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The First Time: The Mounties (Ballad Romances)

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THE FIRST TIME is a delightfully fresh romance that will fascinate romance lovers who enjoy strong, forceful women who question the social amenities of civilization . . . the Canadian background and the depth of Colin's passion bring this romance a tingle and tension that rescues THE FIRST TIME from the stereotyped conventions often found in the romantic genre. Recommended.

. . . I love the way Kathryn Fox strings words together. Her prose is wonderfully evocative and constructed with a lilting rhythm. . . . it's like listening to music that is so beautiful, you forget to pay attention to the words the vocalist is singing.

Maggie Hayes helped her father, George, with the illegal whiskey trading all her life. She could out shoot and out drive any of her father's men. She was the best! When Colen joined her father's men of bootleggers she found herself drawn toward him. But he quickly disappeared from the gang and left her wondering of all the new feelings she was experiencing.

When the Mounties raided George Hayes's gang, Maggie was taken to Fort McLeod. She was too sick to even realize where she was. Constable Colen Fraser nursed her back to health. Her father had escaped and was still at large. George learned that Colen had been a spy for the Mounties and how Colen felt about Maggie. He left Colen a note to marry Maggie and keep her on the right side of the law. Maggie's heart was torn between her love for Colen and loyalty to her father.

**** This is one of the few books I have read that is centered around the Mounties. I was fascinated from the first chapter! This story began when the Northwest Mounted Police were just being formed. An excellent story that will captivate readers quickly! I hear that two co-charcters of this story will get their own tales told! I find myself looking forward to the next story from Kathryn Fox!

THE FIRST TIME is a wonderfully researched story of the fledgling Northwest Mounted Police . . . the dialogue between (Colin and Maggie) can be extremely funny, especially when he tries to explain to her what women's "drawers" are.

Having never read anything by this author I was impressed with her first story in a series about the Northwest Mounted Police. Colin Fraser is a broken man. He lost his first love in an accident and thinks he will find no other. A doctor by trade he is meant to heal but who will take care of him? He joins the Mounties to forget. Instead he meets Maggie Hayes who is as different from his former fiancee as can be. Her father has an illegal business in the whiskey trade. She is wild and was raised without a mother; she is limited in her experience with life and love.

Despite themselves, they slowly fall in love. The story is one of warmth, forgiveness, and deep feelings. Not perfect I enjoyed it for what it is: a romance about two flawed characters who show each other kindness and affection. I am sure you'll care about the characters like I did and want a wonderful conclusion. Enjoy!

Her other titles in this series are:
2: The Second Vow
3: The Third Daughter

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton

Maggie Hayes helped her father, George, with the illegal whiskey trading all her life. She could out shoot and out drive any of her father's men. She was the best! When Colen joined her father's men of bootleggers she found herself drawn toward him. But he quickly disappeared from the gang and left her wondering of all the new feelings she was experiencing.

When the Mounties raided George Hayes's gang, Maggie was taken to Fort McLeod. She was too sick to even realize where she was. Constable Colen Fraser nursed her back to health. Her father had escaped and was still at large. George learned that Colen had been a spy for the Mounties and how Colen felt about Maggie. He left Colen a note to marry Maggie and keep her on the right side of the law. Maggie's heart was torn between her love for Colen and loyalty to her father.

**** This is one of the few books I have read that is centered around the Mounties. I was fascinated from the first chapter! This story began when the Northwest Mounted Police were just being formed. An excellent story that will captivate readers quickly! I hear that two co-charcters of this story will get their own tales told! I find myself looking forward to the next story from Kathryn Fox! ****

Freshly graduated from medical school and eager to bury his sorrow over a tragedy in his past, Colin Fraser impulsively joins the Northwest Mounted Police. Now, a nighttime raid by his detachment on a large bootleg whiskey operation has netted more than gallons of liquor. The patrol has brought back a desperately ill bootlegger --and a young woman no less! Even as he tenderly nurses her back to health, beautiful, defiant Maggie Hayes, who is as wild and untamed as the province itself, sutbbornly resists his efforts to teach her a new way of life. Despite himself, Colin is falling in love with his patient . . . because Maggie has found a way to heal the healer's heart.

THE FIRST TIME is a Cinderella story with a wilderness twist. Ms. Fox brings a delightful heroine to life and allows Maggie to emerge from a cocoon to become a lovely "lady" and win her Prince Charming's heart. . . . Readers will be eager to see the next books in what promises to be a delightful trilogy.

In the new series called The Mounties from Kathryn Fox, THE FIRST TIME is set in 1874 in the Canadian wilderness. The miniseries will span the stories of three men who are loyal, brave and true. They will fight for justice, whatever the cost to themselves or their hearts. In this first novel, a physician turned Northwest Mounted Police will be out to capture a bootlegger's heart.

THE FIRST TIME is a delightfully fresh romance that will fascinate romance lovers who enjoy strong, forceful women who question the social amenities of civilization. While Maggie's brazen comments seem a bit obtuse at times, her spirit and energy overcome her flaws. Indeed, a lighter hand would make her character a bit more convincing, yet the Canadian background and the depth of Colin's passion bring this romance a tingle and tension that rescues THE FIRST TIME from the stereotyped conventions often found in the romantic genre. Recommended.