Review: SENSUOUS HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2012
Mary Rose Lockhart owns her own dress store with her best friend Lucy. Mary designs all the dresses herself, she is a very popular young woman with customers coming to her from miles around. Six months ago her brother Harold left town to work on the transcontinental railway. She had heard nothing from him since. So when the train next comes to town to get supplies, she intends to confront Jacob Ramsey the "Iron Horse King" as to Harold's whereabouts.Unfortunately Jacob Ramsey cannot answer Mary's questions, many workers sign up only to leave to work panning for gold, looking to make their fortune. Unwilling to take no for an answer Mary hides in a barrel of flour on the train, but is discovered. Jacob is furious with her. Undaunted she disguises herself as a sixteen year old boy and signs on to work on the railway. Unfortunately this scheme works only for a short while before she is found out.Having read this authors two previous books which I enjoyed.THE LETTER (American Royalty)andTHE CHOSEN ONE. This time she has surpassed herself, this is excellent. Ms. Manse has used the legend of Charles Crocker the real iron horse king, and she has weaved her story using that as her inspiration. Both main leads are very likeable, in particular Jacob a real alpha male and then some. A giant of a man more handsome than any man has a right to be, loud, self possessed, and opinionated. Mary Rose is a very forward thinking young woman for the period in history, she would dare anything unusual for a woman in 1886. There are some very sensual scenes between them. The detail regarding this time is very well researched. There are very informative passages regarding the real story of the railway at the start of each chapter. But in essence this is a love story, and it is a very good one.