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    Taking Charge
    Taking Charge
    Taking Charge
    Audiobook8 hours

    Taking Charge

    Written by Ruth Cardello

    Narrated by Natalie Ross

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Lucy Albright never wanted her family’s Texas ranch, but now it’s in foreclosure. She’s already lost so much she can’t bear the thought of losing one more thing. Lucy learned the hard way not to accept help from a man when there are strings attached, so she’ll do whatever it takes to save the ranch on her own terms—even if that means launching an online business marketing high-tech sex toys.

    Ranch manager David Harmon has a reputation for being a cowboy with a heart of gold. Even if she refuses his help, down-and-out Lucy is the kind of woman he’ll do anything to protect. And while David may not know much about Lucy’s naughty side business, that won’t stop a cowboy from doing something he’s set his mind to.

    With the ranch threatened by a scheming neighbor, Lucy can’t help but keep David around. Their attraction may be undeniable, but will the spark between them burn her entire future to the ground?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781531836061
    Taking Charge
    Author

    Ruth Cardello

    Ruth Cardello is the New York Times bestselling author of the Westerly Billionaire novels and The Broken One in the Corisi Billionaires series. She loves writing about rich alpha men and the strong women who tame them. Before becoming a novelist, Ruth was an educator for two decades, including eleven years as a kindergarten teacher. Born the youngest of eleven children in a small city in northern Rhode Island, Ruth has lived in Boston, Paris, Orlando, New York, and Rhode Island again before moving to Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband and three children. Learn about Ruth at www.RuthCardello.com.

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    • 1/5
      This book was very tame. Huge parts of what could have been an interesting storyline were missing. Once again a lone female was the narrator. Why could a man not do the men's voices?
    • 1/5
      I just ... am I missing something by picking this up without reading the first books in the series? There was a little backstory given, which I assume is from previous books, but this just feels out of context. The prologue felt like it was trying to set up this backstory for Lucy and David, to explain why he is suddenly jumping to her rescue, but when it actually did was make it feel like David fell in insta-love with Lucy, and then suddenly we are in the future the story is heading in the direction of a second chance love.But it doesn't actually read that like. If Cardello had done away with the prologue and started with chapter one and added a condensed backstory for Lucy and David, it may have worked better. As written, it feels very disjointed.All that said, Lucy is very flat and many of the other characters are almost over the top in their characterization. The good ol boy southern gentleman, the evil ex, and so on. In the end, it just did not work for me at all.*A free copy was provided by the published/Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.