Wild Dream is a romantic comedy of some charm, set in a mythical New Mexico town shortly after the Civil War. Alice Duncan’s flair for slapstick and clever comedy comes on too strong for the first part of the book, but then settles down to create some delightful romance between Adelaide Blewitt (pronounce her last…
The cover of Spring Rain illustrates a man and woman in ecstasy under a waterfall. I don’t blame them; I nearly needed a cold shower myself after reading this book! The road romance plot device works wonderfully here; the hero and heroine are alone for most of the book, traveling the beautiful Colorado terrain and…
Sharon Ihle has written about 80% of a fine romance here; Tempting Miss Prissy is funny, ribald, sexy, and romantic, but there are a couple of holes that prevent this book from being as great a read as The Bride Wore Spurs, her wonderful western of a couple of years back. There’s an interesting heroine…
A Man’s Touch pits hired gun Dalton MacKenzie against himself when he is hired to clear a Wyoming valley for a wealthy rancher and his duplicitous daughter. Because, against all odds, this killer has fallen in love with the plain and decent Jude Amos, who represents to him all that can be good in the…
Denim and Lace is a cut above the hackneyed western romances that seem to be cropping up lately. Although the author offers up the traditional feisty, red-haired heroine and an equally traditional hard-bitten, tortured hero, she injects enough humanity into them that they keep the reader interested. Denim and Lace is the story of Samantha…
Winter Heart is the mail-order bride story of handsome half-Native American rancher Tristan Fletcher and provocative poseur Dinah Odell. Their story is as uncompromising as the wild and harshly beautiful California mountain frontier of the 1870’s. Somewhat reminiscent of Sharon Ihle’s delightful The Bride Wore Spurs, Dinah masquerades as a nurse (for Tristan’s sister) rather…
The summary on the back cover of Always To Remember ends with the statement that “sometimes love – like courage – whispers instead of shouts.” That is how I will remember this book. It is filled with small moments. There is no feisty heroine and no arrogant hero. There are simply two wounded people brought…
Simply put, Lynna Banning’s Western Rose is a charming, heart-warming, tear-wrenching read that will engage the reader from the first to the last. It’s a re-make of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew with lots of western flair. The hero, Jake Bannister, needs land with access to water to save his drought-parched ranch. He is offered…