The Kissing Stars
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4.2 • 76 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Geralyn Dawson takes readers deep in the heart of Texas to a small town where mysterious stars light the path to reconciliation for a pair of former lovers.
Fleeing a broken heart, Tess settles in Aurora Springs, Texas, a small town filled with eccentric dreamers who are attracted to the magical lights in the West Texas sky. She may have overcome her failed marriage, if only she hadn't dragged that pig to the fair...
Railroad investigator Gabe Montana is intrigued by the secrets glistening in his runaway wife's eyes, and he doesn't resist the urge to follow her back to Aurora Springs where he discovers that extraordinary things happen in this frontier settlement.
Here, a man haunted by tragedy might find redemption and a hurting woman might find healing...if they put the past behind them and allow The Kissing Stars to light their way home.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Dawson's (The Bad Luck Wedding Cake) latest historical romance, a love is lost, then found again. Lawman Gabe Montana and Tess Cameron married as teens and were happy until tragedy pulled them apart. Twelve years later, at a Texas oasis in 1889, they rediscover each other and their love, but now they must work through the consequences of their shared tragic past. The relationship between Gabe and Tess (complete with the prescribed amount of sexual tension) is plausible, but the author takes so much time revealing each character's secret that the book drags. Dawson, who is known for her comic style, has a knack for creating hilarious secondary characters (in this one, a camel and a pig named Rosie), and this makes up for the slow-moving plot. Despite turning the occasional anachronistic phrase ("True, but your world had been rocked also"), Dawson moves nicely within the genre.
Customer Reviews
Good story, needs editing
Good story, engaging and like able characters. The poor editing was distracting. Some sentences lacked punctuation and some words were spelled so wrong you had to stop and think about it. With one word ('fact', kept being shown as 'feet') happening very often i don't know if this is a technology problem or sloppiness but it's bad enough I'll think twice before picking up another Dawson book. Four star story, one star off for the poor editing.