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Beaudine Sisters #2
The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride
DO YOU…HAVE TO GET MARRIED, ADORA BEAUDINE?
That's what all the town gossips were asking—and what else could she expect? Ladylike Adora was supposed to settle down to a life of solid respectability, and instead she was about to say "I do" to a motorcycle-riding outlaw named Jed Ryder. What, everyone wondered, had gotten into her?
What indeed? She told herself she was marrying Jed so he could get custody of his little sister. For the child's sake, she insisted, she was about to give up every shred of her respectable reputation. It had nothing to do with the unrespectable way she felt when he swept her into his arms….
That's what all the town gossips were asking—and what else could she expect? Ladylike Adora was supposed to settle down to a life of solid respectability, and instead she was about to say "I do" to a motorcycle-riding outlaw named Jed Ryder. What, everyone wondered, had gotten into her?
What indeed? She told herself she was marrying Jed so he could get custody of his little sister. For the child's sake, she insisted, she was about to give up every shred of her respectable reputation. It had nothing to do with the unrespectable way she felt when he swept her into his arms….
187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1997
About the author
Christine Rimmer
727 books430 followersNew York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer has written more than one hundred contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated seven times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and five times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.
A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.
She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.
A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.
She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.
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May 4, 2017
Leído el 16/09/2011
3.5 estrellas
Protagonistas: Jed Ryder y Adora Beaudine
Argumento:
Se suponía que una señorita como Adora se casaría con una persona de vida respetable y, sin embargo, iba a dar el sí a Jed Ryder, un motorista que había tenido problemas con la ley en su juventud. Todo el mundo se preguntaba que locura le había dado.
Ella se justificaba a sí misma diciendo que se casaba con Jed Ryder para conseguir la custodia de su hermana. Insistía en que por el bien de la niña estaba a punto de renunciar a su respetable reputación. Pero, en realidad, eso no tenía nada que ver con el modo poco respetable en que se sentía cuando Jed la estrechaba entre sus brazos...
3.5 estrellas
Protagonistas: Jed Ryder y Adora Beaudine
Argumento:
Se suponía que una señorita como Adora se casaría con una persona de vida respetable y, sin embargo, iba a dar el sí a Jed Ryder, un motorista que había tenido problemas con la ley en su juventud. Todo el mundo se preguntaba que locura le había dado.
Ella se justificaba a sí misma diciendo que se casaba con Jed Ryder para conseguir la custodia de su hermana. Insistía en que por el bien de la niña estaba a punto de renunciar a su respetable reputación. Pero, en realidad, eso no tenía nada que ver con el modo poco respetable en que se sentía cuando Jed la estrechaba entre sus brazos...
November 5, 2014
This is a sweet and short love story. They have to marry because of his young sister but then they discovered that they like to be toghether. The only problem is that he is not her dream man, and she can't help to wonder if she could find someone better to her.
Then, he heard her when she was talking with her sister and felt betrayed. Only whe he goes (after a sad confrontation) she realice she loves him. So she has to go behind him in a motorcycle and declares her love to him in front of a gangs of bikers.
I love the way in the end he makes her pay and she ends with a tatto with a hart and his name on it. Where is the tatoo?...
Then, he heard her when she was talking with her sister and felt betrayed. Only whe he goes (after a sad confrontation) she realice she loves him. So she has to go behind him in a motorcycle and declares her love to him in front of a gangs of bikers.
I love the way in the end he makes her pay and she ends with a tatto with a hart and his name on it. Where is the tatoo?...
May 29, 2015
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March 17, 2026
All the reasons I should not have even started reading this book? I like to 'travel' to special places when I read, and the small-town setting in this book appears unexceptional. Also, the biker subculture does not interest me. And just the smell of hair salons gives me a headache.
How did Christine Rimmer make none of my dislikes matter? I don't know for sure, but she did.
She has a gift for creating reality on every page such that I couldn't help reading on and on and on.
She made me care about the characters. She made me care about what happened next in their situation. She made me care whether their personal judgement was solid or if their decisions would backfire on them. She made me care about them getting through their everyday lives and the unexpected developments that took them out of the mundane.
I picked up this book because I had enjoyed reading Rimmer's work in the past. Yes, the magic she is capable of happened again in The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride. She can create a world on the page and make it absorbing and meaningful, gentle and threatening, funny and uplifting.
I don't know if this story has ever been pitched for a film, but I think every scene is cinematic and has screen potential. The entire first part with Adora breaking down on her birthday; the attraction scene on the path; finding Lola by the creek; breaking the news to young Tiffany; the intensity of acting quickly to seek guardianship; the intensity of the threat posed by the uncharitable Charity; the arrival of the bikers; the unintended 'betrayal'; the search for Jed; the wedding.
Maybe I think it would make a good movie because reading it felt like watching a movie!
I loved this book and I am looking forward to the next novel by Christine Rimmer I can find.
How did Christine Rimmer make none of my dislikes matter? I don't know for sure, but she did.
She has a gift for creating reality on every page such that I couldn't help reading on and on and on.
She made me care about the characters. She made me care about what happened next in their situation. She made me care whether their personal judgement was solid or if their decisions would backfire on them. She made me care about them getting through their everyday lives and the unexpected developments that took them out of the mundane.
