Rancho de Amor
A swoony contemporary western romance, Rancho de Amor brings city sensibilities and country values together in a hilarious and heartfelt story of finding love in unexpected places.
In a last-ditch effort to save a New York publishing house facing imminent closure, editor Catherine Doyle travels across the country to the small town of Sisquoc, California, in search of the famous Loretta de Bonnair, an elderly recluse and breakout author of the bestselling romance novel that has the nation in a fervor. Despite her own disappointment with love and misgivings about the novel, Catherine’s determined to beat out the competition to offer Ms. de Bonnair a book deal she can’t refuse.
But as Catherine wanders the town interviewing the locals, she slowly realizes something: no one has ever seen the mysterious author. Not even the post office has her address. The only clue to Ms. de Bonnair seems to come in the form of a certain handsome blue-eyed cowboy with a penchant for bar fights. But if Catherine wants to save her job and the publishing house, she’ll have to get closer to this stranger, even if it means trusting him.
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Book details
- Author
- Dan Harder
- Imprint
- West Margin Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Romance › Western
Fiction › Literary
Fiction › Romance › Contemporary - Topics
- western romance · romantic comedy · California ranch · unlikely romance · New York City · small town romance · contemporary romance · fish out of water
- ISBN-13
- 9781513264301 (Paperback)9781513264318 (Hardcover)
About the author
DAN HARDER is a writer whose work spans poetry, stage plays, opera librettos, novels, children’s books, and journalism. His recent books include Rancho de Amor, Askew and Colliding with Chris.
Harder’s work has received a Pulitzer Prize nomination, the James T. Irvine Grant, and the Children’s Choice Award. His articles and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on NPR.
When he’s not writing, Harder teaches English and philosophy, a grounding in ideas that runs across the full range of his work. He holds a degree from UC Berkeley in an individual major combining Sociology, Cognitive Science, and Architecture.
Dan lives in San Francisco with his wife, Ora Schulman.