Desert Rain
by Elizabeth Lowell
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She is a contradiction, one woman with two lives. She is Shannon, one of the world's great beauties, her face and figure gracing the fashion pages of the world's most elegant magazines. She is also Holly, a fragile innocent, haunted by painful memories of her past-and by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets. She is assured yet vulnerable, irresistible yet untouched. Destiny has brought Holly Shannon North back to Hidden Springs, where she can be one person, where romance once show more touched her tender young heart. Here Lincoln McKenzie waits-the proud California rancher, long since hardened by his life's tragedies. Now, in the icy chill of a desert storm, together they must somehow find the way back to love . . . and rekindle a fire whose healing warmth will truly draw them home. A classic story of love and redemption from the incomparable New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell. show lessTags
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Even though I expected a romance in the 80s style, the plot and characters were just horrible. Linc's behavior towards Holly/Shannon is plain disgusting. Her reaction to him is extremely stupid and unrealistic. Which man wouldn't recognize a person anymore just because she wears make-up one day and not the next? He wants to marry her but admits not to love her? How does that make sense?
Honestly, I can handle mediocre writing for the sake of a warm and fuzzy romance novel but this was awful. I absolutely can't stand Linc (the lead male character). How anyone could see past his absolute hatred of women to view this as a functional relationship is beyond me.
Even though I expected a romance in the 80s style, the plot and characters were just horrible. Linc's behavior towards Holly/Shannon is plain disgusting. Her reaction to him is extremely stupid and unrealistic. Which man wouldn't recognize a person anymore just because she wears make-up one day and not the next? He wants to marry her but admits not to love her? How does that make sense?
This one is not up to modern standards. The misogyny is thick enough to cut with a knife and the sex questionably consensual.
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Elizabeth Lowell is actually a pen name for the real person named Ann Charters Maxwell. Maxwell was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1944. She was educated at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Riverside, where she received a B.A. in 1966. She married Evan Maxwell, a journalist, on September 4, 1966. They have show more published numerous novels together including The Silk Strategy, The Ruby, Steal the Sun, Redwood Empire, and The Golden Mountain. Maxwell started her writing career in 1975 with the science fiction novel Change. She has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. She has written under numerous pen names including A. E. Maxwell, Annalise Sun, and Lowell Charters. In 1982, she began publishing romance novels as Elizabeth Lowell. She was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 1994, Romance Writers of America Best Historical Romance in 1994, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her title Beautiful Sacrifice made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Desert Rain
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Holly Shannon North; Lincoln McKenzie
- Disambiguation notice
- First published as Summer Thunder; rewritten as Desert Rain.
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- Czech, English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- UPCs
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