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Summary: Poignant, endearing and purely wonderful--another winner!
Review: I love Ben Longtree! But then I always love Catherine's heroes. How can I not? Her men are rough around the edges hunks in Wranglers and scuffed boots and battered Stetsons, strong without being overbearing, sweet without being wimps, and--trust me--mouth-wateringly sexy. Ah, but Ben... He takes throbbing masculinity to a whole new level. Tormented, lonely, powerful, he is exactly the kind of hero I find the most compelling--and absolutely irresistible. Even though he is a healer of great sensitivity and caring, he is powerless to heal the deep wounds gouged into his own soul.Then he meets the new woman in town. Chloe Evans is a quintessential Catherine Anderson heroine: battered but not defeated; wary but not bitter; loving and funny and generous. Keeping her son Jeremy safe, creating a happy home (which comes to include Rowdy the rascally pup)--those are the priorities that bring her to Oregon mountains. Falling in love is the last thing she intends--or wants. Yes, she's intrigued by the town's pariah. Yes, she's attracted. Okay, extremely attracted. But she'd fallen for the wrong man once before--and he'd nearly destroyed her. On the other hand, Ben desperately needs a friend, one person in his life who is willing to believe in him unconditionally. I read this book in one sitting--in the car, in fact, on the way to our granddaughter's birthday party in Washington. Because it's 450 miles from Nana and Papa's house to Alyssa's, I had intended to help with the driving, but...well, what can I say? Once I was in Jack Pine with Ben and Chloe et al. I simply had to find out how Catherine finagled a happily-ever-after for these two terrific, admirable people. So, if you're looking for a feel good read, one that will make you laugh and cry and cheer, put this one on the top of your to-be-read pile, then clear your schedule, pour a glass of wine, and prepare to be enthralled.
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Summary: Hot hot hot!
Review: I picked this up as an airplane book and ended up reading it every evening while on my mini-vacation! It is the first of Catherine Anderson's books I've read and I'm definintely going to become a regular of hers. I loved Chloe's strength of character and the fact that she's believable, in a believable clerical position as a dispatcher. I could also readily identify with the Christmas store and Chloe's delight with the business. Her problems with Bobby Lee definitely raised the anxiety level of the plot, considering what side of the law he was on. His cunning, devious break in and the transmission to the dispatcher were both terrifying and believable. Ms. Anderson writes well and certainly knows how to envoke passion in her readers. The intimatacy between Chloe and Ben was just plain HOT. Wow!
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: I read this books while on a camping trip and just couldn't put it down.!
It has everything you need in a good book!
You will come to love the characters and I have found myself thinking about them, and had to stop and remind myself that they weren't real. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!
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Summary: absolutely wonderful
Review: Only by Your Touch is a story about ordinary people dealing with very real human problems, learning to love and trust again, and come to grips with an extraordinary power to heal. Ben, a vet. and part Shoshone Indian,becomes real to the reader as he srtuggles to understand his healing abilities. Chloe, a single mother, reminds me of all the struggles inherent in the role. Together their developing relationship makes it impossible to put this bood down.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Quite simply, this was one of the best books I have ever read. I was torn between racing through it because it was so good and pacing myself because I didn't want it to end.
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Summary: Unbelievable!!! 5 Stars! So Touching and Heartfelt!
Review: So emotional and deep, this book is become one of my all time favs. I love how Ms. Anderson makes the situations so real and different from the typical. No one is rich and well off and their problems are very real and not simply well, not to be blunt, but trivial.
Sometimes you read some romances and they make it seem as though the problems are so trivial and easily solved if the characters would just stop and pay attention. Not with Ms. Anderson and I am glad. Its a breath of fresh air. These are REAL problems we ALL face and even if we don't all face them they are serious enough to warrant the angst and worry in the story.
The heroine is strong and the hero is not overbearing and dramatic. He is REAL. He is your own husband and your father, brother and someone you would really meet. Not a conjured character. She makes them so real, you feel as though you know them.
In this book, Chloe Evans leaves a tough past behind to bring her child Jeremy to a new place to start fresh. A tiny place called Jack Pine, Oregon. But all is not well in Jack Pine, even though from the outside all seems quiet. A horrible past and poison is lurking in town and trying to keep Jeremy safe from her own past, Chloe goes to the only man she thinks can help her and her son, Ben Longtree.
