Leanne Banks
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Works by Leanne Banks
Home for the Holidays (Faith's Sugar Plum Daddy / Christmas Eve Reunion / New Year's Baby) (2003) — Contributor — 51 copies
Happy New Year, Baby Fortune! (The Fortunes of Texas: Welcome to Horseback H) (2013) 23 copies, 3 reviews
Royals: A Dutiful Princess: His Forbidden Diamond / Expectant Princess, Unexpected Affair / Royal Holiday Baby (2017) 3 copies
The Romance Collection (The Five-minute Bride, Molly Darling, Prince Joe) (2000) — Contributor — 2 copies
Troca Desleal & Uma Noite Em Cozumel — Author — 1 copy
Montana Mavericks 20th Anniversary Box Set 1: Million-Dollar Maverick/From Maverick to Daddy/Maverick for Hire (Montana Mavericks: 20 Years in the Saddle!) (2015) — Author — 1 copy
Royal Rebels : Forbidden To The Crown collection. Her Unforgettable Royal Lover (Duchess Diaries) / At His Majesty's Convenience / The Princess and the Outlaw (2021) — Author — 1 copy
Mother's Heart (Calamity Mom / The Monarch and the Mom / The Paternity Test) — Contributor — 1 copy
Complete DYNASTIES: THE DANFORTHS Silhouette Desire book series: books #1-12 (description has list of titles) (2004) 1 copy
Trois romans d'amour : Un été pour séduire. Fiancée... juste pour un soir. Une croisière aux Maldives (2004) — Contributor — 1 copy
The Billionaire's Baby 1 copy
Par De Luxo 1 copy
The Monarch And The Mom 1 copy
Playboys zum Verlieben - die Medici-Brüder: Der Millionär aus Miami / Wovon ein Millionär träumt / Ein Millionär und Verführer (2013) 1 copy
BACCARA EXKLUSIV Band 61: MACHS NOCHMAL DYLAN / BERÜHRT - UND SCHON VERFÜHRT / TU ALLES WAS DU WILLST / (2009) 1 copy
BACCARA EXKLUSIV Band 45: EIN PIKANTES GEHEIMNIS / GEKÜSST, BERÜHRT, VERFÜHRT ... / HEISSE GLUT DER LEIDENSCHAFT / (2008) — Contributor — 1 copy
Par Perfeito 1 copy
We Need A Little Christmas 1 copy
Noiva Impossível 1 copy
Brincando Com Fogo 1 copy
Doce Segredo 1 copy
Par Ideal 1 copy
Sex Appeal (L. Foster) / Awakening Beauty (A.J. Fetzer) / Expecting the Boss's Baby (L. Banks) (2011) — Author — 1 copy
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So This Is Christmas (The Perfect Holiday / Faith, Hope and Love / A Rancher in Her Stocking) (2002) — Contributor — 97 copies, 1 review
Labor of Love (Sympathy Pains / The Baby in the Cabbage Patch / The Monarch and the Mom) (2001) — Contributor — 36 copies
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Virginia Romance Writers - Short biography
- Leanne Banks was born on 14 May 1959 in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. She holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology, which she claims she can only use on fictional characters. When her first book was published in 1991, she used the money from her advance to take her family to Disney World.
Leanne is known for telling a story with strong emotion, characters with whom everyone can relate, a kick of hot sensuality, and a feel-good ending that lingers. She believes in creating stories for her readers that will allow them to escape into a place filled fun, emotion and sensuality. She believes that she has the best readers in the world because they understand that love is the greatest miracle of all.
Leanne is the recipient of Romantic Times Magazine's career-achievement awards in Series Sensuality and Love and Laughter, and her books have been recognized by the Award of Excellence Contest, the Romance Writers of America RITA Award contest and the National Readers' Choice Awards. She is grateful for awards and reviews and was particularly moved by a letter from a reader remarking that Leanne's book got her through a chemotherapy session. The reader's letter inspired a favorite turn of phrase: Never underestimate the power of a romance novel.
Leanne lives in her native Virginia with her husband, two teenage children and a Pomeranian. She also has a little condo in South Carolina where she writes in the off-season. She loves music, chocolate, quotes, and new adventures. - Nationality
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- Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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- Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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- Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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Very good story. Sasha and her sister were forced to flee their country and have taken refuge in Chantaine. In order to maintain their anonymity, both she and Tabitha have taken on fake names and the Chantaine royal family have helped them find jobs. So instead of her career as the princess concert pianist, Sasha has become Sara the nanny. The book opens as she arrives to take her first position as nanny to American construction specialist Gavin's children. She's a bit worried about how show more she'll do, but is determined to do her best.
