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ANGEL
IN THE RAIN
ISBN
1-60154-045-0
The Wild Rose
Press, Inc.
Devon Matthews
In Angel
in the Rain, Devon Matthews has written a superb historical
western romance with this tale of a sexy loner from the wrong side
of life, who finds himself protecting a female firebrand who’s
anything but genteel.
Angel’s
homecoming to her father’s ranch turns out to have more surprises
than a crackerjack box, when she’s abducted at gun point by henchmen
so she can be held for ransom by her father’s enemy, Horace Lundy.
Like dust in a wind storm, Angel’s hopes of pleasing her father,
with her newly acquired eastern elegance, blows away when she’s
rescued from Lundy’s men by Rane Montorres, a hard and dangerous
gunslinger.
Rane fully
intends to use the lovely Angel Clayton as his bargaining chip with
the unscrupulous Lundy, for purposes he’s not about to reveal. Rane
never imagined his desire for justice from Lundy would be doing
battle with a desire for this feisty female, whose warmth and
vitality fills a void he didn’t know he had.
Angel knows
this man, bent on bringing her to Lundy, is dangerous, but not
because of his reputation with a gun. When circumstances force her
to trust him with her life, it’s her heart she ends up entrusting to
the man as well. With a deadly reputation, “mixed blood” and a score
to settle, Rane struggles against his feelings for her, convinced
he’s not fit for the likes of Angel Clayton.
From the very
beginning, Devon Matthews mesmerizes with descriptions that pull the
reader into the story. You can taste the grit of the trail, feel the
burn of the searing sun and touch the hot branding iron of passion
as you ride full speed into this Texas adventure. Her characters are
gloriously multi-dimensional, with flaws that make them all too
human. Ms. Mathews has you rooting for the lone-wolf Rane as he
struggles to live within his own code of honor and the vulnerable
Angel who won’t deny her heart even at the risk of disappointing a
father whose approval she has always craved but never gotten.
Indeed, Ms. Mathew’s depiction of a father and daughter who love
each other but can’t communicate is so well drawn, it will ring with
recognition for anyone who has traveled the same path. I didn’t want
to stop reading this book. It deserves a broad readership. I can’t
wait for Ms. Mathew’s next historical western romance. I hope she
has many more to come. |
