Chinook, Wine and Sink Her
Morgan O'ReillyContemporary erotic romance
Available from Lyrical Press
ISBN: 978-0-9818905-7-9
September 2008
| Linnet Greenbriar is a feisty Fish and Game Officer glad to escape the city, her old job and men for a while in the wilds of Alaska. She's a wildlife biologist more comfortable alone than she is around people after a horrible experience with a date rape drug and its aftermath. Creed Willis is a North Slope pipeline worker who likes to spend his two weeks off in the peace and quiet of his family cabin on the Yukon. Seems like neither of them will get any peace as family, river travelers and others invade their space. Rather difficult for two people to fall in love surrounded by other people but it's not impossible.
Morgan O'Reilly has given us a story of life in the Alaskan wilderness that is well crafted and complex. I learned a lot I didn't know about the land, salmon, the flora and fauna, mining for gold in a delightful way with Ms. O'Reilly's writing style. Linnet and Creed are well crafted as characters who are a product of their raising by strong, proud parents. They seem to have an instant lust between them even though Linnet does everything she can to avoid it. She's still trying to recover from an incident of date rape where the perp bragged about it and blamed her. Still, Creed doesn't give up easily. He's not only gorgeous he seems to have an innate sensitivity that slowly wears away her fears. Animal characters like Manley, her Labrador companion and a stray yearling moose add a bunch of flavor to this superb tale. Her brother Hawk, George the man she replaced at the cabin after he broke his leg, townspeople in Circle, both sets of parents are fun, funny, loving or all of the above. This is an entertaining book that I found hard to put down.
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Reviewer: Dee Dailey |
