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Elizabeth Bevarly

Autor de You've Got Male

110+ Obras 3,224 Miembros 38 Reseñas 3 Preferidas

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Series

Obras de Elizabeth Bevarly

You've Got Male (2005) 239 copias
My Man Pendleton (1998) 181 copias
Express Male (2006) 154 copias
How to Trap a Tycoon (2000) 151 copias
Just Like a Man (2005) 136 copias
Double the Heat [Anthology 4-in-1] (2009) — Contribuidor — 133 copias
Her Man Friday (1999) 113 copias
Society Bride (1999) 106 copias
The Thing About Men (2004) 104 copias
Take Me, I'm Yours (2002) 100 copias
Fast & Loose (2008) 95 copias
Indecent Suggestion (2005) 92 copias
He Could Be the One (2001) 92 copias
Overnight Male (2008) 78 copias
The Ring on Her Finger (2003) 76 copias
Ready & Willing (2008) 59 copias
Married to His Business (2007) 43 copias
The House On Butterfly Way (2012) 39 copias
Taming the Beastly MD (2003) 38 copias
Destinations South (1989) 37 copias
Beauty and the Brain (1998) 36 copias
Neck & Neck (2009) 36 copias
My Only Vice (2006) 35 copias
Moriah's Mutiny (1991) 32 copias
First Comes Love (2000) 31 copias
Bride of the Bad Boy (1998) 30 copias
The Debutante (2005) 30 copias
Undercover With the Mob (2004) 30 copias
Lucy and the Loner (1997) 28 copias
Taming the Prince (2002) 28 copias
Roxy and the Rich Man (1997) 27 copias
The Virgin and the Vagabond (1998) 27 copias
That Boss of Mine (1999) 26 copias
Georgia Meets Her Groom (1997) 25 copias
Monahan's Gamble (2000) 23 copias
Write It Up! [3-in-1] (2006) 22 copias
Dr. Irresistible (2000) 21 copias
When Jayne Met Erik (2001) 21 copias
Father of the Brat (1996) 21 copias
Hired Hand (1993) 21 copias
The Newlyweds (2004) 19 copias
A Doctor in Her Stocking (1999) 18 copias
The Perfect Father (1995) 18 copias
Jake's Christmas (1992) 17 copias
A Lawless Man (1994) 16 copias
Dr. Mommy (2000) 16 copias
Dr. Daddy (1995) 16 copias
Close Range (1990) 15 copias
Unsuitable Man For The Job (1992) 15 copias
The Wedding (1993) 14 copias
A Dad Like Daniel (1995) 14 copias
Donovan's Chance (1990) 13 copias
Father of the Brood (1996) 13 copias
Up Close (1992) 10 copias
The Pregnancy Affair (2017) 8 copias
Only on His Terms (2015) 8 copias
Return Engagement (1993) 7 copias
Baby in the Making (2017) 5 copias
Ever True (2011) 3 copias
Just Desserts (2011) 3 copias
Dynasties: The Barones book set [12-in-1] (2004) — Autor — 2 copias
The Honeymoon (1995) 1 copia
En man att älska- (2000) 1 copia
En pappa som Daniel (1995) 1 copia
Julia Collection Band 75 (2014) 1 copia

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Christmas Spirits (1997) — Contribuidor — 84 copias
A Family Christmas [Anthology 3-in-1] (1997) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Beauty and the Brain (2016) — Original Text — 1 copia
The Virgin and the Vagabond (2016) — Original Text — 1 copia
When Jayne Met Erik (2015) — Original Text — 1 copia
Bride of the Bad Boy (2016) — Original Text — 1 copia
First Comes Love (2017) — Original Text — 1 copia
The Temptation of Rory Monahan — Original Text — 1 copia
Baby in the Making (2021) — Original Text — 1 copia
A CEO in Her Stocking — Original Text — 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Bevarly, Elizabeth
Fecha de nacimiento
1961
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Lugares de residencia
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Puerto Rico
Washington, D.C., USA
Virginia, USA
Biografía breve
Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.. Her grandmothers, Ruth Bevarly and Hazel Robinson went her models to follow. She says: "Both women lived in times when women were viewed as weak, fragile creatures, yet both of them were strong, forceful women who struggled to overcome poverty and hardship. They were anything but weak or fragile." She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it "Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!" Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Elizabeth earned her B.A. with honours in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she never wanted to be anything but a novelist, her career detours before making the leap to writing included stints working in movie theatres, restaurants, boutiques and major department stores. She also spent time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) that she will never ever use again.

Finally, in 1989, she sold her first novel, Destinations South, to Silhouette Books. Since then, she has gone on to sell more than 30 novels and six novellas to five different publishers. Her books have appeared on a number of bestseller lists, including the USA Today bestseller list. She's been nominated for several Romantic Times awards. She was recently given a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times magazine for Series Love and Laughter, and her Silhouette Desire, The Perfect Father was awarded the National Readers' Choice Award in 1996. Her novels have been published in 19 languages and more than two dozen countries. There are more than five million copies of her books in print worldwide.

