Review: A wonderful western romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2014
High Stakes Bride: Men of Stone Mountain is a wonderful western romantic story with very believable well-developed characters. The story begins when Mary “Alice” Price runs away from her awful stepbrothers who sold her to the meanest man in Texas to pay off their gambling debts. Alice runs into former U.S. Marshall Zach Stone after she tries to take food from him while he is sleeping out in the wilderness. Zach has just sworn off women after being jilted a second time – this time by a mail order bride. Zach is not thrilled to discover that the little thief stealing his dinner is a woman.Nevertheless, Zach is a good natured, honest man who wants nothing more than a loving wife and lots of children running around his ranch, despite his protestations to the contrary. Alice quickly sees the man behind the scarred handsome face and would love to become part of his family. But, while Alice is happy to have his protection while her brothers are hunting her down, she also fears that her evil stepbrothers will destroy Zach and his family and she simply refuses to endanger them.Emily Beresford did an excellent job narrating this story. Her performance reflected the proper inflections and tones necessary to distinguish the differences between male and female characters, as well as the older and younger characters in the story. In particular, Emily really brought Zach to life that it was impossible not to feel the disappointment and heart break that he felt when Alice rebuffed his subtle advances. Well done!