Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1771951 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 400 pages

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Roxy needs a husband and her son needs a father. But how can she consider the attentions of men when she can't forget the pain that Tanner Graylord had put her through when he had left her alone and pregnant. Now Tanner has returned. No longer the poor cowboy, but a rich cattle rancher. Could it be that more has changed than just his financial status?.

Customer Reviews

I wish I could give this a 4-. It had potentional to be a 5*
Tanner and Roxy fall in love as teenagers. Planning to be married unfortunately does not coincide with Roxy's father. So, he leads Tanner to believe that Roxy is "playing" him...and like an 18 yr old hothead, hurt beyond belief, he leaves his ranch to a friend and joins the civil war's Sherman. This is all the intro chapter and you then join the characters 7 yrs later when Tanner, still angry with Roxy, returns home to find her the mother of a (surprise) 7 yr old boy, and unwed. The entire middle of the book deals with Roxy and Tanner tiptoe-ing around each other, even falling into bed together, yet neither of them courageous enough to address the past. It is this middle part that gets bogged down and tedious. You want to shake them to grow up and TALK... Can't Tanner add 7 yr old to 7 yr absence and figure it out? Apparently not. There also are other potentially interesting characters that could have been explored more. Michelle wouldn't give "Ace" the time of day and a few pages later they've hit the sack and are planning a wedding. Christy and her hub are without children, and fear being left childless, then suddenly are pregnant and thats the last you hear of them.........Then there's the villin's selfish daughter, who it is strongly implied "doesn't like men" and runs off to join her girlfriend......but what's the scoop? Why did she feel forced to trap tanner when she couldn't stand his touch? And the list goes on of characters who started to come to life but didn't get their day in the sun. The "ending" when Tanner learns about his son Jory is a one page cut-to-the chase ending. It leaves you wanting more emotional reaction to the whole thing.
This book has enough in it to have been excellent and to have provided a basis for sequels. I am so sorry Norah Hess missed the boat. (At least I've learned about steers being sterile thanks to the writer above....)

BOOORINGGGGGG
I can't believe that there are people out there that buy trash like this. I am so glad that someone gave the book to me to read. If I had bought it myself I would have been madder. The hero (and I use the word with reserve) is plain stupid. He goes through the whole book not asking or suspecting one time that the boy might be his. He was the first one to ever touch her yet never once questioning the parentage of the child. You can condence the whole plot of the book into 5 chapters.The villain is a wimpy banker who kills himself and his daughter is a man hater who tries to seduce Tanner? I have read several books by NH and finally got fed up with the way she considers the reader to be as stupid as her chacters,so I quit buying her books.I wish that we could get more writers like Dara Joy,Linda Howard,Nora Roberts,Elizabeth Lowell and Sandra Hill.They make reading an adventure.

Very poor research by the Author on the book "Tanner"
Norah Hess states several times in the book "Tanner" that his new breeding stock of Steers........ growing up on a ranch we all know that the only use for Steers is for eating............. they happen to be sterile!!! Only Bulls breed. Shame on Norah, her proof reader and her editor. Please pass this on to her so she doesn't embarrass herself again.