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O'Rourke's Bride
by Barbara Dan
Witty, Sexy, Irish West Romance!
Barbara Dan treats
romance fans with a brand new rip roaring western romance with sexy
passionate Irish characters that are very much like a mixture of two
all-time favorite John Wayne movies, The Quiet Man and McLintock. Kate
McGillacutty has grown up with all the conveniences of a wealth, but
unfortunately without the closeness of her father, as her parents have
been estranged. Her father decides it is time he needs an heir to his
fortune and brings Kate and her mother back out west in order to
arrange a marriage with the foreman of his mine. Kate and her father
strongly disagree and when they argue she decides to outsmart him and
his plan by marrying the first man she sees on the street. The
handsome, down on his luck, Irish aristocrat, turned actor, and now
just plain passed out drunk, Peter O'Rourke is her choice. He makes a
side deal with her father to not only marry Kate, but accept a
lumberjack foreman job. The main part of the plan is to take the
pampered Kate with him to the camp in order to teach her the value of
hard work and then return her in the spring for an annulment and
remarriage to the foreman her father wanted her to marry all along.
Kate is furious when she discovers she has been fooled and decides she
is going to show everyone. Both Peter and Kate have much to prove to
themselves and each other running and supporting the lumber camp, not
counting on their desire that soon spins out of control. When the
lumber camp burns in a forest fire they run for their lives and spend
the night in a cave where their intense passion can no longer be denied
and realize they are meant to be together. When word comes that Peter
is now the heir to his family's title, he hides that little bit of
information and not only does he end up fooling Kate's father into a
deal so he can become a lumbar baron in his own right, but he fools
Kate as well, who thinks he robs a bank for her. The sparks fly once
again between the firey Irish couple with the families coming together.
O'Rourke's Bride is a well-written story with passionate characters
that will make you smile and laugh. It is a pleasure to read a brand
new western romance that is so much fun. I can't wait for more from
this author.
Publisher: Zebra
(October 2006)
Reviewed
by Beverly,
Beverly Romance Books
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