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Conor's Way Paperback – April 1 1996

by Laura Lee Guhrke (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
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Determined to save her post-Civil War plantation, stubborn Olivia Maitland reluctantly enlists the help of ex-boxer Conor Branigan, whose bitterness over the destruction of his Irish home has made him swear to remain independent forever. Original.
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  1. Language
    English
  2. Publisher
    Harpercollins
  3. Publication date
    April 1 1996
  4. Dimensions
    10.8 x 3.18 x 17.15 cm
  5. ISBN-10
    0061084026
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0061084027
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harpercollins (April 1 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061084026
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061084027
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 181 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.8 x 3.18 x 17.15 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings

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Laura Lee Guhrke

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New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke spent seven years in advertising, had a successful catering business, and managed a construction company before she decided writing novels was more fun. The author of many historical romances, Laura has received many literary awards, including romance fiction's highest honor, the Rita Award. When she's not writing, Laura spends her time skiing down the slopes and wakeboarding across the lakes of her beautiful home state of Idaho. She loves hearing from readers, and you may write to her by visiting her website: www.lauraleeguhrke.com.

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esm4
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved the setting and characters for this historical
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2011
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I've just recently discovered Laura Lee Gurhke and was excited to find some of her backlist books being released for Kindle. I'm a fan of historicals with unusual settings so this one was perfect for me. It's set on a former cotton plantation in Louisiana around 1870. The heroine, Olivia, inherited the house and land, but rather than trying to grow labor intensive cotton, she grows and harvests peaches from an orchard that was planted on a whim by her mother. She is able to do this with just the help of one worker, but she barely makes a living and when the story opens, her worker has recently passed away and she's been trying without success to hire a new farmhand to help her. Add to this that she has three adopted daughters and the local tycoon is trying to buy her land to build a railroad. The hero, Conor, meanwhile survived the Irish potato famine although he lost his entire family, was involved in rebellion against England, spent time in jail, and now makes a living as a boxer. As the story opens, he is beaten and left for dead for not throwing a fight and is rescued by Olivia. Conor has been a rootless drifter for many years and although he comes to care deeply about Olivia and her daughters, the central conflict in this romance involves him learning to trust again and to open up to love, knowing that he could be hurt yet again if he does so. The story is beautiful, emotional, and well-written. I flew through it and didn't want to put it down. I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
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Anne E
5.0 out of 5 stars A good summer read
Reviewed in Germany on June 28, 2012
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Really good, I liked it! This book is quite outstanding in the rose-coloured world of romantic fiction and regency stuff. Playing in Louisiana, the heroine is a grown woman, not the naive girl of other stories. Bringing up her daughters on her own in a way that is utterly believable, she's facing life with warmth, hope and strength. When irishman Conor comes her way, there's the usual sizzle in the air. But I found his depth as a character quite striking. The dark and sad background information about his former life in Ireland is so, too. And the daughters are cute and funny and very real.
I do like many of the books by LL Gurkhe like the Girl-Bachelor-series, but I'm not too sure about how "likely" they are (apart from the fact that romantic fiction is alway more of a fairytale; but I like to have at least a minimum if credibility...). This one I could really believe and found my imagination going with it like I was watching a film.
Well, all in all it just comes down to it being one of the books I'll read more than once over time. If you like romance books but are fed up with the normal english-rose meets aristocrat with adonis-looks, and if you like Gone With The Wind - try it!
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blueapple
5.0 out of 5 stars Is Conor's way the only way ????
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2012
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The main charater Olivia know she needs a man to help out around the family farm, one who is not afraid of hard work. Being out in the countryside. miles from the nearest small town and just after the civil war her options are minimal. Unexpectedly she comes across a prize fighter (Conor) unconscious in the road. He has been badly beaten up, Olivia take this rough loud mouth Irish man into her home. Much to her dismay she starts to worry about his bad language in front of her 3 adopted daughters. Can Olivia enlist the help of this stubborn fighter who's bitterness over the destruction of his own home and family has made him determined to stay independant without ties to the land and least of all a woman.
A good entertaining story and well written. I will be looking out for other titles by this author. A well deserved 5 stars.

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Makoto Kobayashi
5.0 out of 5 stars was für ein Buch!
Reviewed in Germany on January 1, 2018
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Ich habe das Buch gleich in einem verschlungen! Ich mochte einfach alles an dem Buch - den Plot, die Charaktere, das Tempo der Geschichte und die Lovestory. Es war unglaublich ergreifend zu lesen wie diese beiden unterschiedlichen Menschen zueinander finden und sich nach und nach ineinander verlieben. Die Autorin hat eine wirkliche tolle authentische Geschichte erzählt. Es war mit Sicherheit nicht das letzte Buch von Laura Lee Guhrke für mich :)
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OLT
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't pass this up while it's only 99 cents.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2011
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This is an early HR by Guhrke but it's so very well written and polished that I find it even better than some of her later work, and I've read lots of, maybe most of, Guhrke's paperback romances. Her later HRs take place mostly in England. Her earlier ones are, for the most part, I believe, in 1800s U.S.

In the 1870s heroine Olivia is raising the 3 orphaned daughters of a friend all on her own, living on what was formerly a cotton plantation in Louisiana, but now converted, after the Civil War, into mostly a peach orchard. She is struggling to make ends meet and needs help, since her only hired hand, former slave Nat, has recently died.

Hero Conor, formerly of Ireland, is now in the U.S. traveling around making a scrabbling living by participating in boxing matches. He has a past full of troubling times in Ireland, having lost all his loved ones either to the Great Potato Famine or to British occupiers' violence. He himself joined the Irish rebellion and was captured and tortured for some years by the British. Finally released from prison, he is a bitter and tortured soul, and the flashbacks to his Irish past are excellently done and very moving.

Conor lost everyone he loved and now believes he is better off without anyone since the pain of again losing anyone dear to him is almost unbearable. So he keeps himself closed off to the possibility of love and does not wish to settle down anywhere. If he keeps moving around, he will not learn to like, much less love, anyone. Guhrke has given Conor an excellent, complex character. He may be bitter and withdrawn, but he is admirable and honorable underneath that gruff exterior.

Olivia is a lovely character too but not as interesting as Conor. She is perhaps just a little too sweet, perfect and noble for my taste but it works well in this story and she does not annoy in her nobility. Her relationship to her adopted daughters is well drawn and the two youngest girls are, let's face it, adorable in their interactions with Conor. This is another first for me, really liking having kids in starring roles in a romance. I often find them annoying but not here. They're very important to the healing of Conor's psyche.

There's a bad guy here who wants to buy Olivia's land to build a railroad running through there. It's the same bad guy who has Conor beaten up very badly at the beginning of the story and left for dead. Olivia finds Conor, takes care of him until he heals and the rest is for you to read and enjoy because it's a very beautiful and touching love story. Lots of interesting secondary characters and, don't forget, besides the love story there's also the drama of saving Olivia's land from the bad guys.
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