Winter
Husband
By
Lisa Ann Verge
SYNOPSIS
She wants no husband. He
wants no wife.
Jailed for crimes unbecoming a
lady, Marie yearns for liberty even as she refuses the one choice that will set
her free: An arranged marriage with a frontier stranger. Then a brawny
ex-soldier offers a more dangerous proposal. Spend one winter as his wife in
name only, and come spring he will set her free…
REVIEW
She
was in a prison, but not one of shackles and bars. It was one that went far
deeper. It trapped her very soul. It was one of her own making and there was no
key to unlock the door to freedom. Looking
like she belonged in the salons of Paris, she found herself in the wilds of the
Canadian wilderness, with a cold desolate winter coming on. On top of that, she was trapped in a marriage
with a mountain of a man in a remote cabin, locked in by snow and bitter weather
till the spring thaw.
Lisa
Ann Verge has always been able to take a simple story and turn it into an epic
tale that leaves her readers yearning for more with each turn of the page. She might be listed as a romance author, but
in truth her stories are wonderful tales of the long ago that are filled with
masterful tellings of times and places long forgotten. She paints them with such clarity that the
settings are as vivid as the best of the HBO movies we sit down to on a Saturday
evening. Her characters burst from the
page in full fury as they clash their way across the wilderness or ride the
rapids down the unexplored rivers. She
leaves you little chance to breathe, no matter whether you are in the woods or
in the bedroom.
At
the same time, she allows you to see the ”human” side of even her most hardened
rouge or silent hero. Yes, even heroes
cry.
One
of the masterful twists in the telling and viewpoint of Winter Husband was the
introduction of the heroines of the other two books in the series. Portions of the story was from the viewpoint of
the residents in the local village, versus the outlying remote wilderness areas.
“Factual” information about characters from “Heaven
In Your Arms”, the first novel, and opinions held by the local residents in “Winter
Husband”, didn’t always line up with what we had read as having actually
happened in the first novel. This was a
fantastic tool to show how information and opinions were scewed in an age when
information and facts did not travel fast nor accurately. If one was not paying attention, you would
not have realized the continuity of the characters between book one and
two.
I
find Winter Husband a first rate book and Lisa has once again knocked one out
of the park for writing a page turner that only wanted more when it came to the
end. I am looking forward, already to
the third book in this series.
AUTHOR
Lisa Ann Verge is the critically acclaimed RITA-nominated author of eighteen novels that have been published worldwide and translated into as many languages. She started her career writing emotionally intense romances about hot men and dangerous women, and now she also writes life-affirming women's fiction under the name Lisa Verge Higgins. A finalist for Romantic Times' book awards five times over, Lisa has won the Golden Leaf and the Bean Pot, and twice she has cracked Barnes & Noble's General Fiction Forum's top twenty books of the year. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three daughters, who never fail to make life interesting.
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