To the Ends of the Earth

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Summary: Not your typical Mushy romance.
Review: First of all, I would just like to say that Elizabeth Lowell is an exceptional writer. Her storys never lack depth or substance, and this book is certainly no exception.

This story involves the beautiful Cat Cochran, a photographer who lives and breathes her work. She is a woman who works day and night so that she can support her mother and two siblings. She is a woman who has been hurt by an unforgiving past.

Travis Danvers is a self made rich man. His past has also left him unwary and cautious of all women. He cannot trust that any women would love anything more than money. Even himself.

With that state of mind, Travis meets Cat, the lovely photographer for his book on sailboats. He is drawn to her quiet beauty, but of course assumes that she is like most of the other women he has known. Women who are only interested in him for his vast fortune. He desperately wants to believe otherwise, but he has been hurt before.

Even though Cat has been deeply hurt by "rich" men, she cannot help but fall for the striking Travis Danvers. Because of her immense responsibilities, Cat cannot stop overworking herself. Travis tries to buy her time with him, but she cannot accept. She will not accept his money, she will be no man's mistress. Cat Cochran takes care of her own self.

Cat and Travis' pasts hurts come in the way of their blossiming love. Past betrayals make Travis hurt Cat in an unforgivable manner. Alone and afraid, Cat loses something deeply cherished, something which means the world to her. Only the love from Travis can make the wronged, right.

This is an excellent novel, which will take you and sweep you off your feet. I recommend it wholeheartedly. You won't regret it.

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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I cannot get over how intensely this book grips you from beginning to end!
What a fabulous deep romance!
They do not write romances like these anymore where the story is all about the passions, emotions, and past traumas that the hero and heroine struggle constantly with, which creates such a sensual atmosphere of tension and suspense, you will not want to put the book down until you finish it!

The hero is a ship designing genius with an ugly past marriage that has blinded him to view women as money-hungry harlots. She is a talented photographer who escaped a more traumatizing marriage and is struggling financially to put her sibling twins into Medical School. She is assigned to take photos of one of his designer ships, but they meet unexpectedly before they know each other's identities and the chemistry between them is instant and genuinely open.

The writing is unbelievably intense; it creates an exotically detailed, moody, and stormy atmosphere that is congruous with the characters' personalities. The reader physically feels the electrical emotions passing through them when they are fighting, making love, crying or admiring each other's artistic genius.

Furthermore, the novel hardly incorporates any side characters, but when they are introduced their development is kept to a minimal-they onle serve to heighten the suspense for the main character's romance-or aid it.

The ending is especially gut-wrenching and I actually wept.

Judith Mcnaught fans, you will be moved by this book. As for everyone else, the same thing goes! Read it and you will not regret the sensual, sexy, tumultuous dive of a romance that you will surely experience!

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Summary: WOW! I couldn't put it down!
Review: I started with E. Lowell's historical romances and fell in love with her style. This is the 2nd contemporary novel of hers I've read and again am not disappointed. I liked her strong females in the historicals, but the females in the contemporaries are even stronger. I can respect Cat's not wanting to give in to selling out for Travis' money and having to do it the hard way. The depth Lowell takes you to in these 2 lives and their pain is extraordinary. I cried and laughed and was thrilled with the ending. I read this into the wee hours of the night and picked it up immediately in the morning to finish it.

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Summary: This has got it all
Review: It is really. You can feel the characters' emotions and agony. Some times you smile and some times you cry. You agonize whith them. You live them. And you miss them to extent that as soon as you finish it you start reading it again.And you keep on coming to it again and again and again.
In boring days it's a must. In lonely nights it's a need.
buy it!
believe me this is one book you'll never forget!

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Summary: Can you believe it...I actually cried
Review: Romance novels never used to make me cry. I love reading them but I usually end up dismissing the plot and characters as fluff. I know that there will be a happy ending and therefore, read the book unemotionally. Well. I can honestly say that this book, To the Ends of the Earth, made me shed more than a tear. Actually, when my sister walked in and saw me sitting on the couch surrounded by discarded tissues. She was alarmed and thought there was actually something wrong with me.

But really, this book captures the beauty and emotion of love so well that it just pulls at your heart, demanding your emotions. I simply could not detach myself from the plot. The fresh happiness of the newly-discovered love between Cat and Travis and finally the heart-wrenching climax...OH! This book was just brimming with passion and raw human emotion, stripped to the core. The diction is so fluid and appropriate that I found myself mesmerized. A truly wonderful book. Notice I didnt say romance. This book sheds the boring predictability often associated with romance and emerges out as a novel brimming with passion, dreams and most of all...LOVE

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Summary: Compelling.........Heart Wrenching
Review: This book was both the most fantastic and the saddest I've ever read. Noot that It doesn't have a happy ending, but Travis and Cat both have such screwed-up lives. both have been burned ny marriage and neither is willing to bend. Travis is a millionaire who was married for his money, and Cat is a photographer who was married to a rich boy who only wanted children, but she was sterile. Travis thinks that she only wants to get close to him for his money. Cat knows that her heart will be broken when he eventually answers the call of the sea and sails off in one of the sleek boats he designs. Do they have a chance at love?

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Summary: Loved it!
Review: This was by far one of my favorite books. I have been having a hard time finding a good read, but this with out a doubt made it. The story between Cat and Travis is so emotional and heart wrenching it will keep you turning pages. I fully recommend it.

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Summary: Still got it....
Review: Ya, this was a really good book. This is only the second book by EL that I have read, but it was almost as good as the first book of hers that I have read. Cat is an amazing woman. She is independent, warm, funny, determined and driven. Travis is OK too. I didnt like how he kept jumping from liking Cat to torturing her by accusing her constantly of using him. I guess it is understandable, at least to a point, why he is that way. Dont get me wrong, he has a deep well of emotions inside of him and that makes him human to the reader. When he wasnt putting thughts into his own head because he was so scared, he was a great man. Really great.
There was one part of the plot that I thought was really stupid. It really bothered me. And that was the part of the reason Cat had to work so hard was to pay for her mothers bills. Helping pay for her sisters medical school is good for the plot, it fits and is believeable. Grants dont cover much and its easy to see why they would not work as well. Its medical school. But to work yourself to the bone, get sick and be unhealthy for years because your mom wont stop shopping? Because she was spolied and cant figure out her check book. Then to leave raising your kids to one of your other kids, that is just too irresponsible. No mother I know would do that to their kid. I thought the author could have come up with something better then a selfish mother who does not care to raise her children. Why couldnt she have been sick? Had a real reason to not be able to take care of things instead of she cant stop shopping? So, that smacked of stupidity to me. But that would have to be my only complaint. The rest of the book was wonderful. From the first page to the last page. The story sucked you in and pulled you along. It is very realistic. Very. There are many ways that I connected with the story. Feel the happiness and that pain. I have to admit, I shed more then a tear at the sad part. I was also extatic at the happy parts. This book was very emotional and touching. Shows love at its best and some of the worst. Like I said, very real. Nothing in real life is perfect, and thsi follows along those lines. Great story. Highly recommended!