Bandera's Bride (Harlequin Historicals, No 517) [Paperback]

Mary Mcbride (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373291175
• ISBN-13: 978-0373291175
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,226,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FROM A DISCRIMINATE READER --- FIVE PLUS, January 22, 2004

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M. Hartmann "abayyan" (Milan, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bandera's Bride (Harlequin Historicals, No 517) (Paperback)

John Bandera, half-Comanche rancher, wrote letters for 6 years to a young girl from Mississippi after the Civil war.

The letter that started it all was intended for his cynical, boozing partner. Price McDaniel had apparently done one good thing in his life when he saved John. Price told John that the southern flowers of womenhood were only to look at not to touch. That, like the gardenia, they bruised easily.

For six long, lonely years he loved Emily Russell of the Russells of Mississippi. Then she had the audacity to ask him to marry her. He knew that no genteel, well-bred young lady would never consider marrying a half-breed. He refused her and stopped writing.

Broken-heartedly she turned to a friend only to have him take advantage of her and got her pregnant. Yup! well this is 1866 and you know she had to get out of town.

At 26 she left her brother's house and traveled to Texas. Oh, the shock that John received. But he couldn't stop loving her.
Emily was looking to meet Price and John couldn't tell her he had taken off 3 years ago.

Oh, what a love story. Emily caught glimpses of the gentle, loving man of her letters in John but didn't make any connection. The hot-blooded Lupe Fuentes caused a bit of trouble and she wanted John herself only to be the cause of John finding out that Emily was pregnant.

Now John suffered a gut-wrenching jealosy of the man who dared to touch his Emmy. He would kill him.

Ah, then Emily's brother shows up. [grin] Well, propriety dictated that he see his sister married before he left.

Wouldn't you know that Price shows up. What a great love story, with just as great characters - hard to even leave the story - McBride's books are definitely keepers.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- hard to put down - always looking for her books.

4.0 out of 5 stars Bandera's Bride is a jewel!, January 5, 2005

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Nancy Compton (Boise, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bandera's Bride (Harlequin Historicals, No 517) (Paperback)

A tender story of two souls coming together and becoming one. You won't be disappointed!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bandera' bride, September 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bandera's Bride (Harlequin Historicals, No 517) (Paperback)

He' hidden his passion behind another man's name. For John Bandera knew that a genteel mississippi flower could never share her life with a half-breed Comanche rancher....this was a good book to read