Catherine Anderson

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Catherine Anderson is a romance author, specializing in both the contemporary and historical categories. She's most known for the Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan saga and the Comache series, but has done many stand-alone stories as well.

While her work is generally well-received among fans of the genre, others are quick to point out that her plotlines and characters aren't very original, Mrs. Giggles especially.

Catherine Anderson provides examples of the following tropes:

• Author Appeal: Catherine loves animals and the wilderness, which are featured heavily in every one of her stories.
• Beauty Equals Goodness
• Break the Cutie: A lot of her heroines, but most notably Molly Sterling, Maggie Stanley and Rachel Hollister
• But We Used a Condom: At least Carly Adams thinks Hank Coulter did in Blue Skies, anyway.
• Did Not Do the Research and Shown Their Work: It varies. She doesn't seem to know much about aphasia (or conveniently glosses over the nitty gritty), but puts painstaking effort into the details of veterinary medicine.
• Damsel in Distress: Pretty much every heroine in every book she's ever written.
• Fiery Redhead: Eden Paxton
• Finger-Poke of Doom: How Marvin's poking of Ellie is seen in Always In My Heart
• Friend to All Living Things: Laura Townsend in My Sunshine
• Good People Have Good Sex
• Guilty Pleasure: Sure, all her novels are ridden with Mary Sues and Undyingly Unrealistic Devotion And Love Everlasting and Unrealistically Perfect Sex, but if you take them as the fantastical escapism they are, they actually are quite charming.
• Hair of Gold: Rachel Hollister, Carly Adams, Ellie Grant, Laura Townsend
• Hollywood Pudgy: Molly Sterling in Sweet Nothings
• Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Laura Townsend, Bethany Coulter in Phantom Waltz
• It's All My Fault: Every member of the Grant family feels this about the death of oldest son Sammy in Always In My Heart. Molly and Laura also frequently apologize for things that weren't their fault.
• Lifetime Movie of the Week: Poor Molly, really.
• Love At First Sight
• Manipulative Bastard: Molly's ex-husband Rodney in Sweet Nothings. AND HOW!
• Murderers Are Rapists: The Sebastian Gang in Early Dawn always gang rape a woman before they kill her...unless they plan to sell her.
• No Accounting for Taste: How do these heroines end up married to such sleazeballs (or in the case of Seventh Heaven's Joe Lakota an abusive shrew) anyway?
• Obviously Evil: Maggie's stepfather in Baby Love.
• Rape as Drama: Annie's Song and Seventh Heaven.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Tucker Coulter lives in a white cottage with a picket fence and elegant, feminine furnishings and if his brothers have a problem with it they can go fuck themselves.
• Red Herring: Jeb Pritchard and his boys in Summer Breeze.
• Rescue Romance
• Slap Slap Kiss: Ellie and Tucker in Always In My Heart
• Smug Snake: Rodney again
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Ellie and Tucker's oldest son Sammy is implied to have been this in Always In My Heart.
• The Vamp: Liz, Belinda
• Wife-Basher Basher: Matthew Coulter. Ever since the rape and murder of his wife, he will not stand by and let anything bad happen to a woman.
• Woman Scorned: Issaiah's co-worker Belinda Baxter in My Sunshine, which leads to...
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Belinda attempts to have sex with an uninterested Issaiah, but when they get caught by another vet at the clinic she claims he was trying to rape her. Luckily for Issaiah it doesn't work.