The Horse Tamer's Challenge: A Romance of the Old West (Five Star Expressions) [Paperback]

G. K. Aalborg (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Five Star (ME) (February 18, 2009)
• ASIN: B001XQX7HI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

GORDON AALBORG has been a journalist, broadcaster, editor and novelist in both Canada, where he was born, and in Australia, where he lived much of his adult life.

He has 20 Harlequin/Mills & Boon contemporary romance novels to his credit as VICTORIA GORDON, and is widely considered the first *male* author to find a significant place there.

In 2000, he returned from Tasmania to Canada and married fellow mystery and romance author Deni Dietz. He then had to take up mystery writing, he says, "as a means of maintaining equality in the household."

Most of his novels have Australian settings he has personally visited, and reflect his personal interests in such areas as carving, dog training and various outdoor activities.

A keen gundog enthusiast, Gordon is the foundation president and a life member of the Tasmanian Gundog Trial Association.

He and Deni now live on Vancouver Island, in Canada, with a chocolate Labrador named Magic.

More on www.gordonaalborg.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars exciting western romance, March 7, 2009

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This review is from: The Horse Tamer's Challenge: A Romance of the Old West (Five Star Expressions) (Hardcover)

In 1876, Rebecca Susan Bennett joins her father Otis in the Montana Territory after her mother died. They are delivering wagons and horses to Helena where the paleontologist Edward Cope is forming an expedition. On the trail, the Sugdren gang captures Otis and torture him in order to make him reveal where he hid gold. He escapes without revealing his secret, but dies upon reaching Rebecca; before his death he had his daughter swear she will continue his quest to find her twin sister Amy, abducted by Indians nine years ago.

At a gala hosted by the governor for Cope, Rebecca meets Lucas Swallow, the bone hunter's guide. When he sees her wearing a bear claw as a necklace he asks her where she got it. She says her father was given this by a Metris Luc "The Tamer of Wild Horses" L'Hirondelle for saving his life and that she seeks that man to help find her sister. He accepts her on the Cope expedition though he fears she is too gentle for the rigors of the dangerous terrain and hides that he is the Horse Tamer she seeks. As they fall in love, Sugdren wants to torture her into revealing the gold her late father hid.

This is an exciting western romance starring an intriguing courageous woman who is a fish out of water; and a hero who understands the difference between French Canadian, Metris and half breed on the Great Plains where borders mean nothing and how you are classified everything. The story line is fast-paced from the onset when Sugdren and his gang stalk Rebecca and never slows down while the cast for the most part comes across very realistic with human flaws. Fans will enjoy this fine historical.

Harriet Klausner