Something to Talk about

By Joanne Rock

Book Overview

Widowed single mom Amanda Emory wants a fresh start--far away from Los Angeles and her troubling past. All she wants out of her new job is a secure income and a safe haven for her kids. But her matchmaking nine-year-old has other ideas.... Horse trainer Robbie Preston has never shied away from risks. And the sparks between Robbie and Amanda are definitely dangerous. Yet her past--and his reputation--stand between them. It will take some serious courting to change Amanda's mind, but Robbie is up for the challenge...even if it does give everyone something to talk about!

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373199171
• ISBN13: 9780373199174
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Harlequin Presents
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Thoroughbred Racing and Romance

Amanda Emory is widowed and trying to raise her sons. She relocates to a new job. Her life is at risk and she is trying to protect her sons so she tries not to get close to people. She has no interest in men. Yet Robbie Preston is having his own problems with his family because they thinks they treated him unfair by passing him over to be head trainer. He feels drawn to Amanda and her son loves learning about horses. Yet he does not understand why it is so hard for her to let him love her. There is danger, suspense and romance in this book. I learned a lot about what goes on at a horse ranch and thoroughbred racing. Being my Grandpa was a professional gambler, my Dad always told us not to gamble. But I found it interesting to learn about how the horses were trained.

fine contemporary romance

Two years ago LAPD cop Dan Emory died during a drug bust leaving behind his wife Amanda and their two preadolescent sons. Deciding nine years old Kiefer, six years old Max and her needed a fresh start Amanda obtains work as an office manager at Quest Stables in Kentucky. Kiefer especially adulates trainer Robbie Preston, whose womanizing reputation is known throughout the Bluegrass State. Her son wants Amanda and Robbie to date, but she still mourns her loss while he feels a single mom with two kids is out of his league; besides which his star horse Leopold's Legacy; winner of the Derby and the Preakness, has been banned from racing due to a breeding controversy that has surfaced just before the Belmont. Still both are attracted to one another and an insistent young matchmaker keeps coaxing them. Although much of the plot is spent on the racing farm, SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT is a straightforward contemporary romance with some insight as to what happens behind the scenes of a major stable and a look at a trainer's job. The external suspense from Los Angeles comes late, but by then fans will relish Robbie's mentoring of Kiefer while he and the lad's mom do a love tango in which both try not to dance together. Harriet Klausner