Showing posts with label Western Historical Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western Historical Romance. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Romance Book Review: Emma Lang's Matthew

Author: Emma Lang
Series Connection: The Circle Eight
ISBN-13: 9780758269041
Genre: Western/ Romance/ Historical
Publisher: Kensington Brava

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The Grahams were a happy family. Mother and father deeply in love, with eight children living on their Texas ranch in the mid-1800s. One day after spending time away from with six of his siblings, oldest son Matthew goes home to find his parent's dead and his youngest brother missing.

Three months later the siblings find themselves working their farm and learning to live together without their parents. In order to add to their land size and collect free land from the government, Matthew finds that he must marry. He finds himself in a bit of a pickle when he tells the government official that he is married to a woman named Hannah and must produce her to get the land.

When he meets a woman named Hannah, he knew that he couldn't pass up the opportunity help his family.

Hannah can't believe that a handsome man like Matthew wants to marry her. He is completely honest with her, but has offered her something she has always wanted and never thought she would have. Finding her place in this big family might be a challenge, but Hannah is up for it and she just might find love in the end.

This is the first in the Circle Eight series, introducing readers to the big family and their time period. Wonderful love story, featuring the well thought out theme, filled with mystery and heroic women and strong western men.

Description:
A man learns to hold what is his…
It is a vast spread in the eastern wilds of the newly independent Republic of Texas, the ranch their parents fought for … and died for. To the eight Graham siblings, no matter how much hard work or hard love it takes, life is unthinkable without family…
In the wake of his parents’ murder, Matthew Graham must take the reins at the Circle Eight. He also needs to find a wife in just thirty days, or risk losing it all. Plain but practical, Hannah Foley seems the perfect bride for him . . . until after the wedding night.
Their marriage may make all the sense in the world, but neither one anticipates the jealousies that will result, the treacherous danger they’re walking into, or the wildfire of attraction that will sweep over them, changing their lives forever.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Romance Book Review: Diablo

Author: Georgina Gentry
Series Connection:
The Texans
ISBN-13: 978-1420108507
Genre: Western Historical Romance
Publisher: Zebra
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Georgina Gentry's newest release, Diablo, takes readers to 1892 Wyoming where readers meet Diablo, a Sioux half-breed bent on revenge. Years before Diablo and his friends were tortured by a group of drunk ranchers. Some of his friends were killed, but Diablo lived and bided his time. He learned to kill and became one of the most feared hired killers in the land.

Hearing that some of the ranchers who hurt him are hiring he goes back to the town where it all happened and hires on causing trouble for those men who hurt him. Then he meets the man in charge. The one who he remembered hurt him the most--Kruger. By chance Diablo is present when he see Kruger kill another of the ranchers and realizes that he has the key to what Kruger wants the most. The other rancher's daughter.

Sunny is as bright as her name, but like any other means to an end, Diablo decides to use her to get to Kruger. He couldn't kill her, because that wouldn't upset Kruger enough, but perhaps doing to her what Kruger did to him was the answer. Thinking to rape and torture the girl was what should be done, he sets out to do just that. Things don't go quite as planned though. Sunny isn't what he thought she would be and Diablo's attraction to her is enough to ruin his plans for revenge.

Diablo is the continuation of The Texans' series. In the book, Georgina Gentry brings back members of the other story, but it isn't necessary to read that book before this one. Diablo means "Devil" in Spanish and Diablo's character fits right with the word. He holds all the characteristics of the tortured half-breed of the old west. On the one hand he's the hard man his torturers made him. On the other, he wishes things could be different and wants a wife and family and settle down. With the scares his torturers left him, he thinks that will never happen. Sunny is the standard innocent woman of the west. She's sweet, good natured, beautiful and willing to give the scared hero her love no matter what. She's the perfect heroine for the rough western gunfighter hero.

Kruger is the typical villain in the piece. Evil to the core. Doesn't think anything is too bad. Even pulling out a gun and shooting the father of the girl he wants to marry to get her. Western and historical fans alike will enjoy this book. Georgina Gentry's writing is to par with other other western novelist. The story is full of action and moves easily from one scene to another.

Description:
Meet the Texans—rough-hewn heroes as bold and rugged as the Lone Star State itself—in a sweeping new series only Georgina Gentry could bring to heart-pounding, hard-riding life...

Diablo
They call him “Devil,” and with good reason. The half-breed Santee Sioux bears the twisted scars that made him the fastest, deadliest gunfighter in Texas. Diablo will never forget the kind cattleman who once took him in, but it is his torturer who haunts his every thought. And when some powerful Wyoming ranchers come looking to hire ruthless men for a wicked job, Diablo seizes the opportunity to settle a score...

Her name is Sunny, and she more than lives up to it. She’s a dazzling ray of light—and the bride-to-be of Hurd Kruger, the man who scarred Diablo. What better way to destroy Kruger than to capture, dishonor, and dump his greatest prize? It’s a perfect plan, except for the one thing Diablo never counted on...the only thing that could turn him away from the dark side, the angel who could save his bedeviled soul...

About the Author from her website:
Romantic Times Magazine called Georgina Gentry "one of the finest Western writers of the decade".

Her first Zebra romance, Cheyenne Captive, landed on best-seller lists and won the Rendezvous Magazine Gold award and the Romantic Times award for Best 1987 Indian Romance By A New Author. Since then, she has been given six more Romantic Times awards, has won Rendezvous' Gold and Silver Pen honors, and been voted a Favorite Top Ten Romance Author by Rendezvous readers. Georgina holds both the Career Achievement Award for Indian Romance and the Career Achievement Award For Western Romance from Romantic Times.

Renowned both for her sizzling love scenes and her accurate Western research, Georgina is a frequent speaker at writers' conventions and has conducted research workshops at six national Romance Writers of America conferences. Besides Romance Writers of America, she belongs to Novelists, Inc., the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Western History Association, the Order of the Indian Wars, and Oklahombres, a group that researches old-time outlaws and lawmen.

To all her readers, she sends this Cheyenne greeting: "Hahoo naa ne-mehotatse." (Thank you and I love you.)