Product Description

Tucker Houston is an orphan with no money or prospects--just a fierce determination to make her life better. Seeking a job as a teacher on the frontier, she joins a wagon train of mail-order brides and meets Lucas Steele, the ruggedly handsome wagon master. Their journey is fraught with the dangers of an untamed land, a savage stranger who wants Tucker for himself, and the promise of deep and lasting love for Tucker and Lucas--if they survive.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160462 in Books
• Published on: 1997-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780446365260
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Customer Reviews

"A True Western Romance!"
When I finished this book, I couldn't wait to go and read all the other books Dorothy Garlock had written: for me that really speaks volumes, when I can get finished with one book by an author and want to read all their others. This book was a true western romance, pulling together all the elements one looks for in a romance story as well as a western. Tucker Houston and her best friend Laura, who is blind, set out on a wagon train full of mail-order brides, led by wagonmaster Lucas Steele and Buck, who is the wagon train's scout. Lucas and Tucker fall in love almost instantly. Buck falls hard for Laura, leaving Tucker with the feeling that Laura will no longer need her. Tucker wrestles with her own feelings for Lucas, as well as wrestles with the elements of nature and man. Overall, the story is very sweet and will have you dabbing a few tears away as you go along. Please, do yourself a favor and go read this heartwarming story.

I loved this book. I read it in a day!!!
This book let you feel their feelings. Three romances form on this trip from Fort Worth, Texas to Coopertown, California. Each romance is different, and special in their own way. For Laura and Buck, it is beautiful. A girl that is blind, a man that has a troubled soul. Her beauty-inside and out changed his life. For Tucker and Lucas it was hot all the way. Explosive is a better word for it! Then there is Rafe Blatchet and Marie Hook. Who would have thought she was a doctor. She found a love in a man who could accept that she was a doctor and would not be intimidated by her. It was great. But I won't forget the bond that these women created by being strong and standing up for themselves against odds such as abuse (sexual, physical, and mental), Indians, and renegades. It keeps the reader going. Once again I will say that Dorothy Garlock has brought the frontier home. Thank You!

Great . . . But
I have nothing bad to say about Dorothy Garlock's books--I'm addicted! However . . . there were a couple of things I would have liked to see more detail on and they would have only taken a page or two each.

----------> SPOILER AHEAD

I would have liked to read about Tucker telling Lucas Steele about Frank Parcher's doings after all was resolved. I would have liked to have known when Dr. Marie Cooper (?) told Rafe Blanchard about the worry and required "treatment" if he had contracted the wild bull's madness. I thought it was a little far-fetched how Frank Parcher planned to abduct Tucker. It also seemed a bit frustrating that Tucker didn't alert Lucas et al about Parcher's nefarious threats to her before it went too far. Also, that Tucker didn't have a firmer plan to remove (kill) Parcher from the picture.

But I loved it anyway :-) This is the first one that left me a tad unsatisfied, though.

Garlock rules!