Anything for Love

To Love Again #61

by Janelle Taylor

As a nave college student, Rachel Tims realized too late that Daniel Gaines only married her to spite his wealthy family. Although she learned to dress impeccably, speak softly, and smile like a lady, she was never accepted as a true Georgia ""Gaines"". Now, widowed and alone in her forties, Rachel is finally ready to leave her world of dull charity work and lazy country club afternoons behind. In addition to a career of her own, she also wants something a bit more shocking... Celebrated ex-football star Quentin Rawls has returned to Augusta a hero. A national celebrity with two failed marriages behind him, Quentin is rich, rugged and years younger than Rachel. As he awakens a passion that sends her heart soaring, Rachel is faced with risking everything for a feeling she never thought to have.

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary

432 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

The legendary Janelle Taylor was born on June 28, 1944 in Athens, GA. In 1965, she married Michael Taylor with whom she had two children, Angela Taylor-MacIntyre and Alisha Taylor Thurmond. Ms. Taylor attended the Medical College of Georgia from 1977 to 1979 and Augusta State University from 1980-1981. She withdrew from the latter after she sold her first two novels. Today, she is the author of thirty-nine novels, three novellas, and many contributions to other collections. There are thirty-nine million copies of her works in print worldwide and she has made The New York Times Bestseller List eight times. Ms. Taylor's works have also been featured ten times on the "1 million +" bestseller's list at Publisher's Weekly.

Some of Ms. Taylor's most recent books include By Candlelight, Someday Soon, Lakota Dawn, and Lakota Winds (due out in paperback in May 1999). She has also made contributions to other books including The Leukemia Society Cookbook, Christmas Rendezvous, and Summer Love. In addition, readers can see her as co-host of the QVC/TV Romance Book Club Show.

Ms. Taylor's interests include collecting spoons, coins from around the world, ship models, dolls, and old books. She loves to fish, ride horses, play chess, target-shoot, travel (especially in her motorhome and out West), hunt for Indian relics, and take long walks with her husband. Reading, in particular books set before 1900 and current Biographies, Thrillers, Horror, or Fantasy novels, is also one of Ms. Taylor's favorite activities. She is also extremely active with charity work and was even featured on the cover of Diabetes Forecast in February of 1998.

She lives in the country on seventy-nine acres of woods and pasture with a lake and a catfish pond. She writes her novels in a Spanish cottage which overlooks a five-acre lake, a working water mill, gazebo, and covered bridge.

Reviews

[Jacqueline J]

Holy crap Batman! I don't know as I've ever read a modern book that was so much telling instead of showing. And the showing involved a bunch of conversations between friends that just weren't interesting.

[Anika · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one dragged from the start. It took ages to meet the hero and there was so much random stuff going on that I just quit in the end. It's a shame there was the bones of a really interesting story as well, if the author had focused more on the romance and their history. Maybe she did further on. I bailed about 25% into the book.

[Mina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful and sweet.

I have enjoyed it compared to her other books, it's so different setting, time, locations never read about their ways. Just sweet and breathtaking!!

[Kari Dombkowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first book I read by her and she instantly became my favorite romance novelist. Hands down.

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't like the way the men referred to the females as woman. Like woman I love you.