Always and Forever

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Summary: One that will make you stay up all night to finish
Review: Beverly Jenkins have done it again. This book is one I will read over and over again and recommend to others. As usual the history lesson revealed in this story was great along with the love and I mean true love and romance scenes was exceptional. Beverly Jenkins books make me wish I was born back in the day so that I may chance upon an ecounter with one of her characters. I think it was great the way she protrayed Grace Atwood as a woman of character, common sense along with intellegence and sex appeal. Now Mr. Jackson Blake was a man that I wouldnt mind crossing paths with anytime. Excellent book and I cant til next year for the next book.

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Summary: Read the book, You will love it!!
Review: Beverly Jenkins is a wonderful writer/author of romance. If you never read anything by her, this is one time you wont be disappointed. Loreli is a fine speciman of a woman, with hopes and dreams like all of us. She is a prime example of looks can be decieving. I enjoy this book along with the others that have come before it. Reading Ms. Jenkins books will make you want more. She writes clearly and gives you a picture that isnt hard to imagine. And honey, those loves scenes are classic.

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Summary: Simply incredible
Review: Beverly Jenkins is just simply an incredible, multi-talented author. "Always and Forever" was a wonderful reading experience. This novel has so much to offer. The story of woman banker and cowboy taking a group of "mail order brides" cross country touched me in so many ways. From start to finish I was there with them -- I laughed, I cried, I felt their pain, their joy, their fear and their frustrations. It's such a heart-rendering story. Ms. Jenkins is noted for weaving quite a bit of real life history into her stories. She caught my attention and I fell hard for her novels when I read "Vivid". Since that time, I've read each and every one of her novels ("Vivid, Night Song, Topaz, Indigo, Through the Storm, and The Taming of Jessi Rose"). My advice to all of you, who want read a great novel, with a touch of historical facts, Beverly Jenkins is one author you want to add to your to buy list and one you'll want keep on that list. Every time I say she can't possibly improve on this last novel, she proves me wrong by doing the possible by generating another great book. Keep it up Beverly.

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Summary: Its like a dream come true
Review: Everytime you pick up a historical romance novel and Beverly Jenkins is the author you can be sure to find, steamy yet tasteful romance, some good laughs and a history lesson with little known black history facts. In Always and Forever she does not let you down. In this story, banker Grace Atwood takes the challenge of getting brides to Kansas and Jackson is going to help her against his better judgement. THey met and the sparks fly though they both try to fight it. They fight it until they get almost to Kansas and can resist each other no more. Grace and Jackson take us on a journey that won't be soon forgotten. Sit back, relax and enjoy Always and Forever.

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Summary: A ROWDY TREK INTO LOVE AND DANGER!!!
Review: Girlfriend Jenkins continues to crank out amazing, torrid romances with fiesty, take-no-shorts sisters, strong brothers, and a dash of history right in the mix. the trip across the West was a fun ride, the charcaters were all developed, and the attraction between Jackson and Grace could melt the pages!!! It also caught us up on Katherine and Dixon, thank goodness. If you are a BJ fan, you have no excuse.....GET IT!!! She delivers like the UPS!!!

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Summary: As good as ever.
Review: Grace Atwood looked for someone to head a wagon train of mail order brides to Kansas City. She found Jackson Blake, a man who has a mysterious past and is now on the run. What was it that Jackson hid back in Texas, and can Grace free him from the demons he refused to reveal? One can expect to find rich characters and vivid, well researched history from a Beverly Jenkins novel. Her emotional slant and sensual writing are very fast becoming trademarks. Once again, very well done.

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Summary: When one door closes another one opens!
Review: Hot, Hot, Hot! This novel was another masterpiece written by Beverly Jenkins. I absolutley loved the story plot and the characters in this latest novel. I enjoyed the professional status that Grace Atwood held in the novel, and the way the two characters ended up together. It was apparent that Grace felt heartbroken being left at the altar, but she couldn't have begun to imagine what lay on the other side of the door for her. Passion, and Love like she had never known. As always the History in the novel is so enligthning. Beverly you are number one on my list as favorite authors! Keep up the good work, and hurry up with the next one!

