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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 18 Feb

This is book 4 in a 6 books Secure One series by Harlequin Intrigue. I do have the next two books and am anxious to get to them. I'm also really behind in reviews. Harlequin is no longer just a romance novel publisher. They have...

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patgalca Thanks for reading and commenting.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 18 Feb

This is book 4 in a 6 books Secure One series by Harlequin Intrigue. I do have the next two books and am anxious to get to them. I'm also really behind in reviews. Harlequin is no longer just a romance novel publisher. They have...

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patgalca These books are very short. The main trope is the intrigue, the romance is a smaller trope in the book. If there was no romance these stories would be novellas.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 6 Feb

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills, and lands a place on their...

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patgalca Exactly. I read another sports romance that was very short... very little plot, mostly steam.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 6 Feb

Sorry I am reviewing Christmas books but my books are piling up that I haven't reviewed. There are two more holiday reads still to be reviewed, and 3 other novels. I am enjoying all of these books ~~~~ It's Christmastime in Bells...

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patgalca I think you would like the whole series. That was book 4. I have 5 & 6 on my shelf. I love them.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 6 Feb

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills, and lands a place on their...

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patgalca Actually, the funniest part of the book is when Nate the hockey player, helps Anastasia practice while her partner is injured. Big hockey player figure skating. Would love to see that in a movie.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 30 Jan

I am way behind in reviews. I have 6 books sitting here waiting for me to post my reviews. When you get that far behind you don't want to make the effort. At least I don't. I'm focusing on the reading more than the...

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 9 Jan

Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enough homemade pies at the local Christmas markets to pay her tuition. When her oven breaks, Whitney asks Marie Sloan, proprieter of...

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patgalca So true!

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The Horse @TheHorse (223290) • Walnut Creek, California 12 Jan

Our neighbors to the North and South are helping us battle the wildfires in California. My friends in Santa Barbara, 100 miles Northwest of Los Angles, are safe. One friend in LA has lost his house. I am awaiting news from the...

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patgalca I shake my head when I think how Canada has so many wildfires last summer and Americans in the north were complaining about the smoke and haze that drifted their way.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 9 Jan

Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enough homemade pies at the local Christmas markets to pay her tuition. When her oven breaks, Whitney asks Marie Sloan, proprieter of...

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patgalca Though I am not from Prince Edward Island, my husband is and I have visited often. And... I may be forced to move down there upon retirement. I'd rather stay "close tot he falls". LOL. Seriously, I haven't read that book but I have read The Day the Falls...

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 1 Jan

Most people wouldn't think of a Bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn't most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she's been...

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patgalca Especially when said woman has a permanent injury. She shows that her disability does not define her.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 1 Jan

Most people wouldn't think of a Bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn't most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she's been...

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patgalca Yes to Lucas!!! Thank you.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 29 Dec

Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. Stella is standing alone outside a famous department store, when a charming man asks her opinion on the decor. It's a tragedy...

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patgalca Before I post my review I check others' reviews. Such a mixed bag of reactions.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 22 Dec

Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, whifch is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons - her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new...

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patgalca Yes, I hate when I'm spending too much time trying to remember who a person is, or even worse, flipping back the pages to see.

23 Dec

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 22 Dec

Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, whifch is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons - her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new...

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patgalca I guess it's a matter of opinion. For a Christmas read, and it definitely was centred around Christmas, it was quite depressing. And then even the happy ending was cheesy.

22 Dec

patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 15 Dec

I have always said the best gift is experience gifts. Over the past few years my daughters have taken me to Vegas to see Donny and Marie, taken me to Grease Live in Toronto, a Blue Jays baseball game, Bunjee Jumping in Ottawa all...

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patgalca Thank you so much. Happy Holidays.

20 Dec

patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 15 Dec

I have always said the best gift is experience gifts. Over the past few years my daughters have taken me to Vegas to see Donny and Marie, taken me to Grease Live in Toronto, a Blue Jays baseball game, Bunjee Jumping in Ottawa all...

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patgalca Thank you.

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 15 Dec

I have always said the best gift is experience gifts. Over the past few years my daughters have taken me to Vegas to see Donny and Marie, taken me to Grease Live in Toronto, a Blue Jays baseball game, Bunjee Jumping in Ottawa all...

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patgalca It sure did.

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl @1creekgirl (42439) • United States 15 Dec

My husband Dale isn't perfect, but he's been a good husband for 58 years. Last year when I was going through treatments for breast cancer, he took me to all the doctors' appointments which were three or four times a week. That...

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patgalca @1creekgirl I have had fibromyalgia for 28 years. He was a pretty good helper when the kids were younger, but today I was surprised that he did FA all day. Just watched movies.

15 Dec

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 30 Sep

Maybe some of you have heard about this before but I just learned it today... 28 years in to having and being treated for fibromyalgia. I'm not sure whether I mentioned this but I have been having tremors for years which have...

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patgalca @sallypup I don't like being on medication. This is why I tried to go off the antidepressant. Four medications, let's make it three. Nope. Can't live without any of them. Who knows what damage they are doing to various organs in my body? But I have no side...

15 Dec

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patgalca @patgalca (18415) • Orangeville, Ontario 30 Sep

Maybe some of you have heard about this before but I just learned it today... 28 years in to having and being treated for fibromyalgia. I'm not sure whether I mentioned this but I have been having tremors for years which have...

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patgalca Well, the older we get we start to develop more pain as normal adults do, especially arthritis. My shoulders are the bain of my existence. I'm back on the higher dose of Wellbutrin and although my shoulders aren't any better headaches and leg pain have eased...

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