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    Heartless
    Heartless
    Heartless
    Audiobook8 hours

    Heartless

    Written by Diana Palmer

    Narrated by Phil Gigante

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    About this audiobook

    As a teenager, Gracie worshipped her stepbrother, Jason, a strong, silent young cowboy who left home early to seek his fortune. Though Gracie hadn’t seen him in years, when her mother passed away, Jason ensured that Gracie would be cared for. Now the wealthy owner of Comanche Wells ranch, Jason has finally come back home, and discovered that the little girl he knew is all grown up.

    When a moment of unbridled passion results in a kiss, Jason realizes that he’s falling for Gracie. But Gracie harbors a shameful secret that makes her deeply afraid of love. Stung by her rejection, Jason leaves, ready to put the past—and the one woman he can’t have—behind him once more.

    Gracie thinks she’s lost Jason forever. But when danger threatens her and the ranch, she can only hope that her long, tall Texan will come blazing home to save her, despite her secrets—and take control of Comanche Wells, and her heart, once and for all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 26, 2009
    ISBN9781423382607
    Heartless
    Author

    Diana Palmer

    The prolific author of more than one hundred books, Diana Palmer got her start as a newspaper reporter. A New York Times bestselling author and voted one of the top ten romance writers in America, she has a gift for telling the most sensual tales with charm and humor. Diana lives with her family in Cornelia, Georgia.

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    • 4/5
      What a wonderful story, l enjoyed listening to the narrator bring the story to life. Misunderstandings can ruin a relationship. I will be listening again to this great story.
    • 5/5
      Another incredible book by Diana Palmer. What wonderful stories this one about Jason and Gracie they are step siblings. Gracie is hiding a painful past from her childhood. He loves her as a woman but has been waiting for her to realise how he feels but she remains innocent. The lives of other people in the book only enrich the plot I listened on audio narration by a wonderful clever narrator Phil Gilgante
    • 5/5
      I always love the books by Diana Palmer. She is a wonderful author and this is one of my favorites.
    • 1/5
      Heartless
      1 Star

      Synopsis:
      Gracie Marsh worshipped her stepbrother Jason while growing up but now her feelings for him have evolved into something more intense. The feeling seems to be mutual but Gracie has a secret that makes her deathly afraid of love. Stung by her rejection, Jason leaves and sets in motion events that may change their lives forever.

      Review:
      OK, here goes my first and, hopefully, my last really negative review.

      This book is awful but it is not the borderline incest that turned me off. Rather the characters are one dimensional and vapid, and the story is ridiculous.

      Gracie’s characterization makes absolutely no sense. There is an inconsistency between her supposed mental deficiencies and her obvious social skills. Also, she becomes a teacher even though she apparently has a severe learning disability – weird. In addition, she is a perfectly sweet doormat and for too accepting of Jason's rejection and snide attitude. It is a pity that she didn’t put him in his place when he came home with Kittie the cow. Her reason for keeping her past secret from Jason is also inexplicable – there is nothing shameful about it, and depicting it as such belittles women who have suffered from abuse.

      Speaking of Kittie, Jason’s engagement to her is a completely idiotic plot device. First, her bitchiness is way overdone and is obviously meant to contrast against Gracie's almost angelic status. Second, Jason’s reasoning for becoming engaged lacks credibility.

      Jason is an obnoxious hero and borderline abusive. The scene in which he sets up an employee to be humiliated is a case in point as is his allowing Kittie to treat his family so badly.

      The preposterous kidnapping subplots only add insult to injury. An honorable, sensitive kidnapper who just happens to be trying to save his country from a dictator and needs to kidnap people to fund his coup? The fact that there is not one, but two kidnappings? Perhaps this is an allowance for gender equality as there is one for the heroine and one for the hero?

      I could go on and on but I’ll stop now as I’m sure my point is made. This is definitely my first and only Diana Palmer book.
    • 4/5
      I realy likedthis book. Alot of twist & turn in the story. I even cryed in some chapters. My momtold me about this book she saidit is a good book so I read it.
    • 3/5
      Step-siblings Gracie and Jason are both keeping secrets - they both have their own reasons for hiding the attraction they feel. But when the situation finally goes critical, things get messy fast. Now if only Palmer hadn't felt it necessary to toss in kidnappers and ransom notes.... Granted, it's a Jacobsville romance novel, but as a plot device surely she could have come up with something a touch more original?
    • 3/5
      This was an okay story, I found it hard to get used to a man reading a romance novel but the narrator was okay. The story had some good parts and other parts that I thought were a bit lame but overall a good listen.Gracie Marsh came to live with Jason Pendelton, her stepbrother when she was 16 after her mother married his father Myron. Unfortunately 2 weeks afte the marriage Gracie's mother was killed in a car accident lucky for her Myron allowed her to stay with him and Jason. He remarried and that brought a step sister Glory into the mix - they all got along well. Glory is now married and Gracie is just begining to realise that Jason does seem to be treating her the same as usual. When he kisses her at a party she seems mortified but not for the reason that Jason thinks. There are secrets from her early childhood that Jason knows nothing about. In the meantime Jason thinks Gracie now hates him so after a drunken one night stand he asks the woman Kitty to marry him and she is a bitch and ends up turning his home life upside down. He is too busy with business problems to notice and by the time he finds out what she has done Gracie is kidnapped. The kidnapping is where I found the story to be a bit lame but Jason rescues her and eventually they live happily ever after but not before a few more secrets come out and some more drama.
    • 4/5
      This was great i could n ot put it down. I was pleasently surprised as i usually am not that into the whole hot cowboy thing.