Review: Very Thrilling Western Melodrama
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2013
I was able to pick up this great Western book as a free offering for the Kindle.  The story mainly follows the long running romance between Gabriella Devere and Jess McLowry.  McLowry is a gunfighter who has lived a worldly existence since he left the South after the end of the Civil War.  When he enters a small town in Arizona and has a brief encounter with the 16 year old Gabriella at a dance, neither realize at the time that anything will come from their instant attraction.  Four years later Gabriella's family is murdered by a group of outlaws that leads her on a quest for vengeance. McLowry again meets Gabriella and becomes her guardian and protector while at the same time trying to stifle his feelings of love for her.  Gabriella has never given herself to a man but cannot stop her desire and love for her gunfighter protector.  Though McLowry continuously tries to convince Gabriella to give up her search for vengeance and return home, Gabriella will have none of it and so their journey in the Arizona territory will lead them through many life and death situations, where their love for each other will be tested many times.  I thought this was a wonderful, big story, almost as wide as the Arizona sky.  It would make a great epic Western movie as, for example, The Big Country or Nevada Smith.