Homeward Hearts edition by Alexis Harrington Literature Fiction eBooks
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Chloe Maitland was a practical woman. Living in a dying Oregon mining town, she’d given up her girlish dreams of love and marriage. What she needed was a man to answer her advertisement for a blacksmith to work in her shop and help save her home from foreclosure. What she got was an exhausted stranger who collapsed in her yard, looked like the devil himself, and proved to be far more dangerous than she could have imagined.
Travis McGuire was a man with a dark past, no future, and no prospects. Doomed to live the life of a drifter, the last thing he wanted was any kind of entanglement with a woman like Chloe. But then she proved strong enough to look his past in the face and risk everything she had for a chance at a passionate true love she thought she’d never find.
Homeward Hearts edition by Alexis Harrington Literature Fiction eBooks
Chloe Maitland is a very hard working young woman who tries desperately to save the house she inherited from her father from foreclosure. Except for the mortgage on the house, her father left her a smithy behind the house but Chloe can't work the shop by herself, neither can she find a blacksmith in the small town she has been living all her life, which is past the gold fever and in a desolate economic condition. Chloe advertised in a local paper for a blacksmith but nobody showed up since she can't offer anything else besides board and lodging. Every day that passes increases her despair until one day a stranger arrives in her yard and breaks down with a heat stroke - he read the add and applies for the position but right now he isn't in any position to help Chloe. Anyway, she patches him up and although she doesn't really want to hire him she sees no way out and Travis McGuire starts working for her. However, the coexistence between Travis and Chloe is anything but peaceful: she's strong-minded and bullheaded, he's insulting and relentless and the sparks fly!What a wonderful story! The plot started out a bit slow but was then elaborated into a beautiful love story that offered successful as well as entertaining twists and turns.
Chloe was a wonderful heroine. Life sure wasn't nice to her and she tried to shield herself from further pain by raising an emotional wall around herself. However, when she finally finds love she is willing to begin a new life even if this new start would offer her even less than she had until now in terms of belongings and securities.
Travis was a very complex character who also suffered a lot during his life. It was very interesting to observe that his initial "disliking" of Chloe's appearance and attitude changed into love and that he would have sacrificed his life for Chloe's safety. Absolutely adorable!
By the way: there was a villain who was interesting personality and somewhere a bounty hunter was involved and played a major role in the development of the plot.
An absolutely recommendable book about real love and second chances in life!
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Homeward Hearts edition by Alexis Harrington Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
In Homeward Hearts (Topaz Historical Romances), we find two lost souls and their very different ways of dealing what life dished up for them. Our hero was wrongly accused of having killed his unfaithful wife. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence and the word of a man he had trusted. A deathbed confession of said man gets our hero released from prison after five years. While anyone wrongfully send to prison would react with anger and distrust, a younger person lashes out differently than an older more mature person and the author skillfully shows us the anger of a young man of having lost five years of his live and the distrust of pretty much anyone he meets. Of course there is more to the story; a bounty hunter is searching for our hero, forcing him to hide, doing different jobs and then to flee again. He grimly accepts that he will for the rest of his life be a drifter.
Our heroine is not your typical petit little lady but a tall, competent woman. Her mother had died years ago, at which point her father, the blacksmith of a small town, turns to whiskey, leaving her to fend for their survival in a dying town. Now he is dead too, leaving her with a mortgage on her home and no way of paying it. She advertises for a blacksmith, offering room and board as she is unable to pay. The whole town pities her but does nothing to help and only gossips about her.
Our hero does not make the best impression when the first meet and their different personalities continue to clash. The hero is angry and distrustful and she tries to make the best of what life is offering her which includes a slimy suitor.
Bit by bit, day by day, hero and heroine learn to trust and depend on each other. However, doom in form of the bounty hunter arrives in town. The night before, the heroine was able to pay her mortgage and now is dreaming of more than making the best of it. They also during that night finally shared intimacy (beautifully written, for a change I did not skim the s*x scenes) and the heroine hopes that the hero now will stay. He knows he loves her but feels he is not good enough for her and also, he can't give her a stable home as he feels, he needs to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life.
They part bitterly, the heroine shouting the one insult she knows hurts him most. Retreating back into her super competent personality, she pays him what they agreed, half of what was left after the pays of the mortgage and gives him what she believes a worthless mining claim. She gives it to him because deep down, she does not want him to leave even after the hurtful scene and the claim is only 10 miles away from the town up the mountain. The hero knows he really should go much further but can't bring himself to go further.
Thus is the situation when the bounty hunter arrives. He goes and sees the heroine and she believes she manages to send him in the wrong direction and heads out herself to warn our hero. She has now realized that whatever comes, she does not want to live without him and he also accepts that she is strong enough to share his life. Due to her stubbornness, the meeting between hero and his nemesis takes part. And here the hero does the growing, against her wishes, he confronts his demons and because it is a romance it has a HEA.
I enjoyed the books so much, I immediately bought the sequel, Desperate Hearts, which is story of the bounty hunter and it promises to let the reader know how hero and heroine of this books are faring.
Chloe Maitland is a very hard working young woman who tries desperately to save the house she inherited from her father from foreclosure. Except for the mortgage on the house, her father left her a smithy behind the house but Chloe can't work the shop by herself, neither can she find a blacksmith in the small town she has been living all her life, which is past the gold fever and in a desolate economic condition. Chloe advertised in a local paper for a blacksmith but nobody showed up since she can't offer anything else besides board and lodging. Every day that passes increases her despair until one day a stranger arrives in her yard and breaks down with a heat stroke - he read the add and applies for the position but right now he isn't in any position to help Chloe. Anyway, she patches him up and although she doesn't really want to hire him she sees no way out and Travis McGuire starts working for her. However, the coexistence between Travis and Chloe is anything but peaceful she's strong-minded and bullheaded, he's insulting and relentless and the sparks fly!
What a wonderful story! The plot started out a bit slow but was then elaborated into a beautiful love story that offered successful as well as entertaining twists and turns.
Chloe was a wonderful heroine. Life sure wasn't nice to her and she tried to shield herself from further pain by raising an emotional wall around herself. However, when she finally finds love she is willing to begin a new life even if this new start would offer her even less than she had until now in terms of belongings and securities.
Travis was a very complex character who also suffered a lot during his life. It was very interesting to observe that his initial "disliking" of Chloe's appearance and attitude changed into love and that he would have sacrificed his life for Chloe's safety. Absolutely adorable!
By the way there was a villain who was interesting personality and somewhere a bounty hunter was involved and played a major role in the development of the plot.
An absolutely recommendable book about real love and second chances in life!
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