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    A Cold Creek Reunion

    By RaeAnne Thayne

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    He was who you called when you needed rescuing...

    But who was Taft Bowman going to call when he needed help? Because ten years ago, Laura Pendleton, the love of his life, had left town without a word, then or since. Now she was back, with a new last name–and two adorable, high–needs little ones in tow.

    Well, Taft had been stupid enough to let her go once before...he wasn't about to make the same mistake again. He'd never stopped loving her–and one look at those adorable little faces and he knew that he was meant to be with Laura, and her kids, forever. All he had to do is convince her that this time, he was a man she could count on!

    THE COWBOYS OF COLD CREEK: Love on the ranch!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateOct 1, 2014
    ISBN9781488749773
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    RaeAnne Thayne

    New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne finds inspiration in the beautiful northern Utah mountains where she lives with her family. Her books have won numerous honors, including six RITA Award nominations from Romance Writers of America and Career Achievement and Romance Pioneer awards from RT Book Reviews. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website.

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    • 4/5
      Taft hadn’t seen Laura in ten years when she left him practically at the alter and left town. Now she is a widow and back in town with two children, one with Down’s Syndrome, to help her mother get her motel back in good working order. Laura’s cold shoulder to Taft is a challenge and his closeness with Laura’s children may be the key to thaw her out. Will he find out why she left so suddenly ten years ago and can he make amends for the past?I have read Harlequin books since I was in my early teens and jumped at the chance to read #10 in The Cowboys at Cold Creek series. I was not disappointed. This is a nice story with good, strong characters and I would like to go back and read more about Taft’s family tragedy that ultimately led to his misunderstanding with Laura.
    • 4/5
      A Cold Creek Reunion The Cowboys at Cold Creek BY RaeAnne Thayneread 2/27 pub March 20, 2012ISBN: 9780373656615Taft Bowman is the local fire department chief and when he and his crew showed up to put out the fire at the local hotel he was surprised to see Laura Santiago there.She had left the town and her wedding a week before it was to happen, to Taft ten years ago, she married Javiera andshe was back in town cuz he had died and she had no money left and she could helpher mom at the hotel at the same time as she was getting on in years.They are now friends and Laura is invited to the ranch to visit with Caidy, Taft's sister and the kids love the animals there to play with and to pet.Taft shows up for a horseback ride so they get to spend more time together.He is living at the inn while he does some carpentry work, after the fire for them for room and board for a while.Typical small town life: fires, drownings, BBQ's, horseback riding into the mountains, peaceful scenery, running an inn,Short story: Anniversary is also included and it's written by many authors.Abby and Melissa are throwing their parents an anniversary party but they think it's just a get together.Mother Diana is so worried one of her daughters is breaking up and that the other is pregnant and she loves the drama but she'sgot it all wrong, as usual.The theme is Italian as that is where her parents had first honeymooned at as they talk about things that happened on the tripthe first time they were in Italy.There are other gifts in store for them all.
    • 4/5
      Taft hadn?t seen Laura in ten years when she left him practically at the alter and left town. Now she is a widow and back in town with two children, one with Down?s Syndrome, to help her mother get her motel back in good working order. Laura?s cold shoulder to Taft is a challenge and his closeness with Laura?s children may be the key to thaw her out. Will he find out why she left so suddenly ten years ago and can he make amends for the past?I have read Harlequin books since I was in my early teens and jumped at the chance to read #10 in The Cowboys at Cold Creek series. I was not disappointed. This is a nice story with good, strong characters and I would like to go back and read more about Taft?s family tragedy that ultimately led to his misunderstanding with Laura.
    • 3/5
      This book had a lot of potential and while it was pretty good and did keep me reading it, it just didn't seem to quite deliver all I was hoping for.

      Laura and Taft had been engaged once--ten years earlier, when both were probably too young to truly make such a decision. Taft, two years older, had been Laura's crush since seventh grade. They were good friends until they were both out of school, when they became more.

      Six months before their planned wedding, Taft's family suffered a major trauma. Everyone deals with devastating grief in their own way, and Taft's way was to pretend everything was fine on the surface (of course the wedding should go on as planned! No need to postpone!) while pushing everyone close to him away--including Laura, of course--and drowning his sorrows at the local bar. Just before the wedding, Laura left him, running off to Madrid. By the time Taft finally had his act together, Laura had already married someone else.

