Customer Reviews

Desire and Destiny (Pocket Books Romance)

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Maybe I'm just a sucker for the "enemies who fall in love" plotline, but I really adored this book. I love the tough, emotionally scarred hero who cannot help but fall for the spirited heroine who loves him despite having traditionally better options. That's a cliche, true, but there's a reason that cliches have become such - many people like them! Miller's loves scenes are erotic and tender, a potent combination that has hooked me on so many of her books. This one goes on my keeper shelf along with "Caroline and the Raider", "Banner O'Brien" and "Daniel's Bride". Read them all, you won't be disappointed.

I have read tons of Miller Books and I think this is the VERY Best, I have read most of her NEWER books and I am thinking that is my mistake. The Newer Books are all starting to run together! (Lawman posing as someone else, hard headed women trying to make it on her own usually running the general store... Train heist Plot, 18 gun fights, BLAH BLAH BLAH.... ) But I found this story completely different, it was dark, yet light hearted, serious yet fun, to me it felt like a journey. A lot of romance novels tend to RUSH into love, we are to believe they are head over heals in 2 weeks!!! That is just not believable, this story is VERY BELIEVABLE If you are looking for a DIFFERENT kind of romance to get lost in THIS IS IT. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

"Desire and Destiny" is a historical romance about the tangled love between a man whose grief over his pregnant wife's death is still fresh, and the daughter of the doctor blamed for the death. Miller's trademark passion is evident, and as always there are strong supporting characters. Although this book isn't up to the standard of "Angelfire" or "Caroline and the Raider," it is still intense and moving.

I think this may be the best of the many good books that Ms. Miller has written. The characters are compelling and very real, with lives that encompass the good and the bad. The hero's painful loss of his first wife (a fairly common romance theme) is told in a gripping manner - at the end, you are especially glad that he is happy again. A very engaging read from beginning to end!

Brynne McFarren's father has died, the farm has been lost to the Tanner Company and she is out on her own for the first time. Something happened in Port Propensity, Washington that causes everyone to gasp when they hear her last name. The Tanner family is weathly and powerful and have cause to hate Brynne's father.

This story is a love story between an inocent and a man full of hate for all that the McFarren name means. It is full of rich characters and a wonderful plot. Linda Lael Miller weaves another great story that was hard to put down. It was not the best that she has written, but her second best is still well worth your time to explore this novel.