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Summary: warm, wonderful and tantalizing
Review: Georgina Witherspoon is a beautiful young woman bored with her society-dictated life and her supposed fiancee. She wants adventure and when a letter comes from her aunt in the New Mexico Territory, Georgina can't wait to go. It seems her aunt is distraught over her mother who is seeing a ghost. She begs Georgina's mother and father for help. Georgina talks him into letting her go. Upon her arrival, she is met by the handsome town sheriff, Ash Barrett. While they are getting into the wagon, a shootout occurs on the streets. Georgina wants to see, but is rather upset when Ash pushes her down under the seat and tells her to stay there. Angry over missing the excitement, she gives Ash a dressing down for his actions.Ash Barrett can't believe this blue blood being angry over him saving her life. In fact, Ash thinks she reminds him of his ex-wife. She changed after their marriage and didn't want to live out in the wilderness with him. Even though he swears he never wants to see her again he finds himself over at her home with her aunt and grandmother all the time. He can't explain his attraction to her but neither can he deny it either. Georgina is angered over Ash's treatment of her, but she can't deny how her heart races everytime she sets eyes on him. Though they both try to fight the attraction they feel toward each other, it burns hotter and brighter each time they are together. SPIRIT OF LOVE is a warm, wonderful and tantalizing tale of love between two people who are totally opposites, but find they are perfect together. In addition to the two lead characters, the secondary characters add a bit of spice with a crotchety old grandmother and a roguish ghost. Ms. Wilson has written yet another great romance with all the elements to create a best-selling romance. Reviewed by Robin Peek 3/17/99 for Under the Covers
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Summary: Delightful!
Review: Yearning for adventure, Georgina Witherspoon leaps at the opportunity to help care for her Grandmother Murphy who claims the ghost of her former lover haunts her. The long trip from New York to Picacho Wells passes in a flurry and in high excitement she steps from the train, expecting Aunt Vernice to greet her. The rustic town is everything Georgina read about in the dime novel: crude, dusty, and populated with men who could easily pass for genuine desperadoes. When Sheriff Ash Barrett announces he will escort her to the home of her Grandmother and Aunt, Georgina feels her heart flutter. Handsome, tall, and dangerous looking, Ash Barrett epitomizes the rugged cowboy, and within the space of a few moments confirms all her suspicions when he thwarts a bank robbery and apprehends the robbers. A widower, Ash Barrett has not intentions of wedding another "Lady." His heart and mind may concur but his body screams otherwise. Georgina Witherspoon's rounded curves fuel his fantasies, tossing kerosene onto the fires of passion until he can't think straight. He must have her or die from self-immolation. Excellence comes in many guises but is easy to recognize, and Rachel Wilson gifts readers with a package bound in humor, wrapped in romance, and tied with love to present an offering of sublime excellence. Larger then life characters, that slid easily into the heart, people the pages and turn a plot crafted and tuned to the pitch of splendor. Laughter adds spice to passions that threaten to erupt in every paragraph, and the ghost lends a mischief note of decent to exacerbate any given situation. If I had to limit my review to only one word, that word would be delightful.
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