      Fast forward ten years--Laura's lying, cheating, scum of a husband is dead and she's brought her two children back home to help her mother run the family inn. Taft, now the fire chief, is temporarily staying at the inn in exchange for free carpentry work (his rental agreement is up on his apartment, but the house he's building isn't quite ready yet.) The two are constantly thrown together, and of course Laura's children are just as charmed by Taft as he is with them. All is good, right? They just have to let go of the past and agree to go forward, then?

      And after some initial "we're going to avoid each other like the plague" moments, it seems like they're going to. Taft and Laura talk. They admit they were too young and hadn't dealt with the situation as well as they should have. Except wait--no, Laura's still going to blame Taft for being a player, even though he hasn't done a single thing since she's been back to hold up that theory. Ah, and then she's going to hold up the "I can't let my kids get too involved, they've already been disappointed by their father" card. Argh. What could have been a nice, sweet story of love redeemed becomes a bit confused as Laura seemingly takes ten giant steps back in their relationship for no apparent reason other than her sudden fear that Taft will turn out to be just like her dead husband. What followed was pretty frustrating to read for a while, since her digging in of her heels just didn't make much sense to me. She finally comes around--VERY quickly--and we have the expected HEA. It just seemed like it could have happened about fifty pages earlier, to be honest--less painful for everyone involved.
    • 4/5
      A Cold Creek Reunion by Raeanne Thayne 4 STARSCold Creek is a nice sweet story. I enjoyed reading.Taft Bowman is the fire chief for Cold Creek. His twin brother is the chief of police. Taft is building his own house on five acres. Taft is single and playine the field. But 10 years ago he was engaged to marry Laura Pendleton until she dumped him a week before the wedding and left the country.Laura was engaged to Taft but since he would not postpone the wedding and change she called it off. She went to work at a hotel in Spain. Two years later she got pregnant with Alex and married Javier the father. Then she had Maya who has Down Syndrome. Seven months after her husband death she came home to Cold Creek.Thier is a fire at the motel that Alex started accidently. After it was out Taft went to talk to Mrs Pendleton the owner. Taft got a big surprise when he saw Laura their.I really like Maya and Alex, what charming kids. I would like to read more about the Bowman family.I was given this ebook to read in exchange of a honest review from Netgalley.03/20/2012 PUB Harlequin Special Edition
    • 3/5
      Laura is a woman who left town ten years ago because her fiancé couldn’t/wouldn’t let her in. He wouldn’t share his overwhelming grief over the murder of his parents. I did and didn’t like Laura. I could see postponing the wedding. But canceling and then leaving the country? Yes, she was young when she left. Now let’s jump to ten years later. She’s back in town after a tragedy in her life. Laura returns home to her mother along with her two children. She’s grown in some ways and not in others. I got aggravated with her continuing to call Taft out on being a player. Um, not for a while now and she was out of the country and married! I’m not saying the failure of the engagement wasn’t on both shoulders, just that she is the one who called it off and left. I did sympathize with Laura. Taft is the love of her life and she felt left and rejected even before she left. The things she has to deal with after her return to the States wasn’t easy and to deal with the past and past hurts didn’t help. Laura tries to avoid Taft at all costs. Needless to say that doesn’t work. She resists him and he keeps pursuing, until he figures there’s no hope.

      Taft is really a great guy that has been through hell in his life. His parents were murdered and he didn’t know how to deal with it other than to act tough and pretend it didn’t affect him. Of course that just ate him up from the inside out and changed who he was. In the end he lost Laura before he found himself again. Taft goes through ten years without her or commitment to anyone else. When Laura returns home and he runs into her again he’s poleaxed. It doesn’t take him long to realize he still loves her and has fallen for her children. He does everything he can to convince her that he will never hurt her again. He shares himself/his feelings and admits what he did wrong in the past. Taft can’t figure out how to convince Laura he isn’t really a player. He puts himself out there until he thinks it’ll never work. This is when tragedy strikes again forcing Laura to rethink her views and face the fact that she still does and always has loved Taft. The question is what she will do about it.

      This was a pretty good read. It’s a romance that’s paced a bit slow, but that wasn’t a bad thing in this case. I liked that there wasn’t someone in danger, being chased or on someone’s “hit list”. I would recommend this for anyone looking for a sweet romance or easy/relaxing read.