Dark Stranger
Carolina ValdezErotic romance
Available from Amber Quill Press
ISBN: 1-59279-240-5
June 2004
| Jennifer Dalton is a widow hired as a companion for the frail aunt of Don Rafael Raul Miguel Allende at El Rancho Simi. She finds Rafael very attractive and is almost in love with him. But Jenny has recently been jilted by an ex-fiancée and is wary of risking her heart again. Once bitten twice shy. Moreover she knows that Rafael would probably be marrying Magdalena, the tempestuous daughter of a nearest rancher. Even though she warns herself again and again, she just can’t help her attraction for Rafael. It seems she can neither control her heart nor herself.
One day, there is a stampede and Rafael cannot be found anywhere. Jenny risks her life to search for him, saves him and takes him to a casita for shelter. Since there is no firewood for the furnace and Rafael is shivering, Jenny warms him in the only way she can - with her body. In the middle of the night, she wakes up to the lovemaking of Rafael. Realization dawns in the daylight when she realizes that her ruined reputation will become the talk of the town and she has to leave the ranch. But is that what Rafael wants? Will he let her go without any explanations? Dark Stranger is a soul-stirring romance where the heroine’s uneasiness is as real as it can get. After all, who is not troubled in love? The self-doubts are expressed in such a sentimental way, that they are sure to arouse feelings of sympathy in the reader. Jenny’s essence can be found in every woman and Rafael is heart stopping. The intensity of the passion is furious and each moment is relishable. Carolina has a grip on the characters throughout the story and keeps the readers enrapt with her word play. Alone on a dark night? Read Dark Stranger!
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Reviewer: Dee Herga |