I picked up this book because I had enjoyed reading Rimmer's work in the past. Yes, the magic she is capable of happened again in The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride. She can create a world on the page and make it absorbing and meaningful, gentle and threatening, funny and uplifting.
I don't know if this story has ever been pitched for a film, but I think every scene is cinematic and has screen potential. The entire first part with Adora breaking down on her birthday; the attraction scene on the path; finding Lola by the creek; breaking the news to young Tiffany; the intensity of acting quickly to seek guardianship; the intensity of the threat posed by the uncharitable Charity; the arrival of the bikers; the unintended 'betrayal'; the search for Jed; the wedding.
Maybe I think it would make a good movie because reading it felt like watching a movie!
I loved this book and I am looking forward to the next novel by Christine Rimmer I can find.
October 3, 2025
Podobało mi się. I to tak nieironicznie! Pomijając tylko, że przy opisach czynności gimnastycznych wykonywanych najczęściej w pozycji poziomej to piałam ze śmiechu jak pijana koza.
W ogóle gdyby uwagę z tych czynności bardziej poświęcić na relację pomiędzy bohaterami - albo kulturze harleyowców! - to byłoby naprawdę... dobrze. Nadal w granicach harlekinów, ale w porównaniu z tym, co czytałam ostatnio to niebo a ziemia. To głupiutka, ale całkiem miła historyjka, którą mogę polecić z czystym sercem. Głównie dlatego, że krótkie toto i naprawdę nieszkodliwe.
Adora - fakt - jej jedyny cel w życiu i hobby to znalezienie sobie chłopa, bo siostry już za mąż wyszły, a matka to pewnie sprawdza gdzie najbliższy zakon. I to może śmieszyć. Jednak z drugiej strony jest z niej taka pocieszna pierdoła z serduchem po odpowiedniej stronie, że nawet momenty, gdy mózg jej do krocza zjeżdża są do wybaczenia. A Jed... oj, ten Jed. Ile tu rzeczy mogło pójść srogo nie tak! Oczywiście to nadal schemat stereotypowego ,,innego", na którego ludzie patrzą bykiem, ale tak naprawdę to dobry chłop dbający o rodzinę - tylko trzeba chcieć go poznać. I to serio wyszło pani Rimmer całkiem dobrze - ja naprawdę kupuję, że z ,,przymusowego" małżeństwa, aby móc adoptować siostrę Jeda z czasem przeradza się to w coś szczerego, bo tak po ludzku się poznają. Czasem bardziej DOGŁĘBNIE, ale w inny sposób też.
Jeśli ktoś liczył na rozlew krwi i łez oraz zgrzytanie zębami - przepraszam, że rozczarowałam, ale naprawdę to nie była taka zła książka. Jak na harlekina.
W ogóle jeśli komuś by nagle odbiło i chciał zacząć czytać harlekiny, to spokojnie mógłby zacząć od tego - bez narażenia na uszczerbek na zdrowiu psychicznym.
Spokojnie mocne 6/10
Tylko ta jedwabista broda...
W ogóle gdyby uwagę z tych czynności bardziej poświęcić na relację pomiędzy bohaterami - albo kulturze harleyowców! - to byłoby naprawdę... dobrze. Nadal w granicach harlekinów, ale w porównaniu z tym, co czytałam ostatnio to niebo a ziemia. To głupiutka, ale całkiem miła historyjka, którą mogę polecić z czystym sercem. Głównie dlatego, że krótkie toto i naprawdę nieszkodliwe.
Adora - fakt - jej jedyny cel w życiu i hobby to znalezienie sobie chłopa, bo siostry już za mąż wyszły, a matka to pewnie sprawdza gdzie najbliższy zakon. I to może śmieszyć. Jednak z drugiej strony jest z niej taka pocieszna pierdoła z serduchem po odpowiedniej stronie, że nawet momenty, gdy mózg jej do krocza zjeżdża są do wybaczenia. A Jed... oj, ten Jed. Ile tu rzeczy mogło pójść srogo nie tak! Oczywiście to nadal schemat stereotypowego ,,innego", na którego ludzie patrzą bykiem, ale tak naprawdę to dobry chłop dbający o rodzinę - tylko trzeba chcieć go poznać. I to serio wyszło pani Rimmer całkiem dobrze - ja naprawdę kupuję, że z ,,przymusowego" małżeństwa, aby móc adoptować siostrę Jeda z czasem przeradza się to w coś szczerego, bo tak po ludzku się poznają. Czasem bardziej DOGŁĘBNIE, ale w inny sposób też.
Jeśli ktoś liczył na rozlew krwi i łez oraz zgrzytanie zębami - przepraszam, że rozczarowałam, ale naprawdę to nie była taka zła książka. Jak na harlekina.
W ogóle jeśli komuś by nagle odbiło i chciał zacząć czytać harlekiny, to spokojnie mógłby zacząć od tego - bez narażenia na uszczerbek na zdrowiu psychicznym.
Spokojnie mocne 6/10
Tylko ta jedwabista broda...
January 14, 2015
lo ME COMPLETAMENTE"!!!
December 28, 2015
There are reasons why you shouldn't reread your old favourites. I found them all while reading the book.
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