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Lori Wilde

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(eng) Laurie Blalock Moeller Vanzura writes as Laura Anthony and Lori Wilde.

Serier

Verk av Lori Wilde

Real Men Do It Better (Anthology 4-in-1) (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 213 exemplar
The First Love Cookie Club (2010) 192 exemplar
The Cowboy Takes a Bride (2012) 176 exemplar
The Sweethearts' Knitting Club (2009) 168 exemplar
Love at First Sight (2013) 142 exemplar
A Cowboy for Christmas (2012) 127 exemplar
All of Me (2009) 123 exemplar
There Goes the Bride (2007) 120 exemplar
The Cowboy and the Princess (2012) 120 exemplar
Valentine, Texas (2008) 112 exemplar
The True Love Quilting Club (2010) 110 exemplar
Once Smitten, Twice Shy (2008) 110 exemplar
All Out of Love (2013) 109 exemplar
The Welcome Home Garden Club (2011) 104 exemplar
The Moonglow Sisters: A Novel (2020) 93 exemplar
Rules of the Game (2015) 86 exemplar
I'll Be Home for Christmas (2015) 83 exemplar
Christmas at Twilight (2014) 82 exemplar
A Wedding for Christmas (2016) 76 exemplar
Back in the Game (2015) 73 exemplar
Somebody to Love (2013) 69 exemplar
The Christmas Key (2018) 68 exemplar
License to Thrill (2003) 64 exemplar
Love with a Perfect Cowboy (2014) 62 exemplar
Cowboy, It's Cold Outside (2017) 62 exemplar
Love of the Game (2016) 59 exemplar
The Christmas Backup Plan (2020) 56 exemplar
Charmed and Dangerous (2004) 55 exemplar
Million Dollar Cowboy (2017) 53 exemplar
Mission: Irresistible (2005) 53 exemplar
How the Cowboy Was Won (2018) 50 exemplar
Saving Allegheny Green (2005) 48 exemplar
The Keepsake Sisters: A Novel (2021) 46 exemplar
To Tame a Wild Cowboy (2019) 45 exemplar
A Thrill to Remember (2002) 42 exemplar
A Touch of Silk (2002) 41 exemplar
Angels and Outlaws (2006) 39 exemplar
The Christmas Dare (2019) 37 exemplar
A Perfect Christmas (2019) — Författare — 35 exemplar
Keegan (Texas Rascals Book 1) (1998) 33 exemplar
Shockingly Sensual (2005) 32 exemplar
The Right Stuff (2009) 32 exemplar
Happy Is the Bride (2017) 31 exemplar
Some Like It Hot (2006) 30 exemplar
One True Love (2013) 28 exemplar
My Secret Life (2007) 28 exemplar
Packed With Pleasure (2003) 28 exemplar
Zero Control (2009) 28 exemplar
As You Like It (2004) 28 exemplar
A Wedding on Bluebird Way (2018) 27 exemplar
The Valentine's Day Disaster (2014) 24 exemplar
His Final Seduction (2009) 24 exemplar
Crash Landing (2013) — Författare — 22 exemplar
Smooth Sailing (2013) 22 exemplar
Destiny's Hand (2006) 21 exemplar
Sweet Surrender (2010) 20 exemplar
Gotta Have It (2004) 20 exemplar
Secret Seduction (2008) 20 exemplar
Night Driving (2013) 18 exemplar
Crossing the Line (2008) 18 exemplar
Bachelors of Bear Creek Bundle (2008) 18 exemplar
Born Ready (2012) 18 exemplar
Intoxicating (2011) 17 exemplar
High Stakes Seduction (2011) 15 exemplar
To Alaska, with Love (2014) 15 exemplar
The Groom Wager (2019) — Författare — 14 exemplar
Rex (1999) 14 exemplar
Summer in the City (2021) 14 exemplar
Lethal Exposure (2008) 13 exemplar
Clay (Texas Rascals) (1997) — Författare — 11 exemplar
Undercover Honeymoon = Nick (1996) 8 exemplar
The Undercover Cowboy (2019) 8 exemplar
By Invitation Only (2011) 8 exemplar
Tucker (1997) 8 exemplar
Handsome Boss (2019) — Författare — 7 exemplar
Handsome Rancher (2019) — Författare — 7 exemplar
Montana Blaze (2021) — Författare — 7 exemplar
Cowboy Cop (2021) — Författare — 6 exemplar
Handsome Cowboy (2019) — Författare — 6 exemplar
Truman (1999) 6 exemplar
Handsome Hotshot (2019) — Författare — 6 exemplar
Jonah (Texas Rascals) (2019) 5 exemplar
Matt (1995) 5 exemplar
Boone (2019) — Författare — 4 exemplar
The DIY Groom (2020) — Författare — 4 exemplar
Reece (2019) — Författare — 4 exemplar
A Perfect Christmas Surprise (2020) 4 exemplar
The Royal Groom (2020) — Författare — 3 exemplar
Handsome Lawman (2019) — Författare — 3 exemplar
One-Click Buy: August 2008 Harlequin Blaze (Bundle 6-in-1) (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
The Wedding that Wasn't (2019) 3 exemplar
The Thunderbolt (2020) 3 exemplar
A Perfect Christmas Wish (2019) 3 exemplar
The Wedding Veil [2022 TV movie] (2022) — Författare — 2 exemplar
One-Click Buy: October 2008 Harlequin Blaze (Bundle 6-in-1) (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Christmas Beach Wedding (2023) 2 exemplar
One-Click Buy: April 2009 Harlequin Blaze (Bundle 6-in-1) (2009) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Blake (2019) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Handsome Wrangler (2019) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Jared (2020) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Entangled (2020) — Författare — 2 exemplar
The Makeshift Groom (2020) — Författare — 2 exemplar
The Wedding Veil Unveiled [2022 TV movie] — Författare — 1 exemplar
The Bachelors of Bear Creek (2002) 1 exemplar
One-Click Buy: June 2008 Harlequin Blaze (Bundle 6-in-1) (2008) — Författare — 1 exemplar
The Hotshot (2020) 1 exemplar
The Jinx (2020) 1 exemplar
Persiguiendo a la novia (2004) 1 exemplar
The Wedding Veil Legacy [2022 TV movie] — Författare — 1 exemplar
When Things Got Hot in Texas (2017) 1 exemplar
Eager, Eligible and Alaskan (2002) 1 exemplar
La candidata perfecta (2007) 1 exemplar
Man of Honor (2019) 1 exemplar
Handsome Hero (2020) — Författare — 1 exemplar
Suave 1 exemplar
Sexy Christmas [anthology] (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Long Tall Texan 1 exemplar
Corazones en peligro (2006) 1 exemplar
French Kiss (2007) 1 exemplar
Sexy, Single and Searching (2002) 1 exemplar
Julia Collection Band 51 (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

