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A modern-day Liberty Valance collides with The Big Valley when his mother reveals his father is none other but the patriarch of the huge Bar C Ranch and its billions in holdings. Mom's untimely revelation pleases no one, least of all Jack Duval's friends, the legitimate Caden heirs who heard the news immediately after their mother's funeral.. Hurt and wanting to get back at his reluctant father, Jack goes after neighboring rancher Liz Wolfe, whose mother it seems the elder Caden has targeted to become his next wife—and whose ranch he intends to annex.He soon learns Liz is the submissive lover of his dreams—and that what he feels for her is a whole lot more than sexual attraction. Rustlers and murderers interrupt their affair, though, and Jack must reveal secrets about himself that may tear the two apart, before he and Liz can move on to the next step toward happily ever after. A heavily revised, rewritten story based on Shotgun Relations, THE BASTARD is a kinder, gentler, more tasteful story of BDSM play and forever after love.,
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. First published in 1996, Jacobs has sold close to fifty books and novellas. SANDSTORMS was a 2007 nominee for the prestigious ROMANTIC TIMES Reviewers' Choice award for best erotic romance. Her books have earned awards including the Passionate Plume (best novella, 2006, second place contemporary, 2008), the Desert Rose (best hot and spicy romance, 2004) and More Than Magic (best erotic romance, 2004). She has been a double finalist in separate categories of the EPPIES and From the Heart RWA Chapter’s contest. Three of her books have been translated and sold in several European countries. A CPA and former hospital financial manager, Jacobs now writes full-time, with the help of Mr. Blue, the family cat who sometimes likes to perch on the back of her desk chair and lend his sage advice. He sometimes even contributes a few random letters when he decides he wants to try out the keyboard. (Most of the time Blue just curls up, hides his eyes with his paws...and sleeps!)
