Review: La Desperada
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
A book with an actual plot. It held my interest all the way through. I loved the hero and heroine. Wesley Bridges seeks revenge on the men who killed all his family except his sister and she survived with horrible scars. Wesley goes by the name of Boone Coulter and he has one man, Clayton Dougherty, on his list left to kill. Wesley gets captured while in Cavendish, Tx. and placed in jail and he knows his odds for getting out alive because Clayton knows Wesley has come to Cavendish to kill him. Elizabeth Dougherty is married to Joel Dougherty, Clayton's brother. Joel is a drunk; Clayton is sheriff of Cavendish; he is a dishonest, cruel man and he desires Elizabeth. When Joel is killed, Clayton blames Elizabeth and he makes sure Elizabeth knows that she will be his.. She does the only thing she can think of to escape; she helps Wesley break out of jail but with the stipulation that he take her with him. He does, but very reluctantly, all the while trying to figure out how he will get rid of her. Wesley trusts nobody.He is cold and unapproachable. Wesley pushes Elizabeth very hard while traveling and she gets sick  due to heat, lack of water and exhaustion. To save her life, he takes her to the hacienda of Miguel Obregon, another really bad guy. The relationship between Obregon and Coulter is unclear; they do not like each other and Wesley's sister lived with Obregon until her death. Maybe this is clarified in another book. There are many twists and turns in the story ,many characters with their own stories, too many to go into detail and a great surprise ending. It is a wonderful romance story also, a thoroughly enjoyable book,