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Coltrane #2
The Raging Hearts
His courage conquered her world, but her love captured his heart!
Kitty Wright's once grand ancestral plantation stands abandoned, ruined. Now, her father and fiance slain, her southern life in tatters, the two men who ravaged her heritage turn their hunger to her beauty.
Corey McRae, Yankee carpetbagger, rescues Kitty from the lusts of a vengeful mob, only to entrap her within his own violent passions.
Jerome Danton, privateer of land and women, gathers into his cruel web of wealth and desire every shred of beauty in the fallen Confederacy -- with a special eye to its most spirited woman.
Across a land savaged by a conquering army, Kitty flees -- possessed by a woman's indomitable strength to guard her most previous gifts: the child of her body and the love of a man...a man named Travis Coltrane, a victorious soldier who knows that a man's greatest field of honor is a woman's heart.
Kitty Wright's once grand ancestral plantation stands abandoned, ruined. Now, her father and fiance slain, her southern life in tatters, the two men who ravaged her heritage turn their hunger to her beauty.
Corey McRae, Yankee carpetbagger, rescues Kitty from the lusts of a vengeful mob, only to entrap her within his own violent passions.
Jerome Danton, privateer of land and women, gathers into his cruel web of wealth and desire every shred of beauty in the fallen Confederacy -- with a special eye to its most spirited woman.
Across a land savaged by a conquering army, Kitty flees -- possessed by a woman's indomitable strength to guard her most previous gifts: the child of her body and the love of a man...a man named Travis Coltrane, a victorious soldier who knows that a man's greatest field of honor is a woman's heart.
466 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Patricia Hagan
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Pat is the published author of over forty books of romantic fiction. Several of her titles have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. One of her books, "Ocean of Dreams", is based on her own shipboard romance when she met her former husband, a Norwegian engineer.
She is also a former Radio/TV Motorsports Journalist, covering NASCAR Grand National Stock Car Racing. Her work has won many awards by the National Motorsports Press Association.
Pat has cruised the eastern and western Caribbean extensively, as well as the Greek Islands, the fjords of Norway all the way to the North Cape, and has made several transatlantic crossings.
She prefers traveling single, because it gives her more opportunities to meet and make new friends. While she admits going solo is not for everyone, she says for her it is perfect, because she is an outgoing person, and, being a writer, enjoys meeting new "characters."
The only thing she does not like about traveling is having to leave behind her best friend and companion, Krysy, a 14-year old Wire-haired fox terrier.
The author also uses the names:
Patricia Hagan Howell
Maggie James (4 spaces)
Please see: Patricia Hagan
Pat is the published author of over forty books of romantic fiction. Several of her titles have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. One of her books, "Ocean of Dreams", is based on her own shipboard romance when she met her former husband, a Norwegian engineer.
She is also a former Radio/TV Motorsports Journalist, covering NASCAR Grand National Stock Car Racing. Her work has won many awards by the National Motorsports Press Association.
Pat has cruised the eastern and western Caribbean extensively, as well as the Greek Islands, the fjords of Norway all the way to the North Cape, and has made several transatlantic crossings.
She prefers traveling single, because it gives her more opportunities to meet and make new friends. While she admits going solo is not for everyone, she says for her it is perfect, because she is an outgoing person, and, being a writer, enjoys meeting new "characters."
The only thing she does not like about traveling is having to leave behind her best friend and companion, Krysy, a 14-year old Wire-haired fox terrier.
The author also uses the names:
Patricia Hagan Howell
Maggie James (4 spaces)
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November 21, 2023
** Bodice Ripper Deluxe & Spoilers! **
Just finished reading the first three books in the Coltrane series by Patricia Hagan:
Love and War (1978)
The Raging Hearts (1979)
Love and Glory (1982)
Kitty Wright, stunningly beautiful Southern girl with reddish gold hair, lavender colored eyes, and a generous bosom… all the men want her .., bad enough that she gets raped repeatedly at the beginning of the story, abused, abducted and raped again throughout all the books.
