that he truly loved her. Really? Sorry I don't buy it.
That he fell for his first wife very rapidly and married her and for Jenna in his thoughts at the beginning she was only a challenge and later almost at the end his only thought that he cared for her and that he LOVED HIS JOB, at the same thought. I can see the only thing he truly care and love it is his job and not her. I can see in the future he would choose his love of his job over her, and if they get married they soon will be divorced.
And she let me down. So much for caring about the abducted boy, that near the end she didn't even blink to let others hand to retrieve Nick so she could be with Chad because he was in danger. She soon became clingy and not responsible not only in her work/duty as an officer of the law but in her own conscience. It's like in one minute the boy was so important and the next he is a nuisance so she could clingy and protect a guy that even care less about you. Love make the heroines stupid and forget themselves. I see that over 70% or 80% that it were the heroines that got phisically hurt because of the Hs, it only shows they are the truly stupid ones that truly loved the Hs and not the other way around.
November 14, 2023
Vários momentos sensuais que acabam no clássico empata-foda de uma perseguidora ao estilo tiete.
Divertido.
Divertido.
March 18, 2015
The Reluctant Bodyguard starts with attractive TV station manager, Chad Foster, getting a letter from a woman named Rose who calls herself his phantom lover. Chad has no idea who Rose is but has received several letters from her. He finally contacts the police and they send a female officer to be is bodyguard, Sergeant Jenna Wakefield, and act as his lover so she can stay close to him and hopefully, flush out the stalker.
I was on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who Rose was, right along with Jenna. I loved that Jenna was a strong, capable woman that sometimes had trouble doing her job because she didn't know when Chad was pretending or not. Trying to determine who Chad's stalker was became harder and harder as she watched him be naturally friendly to women. He didn't realize that his 'friendliness' could be misinterpreted by some women.
This is a great suspenseful book full of intrigue and great characters. Loved the chemistry between Chad and Jenna. That and the suspense kept me turning the pages and glued to the book.
I was on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who Rose was, right along with Jenna. I loved that Jenna was a strong, capable woman that sometimes had trouble doing her job because she didn't know when Chad was pretending or not. Trying to determine who Chad's stalker was became harder and harder as she watched him be naturally friendly to women. He didn't realize that his 'friendliness' could be misinterpreted by some women.
This is a great suspenseful book full of intrigue and great characters. Loved the chemistry between Chad and Jenna. That and the suspense kept me turning the pages and glued to the book.
September 25, 2009
Modern
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