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The Rana Look
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The Rana Look

Written by Sandra Brown

Narrated by Eliza Foss

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The author of forty-five New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown is one of the romance world's most acclaimed writers. Rendezvous magazine has praised her as a novelist whose "larger than life heroes and heroines make you believe all the warm, wonderful, wild things in life." Now, in the classic romantic tradition her fans have come to love, here is another sexy and extraordinary tale of passion--the story of a woman who gives up fame and fortune...and discovers true love in the last place she expected to find it.

The Rana Look

The modeling world called it the Rana Look...the exotic, one-of-a-kind allure that only supermodel Rana Ramsey could deliver. With her green eyes, olive skin, and wildly lustrous auburn hair, Rana posed for ad campaigns and strutted down runways all over the world, naming her own price to sell everything from cosmetics to women's lingerie.

But all of that suddenly ended one day when she looked her demanding mother-manager in the eye and said, "Enough." That was the day Rana packed her things and left New York--and modeling--forever. Settling in Miss Ruby's boardinghouse in Galveston, Texas, Rana finds success with her own business--and cultivates a new look to go with her new life. Now her beautiful eyes are shielded behind tinted glasses, her famous figure hidden under shapeless dresses, her trademark wild hair falling straight down her back. Rana knows she'll never attract a man this way, and that's just fine with her--that is, until Ruby's nephew, football star Trent Gamblin, moves in to nurse his injured shoulder. Ruggedly handsome, charming, and undeniably charismatic, Trent is the kind of man that Rana finds irresistible...the kind of man she is certain would never look twice at a woman as ordinary as the new Rana.

But to her surprise, Trent seems unfazed by her Plain Jane look. For he is drawn to a beauty that Rana can't hide. He is determined to learn the mystery behind the elusive, reclusive boarder with the secret past. To do so, he proposes an unusual pact: they will only be friends, nothing more.As the days pass, Rana and Trent are drawn together in a sensual idyll unlike anything either of them has ever known. But the outside world cannot be kept at bay forever. And Rana fears that when Trent learns the truth about her past, he'll feel betrayed and deceived. Even worse, he'll never be able to see her as she truly is. Then an unexpected tragedy strikes, and the stakes seem higher than ever. Now they must look deep into each other's heart to determine if their relationship is just an impossibly erotic dream--or a dream of love come true.


From the Hardcover edition.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 26, 2002
ISBN9780553756722
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The Rana Look
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Sandra Brown

Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-three New York Times bestsellers. She has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Four books have been adapted for film. She lives in Texas.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Remember the movie, "Love Story" from the 60's, but this one has a much happier ending.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Read and listened multiple times now. One of my fav. Books
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Rana Look by Sandra BrownThis book written under her alias name is a loveswept romance novel.Ruana has left her modeling career and gone back home to start a new career when pushed too hard by family. She stays at Aunt Ruby's boarding house and Trent arrives.A nephew ...fun, flirtful scenes and he proposes a pact. Trent and his secrets and tragedy occurs ...steamy sex scenes....Misunderstandings and money get in the way of their happiness....I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Now here's a 1980s romance that has held up since its original publication date. If you can look past the author's trademark purple prose and hilarious obsession with male chest hair, it is ultimately a sweet story about two people who discover what love truly means.Rana Ramsey is an internationally known model, famous for the titular 'Rana look.' This life of supposed fame, fortune, glamour, and money makes her absolutely miserable, mostly because her mother is an absolutely horrible. Rana finally has the guts to turn her back when her mother proposes selling marrying her to a multi-millionaire old enough to be her grandfather. Fed up, she runs away from the world she knows, settling in as a frumpy spinster in Galveston, TX. She disguises her body in shapeless clothes, her eyes with tinted eyeglasses, lets her hair hang long and lank, and quite naturally gains 20 lbs (by eating like a normal person) to fill out her figure. She's made a life for herself as a fabric artist, and sells her handiwork through a connection she made during her modeling days. She lives in a boardinghose with her landlady, who provides the bumbling comic relief in this piece. She is horrified when said landlady's arrogant professional-football-playing nephew comes to convalesce for the summer prior to his training camp.Trent Gamblin is a complete asshole at the start of the book. He thinks he's God's gift to women, and since dowdy ol' "Miss Ramsey" is obviously a lovestarved spinster, he decides he'll have fun with her during their time together in the boardinghouse. He starts pulling his usual obnoxious bullshit, but Rana calls him on it in an amazingly kickass way. Like, this is a feminist rant that resonates today, thirty-odd years later. It is truly a thing of beauty, and a complete breath of fresh air, considering even the strongest women tended to fold under their love interest's thumb the second he showed any interest in this era of romance novels.Trent can't avoid his baffling attraction to his neighbor, though, so he agrees to become her friend, and then freely admits he doesn't know how to be friends with a woman. Rana educates him on how to treat a woman as a human being instead of a sex object, and slowly but surely a friendship blossoms between them. They are still attracted to each other, but their instalust deepens into something resembling love, especially when Trent actually starts apologizes for arguing with her over stupid and petty shit.Trent doesn't completely escape his alpha/asshole ways, including a long scene where he sulks because of his sexual frustration and how Rana (whom he knows as Ana) is obviously either frigid or a prude, and he is pushy when they finally start having sex, including overriding her initial "no" their first time. But for the most part, he is a remarkably likeable hero for an 80s-era romance. Forced to develop feelings in order to sate his sexual needs, he manages to grow as a person as well. He falls in love with plain little Ana and doesn't care who knows it - his aunt, his teammates, the world. There's a great scene were he introduces Ana to his best friend, and said best friend rails at him after the fact for using Ana just to stroke his fragile male ego. Ha! Excellent comeuppance.The tragedy mentioned in the back-cover blurb is Rana's agent dies suddenly, and her mother heavily implies that said agent committed suicide after Rana turned down a lucrative contract, because her mother is a colossal bitch. This ultimately is what brings Rana and Trent together, in a comforting-embrace-leads-to-more kinda way. They both throw caution to the wind, fall head over heels in love, and have tons of mind-blowing sex, and Rana worries that if she ever reveals her "true" identity - that she's not just plain Ana, but glamorous Rana - that Trent will hate her and push her away.Ultimately, she does just that, and he is indeed upset, until she convinces him to kiss her to prove to him that she's the same woman he fell in love with. I admit it, I'm a sucker for these sorts of things - the body knowing on a primal level what a stubborn mind tries to resist. I really like Rana's growth arc, because she is a love-starved individual, as for the entirety of her life, no one could see past her looks to see the real her until she went underground, so to speak. Trent fell in love with her in spite of her plain features, and it meant more to her than anything in the world. I really connected with that, and thus were happy for their happily ever after.