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Summary: Intensely Passionate
Review: As usual, Connie Brockway has written a fascinating, heartbreaking, beautiful and triumphant love story in her intensely passionate novel, A Dangerous Man.
Wealthy and dazzling Mercy Coltrane has gone to England all the way from Texas to find her beloved brother, who has lost himself in London's Victorian underworld. Though she has been introduced into society with the ostensible purpose of finding a husband, she has the means to make only one man help her with her real objective: to find her brother so she can reconcile him with their father.
Hart Moreland, the Earl of Perth, had thought that his gun slinging days in Texas would remain secret, especially on the eve of assuring his last unmarried sister's engagement to Lord Acton-a marriage into the ton made possible with the funds he'd secretly amassed as a hired gun.
Mercy's arrival at the Duke of Acton's house party threatens all his plans and plays havoc with his senses. Not just because Mercy still bears the scar where he shot her six years before. And not only because she'll do anything to find her brother, including blackmail. Not even because she's the most beautiful, enchanting, smart and capable woman he's ever met. But because she's able to sense and to touch places inside him no one has ever seen before-places he himself cannot bear to face.
Connie Brockway masterfully develops the entertaining, deep and emotionally powerful relationship between Mercy and Hart with her characteristic finesse that brings them alive as people and makes the reader care deeply. Their witty and unwilling courtship develops into such a genuine yet heartbreakingly impossible love that the reader cannot put the book down for a second until their triumph is assured.
A Dangerous Man pleasurably explores the gamut of intense emotions and crackles with irresistible sensuality. It is a must for any romance reader.
Rating:
Summary: Intensely Passionate
Review: As usual, Connie Brockway has written a fascinating, heartbreaking, beautiful and triumphant love story in her intensely passionate novel, A Dangerous Man.
Wealthy and dazzling Mercy Coltrane has gone to England all the way from Texas to find her beloved brother, who has lost himself in London's Victorian underworld. Though she has been introduced into society with the ostensible purpose of finding a husband, she has the means to make only one man help her with her real objective: to find her brother so she can reconcile him with their father.
Hart Moreland, the Earl of Perth, had thought that his gun slinging days in Texas would remain secret, especially on the eve of assuring his last unmarried sister's engagement to Lord Acton-a marriage into the ton made possible with the funds he'd secretly amassed as a hired gun.
Mercy's arrival at the Duke of Acton's house party threatens all his plans and plays havoc with his senses. Not just because Mercy still bears the scar where he shot her six years before. And not only because she'll do anything to find her brother, including blackmail. Not even because she's the most beautiful, enchanting, smart and capable woman he's ever met. But because she's able to sense and to touch places inside him no one has ever seen before-places he himself cannot bear to face.
Connie Brockway masterfully develops the entertaining, deep and emotionally powerful relationship between Mercy and Hart with her characteristic finesse that brings them alive as people and makes the reader care deeply. Their witty and unwilling courtship develops into such a genuine yet heartbreakingly impossible love that the reader cannot put the book down for a second until their triumph is assured.
A Dangerous Man pleasurably explores the gamut of intense emotions and crackles with irresistible sensuality. It is a must for any romance reader.
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Summary: You know the saying "your past will catch up with you..."
Review: Mercy Coltrane has arrived in England to look for her brother that mysteriously disappeared. There is one man that can help her - the hired gunslinger that went by Hart Moreland when working for her father on their Texas ranch. He later returned to England and Mercy is out to find him to help her. While staying at her hostess' home, this wealthy, striking in looks (men can't take their eyes off her), and strong-willed woman is introduced to the Earl of Perth - a mysterious, cold-hearted, emotionless, serious man who is none other than Hart Moreland. He is there to accept the proposal of marriage for his sister. He has worked hard to make his family's reputation respectible and influential all to be lost now with his dishonorable past being revealed by Mercy. The only way of keeping her quiet is to work with her in find out the where abouts of her brother. Hart finds out that Mercy is also in danger of losing her life while he is in danger of losing his heart to her. No other woman has been able to break through that wall his placed around his heart until now. It truly is a sensual romance that will touch your heart. I hope you will read and enjoy it!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: Ms Brockway has created a exquisitely tortured hero and a lively, compassionate heroine. Hart has done whatever it took to help his family after his father abandoned them, including enlisting. He fought a war in Africa at a very young age, and now suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disoder. Of course he just thinks it is cowardice. He was also a gunfighter in Texas and New Mexico so he could raise marry to support his sisters. Texas is were he first meets Mercy. Mercy is in England to find her brother, who has quit writing. She hears that Hart will be at a country house party and gets herself invited. She tries to persuade Hart to help her find her brother. After numerous tries she decides to blackmail him. They dance around their feelings never daring to hope the other loves as they do. This is a wonderfully written book.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: Ms Brockway has created a exquisitely tortured hero and a lively, compassionate heroine. Hart has done whatever it took to help his family after his father abandoned them, including enlisting. He fought a war in Africa at a very young age, and now suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disoder. Of course he just thinks it is cowardice. He was also a gunfighter in Texas and New Mexico so he could raise marry to support his sisters. Texas is were he first meets Mercy. Mercy is in England to find her brother, who has quit writing. She hears that Hart will be at a country house party and gets herself invited. She tries to persuade Hart to help her find her brother. After numerous tries she decides to blackmail him. They dance around their feelings never daring to hope the other loves as they do. This is a wonderfully written book.
