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Summary: Love lives on
Review: A great book! Full of emotion and tenisons that happen in the real world, Lowell's book is believable and full of life! Case Maxwell swore to himself that he wouldn't love anything that could die. He told himself it wasn't worth the agonizing pain that it caused him. He also swore that he would see every last Culpepper in hell ... Sarah Kennedy heals hawks and then releases them to fly free and wild ... as she herself wishes she could do. She also heals anything that's hurt ... inculding people. Her fiercest desire is to find the spanish silver that her dead husband had known about so she can send her brother, Connor to get an education. The Culpeppers are deadly, cunning, greedy, and don't care what they kill or torture as long as they can get what they want. Their aim- the spanish silver. By chance ... or is it? Case is wounded and ends up in Sarah's care. She helps to heal his flesh wounds and he slowly heals her wounds that don't show, the inside bruises that have darkened her life. Passion and desire flare throughout the story. Lust is one thing but love, another. Sarah knows Case has wounds that her hands could never be able heal. Case swore he wouldn't love again, their promises to themselves and their actual decisions will change their future together ... only they can decide.
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Summary: Love lives on
Review: A great book! Full of emotion and tenisons that happen in the real world, Lowell's book is believable and full of life! Case Maxwell swore to himself that he wouldn't love anything that could die. He told himself it wasn't worth the agonizing pain that it caused him. He also swore that he would see every last Culpepper in hell ... Sarah Kennedy heals hawks and then releases them to fly free and wild ... as she herself wishes she could do. She also heals anything that's hurt ... inculding people. Her fiercest desire is to find the spanish silver that her dead husband had known about so she can send her brother, Connor to get an education. The Culpeppers are deadly, cunning, greedy, and don't care what they kill or torture as long as they can get what they want. Their aim- the spanish silver. By chance ... or is it? Case is wounded and ends up in Sarah's care. She helps to heal his flesh wounds and he slowly heals her wounds that don't show, the inside bruises that have darkened her life. Passion and desire flare throughout the story. Lust is one thing but love, another. Sarah knows Case has wounds that her hands could never be able heal. Case swore he wouldn't love again, their promises to themselves and their actual decisions will change their future together ... only they can decide.
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Summary: Brilliant story!!
Review: Elizabeth Lowell once again works her special magic. Sarah is a woman who has seen the darker side of life, but she is determined to hold on to her property and ensure that her brother receives an education. Case is disillusioned with the world, and reluctant to love again after the Culpeppers destroyed his neice and nephew. The two come together in a beautiful and well-written novel. Once Sarah realises that she loves Case, she gives him her all, while he (like all men!) is a bit slow on the uptake. Nevertheless, you're left with the definite feeling that these two will be together well into their twilight years. I especially enjoyed the way Case slowly introduced Sarah to passion, carefully erasing her fears and teaching her the pleasure that can be experienced between two lovers. An abusive older husband made Sarah wary of sex, but Case heals her in the same gentle way that Sarah heals the wounded animals that she finds. Sarah in turn teaches Case to love again, a realisation that hits him especially hard when he realises that he cannot live without her. In a harsh land where eking out a living is practically all-consuming, the fragile love that blossoms between these two is poignant and touching. Naturally, a keeper.
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Summary: Ms. Lowell [aka Ann Maxwell] IS great!
Review: I cannot recall a book by Lowell / Maxwell that I have not liked. "Winter Fire" is no exception. The plot seems straight forward enough: Sarah Kennedy ownes some land that a group of bad guys, better known as Culppepers, covet. Case Maxwell -love the name- has been hunting this particular bunch of outlaws for some time, seeking revenche for the murders of his niece and nephew. Together hero and heroine will defeat evil and find true love and happiness. What makes this book remarkable, in my opinion, is that the main and secondary characters are well developed. The dialogue is fast and smooth. The love scenes are, as always, well written -hot and sensual, gentle and sweet-. The much-maligned happy ending is satisfactory in many ways. There is a sense of growth for the main characters and a sense of closure for the reader when reading the Epilogue. This is one of those books you read that make you feel good about life without being mushy or syrupy.
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Summary: The Power of Love
Review: I expected more from this promising story, but did find it enjoyable too. I liked the strength of Case Maxwell and how his fear of love kept him from wanting anyone in his tortured life until Sarah Kennedy came into his life. Sarah was a tortured soul who deperately wanted love and hapiness, but only found misery in her short life until Case came along... Sarah was orpahaned at 13 and had saved her brother Conner's life. She answered a mail order bride ad at 14 but was widowed at 16. Her husband Hal Kennedy had been an abusive and drunken husband, but he had also found buried treaure somewhere on the property called Lost River Ranch. Now with him dead, Sarah spends all her time searching for the silver. She intends to send her brother away to school. The only prblem is her neighbors. The infamous Culpeppers. Cutthroats and thieves who also want the silver and will do anthing to get it. The Civil War and the infamous Culpepper gang have distroyed Case's love of life and urge to kill has grown into an obsession he cannot control. His motto, do not love anyting that can die.
