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Running Wide Open
When an accident lands Trey Sanford in the care of Dr. Nicole Foster, everything he's worked for is suddenly at risk. The injured racing star will do whatever it takes to protect his family legacy--and his own carefully guarded secret--even if it threatens his budding relationship with the vivacious doctor.
Looking out for her kid brother is Nicole's number one priority. Trey could help him by going public with his medical condition. She knows it's a tough choice, especially with the NASCAR competition heating up...and things heating up between them. Unless she can convince this man who's already a hero to her brother that he's also a champion in her eyes...
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
About the author
Ken Casper
24 books21 followersKen Casper was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Fordham University with a degree in Russian, he joined the Air Force, was stationed in the Far East, served in Vietnam, and lived five years in Germany. He also earned a Master's degree in Education from the University of Southern California. Ken retired from more than 33 years of government service in September '97.
Now a transplanted Texan. He and Mary, his wife of 34 years, own a horse farm in San Angelo. Along with their Border Collie, Chief, they have a Golden Retriever, Casey, two house cats, four barn cats and eight horses. They also board and breed horses and Mary teaches English riding. She's a therapeutic riding instructor for the handicapped, as well.
Life is never dull. Their two granddaughters visit several times a year and feel right at home with the Casper menagerie. Grampa and Mimi do everything they can to make sure their visits to Little Oaks Farm will be lifelong fond memories. After all, isn't that what grandparents are for?
Ken figures his writing career probably started in the sixth grade when he was ordered by a teacher to write a "theme" explaining his misbehavior over the previous semester. To his teacher's chagrin, he enjoyed stringing just the right words together to justify his less than stellar performance. Fortunately, she forgave him.
Since then, he's had short stories published in a popular men's magazine and was working on a mystery when his critique partners, three romance writers, suggested he try their genre. He had his doubts ("Me? Write romance? Are you kidding?), but he decided to give it a try, anyway. His first-chapter romance submission won honorable mention at the Southwest Writers' Workshop contest in 1993. Ken revised it...and revised it, then entered the Golden Triangle Writers' Guild contest in '95. This time he took first place in both mystery and romance. The romance entry later became his first sale to Harlequin Superromance. A MAN CALLED JESSE was published in October '98. Since then he's written more than a dozen other Superromances, including the First Family of Texas series, contributed to two trilogies, a six-book series set in the police department of Houston, Texas, and he's currently involved in a five-book series set in the beautiful hill country of central Texas. His October 2003 Super, THE WOMAN IN THE NEWS, was a Holt Medallion finalist.
Ken Casper previously wrote as K.N. Casper
Now a transplanted Texan. He and Mary, his wife of 34 years, own a horse farm in San Angelo. Along with their Border Collie, Chief, they have a Golden Retriever, Casey, two house cats, four barn cats and eight horses. They also board and breed horses and Mary teaches English riding. She's a therapeutic riding instructor for the handicapped, as well.
Life is never dull. Their two granddaughters visit several times a year and feel right at home with the Casper menagerie. Grampa and Mimi do everything they can to make sure their visits to Little Oaks Farm will be lifelong fond memories. After all, isn't that what grandparents are for?
Ken figures his writing career probably started in the sixth grade when he was ordered by a teacher to write a "theme" explaining his misbehavior over the previous semester. To his teacher's chagrin, he enjoyed stringing just the right words together to justify his less than stellar performance. Fortunately, she forgave him.
Since then, he's had short stories published in a popular men's magazine and was working on a mystery when his critique partners, three romance writers, suggested he try their genre. He had his doubts ("Me? Write romance? Are you kidding?), but he decided to give it a try, anyway. His first-chapter romance submission won honorable mention at the Southwest Writers' Workshop contest in 1993. Ken revised it...and revised it, then entered the Golden Triangle Writers' Guild contest in '95. This time he took first place in both mystery and romance. The romance entry later became his first sale to Harlequin Superromance. A MAN CALLED JESSE was published in October '98. Since then he's written more than a dozen other Superromances, including the First Family of Texas series, contributed to two trilogies, a six-book series set in the police department of Houston, Texas, and he's currently involved in a five-book series set in the beautiful hill country of central Texas. His October 2003 Super, THE WOMAN IN THE NEWS, was a Holt Medallion finalist.
