Tempo de Rosas (For the Roses) (Família Clayborne (Clayborn Of Rosehill/The Claybornes' Brides) #1) -

Julie Garwood

AbeBooks

1995

275 páginas

9h 10m

ISBN-13: 9780671014988

No one ever knew what kind of strays, from animals to weary travelers, Mary Rose Clayborne would bring home next.

Sometimes her four brothers? runaway slave Adam, ax-pickpocket Douglas, gunslinger Cole, and con man Travis -- wondered whether her boarding school education did a lick of good now that their beautiful, impulsive little sister was back in Blue Belle, Montana.

Of course, everyone in town knew better than to mess with the Claybornes. The brothers, four of the toughest hombres in the West, had once been a mismatched gang of street urchins. But they had found an abandoned baby girl in a New York City alley, named her Mary Rose, headed West, and raised her to be a lady. Through the years the Claybornes had become a family, held together by loyalty and love if not by blood -- when they suddenly faced the crisis that could tear them apart.

That crisis came to town with Lord Harrison Stanford MacDonald. In his fine clothes, he looked every inch a dude. Mary Rose figured that if she didn't interfere, this handsome Englishman would get himself killed, so she took him home to the Clayborne ranch to ask her brothers to turn him into a cowboy. She didn't suspect MacDonald was a chameleon, not the greenhorn he appeared to be. He'd prove fast with a gun, quick with his fists, and capable of commanding the Claybornes's respect -- if not their trust. He'd also soon be desperately in love with Mary Rose. She returned his affection blissfully and wholeheartedly...until MacDonald revealed a secret that challenged everything she believed about her love, herself, and her life.

Now Mary Rose's search for identity and meaning would begin, sending her to England, to the family she lost long ago. Her soul hungered for the freedom of the American West, but she was being drawn away from all she cared about by the need to know her past...and by her uncertain but still potent love for MacDonald. Torn between conflicting loyalties, Mary Rose wasn't sure who she really was, or where she belonged...questions that could only be answered if she listened to the truth within her heart.

Resenhas (1)

4 (Muito bom)

A Rosa desabrochou

Mais um livro da autora pra coleção de lidos. Gosto da escrita e das estórias que são sempre dos séculos passados que tem sempre uma mulher além do seu tempo apesar das restrições que elas tinham e tem sempre a sorte de encontrar um homem de valores que as protegem e ajudam nesse desafio.

Uma linda lição de amor e responsabilidade de quatro garotos para com uma bebê, mostrando o real sentido de ser família. Uma bebê que se tornou uma jovem bonita e de coração enorme e que teve a boa sorte de encontrar um homem bom e inteligente para deixar perfeita sua vida.

É o primeiro livro de uma sequência de 4 sobre os irmãos Claybornes. Eu gostei e vou continuar lendo os demais.