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Loving Katherine (Harlequin Historical, 325)

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This book by Carolyn Davidson (not Janet Davidson as was listed under the title) was excellent. Mrs. Davidson's full-length novels never fail to satisify me.
Roan Devereaux falls in love with Katherine Cassidy right away, although it takes him a little while to realize it. He's a perfect man. Why? He's seasoned, loyal, a hard worker, keeps his word, patient, kind, will cook, wash dishes and do laundry (!) and is one heck of a lover. Katherine is outstanding in her own right. She is the perfect match for Roan.
Readers need to finish this unofficial trilogy with the later released books about the Devereaux family in The Seduction of Shay Devereaux and The Marriage Agreement. I almost always fall in love with Mrs. Davidson's male characters and I certainly did with Valderone (Roan) Devereaux. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did. THANK YOU, MRS. DAVIDSON.

DEFINITELY A KEEPER.
Roan Devereaux was a true masculine man.
Kate Cassidy is definitely my idea of a woman of that time. Reserved but not timid, cautious but willing to love and both believed in the appearance of marriage for the trail. What a way to fall in love.

Roan was leaving Illinois on his way to home in Louisiana where he might not even be welcome. He had just stopped by to check in with Charlie Cassidy, looking for a horse.

Well Kate sure did have some really nice fillies. And Roan wanted one of her mares. His gallentry lead to some weeks of work as Kate's farm was getting run down.

Roan saves Kate and even from himself. Wow! Then to hit the trail with 4 fillies in tow. What a story! It just keeps getting better. Roan is soon gentling Kate and easing her past her fears.

Then Kate and Roan are captured by the Cass gang. Their survival would bring much heartache and future danger.

It is so easy to get into this story and fall in love with the characters and hard to put it down.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - definitely keep and look for the other 2 books of this family.

I hate it when there is no review for a book that I am interested in. So here goes. This book is another cowboy romance. She has been bothered by men since she started to look like a girl so she hides out in ugly clothes to keep herself safe. He knew her father in the civil war and comes to the farm to buy a good horse before returning to his family that he has not seen in a good long while. They bond.....

This book was a bit different from other Davidson books because the civil war comes up. It was a good book. She was scared and he was tender. Neither one knew how to love or to say the words. Both wanted somebody to love them for who they were.

This author has NEVER dissapointed me. Her books make me laugh and cry and look at the world differently.

I've read several novels by this author and have loved nearly every one. Both main characters have their quirks, but all and all they were likable from the start, and once I knew their situations, I wanted to see them to get together and be a happy couple. The plot was for the most part well paced and there was enough humor to keep me chuckling to myself from time to time (buckshot in the rabbit dinner - LOL), and even during the parts where there wasn't any particular high drama, I still found the reading quite enjoyable. My only criticism was the finish. I found the very end to seem a tad rushed, but even that didn't cause me to lower the rating. **I would suggest reading this book (Loving Katherine), then Maggie's Beau, then The Seduction of Shay Devereaux and then The Marriage Agreement (the one book in the group I haven't read yet.) **Others have called this an unofficial Trilogy, but I think Maggie's Beau should be included before 'The Seduction...', because Shay plays a minor -but important- role in that one, and reading it first will give you some insight into his character and then 'The Seduction...' will tie up loose ends about what happened after he left Beau Jackson's ranch. Did he kill the guy or not???
If you're looking for more great books by this author, try reading The Wedding Promise followed by Redemption (The opening of Redemption will mean a lot more to you if you read TWP first). That set was definitely five stars, too.

LOVING KATHERINE is a warm story of love found and a place to belong. Carolyn Davidson always delivers a special romance!

Carolyn Davidson is an outstanding author. Her description of events and activities in a book is a brilliant word picture. In Loving Katherine the reader can feel Roan Devereaux's thoughts as he is watching and helping Katherine, the same as the reader can feel Katherine's feelings as Roan spends some time at her ranch. The way he rescues her and her feelings after attacks from negative characters put the reader right at the scene.

I thoroughly enjoy all of her books.