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Romance Book ReviewsPage Three of ThreeThe Wild One by Danelle HarmonAvon, Dec., 1997.Paperback, 373 pages. ISBN: 0380792621. Ordering information: Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk 
Juliet Page is alone in the world with only her infant child,
having left her
old life in Boston to travel to Berkshire, England.
It was her deceased fiance, Charles' wish that Juliet
return to his family's estate to be looked after. During
her travels to Berkshire, however, the coach she was
traveling in is robbed. All the travelers would have
been hurt much worse had a gentleman not come
upon the scene during the robbery. Lord Gareth de
Monteforte, better known as "The Wild One," heroically
rescues the passengers and unbeknownst to him, his
brother's fiance and her infant daughter. Despite his older
brother, Lord Lucien's refusal to accept her into the
family, Gareth sets out to do the honorable thing
and marry her to give her child a last name.
Danelle Harmon is consistently warm and detailed in her descriptions of places and events. With a compelling plot and fascinating characters, The Wild One is impossible to put down. The ending is a real shocker -- it appears that the book is just the beginning of a series of books on the deMontforte brothers. Readers will be breathless with anticipation for the next installment of this exciting story. --Barbara Paschall Averitt This Time for Keeps by Kathleen KaneSt. Martin's Press, April, 1998.Paperback, 313 pages. ISBN: 0312965095. Ordering information: Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk 
Tracy Hill just died -- again. Each one of her eight
lives has ended disastrously. As soon as it looks like
she might find true love, a ridiculous accident takes
her off and the reincarnation process must start all
over again. So Tracy makes a deal with the Resettlement
Committee -- she'll only agree to go back if she can have
health, wealth, no love and she gets to remember all
her past lives. Unfortunately Tracy, an advertising
executive in 1998, forgets to specify a date and is
horrified upon awakening to find herself on a ranch in
Montana in 1875. Luckily though it looks as if love
is far away -- her handsome blue-eyed ranch foreman
is not her type at all. At least not at first. As Tracy and
her foreman Seth Murdoch get to know each other sparks flare.
Then the dreams from her past lives begin and the lover that
gets her killed in every lifetime looks suspiciously like her new
foreman. As Tracy and Seth fall for each other they have
to decide what to do. Will falling in love just get Tracy
killed again or could this be the time they get to
live happily ever after?
Kathleen Kane has outdone herself with This Time for Keeps. Tracy is a delight and her struggles as a woman of the 1990s trying to adapt to the mores of the 1870s is hilarious to watch, as are her spirited exchanges with the mystified Seth Murdoch who is attracted to this woman despite her strange ways such as demanding to wear blue jeans -- to the absolute scandal of the entire community. With a zippy pace and lots of interesting tension between Seth and Tracy This Time For Keeps is a winner. Non-Fiction Reviews Page One | Page Two Return to Book Reviews Index ** To visit the archives of romance novels reviewed in The IWJ, please click here. |