A Man To Call My Own
An unforgettable romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey take you on a captivating and sweeping romantic adventure. If you like Bridgerton, Georgette Heyer and Jenny Hambly, you will love this!
"Deliciously sexy historical romance" -- BOOKLIST
"First-rate romance" -- NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"Lindsey has mastered her craft, she creates fantasy...You want romance - you got it!" -- INSIDE BOOKS
"Johanna Lindsey creates fairy tales that come true...she understands a woman's secret fantasies" -- ROMANTIC TIMES
"Just what the doctor ordered..." -- ***** Reader review
"A must read...beautifully written" -- ***** Reader review
"I love the way she takes the reader right inside the characters heads" -- ***** Reader review
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TWO SISTERS. ONE MAN. WHO WILL CAPTURE HIS HEART?
When their father does unexpectedly, twins Amanda and Marian Laton are stunned to discover that in his will he has put them in the charge of their Aunt, who lives on a sprawling Texas farm.
Horrified to be leaving the town where they have grown up, the twins arrive at their Aunt Red's ranchhouse, only too aware that she now has to approve any suitor of theirs who may appear - or they lose their inheritance.
Amanda, with her glorious golden ringlets, had always been her father's favourite, and her scheming ways ensure that Marian never has the attention of any of the boys who call at their house.
But they soon both meet Chad Kincaid, handsome cowboy son of the next-door ranch owner - and both girls want him.
After an intoxicating series of twists and turns the course of true love ends in one of the Laton twins winning the heart of Chad...the heart of a man she can call her own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Amanda and Marian Laton are identical twins who couldn't be more different. Amanda, the apple of her father's eye, is a spoiled, jealous young woman; sweet-hearted Marian, in an effort to be as unlike her sister as possible, strives to make herself plain and undesirable. Set in the 1870s, this historical romance by the prolific Lindsey begins when Amanda and Marian's father dies in their hometown of Haverhill, Mass., and the twins are shipped off to Texas. Under the provisions of their father's will, they cannot claim their inheritances until they are married, and in the meantime they must live with their aunt, Kathleen Dunn, a widowed rancher nicknamed Red. Life on the ranch is much too rustic for Amanda, but Marian enjoys the country living and her brushes with Chad Kinkaid, heir to a ranching fortune, who is lending Red a helping hand. Hiding behind thick-lensed spectacles she doesn't need, Marian tries to deflect Chad, afraid that if she shows an interest in him her mean-spirited twin will lure him away. Slapstick catfights and anachronistic language ("it wasn't just the jealousy issues") give the novel a farcical slant; on the plus side, there is plenty of western kitsch: a train robbery, an attempted kidnapping and an old-fashioned barbecue. Concluding with an improbable surprise ending that is most unsatisfying and rather bitter for a historical romance, this is a clunky if occasionally entertaining effort that nonetheless will sell as Lindsey is wont to do that is, a lot.