Ken Casper previously wrote as K.N. Casper
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July 6, 2013
Running Wide Open by Ken Casper
Harlequin NASCAR Library
NASCAR: Hidden Legacies Book 9
Trey Sanford is the youngest of three brothers and drives for Sanford Racing. The media and blogs have been busy speculating about his late night trips to Mexico. The most common thought is that he has a woman and perhaps even a whole family living there. He’d rather they believe that idea than the truth. That he goes there for a medical condition. A condition that would most likely take away his career if people knew.
Dr. Nicole Foster, friend to Becky Peters and Tara Dalton, has made her younger brother her utmost priority. He’s almost eighteen now and rebelling against her like she was his parent and not his sister. He calls her a CFS, control freak sister. After working at the NASCAR infield clinic she discovers her brother and Trey have something in common. She had no clue that begging Trey to disclose his medical condition to Dave would change her life completely.
Many books in this series have hit upon specific health or life issues. This book also has a misunderstood condition and the author does a fabulous job of enlightening the reader. A clue comes up on the missing Grosso baby but nothing more on the murder. The tenth book in the series is A Taste For Speed, it introduces Steve Clayton and Sarah Stanton.
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Harlequin NASCAR Library
NASCAR: Hidden Legacies Book 9
Trey Sanford is the youngest of three brothers and drives for Sanford Racing. The media and blogs have been busy speculating about his late night trips to Mexico. The most common thought is that he has a woman and perhaps even a whole family living there. He’d rather they believe that idea than the truth. That he goes there for a medical condition. A condition that would most likely take away his career if people knew.
Dr. Nicole Foster, friend to Becky Peters and Tara Dalton, has made her younger brother her utmost priority. He’s almost eighteen now and rebelling against her like she was his parent and not his sister. He calls her a CFS, control freak sister. After working at the NASCAR infield clinic she discovers her brother and Trey have something in common. She had no clue that begging Trey to disclose his medical condition to Dave would change her life completely.
Many books in this series have hit upon specific health or life issues. This book also has a misunderstood condition and the author does a fabulous job of enlightening the reader. A clue comes up on the missing Grosso baby but nothing more on the murder. The tenth book in the series is A Taste For Speed, it introduces Steve Clayton and Sarah Stanton.
http://justjudysjumbles.blogspot.com/...
July 31, 2013
I'm disappointed in the writing in this book, I feel it wasn't up to par with some of the other NASCAR Harlequins I've read and I'm going to arbitrarily blame it on the author's gender (likely incorrectly). This book hit all the points it was supposed to but the transition between those moments felt non-existent. Our main characters meet and almost before you can blink (and certainly before they can go on a proper date) they're together like it's normal not to have any lead up to a physical relationship.
When the broke up I was honestly puzzled about when they had started dating in the first place. Although this is possibly the only NASCAR Harlequin I will ever quote for non-hilarity purposes, all of the pieces that fit around the main points to make the big picture were missing.
Also.... after reading so many of these books that make SUCH A BIG DEAL about life on the road in a NASCAR family, for the institution of NASCAR and all it's associated pieces to play such a sidelined role in this book was weird. I know it's probably required that these books end with an engagement but it's never felt so unnecessarily tacked on as with this one.
When the broke up I was honestly puzzled about when they had started dating in the first place. Although this is possibly the only NASCAR Harlequin I will ever quote for non-hilarity purposes, all of the pieces that fit around the main points to make the big picture were missing.
Also.... after reading so many of these books that make SUCH A BIG DEAL about life on the road in a NASCAR family, for the institution of NASCAR and all it's associated pieces to play such a sidelined role in this book was weird. I know it's probably required that these books end with an engagement but it's never felt so unnecessarily tacked on as with this one.
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April 25, 2010A typical Harlequin happy ending with some serious subject matter concerning epilepsy.
November 16, 2014
Little too dramatic and unrealistic. PG.
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