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Emma And The Outlaw

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"Emma and the Outlaw" is one of the most spellbinding tales I have read to date. The hilarious wit of Emma mixed with the charming arrogance of her hearts desire, Steven, makes this book a genuine page-turner. Add in the most unlikely mother, Chloe, who just happens to be the local madam, the side-splitting retorts from maid Daisy and the bratty antics of Fulton and you have treasure trove of characters that will keep you begging for more. Complete with a murder mystery that needs to be solved and a twist in the end, you will not be disappointed.

While the love scenes are very passionate and sensual, they are far from "pornographic" as some readers have stated in earlier reviews. I found them to be very well written without being vulgar.

"Emma and the Outlaw" is part two of the Orphan Train Trilogy. The trilogy is as follows:

Part 1 - Lily and the Major

Part 2 - Emma and the Outlaw

Part 3 - Caroline and the Raider

Enjoy!

This is the 1st book in the orphan train series of the 3 sisters lily , emma and caroline .I found this to be quite nice but the book but it could be quite draggy at the back .The ohter sister lily had more of a back bone and was much more in teresting to read but this is quite exciting as you are able to learn the outlaw's background and how he was and how he became an outlaw . You will also learn that emma was brought up by the town's prostitute and how her irritating fiance was such a creep amd how she dumped him(you go girl!) As for the rest , you can just read on....

I loved this book. It was definately a page turner. I was captivated in the whole story from begining to end. I am a new Linda Lael Miller fan and I am so glad that I took the time to sit down and read her books. She is a wonderful writer and it shows in this book

When Emma was seven years old she was put on an orpan train by her mother. She was accompanied by her 2 sisters, Caroline and Lily. Caroline, being the oldest was the first to get adopted off the train. Then Emma was next in another town. She begged the lady to take Lily too but the lady refused.

While on the way to her new home from the train, Emma and her new "mother" bumped into Ms. Chloe Reese. Chloe bought Emma from the lady and took her home and fed her.

Thirteen years later, Emma, the most proper of all women, is involved with Fulton Whitney, one of the richest and most respected men in all of Whitneyville. Until she meets Mr. Steven Fairfax.

She gets excited when Steven is around and she doesn't understand why. As she is falling in love with a man she barely knows, and is considered an outlaw, she can't figure out why he makes her feel the way she does. She has never felt this way and is the first to try to deny it.

After everything that happened Steven is taking a heard of cattle to Washington. When he is gone Macon drops by to find his brother and that is when all the drama begins.

I recommend this book to any one who is a Linda Lael Miller fan. Even if you aren't yet, try reading one of her books.They are amazing.

Ahhhhhhh!! I just got done reading it for the second time, and I know I will read it again. The sex parts were a little explixit, but then again I've read a few that were down right boring. Steven was the type of man that many woman wouldn't mind catching for themselves. I know I wouldn't mind hehe. And the story line for the whole trilogy is wonderful. It makes you want to sit down and read book one to book three.

This is LINDA LAEL MILLER'S book, EMMA AND THE OUTLAW. A tale of love involving Emma, a young woman of 20, a librarian who has also set out to finding her two sisters, all who were abandoned by their mother at a young age. Emma places an ad offering a reward for information leading to the whereabouts of her sister. Emma is also engaged to marry a man she does not love, but feels obligated to marry anyway. All of this changes the day, Steven Fairfax, a man termed "an outlaw" comes into town and walks into Emma's life. From that day on Emma is a changed woman and when she takes on the duty of nursing Steven after he is injured, she becomes further aware of him and he of her. Emma forgets that she is an engaged woman when Steven's charms begin to work on her. Even though he has a checkered past, Emma cannot forget how she feels towards Steven. Also, Emma cannot forget her desire to locate Lily and Caroline Chalmers. Emma's life is an adventurous one of love and danger, of which love conquers all. This is the second book in the Orphan Train Triology about the Chalmers sisters. The first is "Lily and the Major" and the third is "Caroline and the Raider." They can be read alone, but are great together.

It was wonderful revisiting the spirited Emma and her sisters.

I enjoyed this book. I had read another in the series and I wanted to know what happened to Emma and the other sister. It was a good story and had a happy ending for the girls. The story of each girl was different and thus was not redundant as some series are.

It pains me to give this book a not so good review. Linda Lael Mille is truly one of my all time favorite authors. I've read over 15 of her books to date and this is only the second book of hers that I didn't like. The first book I didn't like of hers started out with her usual flare but very quickly died. I couldn't finish it. This one also started out with her usual spunk. It wasn't until around 80 to 100 pages that things seemed to drastically change. Beside there being WAY too much sex in it, it turned into all telling, repeating, and very disjointed. I can't imagine what happened other then she may have been under a deadline pressure and didn't give it her usual time. Somehow, painfully slow, I made it through. I had kept hoping things would shift back to how the beginning was written but it never did. It took me so long to read it, and was so different then the beginning that it seemed like a different book then the one I'd started. Oh well, I still have several others of hers on my bookshelf to read and have every intention to read them. I know she's an amazing writer and we all have our bad days, so I wouldn't let two out of many deter me.

This was a good enough installment in this series, although it was my least favorite out of the trilogy. Still, it reveals the story of what happened to Emma, and there were parts that made me laugh with their wit and humor. Not a bad read, just not my favorite.

This was a very good book but the sex scenes were very explicit and could have been shortened a bit. I also didn't realize it was part 1 of a trilogy until after I had finished reading. I loved the story line and it kept you interested.

I'm not particularly fond of this book. Though I found it more interesting than Lily's story, Lily was too stubborn, it still wasn't...great. It was a decent story with a decent plot, though I figured out the ending before the ending, it still wasn't a really good story. I suppose because I wasn't sure of Steven's affection for Emma. All he really showed was lust and a need to conquer. Even when he said that he loved her and he wanted to marry her, I just thought, "you do?" Also I had a difficult time believing that a woman like Emma with her strong ideas in what's proper would throw it all away so quick for him.
Like so many have said before, there were too many love scenes. After a while I started skipping them. I want to continue the series, but I wouldn't buy this book.