I often don't like these erotic romance short story anthologies much. Too short and not enough detail or depth. But I enjoyed this set quite a bit. And I was happy to discover they were historical erotic romance novellas...which you can't tell from the back cover summaries or the front cover (at least I didn't realize it!).

The first book, "Once Upon A Legend", is about a young woman who wrote a dime novel based on stories she'd heard of Jake White Eagle. She admits she's a bit obsessed with him. So when she decides to write a sequel, she travels to where he's settled to meet him, never expecting he'd return her interest.

In book 2, "Second Wind", Dolly Sherman is a hot air balloon operator hoping to get a job with a Wild West Show and gain complete independence for herself. But a storm drops her nearly in Seth Turner's lap. Seth thinks it's fate, he'd just been wishing for a good woman to marry and have children with. Now he just has to convince her to stay.

And in the last book, "Cinnamon and Sparks", Oriana works with her family's pyrotechnics company and is in town to set up a display for the mine owner when she meets sheriff Kent Wyman. There's an instant chemistry that they two are helpless to control.

All three of these books where hot, sexy, and just a bit sweet. It's true to say that all could have been more thorough, had more depth and detailed, had some better realism, but short stories are what they are. You can only squish so much into such a short space. And these three made up for what lacked with interesting characters and situations and hot sex.

The first book was my favorite, and probably the hottest. I liked the third one a lot too, but I wish the ending had been more solid. It was a little too vague about what the H/H planned to do. And the second book was good as well, just my least favorite of the three.

So overall, a fun, hot read. If you don't mind short stories and like historical erotica, then give this one a try. I enjoyed it.

WARNING, this book contains: explicit sex, anal sex, light bondage, some dominance/submission