Lottie and the Rustler: Bogus Brides

Rating:
Summary: The light and shadow of emotion -- Highly recommended
Review: Dressmaker Lottie chooses her bogus 'husband" from a wanted poster. She believes herself much more clever than her sisters, who fabricated their husbands out of thin air. At least her husband truly exists, even if he's in prison serving a very long sentence. Hiding behind her married status, Lottie creates a satisfying life, although in the dark of night she occasionally imagines what it would be like to let her steely control slip and do something shocking and wild. Indeed, Lottie's always had a fascination with the dark side of life, craving adventure and excitement, that's she holds tightly in check until she meets Shayne Rosswarne.

When he's released, Shayne heads straight to McTavish Plain, in the North Dakota Territory where he plans to kill a man. When he arrives, however, the town greets him as Lottie's husband. Rather than revealing the truth, he plays the hand he's dealt; pleased with the woman he's "married" to. A little seduction of his enemy's sister-in-law should make revenge all the sweeter. But Lottie's not what Shayne expects in a woman. She's fire and hot current with a heated connection to him that challenges his desire for revenge and concept of honor.

Author Linda Lea Castle pens a charming conclusion to the Bogus Bride trilogy with LOTTIE AND THE RUSTLER. Castle's prose sparkles with fun and whimsy combined with dark passion, resulting in a marvelous contrast of the light and shadow of emotion. Indeed, the wrestling of emotions in this hero, as he struggles to let go of the very resolve that kept him alive for years, creates tremendous tension. A novel of self-acceptance and transformation, LOTTIE AND THE RUSTLER combines heat, sensuality and love in a memorable read. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: The light and shadow of emotion -- Highly recommended
Review: Dressmaker Lottie chooses her bogus 'husband" from a wanted poster. She believes herself much more clever than her sisters, who fabricated their husbands out of thin air. At least her husband truly exists, even if he's in prison serving a very long sentence. Hiding behind her married status, Lottie creates a satisfying life, although in the dark of night she occasionally imagines what it would be like to let her steely control slip and do something shocking and wild. Indeed, Lottie's always had a fascination with the dark side of life, craving adventure and excitement, that's she holds tightly in check until she meets Shayne Rosswarne.

When he's released, Shayne heads straight to McTavish Plain, in the North Dakota Territory where he plans to kill a man. When he arrives, however, the town greets him as Lottie's husband. Rather than revealing the truth, he plays the hand he's dealt; pleased with the woman he's "married" to. A little seduction of his enemy's sister-in-law should make revenge all the sweeter. But Lottie's not what Shayne expects in a woman. She's fire and hot current with a heated connection to him that challenges his desire for revenge and concept of honor.

Author Linda Lea Castle pens a charming conclusion to the Bogus Bride trilogy with LOTTIE AND THE RUSTLER. Castle's prose sparkles with fun and whimsy combined with dark passion, resulting in a marvelous contrast of the light and shadow of emotion. Indeed, the wrestling of emotions in this hero, as he struggles to let go of the very resolve that kept him alive for years, creates tremendous tension. A novel of self-acceptance and transformation, LOTTIE AND THE RUSTLER combines heat, sensuality and love in a memorable read. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Lottie was shortchanged
Review: Having read "Addie And The Laird" and "Mattie And The Backsmith" - the first two books in the "Bogus Brides" trilogy -I couldn't wait for "Lottie and the Rustler." Unfortunately, when it finally did come out and I read it, I was vastly disappointed. "Lottie and the Rustler" didn't provide either the depth and continuity of established characters, or the storyline that existed in the first two novels of this series. Perhaps it was a time constraint to get this third book ready for print or, perhaps Ms. Castle didn't really know where to go with Lottie's story, but the only facts she seemed to make it necessary to convey in "Lottie And The Rustler" ...time and time again (ad nauseum, I might add) ...was how "hot" the two central characters were for each other and how inadequate each of them felt they were to be "worthy" of the other's love. OK, so this isn't a major surprise. This is your bacic romance novel senario and, letting the reader experince the characers' conflicts of emotion once or twice....perhaps even three times...how strong the characters' mutual sexual attraction is and why they think they couldn't be acceptable, each for the other, might be OK. But every third paragraph?...even if it is a romance??? Sorry, but I need more of a story line than that. Even so, being a sucker for family-story series, I had to have a copy of "Lottie and the Rustler" to complete my library of the "Bogus Brides" series.

Rating:
Summary: Lottie was shortchanged
Review: Having read "Addie And The Laird" and "Mattie And The Backsmith" - the first two books in the "Bogus Brides" trilogy -I couldn't wait for "Lottie and the Rustler." Unfortunately, when it finally did come out and I read it, I was vastly disappointed. "Lottie and the Rustler" didn't provide either the depth and continuity of established characters, or the storyline that existed in the first two novels of this series. Perhaps it was a time constraint to get this third book ready for print or, perhaps Ms. Castle didn't really know where to go with Lottie's story, but the only facts she seemed to make it necessary to convey in "Lottie And The Rustler" ...time and time again (ad nauseum, I might add) ...was how "hot" the two central characters were for each other and how inadequate each of them felt they were to be "worthy" of the other's love. OK, so this isn't a major surprise. This is your bacic romance novel senario and, letting the reader experince the characers' conflicts of emotion once or twice....perhaps even three times...how strong the characters' mutual sexual attraction is and why they think they couldn't be acceptable, each for the other, might be OK. But every third paragraph?...even if it is a romance??? Sorry, but I need more of a story line than that. Even so, being a sucker for family-story series, I had to have a copy of "Lottie and the Rustler" to complete my library of the "Bogus Brides" series.