Bound for Temptation
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Having survived the Oregon Trail, Emma Palmer is ready for a fresh start, even if it costs her all the gold in California.
Emma Palmer has had many jobs and has gone by even more names, but most recently she is known as Seline, madam of her own establishment. Her place is clean, her booze is cheap and her bedrooms are fancy. But when a would-be patron won’t take no for an answer, she is forced to don a new disguise and flee for her life. While the schemes she cooks up might seem outrageous to an outsider, they haven’t failed her yet.
Tom Slater is a taciturn cattleman at the tail end of a long, hard season on the trail. He’s looking forward to a quiet winter at his old family homestead in Mexico. What he doesn’t plan on is escorting a group of women on the run to safety south of the border. Tom doesn’t need to be a trailsman to know that the woman with the sly, green eyes—the one he can’t keep out of his thoughts—will only lead to trouble.
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LeSue's entertaining third Frontiers of the Heart historical (after Bound for Sin) pairs up a former madam with a sexy cowboy in the mid-19th-century American West. Emma sells her brothel in Mokelumne Hill, Calif., planning to start anew somewhere else. She needs to get out of town before Hec Boehm, who wants her to be his mistress, finds her. Emma's creative talents are revealed when she disguises herself as a nun in order to escape undetected. She ends up in the town of Mariposa, where she meets Tom Slater, a ruggedly handsome cowboy who escorts Emma, former prostitute Calla (also wearing a habit), cook Anna, and young child Winnie to Mexico. Their journey is filled with danger and a healthy dose of humor as Emma tries to be properly nunlike despite her increasing attraction to Tom. The humor escalates when they share a room during their travels and Tom dons a dress to avoid being recognized. The playful banter and the comical happenings balance the sensuality between Tom and Emma in this witty, memorable story.
