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McAllister's Crossing

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I really didn't feel that the male hero of this book really loved the heroine. Lincoln McCallister spends the whole book in love with another woman who married his brother. His brother is abusive and Linc accidently kills him trying to protect the woman he is in love with. He has to leave the woman he loves and he meets Callie. They have an affair and the whole time he is pretending she is this other woman he is in love with. She looks like her and he tries to get her to dress like her too. After his name is cleared it is only after he finds out the woman he loved before has married someone else yet again that he suddenly decides he really loves Callie. And she just instantly believes him when he says this even though he spent the whole book trying to get her to act like this other woman. I just did not buy that he really loved her. It seemed like he went with his second choice. I would have rather he chose Callie over the other woman rather than choose Callie because the other woman married someone else.

In 1852 on the Oregon Trail, Callie Burgess tracks Lincoln McAllister with the objective of putting a bullet into his dark heart. Lincoln killed Callie's father in an Independence, Missouri hotel room and she plans to repay him in kind. She catches up to him at a wagon train whose wagon master and scout were just shot. Lincoln also took a bullet in his shoulder and is unable to draw. So the fair-minded Callie tells him they will duel when he heals. Meanwhile Lincoln agrees to lead the wagon train west while Callie accepts the position of scout.

As they trek towards Oregon, Lincoln seeks to rescue Daniel, a young man the Indians abducted as a child. He also wants to locate the real killers of Callie's father so he can clear his name of that crime and others that he did not do. As Lincoln and Callie become acquainted they begin to fall in love, but she keeps waiting for the scoundrel to surface and not this honorable traveling companion.

MCCALLISTER'S CROSSING is an exciting western romance that depicts the danger of the Oregon Trail through the events impacting the characters. The story line is entertaining from start to finish as Lincoln and Callie learn to love, but struggle with trust. Though the ending is overwritten to force unnecessary angst, sub-genre fans and those who enjoy the delightful computer game will want to join Jean Barrett's wagon train odyssey on a dangerous but enlightening trip west.

Harriet Klausner