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The Men of Pride County Series #3
The Rebel
Noble Banning and his men have been forced to don the hated Yankee blue and fight on the Western frontier, or else spend the rest of the war in a hellish Union prison. At first, he didn't give Juliet Crowley a second look: their Yankee commanding officer's daughter is nothing like the hoop-skirted belles back home. But Noble is attracted more and more to the passionate, embraceable woman. If Noble can't have Juliet for his own, all else fades into insignificance--even the side he calls his own.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1998
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July 16, 2009
4 1/2 stars.
The third book in the Men of Pride County series was well-worth slogging through the first two: The Outcast and The Outsider and makes me glad I read this series.
Major Noble Banning has spent three long years fighting for the Confederacy when his troop is betrayed by one of their own and they are ambushed. After spending months in a Union prison camp, Noble and his men are offered a deal: freedom as long as they will go fight out West with the Union Army. Noble - unwilling to see any more of his men continue to die in the harsh conditions of the camp - reluctantly agrees when he finds out that his new commanding officer, Colonel John Crowley, knows who the traitor in Noble's men is. He heads to New Mexico territory with nothing more than vengeance and eventually freedom on his mind.
That quickly gets put aside when he meets Juliet Crowley, the Colonel's outspoken and practical daughter. Juliet is reluctantly attracted to Noble, but she doesn't trust him an inch. How can she, after all? He betrayed his own country by fighting with the Confederacy, and she sees him as just another spoiled, indolent Southerner. When she sees Noble's willingness to serve her father and his honor in the field, however, it doesn't take long for her to fall hard. As for Noble, Juliet is everything he believes would make a bad lawyer's wife, but he can't help falling for her either.
I loved Noble - he was so torn about making the wrong choices, but he never tried to pass the responsibility or stand accountable for the consequences. Juliet's confusion over her attraction for Noble, and her willingness to stand with her father and take care of him no matter what the cost was touching. And her realization that she and her father were both hiding behind their respective duties to each other hit close to home for me.
A shining star in a series that has been somewhat frustrating so far. A-
The third book in the Men of Pride County series was well-worth slogging through the first two: The Outcast and The Outsider and makes me glad I read this series.
Major Noble Banning has spent three long years fighting for the Confederacy when his troop is betrayed by one of their own and they are ambushed. After spending months in a Union prison camp, Noble and his men are offered a deal: freedom as long as they will go fight out West with the Union Army. Noble - unwilling to see any more of his men continue to die in the harsh conditions of the camp - reluctantly agrees when he finds out that his new commanding officer, Colonel John Crowley, knows who the traitor in Noble's men is. He heads to New Mexico territory with nothing more than vengeance and eventually freedom on his mind.
That quickly gets put aside when he meets Juliet Crowley, the Colonel's outspoken and practical daughter. Juliet is reluctantly attracted to Noble, but she doesn't trust him an inch. How can she, after all? He betrayed his own country by fighting with the Confederacy, and she sees him as just another spoiled, indolent Southerner. When she sees Noble's willingness to serve her father and his honor in the field, however, it doesn't take long for her to fall hard. As for Noble, Juliet is everything he believes would make a bad lawyer's wife, but he can't help falling for her either.
I loved Noble - he was so torn about making the wrong choices, but he never tried to pass the responsibility or stand accountable for the consequences. Juliet's confusion over her attraction for Noble, and her willingness to stand with her father and take care of him no matter what the cost was touching. And her realization that she and her father were both hiding behind their respective duties to each other hit close to home for me.
A shining star in a series that has been somewhat frustrating so far. A-
November 10, 2014
Wonderful book! Not just a romance trust me! Set in civil war era, after the fall of confederacy, Noble Banning and his men were taken prisoners by the union army after a failed operation due to a traitor in their own army, he and his men were offered to fight for a common cause in the west. Noble decides to have his men wear the darned union blue rather than seeing them die everyday in the camp. Also, he wants to know the traitor who have divulged their mission to the union army that killed couple of his men and their downfall. In the mean time, Noble falls in love with the union general's daughter! SURPRISE!!! Other than that and the whiny climax, nothing in this book is usual. Highly recommend it!!!
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