Ben is by far not to be befriended. Long a go he was rumored to have murdered a man and possibly murders people that step onto his wilderness property. He lives with his ill mother and in isolation with the injured animals that come to him mysteriously. Once a veterinarian, his past destroyed what was left of his practice. So when red-haired Chloe comes to him for help with her son, he is angry. They must be trying to turn him in for the animals on his property.
As time goes by, Ben realizes that Chloe is just the balm for his battered and tortured soul. Fate threw them together and he just may be able to start anew. But that poison lurking is seeping into their lives already...
Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Unbelievable!!! 5 Stars! So Touching and Heartfelt!
Review: So emotional and deep, this book is become one of my all time favs. I love how Ms. Anderson makes the situations so real and different from the typical. No one is rich and well off and their problems are very real and not simply well, not to be blunt, but trivial.
Sometimes you read some romances and they make it seem as though the problems are so trivial and easily solved if the characters would just stop and pay attention. Not with Ms. Anderson and I am glad. Its a breath of fresh air. These are REAL problems we ALL face and even if we don't all face them they are serious enough to warrant the angst and worry in the story.
The heroine is strong and the hero is not overbearing and dramatic. He is REAL. He is your own husband and your father, brother and someone you would really meet. Not a conjured character. She makes them so real, you feel as though you know them.
In this book, Chloe Evans leaves a tough past behind to bring her child Jeremy to a new place to start fresh. A tiny place called Jack Pine, Oregon. But all is not well in Jack Pine, even though from the outside all seems quiet. A horrible past and poison is lurking in town and trying to keep Jeremy safe from her own past, Chloe goes to the only man she thinks can help her and her son, Ben Longtree.
Ben is by far not to be befriended. Long a go he was rumored to have murdered a man and possibly murders people that step onto his wilderness property. He lives with his ill mother and in isolation with the injured animals that come to him mysteriously. Once a veterinarian, his past destroyed what was left of his practice. So when red-haired Chloe comes to him for help with her son, he is angry. They must be trying to turn him in for the animals on his property.
As time goes by, Ben realizes that Chloe is just the balm for his battered and tortured soul. Fate threw them together and he just may be able to start anew. But that poison lurking is seeping into their lives already...
Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: Way too many cliches
Review: The author piles up the problems one after the other for the heroine, the villain is as transparent as glass, and the whole premise of his motives and the way he acts is just unbelievable. Add to it some really wooden sex scenes with awful dialogue and the whole thing was a chore to read from start to finish. This was my first Anderson book ever, and I have to say that as a fan of Lavyrle Spencer, I was sadly disappointed and would never waste my time with another of these books.
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Summary: Catherine Anderson does it again!
Review: There is a reason that all of Catherine Anderson's books rate over four stars: She knows how to write a story that pulls you in and gives you friends for life with her characters. There are no perfect people in Catherine's books - they are people who have lived and learned the lessons of life. You will fall in love with the characters in Only By Your Touch and wish the book was longer! This is a wonderful book with a lovely story about overcoming huge odds on the way to happiness. I have never been disappointed in a Catherine Anderson book. She takes me to places I once believed in and shows that there is still hope and faith in the world.
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Summary: A Very Good Read ~
Review: This book was so good it deserves more then 5 stars. Catherine Anderson has done it again! I love the way she tells her stories the way it is worded. This is a touching story about two people who are trying to find there way in life. Chloe wants a better life for her son Jeremy they have had a rough life so far. I just fell in love with this sweet six year old little boy who just wanted to be loved but is afraid because of what he had to go through. Ben is an out cast even though he has lived there all his life, he was accused of killing a man. Ben has this gift were he can make animals that are wounded and make them feel better. Ben is so scared for Chloe to find out the truth about who he really is but what can be bad as her thinking that he killed someone. There is a moment in the book where it had me all teary eyed and that is when Ben and Jeremy are talking to each other is was such a sweet moment. I really loved this book I know that it will be one of my many keepers and I would love to revisit them again someday :)
Happy Reading
Lisa
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