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Who wrote the book of love?
REVIEWS BY SANDY HUSEBY Dance to the Music
By Eileen Goudge Viking, $24.95 ISBN 0670885754
Brilliance Audio, Abridged, $17.95 ISBN 1567408427
Bookcassette Sales, Unabridged, $28.95 ISBN 1567404316
O, What Tangled Webs We Weave In Patricia Ryan's Silken Threads, Graeham Fox comes to the home of Medieval silk merchant Rolf Le Fever to rescue Rolf's wife. But brigands rob him and leave him severely injured. When his rescuer brings him to the home of his rescuer's sister, Joanna Chapman, Graeham is as beguiled by her as he is determined to keep an eye on Rolf. As a hidden observer, Graeham the loner begins to learn the importance of trusting others. But Joanna and he both deceive each other. She feigns widowhood, and he keeps from her his pledge to wed the twin sister of Rolf's wife upon his return to France.
By Patricia Ryan Topaz, $5.99 ISBN 0451408276
Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild West
When winter snows cut off Eminence from civilization, Lucas and Annie are forced to confront their own primal passions. Their struggle to live, to find truth in their emotions, is challenged by bounty hunters and the vengeance of James's widow.
By Shelly Thacker Dell, $6.50 ISBN 0440225183
Steam Heat in the Big Easy Television reporter Corlis McCullough takes her stories seriously. So when historic preservationist Kingston Duvallon recruits her help to block a developer's plan to level the Selwyn buildings, she dives into the story and into the building's past. Ciji Ware brings to life the centuries of McCullough family legends with an archivist's eye for historical accuracy and a born storyteller's gift for crafting a beguiling tale of mysterious, sensuous Louisiana. In Midnight on Julia Street, Ware brews up a heady mix of contemporary corruption and courage with Louisiana's decades-old heritage.
By Ciji Ware Fawcett Gold Medal, $6.99 ISBN 0449001873
Sandy Huseby writes and reviews from her homes in Fargo, North Dakota and lakeside near Nevis, Minnesota.
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In the aftermath of shattering death, three sisters confront the secrets which their family has kept under wraps for decades. When a frantic phone call summons her home, novelist Daphne learns that her mother is accused of murdering her father. Her sisters find their own routines torn apart in Eileen Goudge's One Last Dance. Forbidden love, maternal love for a hoped-for adopted child -- love examined in all its facets -- will keep readers transfixed in Eileen Goudge's tale of intense family relationships.
U.S. Marshall Lucas McKenna pursues a murderer with personal vengeance in Shelly Thacker's Into the Sunset. The victim is his brother James, shot and robbed of $15,000 in the study of his Missouri home. McKenna's pursuit leads to the highest Colorado mountains and the mining town of Eminence. But the killer's nature is not what he expected. James's mistress, Antoinette Sutton, is no cold-blooded killer. She's grieving for her miscarried baby.