Review: Disappointing and unfinished!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
Jack (US Marshal), is found in the road after being attacked by a Mt. Lion and shot in the head with a skull fracture by an escaped outlaw. Yet the very next day, with complete amnesia and mistakenly identified, he's on his feet and marrying the very beautiful and perfect widow, who saved him, mistakenly identified him & wants a new Pa for her son & to chase off the rustlers destroying her ranch. After deadly serious injuries the day before, he hops a horse, after the rustlers, who attack minutes after the wedding and get shots again! This could have been a great story but this guy gets shot several times(two separate ones in the head) but never seems to have to recuperate after surviving all these near death injuries! It wasn't just sensual, it was hot sex and there is so much in the books these days, nothing is left to the readers own imagination. I don't need sex explained to me in every romance book I read, it ends up taking away from the story for me and wasted pages. The love story would have stood fantastically on its own!  I also felt the end was rushed and left wide open. After Lissa has their baby, John remembers who he is but doesn't tell anyone and the crooked town Sheriff hangs him as the rustler. As he's hanging, his brother(also a federal Marshall) rides into town and shoots the rope and John survives again. Yet this guy who is Mr gorgeous perfect, super hero through the whole book, doesn't even introduce his brother to the woman who had just had his baby, who's marriage wasn't legal since he married her under a false name. There's also no wedding! Instead, he leaves town with his brother to take the real criminals in for justice. He does eventually come back & it ends. Really ruined the hero for me because he took off leaving the woman he supposedly loves so much, in what in those days would definitely have condemned her as a fallen woman alone with his stepson and their baby. Have read some excellent books by Jillian Hart but this, sadly was nowhere near the exceptional writing in the others.