I really liked Sara. She's worried about her brother, who is missing, and her sister, who is having a hard time with their exile, but she tries very hard to keep a positive outlook. I loved the way that she wanted to make things better for little Sam, who was struggling so hard with his grief for his mother. She seemed to know just when to push him a little and when to just let him be. I also loved seeing her cuddle with baby Adelaide. As the days went on it was obvious that she was falling for the children. But it was her growing feelings for Gavin that had her in turmoil.
I also liked Gavin. He hasn't had it easy since his wife's death, with trying to take care of his children and keep on top of his construction business. Because of his hours and the children's challenges, he has been through multiple nannies, and doesn't have much confidence that Sara will be any different. It doesn't take long before he realizes that she's making a huge impact on his children's lives, but that's nothing to the impact she's having on his.
I loved the development of their relationship. They are very attracted to each other, but Sara knows that it can go nowhere because of who she is and her need to keep it a secret. But the more time she spends with him, the more she wants to take a chance and just live a little. She didn't expect her heart to get involved so quickly. With Gavin it starts as simple attraction, a desire that he hasn't felt since before his wife died. He's carrying a load of guilt because the marriage had been in trouble and he felt that he was responsible for it. He's not so sure that he deserves any happiness because of it. I loved seeing how Sara's frequent comments on how good a father he is begin to lessen those feelings and open his eyes and heart to the idea that he could love again. I hurt for him when he let her know what he wanted and she refused him. He's hurt and angry that she won't trust him with her secrets.
There's an interesting twist involving Sara's sister, though what it is wasn't hard to figure out early on. The question becomes one of what effect it is going to have on Sara's future. I loved seeing her face the issue head on, and then finally be able to share the truth with Gavin. What he does with the information and what he says to Sara shows how far he has come. The ending is sweet and romantic, and left me anxious to see what will happen with Sara's sister and brother.
Young Sam was adorable and I loved how Sara's love helped him through his grief for his mother. He was so quiet and sad at the beginning, then his natural mischievousness began to emerge. I loved the scene with him and his sister and the green magic marker. It was so realistic that I could picture it as I read it. I loved his part in the epilogue and how it showed how far he had come. show less
I really liked Sara. She's worried about her brother, who is missing, and her sister, who is having a hard time with their exile, but she tries very hard to keep a positive outlook. I loved the way that she wanted to make things better for little Sam, who was struggling so hard with his grief for his mother. She seemed to know just when to push him a little and when to just let him be. I also loved seeing her cuddle with baby Adelaide. As the days went on it was obvious that she was falling for the children. But it was her growing feelings for Gavin that had her in turmoil.
I also liked Gavin. He hasn't had it easy since his wife's death, with trying to take care of his children and keep on top of his construction business. Because of his hours and the children's challenges, he has been through multiple nannies, and doesn't have much confidence that Sara will be any different. It doesn't take long before he realizes that she's making a huge impact on his children's lives, but that's nothing to the impact she's having on his.
I loved the development of their relationship. They are very attracted to each other, but Sara knows that it can go nowhere because of who she is and her need to keep it a secret. But the more time she spends with him, the more she wants to take a chance and just live a little. She didn't expect her heart to get involved so quickly. With Gavin it starts as simple attraction, a desire that he hasn't felt since before his wife died. He's carrying a load of guilt because the marriage had been in trouble and he felt that he was responsible for it. He's not so sure that he deserves any happiness because of it. I loved seeing how Sara's frequent comments on how good a father he is begin to lessen those feelings and open his eyes and heart to the idea that he could love again. I hurt for him when he let her know what he wanted and she refused him. He's hurt and angry that she won't trust him with her secrets.
There's an interesting twist involving Sara's sister, though what it is wasn't hard to figure out early on. The question becomes one of what effect it is going to have on Sara's future. I loved seeing her face the issue head on, and then finally be able to share the truth with Gavin. What he does with the information and what he says to Sara shows how far he has come. The ending is sweet and romantic, and left me anxious to see what will happen with Sara's sister and brother.
