Mackenzie's Mountain [Mass Market Paperback]

Linda Howard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2000

Mary Elizabeth Potter is a spinster with no illusions about love. But she is a good teacher and wants Wolf Mackenzie's son back in school. And after one heated confrontation, she knows father and son have changed her life forever. Still paying for a crime he didn't commit, Wolf Mackenzie has a chip on his shoulder. But Mary Elizabeth Potter doesn't see him as the dangerous half-breed the town has branded him. She sees him as a good, decent, honest man. A man she could love....

Editorial Reviews

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"When great storytelling combines with characters who leap off the page and into the heart of every reader that book is called a classic. The Mackenzie books are romantic classics."
- Iris Johansen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Linda Howard is an award-winning author whose New York Times bestsellers include Open Season, All the Queen?s Men, Mr. Perfect, Kill and Tell, and Son of the Morning. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two golden retrievers.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mira; Reprint edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551665743
• ISBN-13: 978-1551665740
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and Dying to Please. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two golden retrievers.

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#72 in Books > Romance > Romantic Suspense

#86 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Romance > Suspense

#91 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

#72 in Books > Romance > Romantic Suspense

#86 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Romance > Suspense

#91 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 48 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great! August 14, 2000

By kcs-calif

Format:Mass Market Paperback

Wolf is a fantastic hero. He's strong, capable, and reserved. He's also very sexy! Mary is a dedicated schoolteacher. She is not gorgeous or flashy, but she is very determined. She is exactly what Wolf and his son Joe need. Mary wants to help Joe finish his education and try to get into the Air Force Academy. She also wants Wolf! Although she is innocent, she is irresitibly drawn to him. Wolf is the one holding back because of his past and his indian blood. When he finally unleashes his passion on Mary, she is overwhelmed. These two strike sparks! This is a fantastic intoduction to the Mackenzie family. Thoroughly entertaining!

46 of 50 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally I got to read the first book in this series! March 14, 2000

By ladybug10

Format:Mass Market Paperback

I came to the MacKenzie Family saga backwards - I purchased the combined stories of Zane and Maris in MACKENZIE'S PLEASURE and MACKENZIE'S MAGIC, liked what I read, looked at the list of her prior books, and started hunting for them. I found a well-thumbed copy of MACKENZIE'S MISSION in the paperback section of my local library, but I could not locate MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN until its reissue this month, despite looking for at least a year...I snapped it up!

Wolf Mackenzie is the premier male lead character - a powerful, mysterious, sensual, and flawed Viet Nam veteran (yes, he's very domineering - all in character, I suppose). Mary Potter is a wonderful foil - unattractive except to Wolf, cerebral, unaffectedly honest to a fault, and, fortunately, willing to tolerate Wolf's less endearing qualities. Their relationship unfolds with Ms. Howard's trademark sizzle-factor, but not too unbelievably fast (as is unfortunately the case in many other books of this genre). I'm hooked on this family's adventures, and now that I've read the foundation story of Wolf and Mary, I plan on rereading the later ones for a fresh perspective.

I did get confused on the time line for all three stories. I couldn't figure out how there was time to let two decades elapse betwen this story and MACKENZIE'S PLEASURE, so that Joe would be well into his middle age by then. Joe was born during the Viet Nam war, and by my calculations, he couldn't have been as old as he was portrayed, so some kind of reference date for MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN would have helped. Oh, well, it's fiction anyway.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A TRUE ROMANCE CLASSIC ~ MUST READ! November 25, 2000

By Romance-reader

Format:Mass Market Paperback

How can you tell when a book is a classic? Let me put it to you this way....How many people do you know can quote the first line from a specific book ~ verbatim?? This book has the distinction of being consistently voted as one of the Top Ten books of all time by romance readers.

Mackenzie Mountain has all the elements of a classic romance novel. A Great plot, snappy dialogue, plus an alpha male hero and his fiesty heroine, and those intensely sensous love scenes. Wolf Mackenzie is an outcast, who had been wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. He now lives with his son, Joe, on Mackenzie Mountain and has a wary truce with the townspeople. Of course that is until Mary Elizabeth Potter ,a spinster school teacher, arrives. As their attraction for each other grows into love; a dangerous force is ready to tear them apart forever...

Linda Howard fans abound and for good reason. Inspite of her well deserved rise to hardback publication. She has continued this classic with sucessive stories of the Mackenzies. They are Mackenzie Mission, Mackenzie Pleasure, Mackenzie Magic, and what she states as her last, A Game of Chance. Read them all! Then prepare yourself to join the legion of Linda Howard fans that beg for more!!!