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Summary: Only if you really like dangerous men
Review: Nice book, good plot, but the cold, dangerous bit isn't my particular taste. Well, but the whole story about him saving her and... no I won't tell, that part is really good. The love story wasn't as convincing as it might have been (had the hero been less cold) but it was - hmm - pleasing, I guess is the word. Good winter read.
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Summary: A nice read but not Brockway's best
Review: The book is enjoyable but I found the hero a little too physically rough with the heroine. If you've read other Brockways, this one is still a nice read. You can enjoy it. . .but the other's are better. "All Through the Night" and "My Dearest Enemy" have more well rounded characters and to me Brockway's "As You Desire" is superior to all of her other novels.
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Summary: Wow! This deserves 6 stars.
Review: This is one of those books you just can't put down for very long. (I read it in a weekend and stopped only long enough to ride our horses.) There is no "fat" in the writing. Every page, every line moves the story along until you are just swept away with the main characters. Hart and Mercy are the perfect romance leads. He is brave and tortured, she is smart and unconventional. Ms. Brockway writes delightful dialogue with lines like this: After a particularly rough seduction Mercy says to a distraught Hart, "If you've come to apologize, I will kill you. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but someday, somehow, I'll shoot you." Made all the more poignant since she is a remarkable marksman. What a woman! All Ms Brockway's books are exceptional, each in their own way. This one is different as well. Hart is a little over-enthusiastic in his desires for Mercy, but she doesn't seem to mind and neither did I. It's a great read.
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Summary: they were made for each other
Review: This story was readable and had potential, but I had overwhelming problems with both the main characters:
Moreland was a stick in the mud (or he had a stick somewhere) which rendered him unlikeable. All he cared about was appearances --- a character flaw that was sometimes amusing and often irritating. His obsession with convention was worse than any sour spinster and rendered him just as manly. Doesn't everyone want a hero who says to hell with the rules? He may have been a dangerous man in the wild west, but he was a milksop in elegant England. Moreland's eventual fall from grace I found more puzzling than romantic and too little too late.
Mercy's character started out well but after being presented as brave and honorable, she soon deteriorated into a blackmailing whiner. She was annoyingly obtuse about following instructions when tagging along on the search for her brother and just annoyingly obtuse about said brother altogether. After calculating, scheming, obsessing, and blackmailing her way through England I wasn't really endeared to any of her causes, period.
Should've given this 1 star instead of 2.
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Summary: they were made for each other
Review: This story was readable and had potential, but I had overwhelming problems with both the main characters:Moreland was a stick in the mud (or he had a stick somewhere) which rendered him unlikeable. All he cared about was appearances --- a character flaw that was sometimes amusing and often irritating. His obsession with convention was worse than any sour spinster and rendered him just as manly. Doesn't everyone want a hero who says to hell with the rules? He may have been a dangerous man in the wild west, but he was a milksop in elegant England. Moreland's eventual fall from grace I found more puzzling than romantic and too little too late. Mercy's character started out well but after being presented as brave and honorable, she soon deteriorated into a blackmailing whiner. She was annoyingly obtuse about following instructions when tagging along on the search for her brother and just annoyingly obtuse about said brother altogether. After calculating, scheming, obsessing, and blackmailing her way through England I wasn't really endeared to any of her causes, period. Disliking the hero and heroine doesn't make for an enjoyable read --- thus the 2 star rating.
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