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Unchained Lightning is an great collection of Western historicals all written using summer storms as their theme. And with four of the most skilled historical writers, it's easy to get swept right into the heat, passion, and even danger of summer's furious rains even in the dead of winter. Whirlwind by Anita Mills is the story of legendary gunfighter Ben Haley who's searching the plains of western Kansas for the man he's been hired to kill. He's almost to his quarry's ranch when a tornado overtakes him and a young woman who's along defending her spread.
Pride's Way (Patricia Potter) tells the story of Pride Gideon, a man on the run for his life from a gang of outlaws. Shot in the shoulder and almost dead, Pride escapes the pack of killers in the mountains of Colorado during a downpour. Minutes after he loses consciousness, Susannah O'Callahan finds him and manages to get the wounded stranger back to her mountain cabin. He is the answer to her prayers, a hired gun wanted by the law...
When Storms Never Last by Vivian Vaughan opens, Lindsey Mae Burnett sits in a whorehouse in Indianola, Texas, about to make the biggest mistake of her life. She's desperate for money, and wants to leave behind the ugly blood feud her family has been engaged in. Lindsey plans to work at house ofFanciful Delights until she can make enough money to move out west, and has no use for any man who uses a gun to solve his problems.
In Once Struck, by Lynne Michaels, town beauty, Peach MaCauley finds herself working hard to hold onto the family's wheat farm all on her own after her brother's suicide. After their parents died, Peach's brother gambled away most of their money, leaving her alone. And now there's a a huge storm, and if Peach can't bring the harvest in before the storm hits, she'll lose the farm for sure. She has to depend on someone she canot trust....
All great stories!
Unchained Lightning is an great collection of Western historicals all written using summer storms as their theme. And with four of the most skilled historical writers, it's easy to get swept right into the heat, passion, and even danger of summer's furious rains even in the dead of winter. Whirlwind by Anita Mills is the story of legendary gunfighter Ben Haley who's searching the plains of western Kansas for the man he's been hired to kill. He's almost to his quarry's ranch when a tornado overtakes him and a young woman who's along defending her spread.
Pride's Way (Patricia Potter) tells the story of Pride Gideon, a man on the run for his life from a gang of outlaws. Shot in the shoulder and almost dead, Pride escapes the pack of killers in the mountains of Colorado during a downpour. Minutes after he loses consciousness, Susannah O'Callahan finds him and manages to get the wounded stranger back to her mountain cabin. He is the answer to her prayers, a hired gun wanted by the law...
When Storms Never Last by Vivian Vaughan opens, Lindsey Mae Burnett sits in a whorehouse in Indianola, Texas, about to make the biggest mistake of her life. She's desperate for money, and wants to leave behind the ugly blood feud her family has been engaged in. Lindsey plans to work at house ofFanciful Delights until she can make enough money to move out west, and has no use for any man who uses a gun to solve his problems.
In Once Struck, by Lynne Michaels, town beauty, Peach MaCauley finds herself working hard to hold onto the family's wheat farm all on her own after her brother's suicide. After their parents died, Peach's brother gambled away most of their money, leaving her alone. And now there's a a huge storm, and if Peach can't bring the harvest in before the storm hits, she'll lose the farm for sure. She has to depend on someone she canot trust....
All great stories!
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These 4 stories are bound together by sudden weather crises: A hailstorm, a prairie tornado, a Colorado mountain storm and a hurricane in Indianola, Texas.
WHIRLWIND by Anita Mills
Gunman Ben Hadley is in western Kansas that July of 1877. Hes been hired to kill a stubborn rancher, Preston Mitchell, who has refused to sell his land to Jack Matheny.
As Ben approaches Mitchells land, a tornado mass forms -- and heads directly for the gunman. He sees a young woman in the distance, trying to move her sheep out of the weather. He jumps on the woman and keeps her under him as the tornado rolls across them, destroying the house, sheep pens and uprooting grass.
After surviving both Bens jump and the tornado, Jess (Prestons daughter) starts a funny repartee with Ben. The gunman finds out that Preston died three weeks earlier; then he realizes that Jess has no intention of selling her ranch or leaving. And she has no way to stand against the evil Jack Matheny.
This is one of the best of the four stories a delight! - 4.5 stars
PRIDES WAY Patricia Potter - 4.5 stars
Is there anything this woman cant write? This is a great story!