Elizabeth is married with a member of the Coast Guard, and they had a son in 1995. "My husband and I met when we were teenagers, and back then, our idea of romance was necking in the back seat of his Pontiac Firebird. My husband was stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico with the Coast Guard when we married, and that whole period of our life was so idyllic. It's just a wonderful city all around. When we were living as newlyweds, romance was sitting on the beach at sunset, holding hands and listening to a live salsa band. Now, with a young child, romance is having our son at my mum's for the night, so that we can rent a movie and watch it by candlelight with a nice bottle of Pinot Grigio." She has claimed as residences Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., northern Virginia and southern New Jersey, but she now resides with her husband and young son in her native Kentucky, where she fully intends to remain. When she's not writing, Elizabeth enjoys old film, old houses, good books, fine antiques and salsa music, and she has a tendency to rescue abandoned animals. Both of her cats, Quito (named after a bar on Tortola) and Wallo (named by her then-two-year-old son for reasons she and her husband will never understand) are refugees the first from a rest area beside a main road, and the other from a park near where she used to live.

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Reseñas

Terrific start to the new series. Chance's small town is famous for the comet that appears every fifteen years. Legend has it that if you wish on the comet, it might come true. And if you were born during a Comet Bob year, your chances were even better. So when fifteen-year-old Chance wished for a million dollars (the reason is heartbreaking), he never expected HOW it would happen.

Fifteen years later, Chance finds out that his estranged older brother has died and left the guardianship of his twin children to him. The children are brought to him by their mother's cousin, Poppy, a self-proclaimed cold, ruthless lawyer. The terms of the guardianship fulfill the wish, but Chance is more shell-shocked by the prospect of raising two children. His introduction to Finn and Quinn does nothing to lessen the shock.

Poppy planned to deliver the children and return to Boston the next day. She has an important case coming up, and winning that case will cement her chances of making partner. But she is not quite as cold as she thinks because when she misses her flight, she gives in to the children's pleas to stay a few more days. With no hotel rooms available because of the Comet Bob Festival, Poppy ends up staying with Chance and the children.

Neither Chance nor Poppy expected their intense attraction for each other, though both tried to ignore it. I loved seeing their relationship develop as they worked together to settle the kids into their new lives. I loved seeing Chance introduce Poppy to the joys of small-town life, so different from her high-powered life in Boston. From boating and swimming on the river (and rescuing a puppy!) to shopping in local stores, Poppy lost some of that cold, ruthless veneer with every passing hour. And with Poppy's help, Chance finds the family he didn't know he needed.

I ached for both when they gave in to their attraction, but Poppy was still fixated on the plan she'd followed all her life. I could feel Chance's pain as he said goodbye to her. It was also evident that Poppy was forcing herself to leave. I was glued to the pages as I waited to see how long it would take her to see where she belonged. I loved when she hit that breaking point; the scene with her mother, brother, and sister was terrific. I loved her reunion with Chance, and the whole cocktail glass thread made me laugh out loud. The epilogue was fantastic, though I would have liked to read about Thanksgiving dinner with her family.

Finn and Quinn were fantastic characters. I thought they were portrayed realistically as six-year-olds who had lost their parents. Poppy's depiction of their lives with their parents goes a long way to explaining their behavior at the beginning of the book. I loved how Chance immediately stepped up, and his new normal changed his life and theirs. Chance's reaction to their first hugs broke my heart for what it said about his life. I loved the changes in Finn and Quinn once they settled into their life with Chance.

I liked meeting Chance's best friends, Max and Felix. They have been friends their whole lives. The cookout scene was good as they tried to see what Chance was wound up about. I liked how Chance turned the tables on them when they started teasing him about Poppy. We learned a little more about Felix when Chance told Poppy about Felix's restaurant and awards. The dinner scene at the restaurant was great. I can't wait to read their stories.
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scoutmomskf | Sep 17, 2022 |
2.5 stars

This has two characters that are different and a bit quirky, refreshingly different from the usually hero and heroine. The hero is a horse trainer but really no scenes involving that, you get some of the hoopla surrounding the Kentucky Derby a little. The heroine is a glass artist, you get more artsy stuff/tone involving her.
The author did a great job introducing her characters, maybe too good a job because it feels like 60-70% of the book is introducing our characters and slowing bringing them together. We then get a rushed bottom heavy ending of them coming together and having a very quick romance. I really enjoyed these characters separately but did not get near enough time of them together to feel their romance.
There was also a secondary romance that came close to stealing the show.
Definitely a different beat contemporary if you're looking to break out of the usual contemporary fare but the rushed romance ending killed all the lengthy character ground work the author had done.
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WhiskeyintheJar | 2 reseñas más. | Feb 14, 2019 |
rabck abxc-10/11; in Jake's Christmas, Jake hires party planner Rebecca to make his house a home over the Christmas holidays…and afterwards realizes it's her, not her planning skills that made his house a home; in One Christmas Knight; trucker Jimmy Joe comes to Mirabella's rescue when she's stranded in a snowstorm and in labor.
 
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nancynova | Jul 20, 2018 |
Enchanted. Not something billionaire Marcus Fallon has ever felt. Yet when he lays eyes on Della Hannan, a mysterious beauty, he knows she's meant to be his. Hadn't chance thrown them together again and again? Who is he not to take an opportunity when it's offered? But one night is not enough for Marcus. Only after he asks Della for more does she explain she has no plans to stay. And the infamous bachelor finds himself with the tables turned...the one woman he wants has no intention of being caught in this billionaire's embrace.… (más)
½
 
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wndy2011 | Apr 10, 2017 |

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Miembros
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