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Homeward Hearts
When love seems out of reach...
Chloe Maitland had begun to think of herself as the town spinster. Living alone in her father's house in a dying Oregon mining town, she had put away her girlish dreams and prayed for something more practical: that someone would answer her ad for a blacksmith to run the shop that was her father's legacy to her--and her only hope of holding on...more
Chloe Maitland had begun to think of herself as the town spinster. Living alone in her father's house in a dying Oregon mining town, she had put away her girlish dreams and prayed for something more practical: that someone would answer her ad for a blacksmith to run the shop that was her father's legacy to her--and her only hope of holding on...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
May 1st 1994
by Topaz
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Set in Oregon in 1894, this book tells the story about Chloe Maitland, a spinster woman, who is trying to make enough money to pay the mortgage for the year. She advertises for a blacksmith but can offer no wages, just room and board. Along comes a stranger, Travis McGuire, who has heatstroke and collapses at Chloe's feet. The writer does a great job in telling us how hard life was there without making the story too dark. The two have a love/hate relationship for a while. But it flowed nicely. N...more
In, we find two lost souls and their very different ways of dealing what life dished up for them. Our hero was wrongly accused of having killed his unfaithful wife. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence and the word of a man he had trusted. A deathbed confession of said man gets our hero released from prison after five years. While anyone wrongfully send to prison would react with anger and distrust, a younger person lashes out differently than an older more mature person and the author s...more
I admit, the cover made me LOL
I mean, really. What. the heck?
Ok ok about the actual book -- I really enjoyed it. The resolution was a bit too easy for my tastes, but it had all the elements I love in Alexis Harrington novels (only, for once, there was no child involved, which was pretty refreshing to be honest..)
The heroine's prickly attitude got on my nerves a bit, but, considering her circumstances in life, I can kind of understand it.
I really liked the hero, though his baggage from his previo...more
I mean, really. What. the heck?
Ok ok about the actual book -- I really enjoyed it. The resolution was a bit too easy for my tastes, but it had all the elements I love in Alexis Harrington novels (only, for once, there was no child involved, which was pretty refreshing to be honest..)
The heroine's prickly attitude got on my nerves a bit, but, considering her circumstances in life, I can kind of understand it.
I really liked the hero, though his baggage from his previo...more
Another good one by Alexis Harrington. This one's set in 1894, in the tiny borderline-ghost-town of Misfortune, Oregon. Chloe Maitland is a hardworking single woman trying to make enough money to make the annual mortgage payment on the farm she inherited when her father died a year before. She takes in other people's laundry, but what she really needs is a man to work in the blacksmith forge that's been empty since her father died. Travis McGuire, Drifter, turns up in her yard one day, asks for...more
Nov 19, 2012
Babyfishmouth
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3.5 Stars.
Has angst, tension and very likeable H/h. Plot is fairly predictable and certainly doesn't break any new ground in the western historical genre but it was still a solid, enjoyable read. I am a sucker for romances where H or h has to nurse the other back to health and also where daily survival is tough.
The plot gets a liitle muddled toward the end and I may or may not have skipped numerous pages to get to the Happily Ever After.
Has angst, tension and very likeable H/h. Plot is fairly predictable and certainly doesn't break any new ground in the western historical genre but it was still a solid, enjoyable read. I am a sucker for romances where H or h has to nurse the other back to health and also where daily survival is tough.
The plot gets a liitle muddled toward the end and I may or may not have skipped numerous pages to get to the Happily Ever After.
Formulaic and predictable? Yes, but still a good, light afternoon's read.
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I've been a self-employed working novelist for the past twenty years. Of all the books I've written I've had just one foreign sale, and that was THE IRISH BRIDE, which was translated into Norwegian, where I understand it was a big hit.
I also make jewelry and I'm a fine needlework artist, specializing in embroidery, thread crochet, and sewing. I love to cook, read, entertain friends, decorate, and...more
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I also make jewelry and I'm a fine needlework artist, specializing in embroidery, thread crochet, and sewing. I love to cook, read, entertain friends, decorate, and...more
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