Elizabeth Bevarly
Forfatter af You've Got Male
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A Sprinkle of Fairy Dust (Ever True / Magic and Mayhem / Fairy Dreams / Fairies Make Wishes, Too) (1996) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
Motherhood (Calamity Mom / Tabloid Baby / A Daddy for Her Daughters) (2005) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Only 15 Shopping Days Left... 2 eksemplarer
Coração Sedutor & Por Amor Ou Dinheiro 1 eksemplar
A Cinderella Story: Maid Under the Mistletoe / My Fair Billionaire / Second Chance with the CEO (2018) 1 eksemplar
Alles voor liefde 1 eksemplar
BACCARA EXKLUSIV Band 14: Heißes Herz und Spitzenhöschen/ Liebesspiele zum Dessert/ Von der Leidenschaft besiegt (2011) 1 eksemplar
Unforgettable Heroes II 1 eksemplar
The Wedding Wager (Do You Take This Man anth) 1 eksemplar
A Daddy For Her Daughters (Motherhood anth) 1 eksemplar
JULIA COLLECTION Band 14: KOMET DER LEIDENSCHAFT / ZU DIR ODER ZU MIR? / UNTER DEM STERN DER LIEBE / (2009) 1 eksemplar
Home on the Range 1 eksemplar
Omnibus Liefdeszaken 1 eksemplar
You've Got Mail * 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
A Mother's Day (Nobody's Child / Baby on the Way / A Daddy for Her Daughters) (2002) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
A Message from Cupid (Cupid's Arrow / Top Cat and Tales / Winning Ticket / Wheels of Love) (1998) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
Silhouette Sensational [c. 2000] (Annie and the Outlaw / A Lawless Man / Child of Her Dreams / Patrick Gallagher's… (2000) 15 eksemplarer
Do You Take This Man? (Rent a Husband/ Wedding Wager/ Lonesome Rider) (2008) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
The Temptation of Rory Monahan — Original Text — 1 eksemplar
A CEO in Her Stocking — Original Text — 1 eksemplar
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- Andre navne
- Bevarly, Elizabeth
- Fødselsdato
- 1961
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Bopæl
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Puerto Rico
Washington, D.C., USA
Virginia, USA - Kort biografi
- 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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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.… (mere)