TO LOVE AN OUTLAW
ROXANNE SPRINGER
Western Erotic Romance/Historical
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
Sensuality Rating: Torrid
ISBN# 978-1-59374-990-3 (eBook)
ISBN# 978-1-59374-990-3 (Trade Paperback)
$6.99/$15.95 paperback
446 pages
Releasing December 2007
Rating: 3.5 Enchantments
Jessica Randall is a young widow. Beautiful and strong, she mourns and pays homage to her deceased husband. Though alone, she knows she can make it, and tends to her farm almost single handedly. Jessica is not a recluse, but she isn’t too social either, living at a distance from the nearby town.
Until the stormy night when a man knocks on her door. His name is John Budreau and he is injured. He requests her help, and Jessica acquiesces. However, something else is shared between them, and that is an undeniable attraction.
Jessica allows her woman’s heart to come out of its painful and lonely mourning, and it is with renewed vigor that the same heart now beats for the handsome John. When he decides to stay back for a while as hired hand on her farm, both he and Jessica allow the simmering appeal for each other to gain ground.
They eventually fall in love. Yet, the enigmatic John carries and hides a secret so terrible it would tear the very heart he now cherishes - Jessica’s. Should he reveal his secret, there will be no future for them. And a future with Jessica is precisely what he now yearns for.
Both Jessica and John are very lovable characters. They have both been depicted with flair and humanness. The story reserves some very powerful twists and turns, some of which the reader will not see coming. The eventful dimension of the story however does tend to lag and drag in some instances, and in some places, the recovery is rather lacking. However, all this might be overlooked in the light of Ms. Springer’s particular brand of realistic and very detail-oriented descriptions of historical life.
Zee
Enchanting Reviews
October 2007
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SLAVE OF MY HEART by Roxanne Springer
SLAVE OF MY HEART
ROXANNE SPRINGER
Historical
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
Sensuality Rating: Torrid Erotica (Controversial)
ISBN# 978-1-60313-040-0
332 pages
$5.99
eBook - Available October 2007
Rating: 3.5 Enchantments
Riana Septimus agrees to marry Antonius Cassius, First Senator of Rome, to grant her father his last, dying wish. She does not love the malicious and cruel man, but is resigned to spending her life as his wife. There will be no love in her life. Well, she will just be like the hundreds of other Roman noblewomen. Until the day her gaze falls on Tan, a gladiator and slave.
Loving a slave, and even bedding one, is considered treason in Ancient Rome. But Riana knows her heart will only belong to the handsome Tan. She convinces Antonius to buy Tan as her personal bodyguard. But in the privacy of her home, Tan becomes her lover, and the husband of her heart.
However, Riana has to marry Antonius, and the man she finds behind the closed doors of their bedchamber is sadistic, cruel, and perverted. Knowing that she is pregnant with Tan’s child, and unwilling to submit to her horribly Machiavellian husband, Riana and Tan escape from Rome. They find refuge with a band of nomads, Anubians who descend from Egypt.
They believe life is shining down on them, but Antonius begs to differ. He will set an example in Rome where his runaway wife and this slave of hers are concerned. Sparing no means to track them down, he unleashes his evil revenge on the couple, sentencing both to fates more atrocious than Hell itself could impose.
I have enjoyed this book. Ms. Springer writes with clarity, and her depictions of Ancient Rome and the life of the times are startling in clarity and descriptions. Realism is poignant, but unfortunately, many of the instances where the cruelty, perversions, and violence of the era were recounted were a bit too shocking and heavy for this reviewer. One would need strong guts to read this book, and the story is not for the faint hearted. The violence was a bit too crude and in your face in certain occasions. This fact makes the book not one that can be recommended as an entertaining read. Still, if you want a taste of Ancient Rome, it is the book for you.
Zee
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
September 2007
ROXANNE SPRINGER
Historical
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
Sensuality Rating: Torrid Erotica (Controversial)
ISBN# 978-1-60313-040-0
332 pages
$5.99
eBook - Available October 2007
Rating: 3.5 Enchantments
Riana Septimus agrees to marry Antonius Cassius, First Senator of Rome, to grant her father his last, dying wish. She does not love the malicious and cruel man, but is resigned to spending her life as his wife. There will be no love in her life. Well, she will just be like the hundreds of other Roman noblewomen. Until the day her gaze falls on Tan, a gladiator and slave.
Loving a slave, and even bedding one, is considered treason in Ancient Rome. But Riana knows her heart will only belong to the handsome Tan. She convinces Antonius to buy Tan as her personal bodyguard. But in the privacy of her home, Tan becomes her lover, and the husband of her heart.
However, Riana has to marry Antonius, and the man she finds behind the closed doors of their bedchamber is sadistic, cruel, and perverted. Knowing that she is pregnant with Tan’s child, and unwilling to submit to her horribly Machiavellian husband, Riana and Tan escape from Rome. They find refuge with a band of nomads, Anubians who descend from Egypt.
