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My Enemy, My Love
A WILD SOUTHERN ANGEL
She was the daredevil of Shelby County. No fine southern gentleman could tame beautiful Mourning Kathleen Howard until a dangerously handsome stranger rode into her life and took her breath away with a deep, burning kiss that defied her to sacrifice a girl's innocence for a woman's desire.
A DEVILISH TEXAS ROGUE
Clint Kincaid knew what he wanted from a beautiful woman --- and it didn't include love or marriage. But his obligations were clear. He would escort his exquisite stepsister across the wild frontier. He would defy the elements to protect her from danger and his own fiery instincts ... to protect her from the passions that flared between them.
As the nation teetered on the brink of the Civil War, they would ride from an elegant Memphis plantation to a magnificent Texas ranch and on into the irresistible splendor of the Sierra Nevadas in hot pursuit of a tangled destiny caught between teasing and torment, innocence and desire.
She was the daredevil of Shelby County. No fine southern gentleman could tame beautiful Mourning Kathleen Howard until a dangerously handsome stranger rode into her life and took her breath away with a deep, burning kiss that defied her to sacrifice a girl's innocence for a woman's desire.
A DEVILISH TEXAS ROGUE
Clint Kincaid knew what he wanted from a beautiful woman --- and it didn't include love or marriage. But his obligations were clear. He would escort his exquisite stepsister across the wild frontier. He would defy the elements to protect her from danger and his own fiery instincts ... to protect her from the passions that flared between them.
As the nation teetered on the brink of the Civil War, they would ride from an elegant Memphis plantation to a magnificent Texas ranch and on into the irresistible splendor of the Sierra Nevadas in hot pursuit of a tangled destiny caught between teasing and torment, innocence and desire.
472 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1988
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About the author
Elaine Coffman
63 books117 followersBarbara Elaine Gunter was born in San Diego, California, to William Samuel Gunter, Jr., a naval officer and Edna Marie (née Davidson) Gunter, a homemaker. From the age of three she lived in Midland, Texas and graduated from Midland High School. After she received a degree in elementary education from North Texas State University, she taught elementary school in Midland, Texas, while working on her Master’s Degree and certification for Language and Learning Disabilities at Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Elaine currently resides in Austin, Texas, where her son, Chuck, also lives. She has two daughters, Lesley who resides in Raleigh, N.C. and Ashley, who lives in San Diego, California.
Elaine Coffman is a New York Times bestselling author with a large international following. She has penned novels in both the historical romance genre and suspense. A lover of history, she has penned several novels set in Scotland, Regency England, Italy and the American West. To date, she is the author of nineteen novels and five novellas.
While writing her first novel, My Enemy, My Love, she found herself inspired by a letter her great-great grandmother, Susannah Jane Dowell Shacklett wrote in 1920, telling about her journey from Brandeburg, Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas, and then going with an army escort to El Paso, Texas, where her brother, Ben Dowell, a veteran of the Mexican War, was El Paso's first mayor.
Elaine continued to write best-selling, award-winning books until the publication of her eleventh novel, If You Loved Me, which was the last book of her beloved Mackinnon series and her first book to hit the New York Times bestseller list.
Her first suspense novel, Alone in the Dark, was published by Pocket books in 2006.
Elaine currently resides in Austin, Texas, where her son, Chuck, also lives. She has two daughters, Lesley who resides in Raleigh, N.C. and Ashley, who lives in San Diego, California.
Elaine Coffman is a New York Times bestselling author with a large international following. She has penned novels in both the historical romance genre and suspense. A lover of history, she has penned several novels set in Scotland, Regency England, Italy and the American West. To date, she is the author of nineteen novels and five novellas.
While writing her first novel, My Enemy, My Love, she found herself inspired by a letter her great-great grandmother, Susannah Jane Dowell Shacklett wrote in 1920, telling about her journey from Brandeburg, Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas, and then going with an army escort to El Paso, Texas, where her brother, Ben Dowell, a veteran of the Mexican War, was El Paso's first mayor.
Elaine continued to write best-selling, award-winning books until the publication of her eleventh novel, If You Loved Me, which was the last book of her beloved Mackinnon series and her first book to hit the New York Times bestseller list.
Her first suspense novel, Alone in the Dark, was published by Pocket books in 2006.
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March 11, 2008
This is an amazingly ridiculous trashy romance. I'll admit I've read it at least a dozen times and thoroughly enjoyed it every time.
February 6, 2016
Love, love, love this book. I don't know how many times I have read it. The characters draw you in and you can't help but love them.
April 5, 2020
Oh this book. That cover is so very familiar. I liked this the first time I read it, if only for the banter (pretend you're sucking juice from an orange is branded in my memory). I adored the brother and Morning had spirit. I cheered and thought she didn't make Clint grovel nearly enough for his crap. Second read I really disliked him. Older, wiser, more perceptive, I understood details I didn't before. That stupid poker game makes me angry just thinking of it! Pulling a gun? Acting like he was being trapped and forced into marriage? Disappearing for all those years and coming back judging? I couldn't stand him. And so ended my romantic era.
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November 28, 2021
The beginining was funny enough to keep reading ... book was all foreplay -- to the point it was just him pawing and kissing on her (dialogue LOTS of it became corney) I wanted to make him stop. Course he would't have stopped or gone much further. "Yuck, more kissing?" NOT a BR. Constant description of the charachers and their feelings. 3 stars for the first half.
April 4, 2023
Why the hell the FMC's name is Mourning?
Why is the book unnecessarily long with tiresome description?
Why the MC have no cnnection for more 100 page other than lust (and not even a good one)?
If someone gave me a book about the south of USA in the 1860, I'll instantly be reminded of Gone With The Wind... but here I am suffering through this.
Why is the book unnecessarily long with tiresome description?
Why the MC have no cnnection for more 100 page other than lust (and not even a good one)?
If someone gave me a book about the south of USA in the 1860, I'll instantly be reminded of Gone With The Wind... but here I am suffering through this.
August 22, 2025
Characters were insufferable. Every "big word" that could be used (unnecessarily, in my opinion), was. Way too much dialogue. A ridiculous amount of build-up, to lead to nothing, for most of the book. A slog to read.
October 20, 2022
Memories
I read this book when I was a teenager n it has always been one of my favourites n it brought back memories of my late parents n how they met because their love story began when my mom was 16 ❤
I read this book when I was a teenager n it has always been one of my favourites n it brought back memories of my late parents n how they met because their love story began when my mom was 16 ❤
July 7, 2024
I read this book many years ago and finally found it again. I love it now as much as I did then. The heroine is a feisty young lady from Memphis who gets herself in all kinds of trouble, and the hero is a sexy Texan who takes no nonsense. At times, you'll love him, hate him, and want to knock some sense into him, but in the end, you'll love him. This is a story of perseverance. There are many humor and texas sayings throughout the story.
Elaine Coffman mixes a lot of humor in her stories, and I love her books.
Disclaimer....While there is a lot of hot steaminess, there are no sex acts in this book.
Elaine Coffman mixes a lot of humor in her stories, and I love her books.
Disclaimer....While there is a lot of hot steaminess, there are no sex acts in this book.
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