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Book Review of Unchained Lightning: Once Struck / Whirlwind / Pride's Way / Storms Never Last

Unchained Lightning: Once Struck / Whirlwind / Pride's Way / Storms Never Last
reviewed Great authors: Anita Mills , Patricia Ann Potter , Vivian Vaughan and Lynn Michaels (Author, Editor) on + 5 more book reviews


Review
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!