They believe life is shining down on them, but Antonius begs to differ. He will set an example in Rome where his runaway wife and this slave of hers are concerned. Sparing no means to track them down, he unleashes his evil revenge on the couple, sentencing both to fates more atrocious than Hell itself could impose.
I have enjoyed this book. Ms. Springer writes with clarity, and her depictions of Ancient Rome and the life of the times are startling in clarity and descriptions. Realism is poignant, but unfortunately, many of the instances where the cruelty, perversions, and violence of the era were recounted were a bit too shocking and heavy for this reviewer. One would need strong guts to read this book, and the story is not for the faint hearted. The violence was a bit too crude and in your face in certain occasions. This fact makes the book not one that can be recommended as an entertaining read. Still, if you want a taste of Ancient Rome, it is the book for you.
Zee
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
September 2007
HANNAH’S LAW by Roxanne Springer
HANNAH’S LAW
ROXANNE SPRINGER
Historical
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
ISBN# 978-1-59374-972-9
$5.99
eBook - Available now
Rating: 3.5 Enchantments
Hannah Faraday, a tough and tumble beauty. Her overbearing, crippled father has pushed her into both a position and mental state that has taken away her true femininity and joy for living.
Bryce LaCroix, a big handsome strapping fellow from back east heading out west to start life anew as a shop keeper.
Bryce LaCroix life’s suddenly takes an ugly turn when he accidentally rides across the Faraday Ranch and into the shotgun sights of Hannah Faraday. Given a choice between dying on the spot and being a short-term breeding stud for Hannah, he quickly chooses the later. Knowing that as soon as the proof is in the pudding with Hannah his life will again be on the line, he works all his effort to heat up Hannah’s cold heart with the hope to at least walk away from the ranch alive.
As he begins wooing in earnest, he discovers the reason behind Hannah’s demeanor and his desire for freedom turns to sympathy to heal the beautiful Hannah. Hannah’s cold heart melts and she finds the strength with the aid of Bryce to stand-up to her father, resulting in not just a new potential grandchild but a new son-in-law.
So far so good, as the merriment of the wedding kicks off, Hannah’s brother Kirk returns to the ranch from a twelve year absence. Thought to have died during the civil war, Kirk explains that he has been in Europe recovering and learning medicine and skills he would one day need as the head of the ranch. Happy that his son has returned to run the ranch, Big Ernie downplays Hannah’s twelve years of hard work and torment of running the ranch and quickly removes her from the position he had forced her to accept, little knowing his son’s true darker nature and plans - to take over the ranch and sell it as soon as is father is dead, to live a life of a rich sodomite in Europe. But certain events cause his plans to go awry.
Ms. Springer spins an interesting and intriguing web with this historical tale, delving into the darker natures that lurk within us all.
Not normally one for dark tales, I found the book balanced and interesting but not going grossly overboard. Ms. Springer does spin a very interesing tale that flows well and provides a balance of imagery that very few writers of this genre do as well as she.
Rowan E. Wagner
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
August 2007
ROXANNE SPRINGER
Historical
Whiskey Creek Press Torrid
ISBN# 978-1-59374-972-9
$5.99
eBook - Available now
Rating: 3.5 Enchantments
Hannah Faraday, a tough and tumble beauty. Her overbearing, crippled father has pushed her into both a position and mental state that has taken away her true femininity and joy for living.
Bryce LaCroix, a big handsome strapping fellow from back east heading out west to start life anew as a shop keeper.
Bryce LaCroix life’s suddenly takes an ugly turn when he accidentally rides across the Faraday Ranch and into the shotgun sights of Hannah Faraday. Given a choice between dying on the spot and being a short-term breeding stud for Hannah, he quickly chooses the later. Knowing that as soon as the proof is in the pudding with Hannah his life will again be on the line, he works all his effort to heat up Hannah’s cold heart with the hope to at least walk away from the ranch alive.
As he begins wooing in earnest, he discovers the reason behind Hannah’s demeanor and his desire for freedom turns to sympathy to heal the beautiful Hannah. Hannah’s cold heart melts and she finds the strength with the aid of Bryce to stand-up to her father, resulting in not just a new potential grandchild but a new son-in-law.
So far so good, as the merriment of the wedding kicks off, Hannah’s brother Kirk returns to the ranch from a twelve year absence. Thought to have died during the civil war, Kirk explains that he has been in Europe recovering and learning medicine and skills he would one day need as the head of the ranch. Happy that his son has returned to run the ranch, Big Ernie downplays Hannah’s twelve years of hard work and torment of running the ranch and quickly removes her from the position he had forced her to accept, little knowing his son’s true darker nature and plans - to take over the ranch and sell it as soon as is father is dead, to live a life of a rich sodomite in Europe. But certain events cause his plans to go awry.
Ms. Springer spins an interesting and intriguing web with this historical tale, delving into the darker natures that lurk within us all.
Not normally one for dark tales, I found the book balanced and interesting but not going grossly overboard. Ms. Springer does spin a very interesing tale that flows well and provides a balance of imagery that very few writers of this genre do as well as she.
Rowan E. Wagner
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
August 2007
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