Young Sam was adorable and I loved how Sara's love helped him through his grief for his mother. He was so quiet and sad at the beginning, then his natural mischievousness began to emerge. I loved the scene with him and his sister and the green magic marker. It was so realistic that I could picture it as I read it. I loved his part in the epilogue and how it showed how far he had come. show less
Love, Christmas - Holiday stories that will put a song in your heart! (The Holiday Series, #1) by Leanne Banks
A sweet twist on the Grinch scenario. Gordon bottles up his anger and resentment along with loneliness and pain to the point where his bitterness overshadows everything that has importance in his life. Holly is the optimist that turns his life upside down and pulls him kicking and screaming into the magical season of hope, charity and faith. Maybe even love. I am not normally a fan of stories with Grinch or Scrooge like characters but there was something so compelling about Gordon that I show more couldn't look away. Deck the Hearts exposes what an open heart and open mind can do for the soul and the difference one action can make in the lives of others. show less
Happy New Year, Baby Fortune! (The Fortunes of Texas: Welcome to Horseback Hollow, 1) by Leanne Banks
Unfortunately, my new reading year kicked off with a book that didn’t work all that well for me.
I picked this one up in part due to the title, I wanted to read a New Year’s book at New Year’s, though given the number of books with Christmas in the title that feature little to no Christmas in them, it wasn’t all that surprising that the New Year’s aspect of the story ended nearly as early as it began.
This starts out kind of promising with Colton wanting to bring some cheer to his show more sister’s best friend whose fiance ditched her while pregnant. There’s a scene where he’s asking his sister for ideas about how to make a woman happy and I thought, fun, so he’s intending to come up with some sweet, imaginative ways to make Stacey smile and feel special and as they’re experiencing these things they’ll gradually fall in love.
Only they don’t really do anything unique or particularly romantic together. Mostly they looked after her baby, often separately, and a couple times they either end up at or go with each other to a bar or a restaurant and you know, it turns out that watching a woman claim to be full after eating half a burger or a man needing it pointed out to him that there’s poop running down his back, is about as engaging as it sounds.
Add in ongoing conversations about his father’s back problem and her mother’s refusal to accept money from her family, plus the heroine spending so much of her time in the kitchen cooking and baking, and it just felt like this was going through the motions, biding its time with filler while waiting for a couple “big” events towards the end, one kind of contrived, the other a confrontation that didn’t go as deep as it should have.
Really, this never went as deep as it could have in any area. This didn’t really get into her pursuing an alternative income source, or whatever it was that had him skittish about committing, or why these two were now suddenly attracted to each other after all these years, it also left the dating the best friend’s brother angle largely untouched (the best friends barely spoke let alone confided in one another), and for me, the biggest dealbreaker of them all in a romance novel, this didn’t spend nearly enough time establishing an emotional connection between Colton and Stacey. show less
I picked this one up in part due to the title, I wanted to read a New Year’s book at New Year’s, though given the number of books with Christmas in the title that feature little to no Christmas in them, it wasn’t all that surprising that the New Year’s aspect of the story ended nearly as early as it began.
This starts out kind of promising with Colton wanting to bring some cheer to his show more sister’s best friend whose fiance ditched her while pregnant. There’s a scene where he’s asking his sister for ideas about how to make a woman happy and I thought, fun, so he’s intending to come up with some sweet, imaginative ways to make Stacey smile and feel special and as they’re experiencing these things they’ll gradually fall in love.
Only they don’t really do anything unique or particularly romantic together. Mostly they looked after her baby, often separately, and a couple times they either end up at or go with each other to a bar or a restaurant and you know, it turns out that watching a woman claim to be full after eating half a burger or a man needing it pointed out to him that there’s poop running down his back, is about as engaging as it sounds.
Add in ongoing conversations about his father’s back problem and her mother’s refusal to accept money from her family, plus the heroine spending so much of her time in the kitchen cooking and baking, and it just felt like this was going through the motions, biding its time with filler while waiting for a couple “big” events towards the end, one kind of contrived, the other a confrontation that didn’t go as deep as it should have.
Really, this never went as deep as it could have in any area. This didn’t really get into her pursuing an alternative income source, or whatever it was that had him skittish about committing, or why these two were now suddenly attracted to each other after all these years, it also left the dating the best friend’s brother angle largely untouched (the best friends barely spoke let alone confided in one another), and for me, the biggest dealbreaker of them all in a romance novel, this didn’t spend nearly enough time establishing an emotional connection between Colton and Stacey. show less
Terrific friends to lovers story. Nick came to Rust Creek Falls to help rebuild after the Flood and Cecelia came not long after. They grew up together in Thunder Canyon and have been friends for a long time. Another reason that Cecelia came to Rust Creek was in hopes of finding love, after ending a relationship back home. She's not having much luck here either and is about ready to give up and go home, until Nick offers to help her find a match.
