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Their interactions, including their meeting, are laced with indirect sexual innuendo, most specifically on Hayley's part, although Jeff is clear also in an indirect manner that he does not have sex with minors. They are indeed precocious fourteen year old Hayley Stark and thirty-two year old photographer Jeff Kohlver. He's in for a surprise.Īfter having online chat room chats for three weeks, "Thonggrrrl14" convinces "Lensman319" to meet in person in a public place, they being up front that they are a fourteen year old girl and thirty-two year old man respectively. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. and still manages to fit in plenty of quality time with her family at their home in Lufkin, Texas.Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. She's also dedicated to her volunteer work. But this petite dynamo is always happy to tumble out of her world of fiction into her local fitness center for a bracing workout. She surfaces from her writing, she's a voracious reader. Mary Lynn can't think of anything else she'd rather do with her time and energy. Now, over 40 books later, she's still writing. One year later it was published as a Silhouette Special Edition. Following an intense amount of pushing and prodding from her husband she took the plunge and tried her hand at writing.Īfter months of agonising and chewing her nails, she finally mailed All our Tomorrows to Silhouette books in February 1981. Then Mary Lynn decided she needed a new challenge. For over 20 years she sold books, and loved every minute of it. With the help of her husband, Leonard, and her mother, Mary Lynn did just that. Wow! Those reading years laid the background for her decision to major in Library Science at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and become a school librarian.Īfter eight years of working in various school systems, she felt a need to do something different. Only after she read all the "goodies" in her public library did her mother encourage her to buy Harlequin romances, then 35 cents each. Since she was a young girl, books and reading have been an important part of her life. She would be the first to say that it's her background that gives her a unique feel for romance writing.
Only after she Mary Lynn Baxter was born on 28 July 1943 in Lufkin, Texas, USA, where she bred, home of the cowboy - hero of the Western romance, which is one of the most popular of the category's sub-genres. Mary Lynn Baxter was born on 28 July 1943 in Lufkin, Texas, USA, where she bred, home of the cowboy - hero of the Western romance, which is one of the most popular of the category's sub-genres. If you come across it used like I did, it'd be worth reading, but it's definitely not something to run right out and find.more He's caught at the end and injured, but suddenly in the epilogue, he's in and insane asylum.huh? What? Baxter tells us where he ends up, but not how or why and it made no sense to me. Then there was this issue with one of the antagonists. It didn't do justice to the relationship or the problems between just didn't work for me. There was a big conflict between Ryker and Blythe and Baxter solves it with the snap of her fingers. I didn't feel like Baxter gave it enough thought and attention. Plot-wise.interesting enough, but pretty basic and at times uninspiring. I just didn't care a lick for Eleanor or Frank and they didn't need all those solo scenes to get the points across that Baxter was trying to make. At times I was bored while reading it I occassionally felt that Baxter spent too much time on the extraneous characters, and not enough on Blythe and Ryker. All were okay, sometimes good, but not outstanding. There's was nothing that made it awful, but there was also nothing that made it stand out as a must-read.Įverything about the book as a whole plot, the characters, the romance, etc. I'm not sure I liked it, but I didn't dislike it. At times I was bored while reading it I occassionally felt that Baxter spent too much time on the ext I don't really seem to have a solid opinion on this book. Everything about the book as a whole plot, the characters, the romance, etc. There's was nothing that made it awful, but there was also nothing that made it stand out as a must-read. I don't really seem to have a solid opinion on this book.
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