One fateful day he decides to attack the gang and is wounded. Sarah nurses him back to health. Realizing they have the same enemy to contend with they make a pact to help each other rid the world of the murdering gang once and for all. What they don't expect is to fall in love in the process. Case must face the fact tht his motto is flawed and will never stand the test of time. Deep wopunds will never heal, but he comes to undersand other people, particularly Sarah has been deeply wounded also and they can heal together. Sarah faces her own demons and realizes she must melt the ice surrounding Case's heart or he will die inside.
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Summary: Sequel to Autumn Lover...hoped for better...
Review: I expected more from this promising story, but did find it enjoyable too. I liked the strength of Case Maxwell and how his fear of love kept him from wanting anyone in his tortured life until Sarah Kennedy came into his life. Sarah was a tortured soul who deperately wanted love and hapiness, but only found misery in her short life until Case came along... Sarah was orpahaned at 13 and had saved her brother Conner's life. She answered a mail order bride ad at 14 but was widowed at 16. Her husband Hal Kennedy had been an abusive and drunken husband, but he had also found buried treaure somewhere on the property called Lost River Ranch. Now with him dead, Sarah spends all her time searching for the silver. She intends to send her brother away to school. The only prblem is her neighbors. The infamous Culpeppers. Cutthroats and thieves who also want the silver and will do anthing to get it. The Civil War and the infamous Culpepper gang have distroyed Case's love of life and urge to kill has grown into an obsession he cannot control. His motto, do not love anyting that can die.
One fateful day he decides to attack the gang and is wounded. Sarah nurses him back to health. Realizing they have the same enemy to contend with they make a pact to help each other rid the world of the murdering gang once and for all. What they don't expect is to fall in love in the process. Case must face the fact tht his motto is flawed and will never stand the test of time. Deep wopunds will never heal, but he comes to undersand other people, particularly Sarah has been deeply wounded also and they can heal together. Sarah faces her own demons and realizes she must melt the ice surrounding Case's heart or he will die inside.
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Summary: VERY GOOD ROMANCE!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK, "WINTER FIRE". I LOVED HOW SARAH HEALS CASE'S INNER WOUNDS AND TEACHES HIM TO LOVE HER, AND I LOVED THE WAY CASE TEACHES SARAH THAT SEX IS GOOD. SEX IS NOT WHAT SHE EXPERIENCED WITH HER DEAD HUSBAND, HAL KENNEDY. SHE'S HAD SOME BAD EXPERIENCES WITH SEX BUT CASE SHOWS HER THAT SEX CAN BE GOOD AND ENJOYABLE. AND I LOVED THE WAY SARAH CARED SO MUCH FOR HER BROTHER CONNER. IN THE END CASE ADMITS TO LOVING SARAH. ALL IN ALL, IT WAS A GREAT BOOK. MUCH BETTER THAN ITS PREQUEL, "AUTUMN LOVER".
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Summary: Very Passionate
Review: I LOVED this book. I could not put it down. The characters were really good. The sexual tension in this book was really good too!
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Summary: Abusive hero? Yuck........
Review: Sarah and Connor (I kept thinking of the character "Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgement Day) are brother and sister, eking out a living on their ranch, when a violent band of criminals- the Culpeppers- begins threatening surrounding farms, Chase, a bounty-hunter arrives to set things right. During the ensuing struggle with the Culpeppers, Sarah and Chase fall in love. Can Chase overcome his past and admit to loving Sarah? I feel bad, leaving a negative review in a forum of so many positive reviews, (which usually means I will get negged), but here's the deal.... I didn't like Winter Fire... Mostly because I found the hero Chase to be emotionally abusive. From the moment Chase is introduced, he bullies Sara, orders her around and complains about how she is caring for her younger brother. There was also one 'love scene'' early in the book where he was making love to Sarah while she was asleep, which was a real turn off for me. Eh....Ummm... Hello? Our heroine is SLEEPING. Yuck... Not exactly hero material! Second: The author constantly over-used phrases to describe Sara, that it was almost comic: "Rose-Scented" must have been used at least fifty times in the first six chapters alone. These two factors, greatly reduced my enjoyment of the book.
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Summary: Real Cowboys don't mess around with beds
Review: Sarah Kennedy married herself off at fourteen to a skanky old miner to give herself and her brother a home. Her husband was a cruel man who finally died after discovering a treasure. Now Sarah is madly searching for the gold to send her brother to school. Also after the treasure is a gang of the nastiest, most inbred disguising band of familial bandits in the territories, the Culpeppers. Enter Case Maxwell, Civil War vet and vengeance crazed. His niece and nephew were killed by the Culpeppers, and Case has vowed to rid the world of them. He gets himself shot and ends up in Sarah's bed (recuperating). Despite his efforts, he finds himself drawn to the young widow and the heart he swore he no longer had coming to life. Case teaches Sarah that sex is glorious and she proves that love is just the same. This is a real western; Sarah and Case make love on the rocks, in a cave, in a bedroll, but never in a bed.
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