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Summary: I always look forward to this author's books.
Review: I always purchase Beverly Jenkins' books when they are released and hold onto them until I have some relaxed uninterrupted time. That time was over the Xmas holidays when I was on vacation. It has been sunny here in the Bay Area and I wanted to get out in it but I had a hard time moving in the morning for two days straight because I was engrossed with this book. We met the protagonists Grace Atwood and Jackson Blake in "Topaz" another great book where we met Katherine and Dix Wildhorse. Grace has commissioned Jackson to lead a caravan of mail-order brides from Chicago to Kansas where there is a new black settlement in 1884. Kate is a lady banker from the representative black community in Chicago. Representative is what Dubois called the talented tenth. We see here that after the Civil War that all blacks were not scruffling out a living ath the mercy of whites. There were people like Grace who could trace their lineage for several generations and came from free people of color as well as slaves and who were well off economically. Jackson came from Texas where he was raised by his preacher father from a meager background. Jackson was a lawman and when his father was murdered by the Rebs he wanted to avenge his death only to be run out of Texas to save his life. Now it has been ten years and he wants to go back and clear his name and now the hellion Grace his up in his face demanding he escort the brides. They are both so stubborn and headstrong they butt heads at every end but their attraction is undeniable and fiery. Although this is historical fiction, Jenkins weaves actual black historical events and characters into the storyline. She tells about Jean Baptiste DuSable, a black Frenchmen, who discovered Chicago. We hear about the Black Seminoles and a little of their history. We meet Frederick L. Barnett, a black newspaperman who found the Conservator at a ball. African American history is viewed here not only from a slavery prospective but shows the strides and gains blacks made before, during, and after the war. I am eagerly awaiting the next book.

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Summary: I always look forward to this author's books.
Review: I always purchase Beverly Jenkins' books when they are released and hold onto them until I have some relaxed uninterrupted time. That time was over the Xmas holidays when I was on vacation. It has been sunny here in the Bay Area and I wanted to get out in it but I had a hard time moving in the morning for two days straight because I was engrossed with this book. We met the protagonists Grace Atwood and Jackson Blake in "Topaz" another great book where we met Katherine and Dix Wildhorse. Grace has commissioned Jackson to lead a caravan of mail-order brides from Chicago to Kansas where there is a new black settlement in 1884. Kate is a lady banker from the representative black community in Chicago. Representative is what Dubois called the talented tenth. We see here that after the Civil War that all blacks were not scruffling out a living ath the mercy of whites. There were people like Grace who could trace their lineage for several generations and came from free people of color as well as slaves and who were well off economically. Jackson came from Texas where he was raised by his preacher father from a meager background. Jackson was a lawman and when his father was murdered by the Rebs he wanted to avenge his death only to be run out of Texas to save his life. Now it has been ten years and he wants to go back and clear his name and now the hellion Grace his up in his face demanding he escort the brides. They are both so stubborn and headstrong they butt heads at every end but their attraction is undeniable and fiery. Although this is historical fiction, Jenkins weaves actual black historical events and characters into the storyline. She tells about Jean Baptiste DuSable, a black Frenchmen, who discovered Chicago. We hear about the Black Seminoles and a little of their history. We meet Frederick L. Barnett, a black newspaperman who found the Conservator at a ball. African American history is viewed here not only from a slavery prospective but shows the strides and gains blacks made before, during, and after the war. I am eagerly awaiting the next book.

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Summary: Very Beautifully Written!!
Review: I thought The Taming of Jessi Rose was good, but Always and Forever was the bomb! I really truly loved this one by Jenkins. Who wouldn't fall in love with both Grace and Jackson. They were great apart but together they are very unique, and boy do the sparks fly when they are together! What a great adventure those two took together on their love voyage. This book had me laughing and crying. I fell in love with that poem Jackson left for Grace, it represents all of what love really is! Please go get a copy, you will be sure to enjoy it!