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    A Cowboy's Heart

    By Doreen Roberts

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    Like father, like son



    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN…A SECRET CHILD



    Sharon Douglass thought she'd made her peace with the past. After all, it had only been one sultry summer night so long ago, although its memory would always live on in the face of her son .



    A SEXY COWBOY



    He'd been a champion rodeo star until one hard-headed bronc changed everythingand forced Mac McAllister to look backward, to return to the one place, the one woman, who was the only thing he'd ever run from .



    A FUTURE AS A FAMILY?



    Sixteen years had passed since that hot summer at the Double S ranch. But sometimes the road to the future lies right through the heart of the past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin
    Release dateJul 15, 2011
    ISBN9781459279308
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    A Cowboy's Heart
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    Doreen Roberts

    I was born in England, shortly before the outbreak of WW II. (Yes, I really was!) I spent the war years in London, spending most of my time between school and air raid shelters. When things got a little noisy outside the shelters, and everyone was too scared to sing, I'd get up and start telling a story, making it up as I went along. Before long word got around, and I was asked to entertain on a regular basis. Thus the storyteller was born.    It was many, many years, however before I actually saw my stories in print. My first publishing effort was a letter to the children's page of a British national newspaper. It described how our cat would thrust one paw through the letter box in our front door and hit the doorknocker with the other paw. When we opened the door the cat walked in. It was months before any of us realized why no one was at the door when we answered it. Anyway, I was eight years old and I got paid for the letter. My first sale!    The second came nearly fifty years later. (I'm a late bloomer.) In between I enjoyed a short career on the stage as one half of a sister act, until I emigrated to the United States. That put pay to my stage career, but I kept my hand in by playing piano and singing at a local English-style pub every month on British Night. I worked as a receptionist, accountant, office manager, executive secretary and for a change of pace, a salad maker in a restaurant.  I actually worked with the first prototype computer.  It took up the entire room, with tapes almost as big as me.  The noise of all those wheels whirring around was distracting. How far we've come in such a short time.      My son was born in 1968, and during the first few months of his life I stayed home and renewed my interest in writing. The first manuscript I had the nerve to submit was accepted by Silhouette Books in 1987, and my new career began.    I wrote my first book on a typewriter. I often say that if computers hadn't been invented, I would not be a writer today. As it was, graduating to a computer changed my life. Back then, comparatively few people had access to a chat room. Those who did were usually savvy computer types, business people and writers. With my thirty year marriage breaking up, the chat rooms became salvation. I found companionship, friendship and eventually love.    He lived on the east coast, I lived on the west. That was in 1993, when computer time was charged by the minute. When our computer and phone bills added up to $1500 a month, we decided it would be cheaper to get together. We met for the first time at the airport in Portland, Oregon, and the next day drove across the country to Philadelphia. I had to call my sister and close friends every night to reassure them that I wasn't with an axe murderer. A year later we were married in Las Vegas on our way back to Oregon, where we've lived happily ever since. Now, how's that for romance!    A few years ago we added to our happy home a cute little  rat terrier who thinks she's a Great Dane. All fifteen pounds of her. She rules the household, nevertheless. A true member of the family. 

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