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Summary: A lively read.
Review: Miss Anthea Bright needs to help her family financially. After the death of their father, they found out that his fortune was gone. So Anthea sets out to Kansas to become a teacher. Her new job is harder than she ever imagined. Her classroom is lacking in supplies, and her students are wild and do not attend to her at all. And one of the parents is attacking her teaching abilities and priorities. She soon finds out that this parent, Gabriel Jackson, is a bad man... at least according to the town gossip. Gabriel was illegitimate, and the townspeople won't let him forget it. To make matters worse, he takes in nine-year-old Lily when her mother, the town whore, died. He knew no one else would care for her, but he is ill-equipped to be a father. Anthea begins to make a difference in Lily's life and also in his. He doesn't want to be drawn to her--but then he finds out that there is more to Lily than he ever expected. This deceptively simple novel starts with a commonplace premise--the proper, innocent teacher and the wicked outsider--then shows that the schoolteacher is not entirely innocent, and the outsider is not as wicked as gossip paints him. It is also colored with lively touches, some common, some not. And every scene from Lily's point of view is uniquely affecting.
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Summary: A lively read.
Review: Miss Anthea Bright needs to help her family financially. After the death of their father, they found out that his fortune was gone. So Anthea sets out to Kansas to become a teacher. Her new job is harder than she ever imagined. Her classroom is lacking in supplies, and her students are wild and do not attend to her at all. And one of the parents is attacking her teaching abilities and priorities. She soon finds out that this parent, Gabriel Jackson, is a bad man... at least according to the town gossip. Gabriel was illegitimate, and the townspeople won't let him forget it. To make matters worse, he takes in nine-year-old Lily when her mother, the town whore, died. He knew no one else would care for her, but he is ill-equipped to be a father. Anthea begins to make a difference in Lily's life and also in his. He doesn't want to be drawn to her--but then he finds out that there is more to Lily than he ever expected. This deceptively simple novel starts with a commonplace premise--the proper, innocent teacher and the wicked outsider--then shows that the schoolteacher is not entirely innocent, and the outsider is not as wicked as gossip paints him. It is also colored with lively touches, some common, some not. And every scene from Lily's point of view is uniquely affecting.
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Summary: SIZZLING AMERICANA ROMANCE
Review: Really enjoyable read - great way to spend a snowy afternoon.
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Summary: I LOVE SUSAN KAY LAW
Review: The woman has become my new favorite author (with Johanna Lindsey, Jude Devereaux and Susan Johnson).THE BAD MAN'S BRIDE is the first book I've read and I just love it. I could not put it down. Anthea is a gentle-bred eastern girl with 2 sisters back East. She has come to Kansas to make a living and send the money back to her sisters. Anthea loves children, so naturally she takes a teaching job in Haven, Kansas (not to be confused with the real town of Haven). While she is in the schoolhouse writing a letter to her sisters about how wonderful Kansas is (in reality to her it isn't, but why tell her sisters how horrible it is), Gabriel Jackson storms in the schoolhouse demanding she do the job the town has paid her for... TEACH the kids reading, writing and arithmetic, something that will be useful to his "daughter" when she grows up, NOT balancing a book on her head and walking across the room. Anthea takes offense to this because she went to the best Young Ladies schools and learned it and everything else (reading, writing and arithmetic) and lets him know it to. Because the other kids pick on Gabriel's "daughter", Anthea takes the child under her wing, bring her that much closer to Gabriel. And then there's the stories flying around town about how Gabriel acquired Lily (the daughter), and the town council who want Gabriel out of town, but end up liking him. Including the mayor pro-tem, who's wife Gabriel had an affair with before the woman married the city councilman. Ever since, that woman has had an infatuation with Gabriel, but Gabriel, once he got Anthea to be his bride cause he wanted to, gives the councilman's wife a piece of his mind about her infatuation with him. THIS is just toooo good to put down and leave alone. If you have a chance GET THIS BOOK as well as others in the series.
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Summary: I LOVE SUSAN KAY LAW
Review: The woman has become my new favorite author (with Johanna Lindsey, Jude Devereaux and Susan Johnson). THE BAD MAN'S BRIDE is the first book I've read and I just love it. I could not put it down. Anthea is a gentle-bred eastern girl with 2 sisters back East. She has come to Kansas to make a living and send the money back to her sisters. Anthea loves children, so naturally she takes a teaching job in Haven, Kansas (not to be confused with the real town of Haven). While she is in the schoolhouse writing a letter to her sisters about how wonderful Kansas is (in reality to her it isn't, but why tell her sisters how horrible it is), Gabriel Jackson storms in the schoolhouse demanding she do the job the town has paid her for... TEACH the kids reading, writing and arithmetic, something that will be useful to his "daughter" when she grows up, NOT balancing a book on her head and walking across the room. Anthea takes offense to this because she went to the best Young Ladies schools and learned it and everything else (reading, writing and arithmetic) and lets him know it to. Because the other kids pick on Gabriel's "daughter", Anthea takes the child under her wing, bring her that much closer to Gabriel. And then there's the stories flying around town about how Gabriel acquired Lily (the daughter), and the town council who want Gabriel out of town, but end up liking him. Including the mayor pro-tem, who's wife Gabriel had an affair with before the woman married the city councilman. Ever since, that woman has had an infatuation with Gabriel, but Gabriel, once he got Anthea to be his bride cause he wanted to, gives the councilman's wife a piece of his mind about her infatuation with him. THIS is just toooo good to put down and leave alone. If you have a chance GET THIS BOOK as well as others in the series.
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