The Outlaw's Woman

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Summary: The Outlaw's Woman
Review: Dena is a wonderfully strong, educated, enlightened woman living in a strict small town farm community in the late nineteenth century. She is able to rise above the local gossip, travel across country to attempt to free her man from being wrongly imprisoned, and strenuously work to keep her farm and animals. Thomas/Luke, who she loves, is sensitive and caring, the perfect man to stand by Dena and awaken her passions.

The Outlaw's Woman is intelligently written and researched with much local color, depicting a vivid image of living in a rural German community in the 1870's. Sights and smells come alive. The foods make your mouth water. The chemistry between Dena and Thomas/Luke is palpable. Minor characters and subplots are interesting and humorous. The corn bag heating pad adds a warm touch to this steamy romance. (Yes, a corn bag does work.)

This is a thoroughly enjoyable read with truly memorable characters. Congratulations to the author for not only writing vivid romantic scenes, but also adding interesting factual information. May Dena and Luke live happily ever after.

Rating:
Summary: The Outlaw's Woman
Review: Dena is a wonderfully strong, educated, enlightened woman living in a strict small town farm community in the late nineteenth century. She is able to rise above the local gossip, travel across country to attempt to free her man from being wrongly imprisoned, and strenuously work to keep her farm and animals. Thomas/Luke, who she loves, is sensitive and caring, the perfect man to stand by Dena and awaken her passions.

The Outlaw's Woman is intelligently written and researched with much local color, depicting a vivid image of living in a rural German community in the 1870's. Sights and smells come alive. The foods make your mouth water. The chemistry between Dena and Thomas/Luke is palpable. Minor characters and subplots are interesting and humorous. The corn bag heating pad adds a warm touch to this steamy romance. (Yes, a corn bag does work.)

This is a thoroughly enjoyable read with truly memorable characters. Congratulations to the author for not only writing vivid romantic scenes, but also adding interesting factual information. May Dena and Luke live happily ever after.

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Summary: This Outlaw captured my heart
Review: Gripping from beginning to end, The Outlaw's Woman is not only intensely intriguing, it is written with a historically-enriching and entertaining hand.

An imaginative and unpredictable love story, the knight in shining armor has a shadow of murder and law breaking looming behind him, and the woman in love is a widow who has never known love before.

The story -- woven with intricate, accurate details of the period and smothered in the most incredible detailed passages --unites two unlikely lovers, ignites passion, and keeps you wondering just how the story will end.

The great thing about it is that you never want the end to come. Identification with the characters is unavoidable--if you've ever loved someone or had doubts about your own capacity to love, this story will resonate through you.

The dramatic chase and unexpected twists add surprise to this romance ... after all, a wanted man on the run can't stay with his woman forever...or can he?

It will entertain you, educate you, enlighten you, inspire you, keep you on your toes and make you want to fall in love over and over again...even with an outlaw.

Rating:
Summary: This Outlaw captured my heart
Review: Gripping from beginning to end, The Outlaw's Woman is not only intensely intriguing, it is written with an historically-enriching and entertaining hand.

An imaginative and unpredictable love story, the knight in shining armor has a shadow of murder and law breaking looming in behind him, and the woman in love is a widow who has never known love before.

The story -- woven with intricate, accurate details of the period and smothered in the most incredible detailed passages --unites two unlikely lovers, ignites passion, and keeps you wondering just how the story will end.

The great thing about it, is that you never want the end to come. Identification with the characters is unavoidable--if you've ever loved someone or had doubts about your own capacity to love, this story will resonate through you.

The dramatic chase and unexpected twists add surprise to this romance ... after all, a wanted man on the run can't stay with his woman forever...or can he?

It will entertain you, educate you, enlighten you, inspire you, keep you on your toes and make you want to fall in love over and over again...even with an outlaw.

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Summary: The Outlaw's Woman
Review: This book starts off six months after Thomas Howard leaves. Dena Clayter has been a widow for three or four days, and on the day of her late husband's funeral, she meets a fugitive, a part of the Jesse James gang. Thomas Howard stays for one night in Dena's barn, then leaves the next morning. That afternoon, a Pinkerton agent (cop) shows up on Dena's doorstep asking about the same fugitive. She tells him she knows nothing, and he leaves with a warning that he'll be keeping an eye on her. That same afternoon, Thomas rides back to her because of a blizzard. They spend about a week together, do the deed, and the next day he leaves, promising to return when the heat of the Pinkertons' is gone. Little does he know he leaves her pregnant. Now she's on a quest to find him to tell them about the baby everyone in her small town thinks is her late husband's.

Have you ever read a book with a great beginning, so good that you think the rest of the story will be as well? Then, as it turns out, the second half isn't at all as good as the first? That's what this book was. I loved the characters Dena Clayter and Thomas Howard when they first met. They were so fun and in love. However, that's not the way it stays.

I hope you all agree with me that the worst thing in the world is a stupid heroine. Now, Dena was a great woman in the beginning. But while on her quest to find Thomas, she stumbles across some devastating news...when she sees him again, she doesn't ask about it, she just gives him the cold shoulder!! ... She should've come right out with it. Instead, she let it fester inside of her until she was convinced she was a wanton whore, and he was a liar and a murderer... She also talked way too much about her dead husband. The author made it clear that he was a jerk and a mental abuser, yet she praises him and quotes him throughout the whole book. I loved Thomas, though. He was a great hero with a kind heart and a warmth you kept help but notice and love. I think he deserved much better than that ungrateful brat Dena. She should have more faith in her man.

If you like stupid heroines and frustrating novels, this is the book for you...