Review: Warning:  Stories contain explicit scenes of sexual battery
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2012
Consider this a warning, not a spoiler:- Stories contain explicit scenes of sexual battery -- 2 of the "Heroes" are out-and-out rapists -SURRENDER IN MOONLIGHT:Heroine and Hero have sex almost immediately after meeting.  The only reason it wasn't rape is that the Heroine decided to go along with it because the following day she was bound to be married to a brain-damaged brute.  The initial sex scene was discomforting, as there was no development of feelings or attraction leading up to it.  Hero meets Heroine and demands she takes her clothes off.  Yuk.  I did read the rest of this story, however, and liked it. It does contain some absolutely fascinating history regarding the southern blockade runners of the American Civil War.NOTORIOUS ANGEL"Hero" (and I use that term loosely) decides that the Heroine must be a whore, because she enters a saloon unchaperoned to try to keep her brother from signing up with a group of mercenaries who have taken over Nicaragua.  He signs up anyway.  She decides to go to Nicaragua with him, and is (horrors!) friendly with her cabin-mate on the ship, a courtesan.  Wow, she must be a whore if she does outrageous things like talk to the courtesan in public, no?  Much time is spent establishing how cruel and heartless the Hero is at the beginning of the story.  He kidnaps the Heroine to set her up as his mistress.  He brutally rapes and abuses her.  Hero is shocked!  shocked! to find that Heroine is a virgin.  I was wondering how the Heroine was going to extricate herself from this mess when (poof!) suddenly she is thinking about how attractive she finds this absolutely despicable man.  WHAT?  I skipped to the next story.GOLDEN FANCY"Hero" decides that the Heroine must be a whore because he finds her alone and abandoned on a western trail, having been kicked off a wagon train going to Utah.  She accompanies him to Colorado Springs, where she encounters a Mormon elder from the wagon train who calls her a Jezebel.  Well, then, obviously she must be a woman of loose virtue, because this old coot says so.  So, Hero kidnaps her and rapes her.  Hero is shocked!  shocked! to find that Heroine is a virgin.  (Are we seeing a pattern here?)  I didn't stick around to find out if Heroine decided that this guy was Hotness Personified.  Gross, gross, gross.I deleted this book from my Kindle.