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Summary: Lovely, tender story
Review: From the back cover: Josiah Jones was a bear of a man - certainly nothing like the mere boys who'd paid court to Tatiana as Countess Karanova. This man personified the wild, untamed lands that called to her own unhappy soul. Tatiana brought something new to the California wilderness - a cool aristocratic beauty and courage enough to match any man's. But Josiah was a mountain man with a broken heart. He knew such a jewel could never share his wanderlust or his life - especially if she discovered his secret...
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Summary: AHA! SOMEONE LOST THE GIST OF THE STORY! EXCELLENT, MOVING
Review: Now where did the Hupa live? And California extend in the 1800's? I ended up in southern Washington [present day] grin!
Mt. Helena?
Cho-gam, headman of the Green Snake clan of the Hupa tribe was really a delight. He couldn't figure out how to handle the Russian woman that he purchased as a wife.
And Tatiana sure had it in for Tsar Nikolas. He made her watch as they strangled her foolish husband. [in Russia]
She was commited to saving her father, a famed horticulterist, by bringing the Tsar's Treasure to Fort Ross. Fort Ross was the Russian settlement in America that wasn't supporting itself much less the Alaskan contingent.
Now the we meet up with Josiah Jones, [a bear of a man?] who is on assignment from the President. He is to find out the situations of the French and British in the northwest. It seems that we were likely to go to war with the Mexicans. They are claiming the Califorian coast etc.
Hey! you got to admire Josh's handling Tatiana's invasion of the men's sweat lodge. Wow! Not that she was any blushing virgin. He!He! Not Countess Karanova! [she is in buckskin]
She was very determined not to be left behind as Josiah crossed the wintery mountain passes. brrrr! even I got cold.
Talk about an exciting adventure - Tatiana found out Josh was a man of his word and then that dadgum wolf showed up. Yup! if that wasn't great, if not explicit.
Josh soon had reasons to change his directions and finally took his ladybird to the Russian settlement at Fort Ross.
Read on and you will find that Nikolas has reaches even across the sea. When Nikolas threatens Tatiana in the form of Colonel Dimitri Garanski, Commander of the Imperial Guards [the man who helped force her to watch her husband's execution] Tatiana gets an idea of how Josiah can protect her. He explodes into action [similar to Mel Gibson in Patriot] Wow!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- Definitely a keeper - thoroughly captivating!
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Summary: Not quite believeable
Review: The audio version of this story was not quite up to par. The accent was distracting. As for the story, it presented radical elements of weather, predicament and man that a determined woman faced in her mission to save her father's life. Not your ordinary love story, even for the old west frontier, with a little too much problem solving for her to overcome. Not much gentle, tender lovemaking, so if that's what you like, avoid this story.
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Summary: Not quite believeable
Review: The audio version of this story was not quite up to par. The accent was distracting. As for the story, it presented radical elements of weather, predicament and man that a determined woman faced in her mission to save her father's life. Not your ordinary love story, even for the old west frontier, with a little too much problem solving for her to overcome. Not much gentle, tender lovemaking, so if that's what you like, avoid this story.
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