Friday, April 1, 2022


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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