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The Loner | 
 enlarge | Author: Joan Johnston
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 33450
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0440234727
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780440234722
Publication Date: March 26, 2002
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Product Description
The Blackthornes and the Creeds. Two powerful Texas dynasties–and lifelong enemies. Set in the heart of the modern-day West, New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston brings to passionate life the clash of wills between Blackthorne and Creed . . . as a man and woman discover a love stronger than the forces trying to tear them apart.
Summer Blackthorne swore she’d never forgive Billy Coburn for running out on her and their future together. But that was before she found out she wasn’t Jackson Blackthorne’s child–Billy was. And now the “Blackthorne Bastard” has come home for a final day of reckoning...to the town that damned him and the woman he had always wanted. Only Summer can satisfy the hunger burning deep within him. Only she can help him hold on to his own unwanted son. It will be a marriage of expedience only. Until doubts and mistrust vanish in the heat of passion...and a man and a woman who never stopped loving each other fight bitter blood and impossible odds for a glorious second chance....
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 Another Winner March 31, 2002
Susan (Vancouver, Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a follower of this series and I have to say that this one is another winner. Billy and Summer fell in love two years ago. But things happened that made there being together impossible. Now two years later Billy needs help with his son and Summer just needs to feel wanted. Blackjack and Ren will finally be able to be together if they finally say the heck with everybody else, and Sam finally comes out of his shell and falls for the most unexpected one of all. Luke is treated to a surprise and everyone must overcomes so much to be together. I loved it. If anyone missed the first two I suggest that you read them in order and fall in love with them all. Then you can wait in suspence like the rest of us for the next installment in this most loved saga.
They make ammends March 28, 2002
Jessica Yoshizaki (Orange, Ca United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was wonderful. Joan Johnston never fails to write a book that is exciting and romantic within its intertwined plots. I reccomend this book to everyone. I cannot wait until I can read Luke Creed's story.
THE LONER August 27, 2007
Deborah Kip (Boca Raton, FL)
This was a wonderful read of romance, life and relationships!!! I am new to reading Joan Johnston books and she does a superb job!!! I have read The Cowboy, The Texan and just finished this book. You feel as though you are living with the characters and experiencing all the feelings and trials they are. Great story of the families!
The Loner September 24, 2002
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thought this was an excelent book as are the rest of the books in this series. I can't wait for the 4th book in this amazing series to be published. If you are intested in this book i'd recomend that you read "The Cowboy and The Texan" first they are just as good as this one. Joan Johnston never fails to write a book that totally captivates the reader.
 Fun but needs a distribution chart to keep score March 30, 2002
Harriet Klausner
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In Bitter Creek, the Blackthorne and Creed clans have detested each other for eternity (or at least three series that has begot double-digit novels). Billy Coburn loves his father's daughter Summer, but they do not share a blood relationship. He is the illegitimate son of Jackson Blackthorne while she is the daughter of the lover of Jackson's wife.
Billy has an affair that results in a child. He wants to raise the boy with Summer, but the biological mother sees the infant as a chance to bleed money from the wealthy Blackthornes. Billy proposes to Summer feeling he has a better chance of winning custody if he is a married man. She loves Billy and though angry that he deserted once before, she marries him. They return to his family home since he feels he needs to help his dying mother and his pregnant sister. However, Billy's female relatives loathe Summer though she is kind and sacrificed a comfortable lifestyle to marry her beloved.. The rest of the broods are in the midst of a soap opera too.
The latest tale in the Blackthorne-Creed universe, THE LONER, requires a scorecard to keep track of the players. The tale will remind readers of when Bay City and Another World were running stories at the same time. The characters are fun to watch as hatred flows stronger than love in most cases. Fans of the series will find Joan Johnston's latest entry a triumph. For newcomers develop a distribution chart to follow who does what or wants to do what to whom. Harriet Klausner
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