By Any Other Name (Legendary Lovers) - Softcover

Handeland, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0505522527 ISBN 13: 9780505522528

Publisher: Leisure Books, 1998

Synopsis

In a retelling of the story of Romeo and Juliet, Julia Cotton is saved from a group of the Jayhawkers of Kansas, her family's ancestral enemy, by one of their own, who crosses enemy lines for the sake of love. Original.

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Review:

The war between the Bushwackers and the Jayhawkers was violent and destructive, but it was nothing compared to the hatred between the Murphys and the Coltons. Unfortunately, the children of the feuding families were always sucked into the fight. At least, that was the way of it until Ryan Murphy stepped in and saved Julia Colton from a Jayhawker attack. Julia Colton was soft, warm, and loving, even if it was buried beneath a world of Bushwackers ways. Her brothers and father had always delegated the care of her mother to Julia, and that was all she would ever know. She was resigned to the task and determined to stay true to her family. But when she looked into Ryan's eyes and the tenderness that lay deep beneath the blue, her heart pounded and her body melted. The Bushwacker woman was working her own kind of magic on Ryan Murphy's cold soul. He watched the light play off her dark hair, casting the dark red sheen of sunset within it. It was really too bad she was from the other side of the creek. When he touched her, they both knew it was a mistake. But when they kissed, the fires that raged were undeniable for either of them. All Hell would break loose before it was over. If this sounds like another Romeo and Juliet...another West Side Story.... Well, it is. But the beauty of the story is timeless, even when set in the old west on the border between Missouri and Kansas. Lori Handeland takes the violence of our history and makes it a powerful setting for an even more powerful love story. The pain of choosing between family and love, between a vow of hatred and a vow of marriage, is hauntingly vivid within Lori's words. A Shakespeare meets Old West love story! Romeo and Juliet learn the ways of fighting dirty and loving hard! Lori Handeland shows how to write a real western love story. Even John Wayne would be proud! Passion...anger...devotion...loyalty...all the elements of a great love story! Karen Ellington -- Copyright © 1998 Literary Times, Inc. All rights reserved -- From Literary Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0505522527
• ISBN 13: 9780505522528
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368