Bride of Willow Creek [Import] [Unbound]

Maggie Osborne (Author)

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• Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0345449533
• ISBN-13: 978-0345449535
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An engaging western romance, October 2, 2001

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride of Willow Creek (Mass Market Paperback)

When she was sixteen, Angie Bertoli married Sam Holland in Chicago. However, her father interceded, ending the relationship before the duo can begin learning how to be a married couple. Sam flees for the West while Angie remains home living in shame.

A decade later following the death of her father six weeks ago, a financially broke Angie travels to Cripple Creek, Colorado seeking Sam. She wants a divorce she can start anew. Angie meets Sam's two young children, Lacy and Daisy, offsprings of the deceased Laura, the woman he lived and loved with for several years. He informs Angie that he cannot afford to pay for a divorce, as he needs all his money to provide surgery for his youngest daughter. They agree to a business arrangement with her caring for his children and handling his money while he works as a carpenter and prays a mining claim comes through. As they learn to respect one another, Sam and Angie fall in love again, but for this pair it seems the opportunity of a relationship has past.

THE BRIDE OF WILLOW CREEK is an engaging western romance that sub-genre fans will enjoy due to the strong cast. Angie and Sam make a fine couple struggling with their joint and separated pasts and guilty feelings. His children, the look back at Laura, the townsfolk, and his in-laws add depth though his deceased wife comes across to perfect in a comparison with Angie. Still readers will fully relish Maggie Osborne's engaging historical romance.

Harriet Klausner

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Western Historical, October 2, 2001

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Sheri Melnick (Enola, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride of Willow Creek (Mass Market Paperback)

Humorous, sensitive, and emotional are but a few terms used to describe this latest read by Ms. Osborne, who seems to have a special knack when it comes to western historicals.

Angie Bertoli Holland was furious when Sam Holland left her in Chicago, shortly after their elopement ten years ago. When her domineering father refused to accept their marriage, Angie let Sam leave for undisclosed locations in the west. But when Angie finds herself penniless and homeless after her parents' deaths, she goes to Willow Creek, Colorado to find Sam and seek a divorce.

True to romance novel form, both Sam and Angie blame the other for the unfortunate turn of events ten years ago. However, spice is added to the pot when Angie discovers there is no place to stay while awaiting the divorce except with Sam and his two young daughters, Lucy and Daisy.

Providing complexity to Angie's character is her daily struggle with her feelings for Sam as well as loving his endearing children and coming to terms with Laura, their dead mother. And she and Sam are both faced with the ultimate decision of all, whether to repeat their mistakes of ten years ago or swallow their pride and reach for the brass ring.

The interesting cast of supporting characters, from the neighborly Molly and Can Johnson of Willow Creek to the Govenors, Laura's wealthy controlling parents, further enhances this read. Following in the footsteps of SILVER LINING and I DO, I DO, I DO, Ms. Osborne's latest is not to be missed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible characters! Loved it from page 1!, March 17, 2007

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F.Faulkner "F.F." (Hartford, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bride of Willow Creek (Mass Market Paperback)

I thought I only liked historical romance and time-travel romance (a la Diana Gabaldon). I thought I disliked western romance. But that all changed when I read Ms. Osborne's SILVER LINING (then saw HBO's DEADWOOD series too). BRIDE OF WILLOW CREEK is my third. I can't put them down. I'm rarely so involved with characters. But this author has a way of really making every situation so realistic. Her situations are so REAL and so unusual. Not your average romance novel settings that's for sure. These women have troubles. They are not always perfectly beautiful, but they are perfectly beautiful inside. They are strong heroines all on their own, don't fall in love with rapists, aren't conquered by barbarians they fall in love with. Thank you Maggie Osborne! I enjoy your writing so much I can't say enough good things about it. But I wish your books were a tiny bit longer because I am so happy but sad when they're done.