All I Want For Christmas . . . : An Anthology (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
One-Click Buy: January 2010 Harlequin Blaze (Bundle 6-in-1) (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
I Married the Boss! (2019) — Original Text — 1 exemplar
Look-Alike Bride (2019) — Original Text — 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Blalock Moeller Vanzura, Laurie
Andra namn
Anthony, Laura
Wilde, Lori
Födelsedag
1958
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Texas, USA
Bostadsorter
Weatherford, Texas, USA
Utbildning
Texas Christian University
Kort biografi
Laurie Blalock was born on 1958 in Texas, USA. She started writing at age eight. She credits her father, Fred Blalock, as the guiding force behind her career. She can't remember a time when she didn't want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write. She sold her first book in 1994 as Laura Anthony, but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out under the pseudonym Lori Wilde. She has achieved a lifelong dream and now pursues writing fiction full-time.

First married with Anthony Moeller, now she is married with Bill Vanzura, her own real-life hero. She continued living in her native Texas, with a red heeler/Australian shepherd dog, Cinnamon, and four ducks, Quacker, Big Guy, Affleck, and Sheepidy. She is an adventuresome, she traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone. She's taken flying lessons, rode in a hot-air balloon, completed two marathons, and performed with a professional jazz band.

You can visit her web site: www.loriwilde.com or write to her at loriwilde@yahoo.com
Särskiljningsnotis
Laurie Blalock Moeller Vanzura writes as Laura Anthony and Lori Wilde.

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rabck from love2cook; Rachel is painting the giant billboard lips black in her full wedding regalia. Sheriff Bordy needs to figure out how to get her down and the mayor wants her arrested. The book takes off from there, with multiple couples fighting getting together and trying to be anti-romance....in Valentine, Texas
 
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nancynova | 2 andra recensioner | Feb 26, 2024 |
I try to read one of Lori Wilde's Christmas-themed Twilight, Texas romance books each year, and this one was also available at one of my libraries.  I started reading these books in 2014, when Wilde visited my town of Granbury, Texas (the inspiration for Twilight), in the holiday season as part of a promotion, and my (then) book club was the (nominal) host for a meet-and-greet.

Unlike The Cowboy Cookie Challenge that I read earlier this month, this book does not have characters from earlier books in the Twilight series as major players.  In fact, this book could also be categorized as part of the Cupid, Texas series, in that it stars the fourth Lockhart brother and the fourth Alzate sister from three earlier novels in that series.

So where does Twilight come in?  The premise is that wedding planner Aria Alzate is recovering from a concussion, and is the wedding planner for a college friend's pre-Christmas wedding in Twilight.  Remington Lockhart has recently returned to the family ranch near the fictional Cupid, which is based on Fort Davis, the seat of the real Jeff Davis County, in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.  He's out of the Army after a bad parachute jump left him missing two fingers, and is recruited to take Aria on the long drive (which takes nearly seven hours, from Fort Davis to Granbury).

