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Handsome miner
Zeke Halsey has been courting pretty school teacher Maeve Loman for
a year with the hope she will marry him. He admires her strength of
character and independent spirit but those very same qualities are
keeping Maeve from accepting his offer.
Maeve is
certainly attracted to the handsome cowboy but she learned the hard
way, when her adoring father abandoned her and her mother so many
years ago, that she could never depend on a man for her happiness or
anything else.
Recognizing he
needed to find out exactly what really happened to her father before
he’d have a chance with the woman who had become a near obsession
with him, Zeke convinces Maeve to search for her father after a long
buried clue to the man’s last whereabouts surfaces.
During their
search, as they come closer to the truth, danger stalks them. With
each hazard and threat they both begin to re-evaluate their
priorities, not always in the direction Zeke has hoped.
Maeve is a
courageous woman of the Old West, but modern readers will certainly
relate to her struggle to maintain her own identity and not get
swept up in a whirlwind of emotions with a man she has yet to trust.
Despite her overwhelming attraction to Zeke (the sexual tension
between them positively sizzles), the most difficult thing for Maeve
would be to become dependent on a man, shackled by his concern and
care, knowing one day he could just up and leave her destitute.
Zeke, on the
other hand, struggles, as many modern men must, to understand and
accept the woman he loves on her terms, without smothering the very
qualities he loves about her. Strong and commanding, he wages an
emotional and sensual battle for the heart of the woman he loves
that will undoubtedly pull at your own heart. (I admit it—I fell in
love with Zeke Halsey!)
With Zeke and
Maeve, Ms. Jager has created two complex and compelling characters.
Swept along in their adventure, the reader can’t help but be stirred
by a man who is prepared to work so hard for love while relating to
a woman who fears the trap of commitment. Ms. Jager’s emotional
development of both characters is made more evocative placed against
the backdrop of the Old West. With an intriguing mystery, an
action-packed adventure, fully realized characters and a story
filled with surprising twists, Ms. Jager has crafted a sensual and
gratifying romance that will have you turning those pages. A keeper
for any lover of romance or the Old West.
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