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Summary: This one makes you hungry for the rest of the trilogy!
Review: I love Patricia Rosemoor's writing, and HEART OF A LAWMAN certainly didn't disappoint. The atmosphere is tense throughout and the mystery is well-developed and sustained until the climax. Bart and Josie are fascinating characters, and I personally look forward to more information about them in the sequels yet to come in this exciting new series from one of the true masters of romantic suspense. Good job, Ms. Rosemoor!
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Summary: Love and Danger in the West
Review: Patricia Rosemoor kicks off her latest trilogy, The Sons of Silver Springs, with "Heart of a Lawman." Bart Quarrels has returned to the ranch where he grew up to take over from his ailing father. The ranch is in trouble, but so is Josie Wales, a newcomer in town who has amnesia. Someone she can't remember is stalking her. When she gets hired on at the ranch, the danger follows, and the former lawman is forced to protect his beautiful ranch hand."Heart of a Lawman" is a pleasant tale with the feel of a traditional Western. Cowboys are always a popular romantic hero, but Josie is also a great heroine, a strong and capable horse wrangler living the life many readers dream of. Rosemoor does her usual fine job building the sense of danger, with a number of tense encounters and perilous moments. I suspected who the villain was at one point, but the author made it so I was never too sure I was right. The final showdown is a nail-biter, and the glimpses of what's to come in the next two books are truly intriguing. I do have to admit this is a story I liked more than I loved. While I've often commented on Intrigues that have plenty of romance and too little action, this one has the opposite problem. There is plenty of action and a number of subplots, but the romance is very underdeveloped. It's 200 pages in before Bart and Josie move past the little sparks they occasionally feel around one another and really seem to make a connection. This is the kind of book where the author has to mention in the epilogue how the relationship has progressed, since she didn't have time to show the development of the romance in her story. She also leaves some loose ends, some of them obviously set up for events in the coming books, but some of which felt like they should have been answered in this one. Sadly, the characters of Bart's children probably could have been cut and the story would have hardly changed, they were so underdeveloped. On the whole, Rosemoor's fluid writing style and flair for keeping readers guessing will have them turning the pages. "Heart of a Lawman" is a pleasing tale that indicates she has some interesting tales in store for her readers in the coming months.
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