Pride Gideon is dripping blood and finally falls from his horse; hed rather die from the sudden cold rain storm than from the people chasing him. Surely Jack Keegan couldnt find him in this blinding storm could he?
Susannah OCallaghan has just buried her father, Daniel. Although shed promised her dad to leave immediately (so Dave Gallagher wouldnt kill her to get Daniels mine claim), she had no intention of running from Gallagher.
Chasing after Daniels mule, Susannah finds the bloody stranger and takes him home. When she opens his saddlebags and reads a wanted poster about King Gideon, Susannah thinks she has found a gunman who will save her and the mining claim.
When Pride is better, he refuses to use a gun and the rest is a fascinating story!
STORMS NEVER LAST Vivian Vaughan 3.5 stars
Lindsey Mae Burnett had run out of options and the stranger across from her would be her first. She was the newest whore in the House of Fanciful Delights and didnt really know what to expect, other than ruination!
March Sutton couldnt figure out this whore. One minute she seemed to be an old hand at her trade, the next, she seemed scared and unsure. What was going on?
Just before Lindsey joins March on the bed, he notices the awful roar of the wind and warns that the expected hurricane must be near. They hurriedly dress and escape before the building collapses and then the adventure begins!
ONCE STRUCK Lynn Michaels 4 stars
Her brother Will had committed suicide a year ago, leaving Peach MaCauley to tend their 230 acre farm alone. All Peach wants to do is harvest her wheat, sell her land and move to Omaha to live with her aunt.
Its time to harvest the wheat but Peach had to shoot one of her needed mules. Now, she had to appeal to her fellow farmers who werent of a mind to help her.
Kit Taggert, one-time bad boy of the area, had recently moved back to Lynchburg, Nebraska. He offers to help Peach for the price of a night with her.
WHIRLWIND by Anita Mills
Gunman Ben Hadley is in western Kansas that July of 1877. Hes been hired to kill a stubborn rancher, Preston Mitchell, who has refused to sell his land to Jack Matheny.
As Ben approaches Mitchells land, a tornado mass forms -- and heads directly for the gunman. He sees a young woman in the distance, trying to move her sheep out of the weather. He jumps on the woman and keeps her under him as the tornado rolls across them, destroying the house, sheep pens and uprooting grass.
After surviving both Bens jump and the tornado, Jess (Prestons daughter) starts a funny repartee with Ben. The gunman finds out that Preston died three weeks earlier; then he realizes that Jess has no intention of selling her ranch or leaving. And she has no way to stand against the evil Jack Matheny.
This is one of the best of the four stories a delight! - 4.5 stars
PRIDES WAY Patricia Potter - 4.5 stars
Is there anything this woman cant write? This is a great story!
Pride Gideon is dripping blood and finally falls from his horse; hed rather die from the sudden cold rain storm than from the people chasing him. Surely Jack Keegan couldnt find him in this blinding storm could he?
Susannah OCallaghan has just buried her father, Daniel. Although shed promised her dad to leave immediately (so Dave Gallagher wouldnt kill her to get Daniels mine claim), she had no intention of running from Gallagher.
Chasing after Daniels mule, Susannah finds the bloody stranger and takes him home. When she opens his saddlebags and reads a wanted poster about King Gideon, Susannah thinks she has found a gunman who will save her and the mining claim.
When Pride is better, he refuses to use a gun and the rest is a fascinating story!
STORMS NEVER LAST Vivian Vaughan 3.5 stars
Lindsey Mae Burnett had run out of options and the stranger across from her would be her first. She was the newest whore in the House of Fanciful Delights and didnt really know what to expect, other than ruination!
March Sutton couldnt figure out this whore. One minute she seemed to be an old hand at her trade, the next, she seemed scared and unsure. What was going on?
Just before Lindsey joins March on the bed, he notices the awful roar of the wind and warns that the expected hurricane must be near. They hurriedly dress and escape before the building collapses and then the adventure begins!
ONCE STRUCK Lynn Michaels 4 stars
Her brother Will had committed suicide a year ago, leaving Peach MaCauley to tend their 230 acre farm alone. All Peach wants to do is harvest her wheat, sell her land and move to Omaha to live with her aunt.
Its time to harvest the wheat but Peach had to shoot one of her needed mules. Now, she had to appeal to her fellow farmers who werent of a mind to help her.
Kit Taggert, one-time bad boy of the area, had recently moved back to Lynchburg, Nebraska. He offers to help Peach for the price of a night with her.
