My Long Tall Texas Heartthrob - Softcover

Geralyn Dawson is the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including My Big Old Texas Heartache and My Long Tall Texas Heartthrob (both available from Pocket Star Books). A three-time RITA finalist, Geralyn has won numerous awards, including the National Readers' Choice Award and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. She is an active volunteer for the Making Memories Foundation and lives in Forth Worth, Texas, with her family. Visit her website at www.GeralynDawson.com and watch for the first novel in her Bad Luck Brides series, Her Bodyguard.

Every romance contains a touch of fantasy, but this new offering from Dawson (My Big Old Texas Heartache, etc.) has more than a few fairy tale elements. Lawyer, carpenter and philanthropist Nick Sutherland is the so-called "Santa Claus" of quaint Cedar Dell, Tex. Not only is he gorgeous and gentlemanly, but he is a "seeker of dreams" who has climbed the Himalayas and helped build a hospital in Africa. He's also, miraculously, single. When Nick isn't helping the town's elderly, he's busy trying to aid despondent Chloe Anderson, who's living in a broken-down trailer, awaiting the birth of her twins. Her boyfriend, Snake, walked out on her, and now Snake's mother wants to evict her. Enter Chloe's sister, Tess, a successful L.A. talent agent who has spent most of her life extricating her younger sister from one sticky situation after another. Sparks fly between Nick and Tess, but their romance is often interrupted by various implausible plot developments, including Chloe's abandonment of the twins shortly after their birth and Snake's involvement with the Cowboy Mafia. Tess's efforts at parenting her new nieces provides some comic relief, and Dawson's portrayal of Cedar Hill and its gossipy locals is not without charm. But more often than not, the story's twists feel fabricated for the sole purpose of adding tension where there is none.
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