The story is told in third person, with chapters alternating between Aria and Remington.  They have known each other since childhood, but are very different.  She's fun-loving and spontaneous, preferring to be adaptable rather than stick to set plans.  Because of his earlier life in the Army - and perhaps due to losing his mother at a young age - he's more serious, and believes in planning for every possible outcome - having a backup (or three).

They get to know (and maybe understand) each other better on the long drive, and in observing interactions with other people.  A spur-of-the-moment exit from the freeway puts them in the small fictional town of Armadillo (!), where they get stuck after helping a driver who slid off the road in the increasingly icy conditions.  Lucky for them, Remington booked a room in various towns along their route, just in case.  However, the room just has one bed, and there are no other rooms or beds available.

Long story short - fabulous sex ensues.  And wouldn't you know, when they get to Twilight, they have separate rooms - but they adjoin.  Both are convinced, though, that although they definitely have chemistry, they're too different to be together, and they return to Cupid separately.  It takes them until New Year's Eve to figure out their differences are actually complementary.

Lots of romance tropes in this one:  grumpy/sunshine opposites attract on a holiday road trip fling - he's a scarred military cowboy/rancher, both are afraid to commit, and there's only one bed when they're trapped by an ice storm.  They are fated mates due to a magic spell - there's a (silly) Alzate family legend involving hearing a humming sound when you kiss your true love - which is what united the other Lockhart brothers and Alzate sisters in marriage.
… (mer)
 
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riofriotex | 1 annan recension | Dec 25, 2023 |
From the book jacket: Kelsey James always played by the rules and look where it got her—dumped and half-drunk in a poofy white dress, her Christmas wedding ruined. Then her best friend talks her into going on her “honeymoon” anyway, daring her to a “Christmas of Yes.” It’s about time she lets loose a little, so Kelsey agrees to say “yes” to fun, to romance, and to adventure! And adventure leads her right smack into the arms of sexy Noah MacGregor.

My reactions:
Two immature people with lust in their hearts, but somehow think this is love. There are some nice steamy sex scenes to distract from all the drama of Kelsey’s unhealthy relationship with her narcissistic mother. And while this is part of the Twilight, Texas series, where legend has it that if you throw a penny into the fountain, you are sure to be reunited with your high school sweetheart, the legend is barely mentioned in this episode.

I think Wilde was trying too hard to be “relevant.” Just give me schmaltz (and sex) … that’s all I’m looking for when I pick up books such as this.
… (mer)
 
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BookConcierge | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 20, 2023 |
I try to read one of Lori Wilde's latest Christmas-themed Twilight, Texas romance books each year, and this one was available at one of my libraries.  I started reading these books in 2014, when Wilde visited my town of Granbury, Texas (the inspiration for Twilight), in the holiday season as part of a promotion, and my (then) book club was the (nominal) host for a meet-and-greet.

The Cowboy Cookie Challenge revisits some of the characters in The First Love Cookie Club, the first book I read in this series.  That book was published in 2010, and one of the characters was a little girl (about age 8) named Jazzy (Jasmine) Walker.  Well, she is one of the main characters in this story, and is now age 23 and a pediatric nurse at the local hospital.  (Her stepmom, Sarah, the heroine in First Love, is also a character.)

Jazzy meets handsome, widowed Roan Sullivan while caring for his daughter Trinity during a tonsillectomy - she catches him when he almost faints.  She's attracted, despite a nine-year age difference, even though she's waiting to hear about a job with traveling nurses.  Jazzy is eager to get out of town and escape her former boyfriend, Danny - and his fiance, Jazzy's former best friend (and current co-worker), Andi.

But before she goes, Jazzy feels compelled to beat Andi at SOMEthing, so she enters the cooking baking contest that Andi wins every year.  This time, though, the cookies must be baked cowboy-style - over a campfire - and it just so happens Roan (and his deceased wife Claire) used to give instruction in and win cowboy cooking challenges all the time.  Jazzy convinces Roan to prepare her for the contest - and you can imagine what happens from there.

The snow-covered scene of the front cover isn't typical for our holiday season, but it's a Christmas story, so there's gotta be snow, at least on the front cover.  (There is a weekend ice storm, but as the author writes on page 279, that - and the balmy weather that immediately follows, is "typical of December in North Texas.")
There's some sex (that the ice storm facilitates) and the romance is predictable (although this one only has a few tropes I can identify: widower cowboy/rancher and child care/first responder aka pediatric nurse have an age gap fling in a small town during the holidays).  Nevertheless, I enjoyed seeing old characters from former books reappearing, and matching up places like "Ye Old Book Nook in the town square" (page 56) with reality.

This is the 13th novel in the Twilight, Texas series (there are also two novellas, and a collection of four short stories).  They do not have to be read in order, although the later novels are more enjoyable (because of the character connections) if they are.  This was an easy, light read, perfect for the holiday season.
… (mer)
 
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riofriotex | 1 annan recension | Dec 8, 2023 |

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