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My perfect day: Laptop; WiFi availability; Java Mocha; characters demanding their stories be told; a plot that comes together; and hours to live in an alternate reality. Afterward, I return home to wash dishes and vacuum.
Seriously, I have always loved reading, and now I love writing. As a preteen, I devoured Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Mysteries. When I reached my teen years, the romance genre became my favorite and that has never changed. A few years ago, I decided to try my hand at writing and I've been doing so with a passion ever since. I have written around twenty novels and novellas in the genres of contemporary western romance, historical western romance, and fantasy romance. Because I hate saying goodbye to characters who have lived with me for months, I usually create a series so they can be revisited from book to book.
Reviewed by Christine Nguyen for Readers' Favorite
Rescue on the Rio: Lilah, Finding Home Series #2 continues with Hallie Wells Jerome from Book One, Cry of the West, sending her husband’s good friend, Rush Garrett, a bounty hunter, to locate and escort her sister, Lilah Parker on a visit to Oregon. The sisters have not seen one another for twenty years. Unbeknownst to Hallie, Lilah is ashamed of meeting up with her sister due to Lilah being a rich man's mistress in New Orleans. Rush and Lilah collide in a very unusual and awkward first meeting that embarrasses both of them. However, their mutual attraction for one another is ignited as they venture from New Orleans to Oregon in a series of adventures that push them closer together.
Author Verna Clay writes charmingly in her old fashioned historical romance. If you love romances of past days where there are strict conventions for both men and women to follow, you will enjoy this one. I liked how the author spins a convincing tale of an unconventional woman that has permitted herself to live outside the bounds of society as a mistress. Lilah is not an innocent virgin, but an older, experienced woman that is coming to a crossroads in her life.
Readers usually don’t get a chance to read about “fallen women” in historical romance as much as they should. As a reader, I find those types of women to be more fascinating and compelling. This is a great read if you like the simplicity of the Old American West and its traditions of yester-year.