Travis Coltrane, a sexy alpha handsome Union Calvary officer that brags that he never has to rape women as they all want him. He rescues Kitty and then holds her hostage.
Both are two of the most stubborn people I’ve ever encountered in a book… they hate and love each other! She’s deceitful, lies to him repeatedly.. but she endures!! He has sex thruout the books with other women but Kitty has his heart.
I’m not going to give details about the plot .., just sharing my overall thoughts about these books.
A deeply horrific, dark story full of graphic violence, the horrors of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the KKK.., including details of battles, wounded soldiers, amputations, surgery, rapes, death, discrimination, starvation etc.
The three books are interconnected and span about 10 years. They both marry others … she marries an evil depraived rich carpetbagger when she’s desperate, and he marries the sweetest woman ever, Marilee, when he thinks Kitty is dead.
Although these superbly written books are classified at HRs they read more like historical fiction to me. Why? Besides the horrors mentioned above, the long separations between Kitty and Travis… they spend more time in total with others than with each other. Minimal love scenes, passion, or words of love plus abrupt HEAs.
As HRs: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
As HF: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+
Splendid covers by the artist Tom Hall.
Just finished reading the first three books in the Coltrane series by Patricia Hagan:
Love and War (1978)
The Raging Hearts (1979)
Love and Glory (1982)
Kitty Wright, stunningly beautiful Southern girl with reddish gold hair, lavender colored eyes, and a generous bosom… all the men want her .., bad enough that she gets raped repeatedly at the beginning of the story, abused, abducted and raped again throughout all the books.
Travis Coltrane, a sexy alpha handsome Union Calvary officer that brags that he never has to rape women as they all want him. He rescues Kitty and then holds her hostage.
Both are two of the most stubborn people I’ve ever encountered in a book… they hate and love each other! She’s deceitful, lies to him repeatedly.. but she endures!! He has sex thruout the books with other women but Kitty has his heart.
I’m not going to give details about the plot .., just sharing my overall thoughts about these books.
A deeply horrific, dark story full of graphic violence, the horrors of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the KKK.., including details of battles, wounded soldiers, amputations, surgery, rapes, death, discrimination, starvation etc.
The three books are interconnected and span about 10 years. They both marry others … she marries an evil depraived rich carpetbagger when she’s desperate, and he marries the sweetest woman ever, Marilee, when he thinks Kitty is dead.
Although these superbly written books are classified at HRs they read more like historical fiction to me. Why? Besides the horrors mentioned above, the long separations between Kitty and Travis… they spend more time in total with others than with each other. Minimal love scenes, passion, or words of love plus abrupt HEAs.
As HRs: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
As HF: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+
Splendid covers by the artist Tom Hall.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 3, 2019
The saga continues with kitty leaving the war pregnant and hated by everyone. She goes back home to her fathers land to start over again. There she meets Corey Mcrea. Who want her in the worst way. She finally married him for the sake of her son. Only to be treated brutally by him. All the time she is waiting for her love Travis to return. But when he does he wants nothing to do with her he thinks she doesn't love him and is only our for the land. After the death of her husband Kitty is now rich, only to find out that Travis has taken there son with him to North Carolina. She has not other choice but to go after him. When she finds him and capture her son, Kitty saves Travis from the quick sand he gets into by going after her.After she saves him he realizes that she does love him. They go back to her home. To there new life.
September 29, 2012
Oh Kitty Wright. What can I say about this character... she has a lot of sides to her... and I think I liked this book more than the first. I had to keep reading... harder to put the book down. Anyways once again closeness to detail.. at points felt like I was reading a semi different version to Gone With the Wind and Scarlett mixed. Good book... can't wait to read book 3 of the Saga.
January 9, 2014
Very repetitive! Bodice ripper with main female character witless and childish. Hard to believe fiction set in realish circumstances.
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