I really enjoyed the relationship between Nick show more and Cecelia. They've been friends for so long and they know each other very well. Nick likes having his friend around and isn't happy with the idea that she is thinking about leaving. He figures that if he can find her a local man then she won't go anywhere. Since he's a man who really likes the ladies he thinks he has a good chance of teaching her what it takes to get a man's attention. Cecelia doesn't think she should have to change who she is to do so, but she's willing to give it a try.
What neither expects is to suddenly start seeing the other one in a whole new way. Cecelia has always known that Nick is a sexy guy, but she's starting to notice it more in relation to the way she feels about him. She's not happy about it because she doesn't want it to ruin their friendship. She also knows that he is about as anti-commitment as a guy can get. I loved seeing her give herself a stern talking to every time her mind started to stray that way. I also liked the fact that she has a non-traditional kind of job. Her work in construction has made her comfortable around men in an everyday way, but she's still a bit uncomfortable in social situations. Her fallback to playing darts with them sets up some interesting dynamics. She gets frustrated with herself when none of her dates seem to measure up to Nick.
Nick starts out helping Cecelia for purely selfish reasons. He doesn't want her to leave town because he would miss her too much. She is the only woman that he can really be himself with. As a carpenter and handyman he has a lot of business come his way and a lot of it is from women who want more than just his carpentry skills. He likes playing the field because he has no intention of giving his heart to anyone. He saw how his dad fell apart after his mother died and he wants no chance of suffering that kind of pain and loss for himself. So when he offers to help Cecelia, noticing her as a woman was not part of his plan. I loved seeing him start second guessing himself when he'd set her up with a guy, and try to talk her out of it. He gets more and more jealous, especially when she starts to get some dates on her own, but he refuses to admit it to himself.
I loved the secondary story of Will and Beth and how their romance made both Nick and Cecelia look at their own relationship. I was happy to see that Cecelia finally realized that she deserved more than what she was getting and took the action she felt she needed. Nick needed a bit more of a smack upside the head, but he finally got it. I loved the ending - it was a wonderfully romantic touch. As an aside, I really liked having Nick be a blond hero. So many are the typical "tall, dark and handsome" that his being blond makes him stand out just a bit more. show less
I really enjoyed the relationship between Nick show more and Cecelia. They've been friends for so long and they know each other very well. Nick likes having his friend around and isn't happy with the idea that she is thinking about leaving. He figures that if he can find her a local man then she won't go anywhere. Since he's a man who really likes the ladies he thinks he has a good chance of teaching her what it takes to get a man's attention. Cecelia doesn't think she should have to change who she is to do so, but she's willing to give it a try.
What neither expects is to suddenly start seeing the other one in a whole new way. Cecelia has always known that Nick is a sexy guy, but she's starting to notice it more in relation to the way she feels about him. She's not happy about it because she doesn't want it to ruin their friendship. She also knows that he is about as anti-commitment as a guy can get. I loved seeing her give herself a stern talking to every time her mind started to stray that way. I also liked the fact that she has a non-traditional kind of job. Her work in construction has made her comfortable around men in an everyday way, but she's still a bit uncomfortable in social situations. Her fallback to playing darts with them sets up some interesting dynamics. She gets frustrated with herself when none of her dates seem to measure up to Nick.
Nick starts out helping Cecelia for purely selfish reasons. He doesn't want her to leave town because he would miss her too much. She is the only woman that he can really be himself with. As a carpenter and handyman he has a lot of business come his way and a lot of it is from women who want more than just his carpentry skills. He likes playing the field because he has no intention of giving his heart to anyone. He saw how his dad fell apart after his mother died and he wants no chance of suffering that kind of pain and loss for himself. So when he offers to help Cecelia, noticing her as a woman was not part of his plan. I loved seeing him start second guessing himself when he'd set her up with a guy, and try to talk her out of it. He gets more and more jealous, especially when she starts to get some dates on her own, but he refuses to admit it to himself.
I loved the secondary story of Will and Beth and how their romance made both Nick and Cecelia look at their own relationship. I was happy to see that Cecelia finally realized that she deserved more than what she was getting and took the action she felt she needed. Nick needed a bit more of a smack upside the head, but he finally got it. I loved the ending - it was a wonderfully romantic touch. As an aside, I really liked having Nick be a blond hero. So many are the typical "tall, dark and handsome" that his being blond makes him stand out just a bit more. show less
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