• The Loner

  • Bitter Creek, Book 3
  • By: Joan Johnston
  • Narrated by: Joan Johnston
  • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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By: Joan Johnston
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Publisher's Summary

The Blackthornes and the Creeds. Two powerful Texas dynasties - and lifelong enemies. Set in the heart of the modern-day West, New York Times best-selling author Joan Johnston brings to passionate life the clash of wills between Blackthorne and Creed...as a man and woman discover a love stronger than the forces trying to tear them apart.

Summer Blackthorne swore she'd never forgive Billy Coburn for running out on her and their future together. But that was before she found out she wasn't Jackson Blackthorne's child - Billy was. And now the "Blackthorne Bastard" has come home for a final day of reckoning...to the town that damned him and the woman he had always wanted. 

Only Summer can satisfy the hunger burning deep within him. Only she can help him hold on to his own unwanted son. It will be a marriage of expedience only. Until doubts and mistrust vanish in the heat of passion...and a man and a woman who never stopped loving each other fight bitter blood and impossible odds for a glorious second chance....

©2002 Joan Mertens Johnston, Inc. (P)2017 Joan Mertens Johnston, Inc.

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needs editing but awesome story

love the factor it's the author reading them. stories are awesome. but editing would make a huge difference.

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Better than The Texan, but still has production and editing errors. Even though I enjoyed the stories, this is probably the last Joan Johnston audio book I’ll waste money on due to quality.

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  • 12-16-19

Issues with the audio

Love Joan Johnston. Love the book. But there are MAJOR issues with the audio, sentences being repeated, pauses where there shouldn't be, you can hear someone in background doing a countdown and all these before chapter 5. Then you can add voice being on fast forward.