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Temptation's Price (Legacy of Love)

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Temptation's Price is an older historical novel by Dallas Schulze. The writing here is descriptive yet I was not quite sold on the story probably because there was a ton of miscommunication and assumptions that the heroine and the hero acted upon.

The first part of this novel is really an adventure and by far the most enjoyable portion of this book. Matt Prescott is a trail scout with a wagon train crossing the open Prairie heading toward California. He is a loner, familiar with the west and only doing this job because his friend asked him to fill in for him at the last minute. Heroine Liberty Ballard is an eighteen year old who recently lost her parents. At the request of her aunt and uncle, she is traveling west to live with them. She is on Matt's wagon train working as a Nanny. An Indian attack occurs and she and Matt are the only survivors but unfortunately they are in the wilderness quite far from a fort. Together they must brave the elements and their own desires.

Liberty is so young in this novel and it really shows. She believes that her desires for Matt are based on love and that his must be too. She does a lot of this self talk to justify her actions. Matt is honorable yet resentful, he is honest to a fault and diplomacy is not his great skill. He is forced into a shot gun wedding and Liberty is way to naïve to understand why he is rushing her into marriage, she guesses at his feelings and she attributes way to much to his actions.

Liberty is vengeful and I mean her words cut like a knife. She utters awful threats to Matt when it appears he does not mirror her emotions. I attribute this to her age but still her words ring more like a modern day woman rather than a 19th century heroine.

These two have a rocky road in every way, Matt is stubborn and so is Liberty, in many ways they were way too much alike to have a happy relationship. I so enjoyed the first half of this novel, when these two are battling the elements and Matt's kinder side was evident, the last half just did not have the same romantic tension as the first.