Hell On Wheels

by Naomi Horton

When a half-frozen, barefoot woman, soaked to the skin, walked into the Amber Hills cafe one night, trucker Shay McKittrick knew she was trouble. But the ice-cold lady with the warm brown eyes later became his trouble when he found her huddled in his rig, desperate to make a quick getaway. And Shay had a feeling that he and his scared-to-death stowaway were headed down one long, bumpy road.

253 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another fantastic book by Naomi Horton. The hero is a trucker at a truck-stop eating when he runs into the truly desperate heroine; who is ranting and raving that her stepfather wants to kill her & has had her committed where she is being abused. The hero doesn't want to get involved & when the heroine runs out of the door & the people trying to take her go behind her he thinks that is that. Then, the hero finds her huddled in her truck and tells her he will drop her at the next stop. But somehow that is not what happens, these two people who are hurting come to rely on each other. The hero took care of his ailing wife a couple of years ago but when she lay dying in the hospital he was in a bar getting drunk and the guilt hasn't left him. The heroine's cosy life of wealth went to hell when her mother married her stepfather six years back, something she was against and slowly that man stole her money, heritage and had her mother killed. The heroine is in a desperate situation and no-one is willing to help her except the hero who actually helps her with the withdrawal because of the drugs that were forced on her.

Somehow they unravel the mess that has become her life and she realises what matters most is love. A pretty nice read where you see the heroine's desperation.