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Bachelor of the Month -- Travis Holt
Sweet-talkin' cowboy, easy on the eyes, has his hands full running a ranch. Looking for the motherly type to raise three little girls good and proper. He's got a sound body, a sound mind and a good heart, and would expect the same.<
Travis could have strangled his foreman, Gus, for placing that ad, but the damage was done. Delectable Eve Reardon was on the doorstep, babe in arms, looking to be his wife. Or at least looking for the roof over her head and three squares Gus had promised. He couldn't have refused her even if he hadn't needed someone for the girls. Eve did something to his insides and other parts that brought home the fact that a man needed a woman all for himself.
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Bachelor of the Month -- Travis Holt
Sweet-talkin' cowboy, easy on the eyes, has his hands full running a ranch. Looking for the motherly type to raise three little girls good and proper. He's got a sound body, a sound mind and a good heart, and would expect the same.<
Travis could have strangled his foreman, Gus, for placing that ad, but the damage was done. Delectable Eve Reardon was on the doorstep, babe in arms, looking to be his wife. Or at least looking for the roof over her head and three squares Gus had promised. He couldn't have refused her even if he hadn't needed someone for the girls. Eve did something to his insides and other parts that brought home the fact that a man needed a woman all for himself.
Mail Order Men... Satisfaction Guaranteed!
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1996
About the author
Candace Schuler
63 books23 followersCandace Schuler is a writer with a multiple personalities. In her 30+ year career, she has written software user guides, various types of instruction manuals, marketing collateral, grant proposals, case statements, case studies, business profiles, newsletters, press releases, white papers, speeches, scripts, short stories, a cookbook—and 26 (to date) romance novels.
Candace credits her husband Joe and her love of travel with starting her career as a romance writer. It was his comments on a letter describing a trip to New Orleans that prompted her to try writing romance fiction.
She wrote her first novel Desire’s Child by hand on 12 yellow legal pads. It was published by Harlequin in September, 1984 (after she typed it into a computer, of course). Her second book A Cherished Account was published by New American Library under the pen name Jeanette Darwin just one month later. She is also published under the name Candace Spencer.
Her books have appeared on the B. Dalton’s and Waldenbooks bestseller lists and have twice been nominated by the Romance Writers of America for a RITA award in the Best Short Contemporary Romance category—in 1996 for Passion and Scandal and in 2003 for Good Time Girl. Good Time Girl also received the 2003 Scarlett Letter Award, presented by the Tampa Bay Romance Writers for excellence in sensual romance writing. Candace’s books have also received three Reviewers’ Choice Awards from Romantic Times magazine. In 1992, she was awarded the Career Achievement Award as Series Story Teller of the Year by RT.
Because romance is truly universal, most of her books have been published in at least 20 languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, Greek, and most recently, Russian.
She is currently in the process of digitizing her backlist for e-book publication.
Other stuff:
•Married almost 40 years to Joe, who recently retired from the IT industry to become a golf bum
•“Mom” to two 75-pound Dobermans who think they are lap dogs
•Plants a garden every year in hopes of producing the perfect tomato
•Bakes a to-die-for chocolate cheesecake
•Is a Big Brother Big Sister volunteer
•Buys way too many shoes
•Holds the Grant Professional Certified credential
•Is a member of Novelists, Inc.
Candace credits her husband Joe and her love of travel with starting her career as a romance writer. It was his comments on a letter describing a trip to New Orleans that prompted her to try writing romance fiction.
She wrote her first novel Desire’s Child by hand on 12 yellow legal pads. It was published by Harlequin in September, 1984 (after she typed it into a computer, of course). Her second book A Cherished Account was published by New American Library under the pen name Jeanette Darwin just one month later. She is also published under the name Candace Spencer.
Her books have appeared on the B. Dalton’s and Waldenbooks bestseller lists and have twice been nominated by the Romance Writers of America for a RITA award in the Best Short Contemporary Romance category—in 1996 for Passion and Scandal and in 2003 for Good Time Girl. Good Time Girl also received the 2003 Scarlett Letter Award, presented by the Tampa Bay Romance Writers for excellence in sensual romance writing. Candace’s books have also received three Reviewers’ Choice Awards from Romantic Times magazine. In 1992, she was awarded the Career Achievement Award as Series Story Teller of the Year by RT.
Because romance is truly universal, most of her books have been published in at least 20 languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, Greek, and most recently, Russian.
She is currently in the process of digitizing her backlist for e-book publication.
Other stuff:
•Married almost 40 years to Joe, who recently retired from the IT industry to become a golf bum
•“Mom” to two 75-pound Dobermans who think they are lap dogs
•Plants a garden every year in hopes of producing the perfect tomato
•Bakes a to-die-for chocolate cheesecake
•Is a Big Brother Big Sister volunteer
•Buys way too many shoes
•Holds the Grant Professional Certified credential
•Is a member of Novelists, Inc.
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April 14, 2012
I enjoyed this book, both the hero and heroine had been thrown together due to circumstances. The heroine is a nurse with a sick infant and no job prospects, as a child she and her mother were abandoned by her father and grew up on welfare and she doesn't want that life for her baby, so on her friend's urgings she answers an ad as a last resort.
The hero is rodeo champion who is now left with three orphaned nieces and a social worker who won't stop hounding them. He knows he needs to get married but he hasn't found a woman yet, he wants the love his parents and brother had so he is not happy to hear that his friend Gus posted an ad on his behalf, pouring his whole story and that a woman and her baby is on the way to his ranch.
I found the fears Eve had quite believable after all she was marrying a man she didn't know and her track record with men hadn't been good so she didn't want to be a responsibility and she didn't like charming men, which the hero seemed to be. They get married and she likes his nieces and is ready to do her "wifely" duty but he doesn't want duty since he can see her hesitation and is willing to wait.
I liked how Travis was so patient with her and great with her son. Eve was a bit more wary about life but he won her over. I especially liked it when she told the social worker off.
An enjoyable read.
The hero is rodeo champion who is now left with three orphaned nieces and a social worker who won't stop hounding them. He knows he needs to get married but he hasn't found a woman yet, he wants the love his parents and brother had so he is not happy to hear that his friend Gus posted an ad on his behalf, pouring his whole story and that a woman and her baby is on the way to his ranch.
I found the fears Eve had quite believable after all she was marrying a man she didn't know and her track record with men hadn't been good so she didn't want to be a responsibility and she didn't like charming men, which the hero seemed to be. They get married and she likes his nieces and is ready to do her "wifely" duty but he doesn't want duty since he can see her hesitation and is willing to wait.
I liked how Travis was so patient with her and great with her son. Eve was a bit more wary about life but he won her over. I especially liked it when she told the social worker off.
An enjoyable read.
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