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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Loads of action, witty dialogue and emotion, April 22, 2000
By A Customer
This is the first book in the Texas Empires series and it's off to a good start. I liked Cal and Ellie and the way the author set up their relationship. Cal is a loner and a hardened man, thanks to his late father, but you can see and feel his love for his mother when he arrives for her funeral. His love/hate relationship with his father determines his solitary adult life, making him wary of letting anyone into his heart. Then comes Ellie. She is out to avenge her father's death, a father she's never met, at the hands of Cal and his uncles (whom she believes are guilty)and get back the land Cal's uncles won in a card game. She hires two matronly ex-prostitutes to pose as her aunts to accompany her to Texas, where they are supposed to charm Cal's uncles into giving them the land, but all does not work out as planned. Someone else is out to destroy them and take their land, at all costs. I like the way the author made Ellie strong, yet believably vulnerable at the same time. Despite her diminuitive size, she was a match for the tall, blue-eyed Cal, who never developed any feelings, save lust, for a woman. As the story moves along at a fast pace, the snappy, sometimes steamy repartee between the two flows just as well. Cal discovers that he has more than lustful intentions towards Ellie, but he's afraid to commit, while Ellie discovers the passionate side to her nature, but is too proud to settle for being his mistress. The other conflict is the land; they both want it, and Ellie's "aunts" and Cal's uncles come up with a plan. I like the way the author also forced Cal (via Ellie) to realize that family WAS what he needed, by introducing his younger brother, Cord. It was a riveting story and I look forward to reading the second book featuring Cord.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Loads of action, witty dialogue and emotion, April 22, 2000
By A Customer
This is the first book in the Texas Empires series and it's off to a good start. I liked Cal and Ellie and the way the author set up their relationship. Cal is a loner and a hardened man, thanks to his late father, but you can see and feel his love for his mother when he arrives for her funeral. His love/hate relationship with his father determines his solitary adult life, making him wary of letting anyone into his heart. Then comes Ellie. She is out to avenge her father's death, a father she's never met, at the hands of Cal and his uncles (whom she believes are guilty)and get back the land Cal's uncles won in a card game. She hires two matronly ex-prostitutes to pose as her aunts to accompany her to Texas, where they are supposed to charm Cal's uncles into giving them the land, but all does not work out as planned. Someone else is out to destroy them and take their land, at all costs. I like the way the author made Ellie strong, yet believably vulnerable at the same time. Despite her diminuitive size, she was a match for the tall, blue-eyed Cal, who never developed any feelings, save lust, for a woman. As the story moves along at a fast pace, the snappy, sometimes steamy repartee between the two flows just as well. Cal discovers that he has more than lustful intentions towards Ellie, but he's afraid to commit, while Ellie discovers the passionate side to her nature, but is too proud to settle for being his mistress. The other conflict is the land; they both want it, and Ellie's "aunts" and Cal's uncles come up with a plan. I like the way the author also forced Cal (via Ellie) to realize that family WAS what he needed, by introducing his younger brother, Cord. It was a riveting story and I look forward to reading the second book featuring Cord.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A nice start to this series..., August 27, 2006
Description from back of the book:
Gone to Texas!
The sign sprouted up across the South as adventurers, debtors, and desperadoes left everything behind to start a new life in the Republic. Overrun by Comanches, yet rich with the promise of extraordinary wealth, it was a land of contradictions, where dreams could turn to dust...or grow into vast empires founded by men of courage and women of passion.
Crown of Glory
It was nothing but a dog-run cabin and five thousand acres of prime grassland when Eleanor Chase first set her eyes on it. But someone had killed her father to get the deed to the place, and Ellie swore she would not leave Texas until she had her revenge and her ranch. There was just one man standing in her way - a blue-eyed devil named Cal Hardin. Was he the scoundrel who had stolen he birthright, or the lover whose oh-so-right touch could steal her very breath away?
* This is the first in a series of 3 & it's a great start. I enjoyed this book very much. I wish the characters would've grown on me a little more then they did. I didn't quite understand some of the decisions that they made like taking a boy with you head on into trouble or why Cal would let Ellie ride off by herself out in the wilds of Texas without escort sometimes but overall this was a really good book. So far I'd say that I highly recommend this series.
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