Jillian Hart is usually one of my favorite western author but THE HORSEMAN fell flat for me.  I enjoy her more alpha heroes.

Katelyn is back living with her mother and step father after she has been beaten, miscarried her daughter, and then set aside by her husband because she is now barren.  Her step father plans to rid himself of her as fast as possible and offers her to The Horseman, Dillon as payment for breaking some of his horses.

Dillon saw Katelyn through the window, she is beautiful, like golden angel and he is in love.  Dillon can talk to horses but has never been able to court a woman.  With Katelyn he gentles her like a wounded horse.  He gets her away from her step father taking her to a hotel where she can see a doctor and start to heal.  Then he gives her the choice of a train ticket or marriage and his love.  When Katelyn chooses Dillon they move to his home and she falls in love with her husband, but he doesn't know she can't have anymore children.

For beta hero lovers this is a great book, for the more alpha lovers it tended to drag.

THE HORSEMAN              Rated C+
Jillian Hart        
8/2004 
Rom/H
Dillon Hennessey was a man like no other.  Strong yet caring, determined yet kind. But he was still a man, Katelyn Green reminded herself, and therefore not to be trusted. Hadn't her own husband abandoned her in her hour of need? And yet the whispers in her soul promised happiness with this man who'd gentled horses and her heart!

Katelyn Green had lost a child, and Dillon knew it ate away at her very core. He would help her if he could, if he had the words and ways. But would his tenderness be enough to win a woman who'd been robbed of her faith in love?

Reading is my favorite past time but while your in the hospital some of the petty things the hero/heroine do in books made me want to shake them. That is what happened a few times in the 3 books I read will staying with my daughter. It is very hard to concentrate when the door opens every few minutes with a nurse or doctor. I did read a 3 Harlequin Super Romances:

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Rated B
Inglath Cooper
7/2004
Rom/C

I enjoyed this one....Culley and Addy were childhood pals all the way to high school. Culley dated anything in a skirt and Addy fell in love with the new boy in school, Mark. Mark and Addy moved away but years later Addy walks in on Mark and his pregnant lover.
When she is in NYC she happens to bump in to Culley who is now a single father and doctor in their hometown. Sparks of passion fly between them and they have a night of passion.
When Addy's mother starts having problems with the family orchard Addy flies home to help for a while. Culley hopes he can convince Addy to stay for a life time.

DADDY's LITTLE MATCHMAKER Rate C
Roz Denny Fox
8/2004
Rom/C

Widower Alan Ridge wonders if Laurel Ashline, a weaver who's just arrived in Ridge City, Kentucky, can do what no doctor has: help his daughter, Louemma. He's skeptical about weaving as therapy but he'll do anything for Louemma. Her injuries resulted from the accident that killed her mother — although Alan's never understood where his wife was going that icy winter day.…

THE RIGHT WOMAN Rated C-
Linda Warren
8/2004
Rom/C
Sarah Welch didn't know she had a twin until five years ago, when a string of events led her through the seedy underbelly of Dallas to the family she didn't know she had. Sarah has spent those five years trying to forget what she went through — forget the man who was gunned down, the criminal she helped put behind bars and the cop who saved her life.

Now Sarah is in danger once again. And while this time she's able to confide her fears to her twin sister, there's only one person who can truly help her — Daniel Garrett, the cop who never stopped loving her. Working by Daniel's side to stop a killer, Sarah begins to accept Daniel as part of her past.

And part of her future…



I've just started THE HORSEMAN by Jillian Hart a August Harlequin Historical. She has become one of my favortie western authors.

I only had time to read one book this week because my daughter is in the hospital. I finished MOON IN THE WATER by Elizabeth Grayson....very good. Gave it a B.


She wanted nothing but freedom -- and found herself surrendering to temptation....

Ann Rossiter is no man's idea of the perfect wife, yet she has a chance -- a single chance -- to insure her future. To protect her unborn child, Ann agrees to marry a common riverboat pilot. In exchange, he'll gain command of her stepfather's magnificent new steamer -- the ANDROMEDA. But as they ply the western rivers together, Ann is drawn to her new husband, to his quiet strength and smoldering magnetism. Still, she dares not yield her heart for fear he will discover her most terrifying secret.

As the ANDROMEDA steams toward the wilds of the Montana Territory, Chase Hardesty finds himself falling in love with his new bride. But when Ann's past comes back with a vengeance, will their marriage of convenience end in tragedy -- or in love forever?

Wow, can't believe I haven't posted any reads since June 29th. I've read a few books just nothing to brag about. I reviewed a e-book, KATHLEEN that the author probably would have been happier if I hadn't read it.
http://romancereaderatheart.com/pubsandpromos/2004/nov04/K_IP.html

After that I read a Time Travel, PASSION's TIMELESS HOUR by Vivian Knight-Jenkins
7/1992 Rom/TT-Civil War/1960s,70s/Vietnam War. I enjoyed this book but not the ending, just way to rushed.

I've got a few new books sitting at the top of my TBR.
ON THE LINE by Kathryn Shay (my favorite author)
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY by Katie MacAliaster (new to me author)
AND THEN CAME YOU by Maureen Child (review book)
CLAY by Ana Leigh (wagon train)
MOON IN THE WATER by Elizabeth Grayson (another favorite author)
ANYWHERE YOU ARE by Constance O'Day-Flannery
THE BABE MAGNET by Robin Wells
MS. SIMON SAYS by Mary McBride
AGAIN THE MAGIC by Lisa Kleypas
DEVIL TAKES A BRIDE by Gaelen Foley
PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION by Susan Donovan

All of July's Harequin Historicals
TEXAS BRIDE by Carol Finch
THE DUTIFUL RAKE by Elizabeth Rolls (I've read the M&B issue)
FULK THE RELUCTANT by Elaine Knighton
WEST OF HEAVEN by Victoria Bylin

Now that I am between chemos, moved my FIL into the in law house, and we've finished the home improvements for the time being maybe I can get back to my reading frenzy!