Albuquerque
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A pretty saloon singer finds danger and love in a novel by an author who “draws readers in with just the right amount of mystery, humor and chemistry” (RT Book Reviews).
Albuquerque is the boomtown of the New Mexico territory, where ambition and greed make even the boldest of dreams come true. It is where April Dabney resides, singing in church by day and serenading the patrons of a local saloon by night. It is also where Noah McCloud, brother of a fallen Confederate soldier, comes to build a promising future from the remains of a broken past.
Noah is convinced that the gold his brother carried was stolen by the woman who was with his last hours—April Dabney. Now the two find themselves caught in an unsettling mixture of suspicion and desire…
From the USA Today-bestselling author, this is a novel of passion and intrigue in the Old West starring “[a] winning heroine”—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Orwig ( San Antonio ) sets her latest at the end of the Civil War in the picturesque Southwestern town of the title. The book's best feature is its winning heroine, April Danby, who sings bawdy songs in a saloon but maintains her virtue in honor of a boy she fell in love with at age 12. But Orwig wobbles on credibility. Noah McCloud, brother of a Confederate soldier whom April befriended in the final hours of his life, is convinced that she has purloined the family gold that Ralph was carrying but about which April claims ignorance. For all his clever schemes to catch April in her supposed lie, the obvious solution to the mystery doesn't occur to Noah until halfway through the novel. Other fundamental episodes similarly strain belief. The result is that romantic tension gives way to exasperation, and the lovers seem not star-crossed but slow-witted.
