A Kiss to Die For by Claudia Dain
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- Pub. Date: February 2003
- 368pp
- Sales Rank: 291,849
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- Pub. Date: February 2003
- Publisher: Leisure Books
- Format: Paperback, 368pp
- Sales Rank: 291,849
- ISBN-13: 9780843950595
- ISBN: 0843950595
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Dain is a fresh, potent voice in the genre, always striving to make the usual unique, and she succeeds with a book that holds your attention from page one.
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October 07, 2007: You don?t often find romances willing to explore ?timid? women, even in historicals. This Western historical romance tackles a timid woman who comes into her own by the end. In many ways, it?s not just a romance but also a coming of age story. Anne, the heroine, has a beautiful character arc and that was the part of the story I enjoyed reading most. Claudia Dain not only creates lovable characters, but characters that are accurate to their time period. This was a pleasure to read and I can?t wait to read Dain?s The Courtesan?s Daughter next!
A kiss to Live for!by Anonymous
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March 23, 2003: I really liked Claudia Dain's To Burn, but A Kiss to Die For is light-years beyond that. Very strong in creating characters, leads and supporting, Claudia score of powerhouse knock out with this Western. And when you compared the two heroines it is amazing. In To Burn, her heroine is a warrior woman in spirit, willing to die rather than be conquered. Anne Ross is precisely the opposite. Dain's writing is mesmerising. Let's say I am not a big fan of Westerns. Give me a Highlander in a Kilt or a Knight in Amour and I am one happy lassie. But from the start, this book hooked me and would not let me go. I would get SO exasperated with Anne's 'yes, ma'am's that it about made me scream, but she balanced Anne's timid mouse with a gamma rouge of Anne Stuart's bad boy league: a bounty hunter the whole town of Abilene shuns. Jack Scullard was such a marvellous character that he kept me reading when Anne ticked me off. Anne let's the whole town treat her like some half-wit, her grandmother demoralise her and browbeat her, so that I wanted to smack her. But Anne slowly starts to change, as does the whole town after Jack comes to stay, and her slow transformation from a milquetoast to a grown woman who will fight for what she wants keeps you spellbound to the end. Anne Ross meets every train that comes to Abilene, watching, waiting. So she is there when Jack Scullard comes to town, shoving his latest bounty prison before him. The whole town is ready to jump and blame Jack for everything, and he does little to correct this reputation. And when it slowly becomes knowledge there is a serial killer following the old cattle trail, killing young beautiful women as he goes that suspicions falls on Jack. Or is it Bill doing the killing, the sly land dealer who courts Anne when he comes to town? Anne lives in a house of abandoned women. Her grandfather left her grandmother, though we could hardly blame him. Her father left her mother; a lawman that turned bad and became an outlaw. Her uncle left her aunt, driven off by a women too weak to stand up to her mother. And Anne, a beautiful women too timid of her own shadow, watching the trains coming and going in her life, waiting, hoping for someone to come or to someday get enough spine to run away from a house of abandoned women, from a town that was dying. At first, she hopes to use Jack to scare Bill away from proposing marriage, but she is drawn to him. But she knows to love a man is to watch him leave and never come back, to grow old before your time. Jack is on the trail of the killer and will not rest until he catching him and sees him as dead as the young women he leaves dead on the trail coming straight for Abilene. He knows he is not the kinds of a man a woman like Anne wants, but that does not stop him from wanting her, and from being determined to protect her. Anne and Jack will take over your heart. The mystery is strong enough, but does not overpower the romance. The writing is vivid, rich in historical detains, provocative, moving, mesmerising, and once again, shows Dorchester Publishing has some of the best writers around and gives them the freedom to produce works from the heart that are fresh and original.
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