Title: Wildest Heart
Author: Rosemary Rogers
Publication Date: November 2009
Product ISBN: 9781402222740
Pages: 736
ABOUT THE BOOK
Out of print for over 15 years, the classic tale from the New York Times Bestselling romance author, Rosemary Rogers is back! Heroine Rowena Dangerfield is sensual, headstrong, and scandalously independent, the granddaughter of the governor of an Indian province under the British empire. After his death, she travels to New Mexico, where she arrives in grand style to lay claim to her inheritance. There she meets Lucas Cord, a handsome half-Apache renegade, whose reputation as an outlaw both attracts and repels her. When he encounters the beautiful stranger, unlike any woman he’s ever met before, he knows instantly that he’ll have to win her for his own, and not even the treachery of desperate enemies is going to stop him.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosemary Jansz was born on 1932 in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini.Her first novel, ”Sweet Savage Love”, skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ”Dark Fires”, sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ”Wicked Loving Lies” sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendary “Avon Queens of Historical Romance”.
MY THOUGHTS
It took me a while to warm up to this book. While I love historical romances, I’m not really all too crazy about the wild wild west. The book is also very thick for a romance novel but I guess it would have to be to contain the epic saga that starts in India, stops in London high society before finally ending in America’s wild west.
I thought I would skim through the book since I had another one waiting in the wings about punta cana vacations (always a good read for when it’s gray and dreary outside. Anyway, I was surprised to be so quickly embroiled in the story right away. From the get go, the headstrong teenage girl in India caught my attention. I couldn’t keep the book down after that and followed that girl to London where she endured some time with her uncaring mother and step-father who cared a little too much if you know what I mean.
Rosemary Rogers is a story-teller who knows how to weave. She takes varying story lines and weaves them into one cohesive story that you can’t take your eyes off from. Although this book was originally published in 1974, it is timeless in its appeal. The heroine, Rowena is not only headstrong, she’s also independent, intelligent and beautiful. The story is told in her voice and point of view which allows you, the reader, to take the journey with her. You experience everything she feels and goes through. You become misguided as she is with the misinformation and deceptions of the people around her, you discover the surprising truths at the same time she does. That’s what makes the experience of reading this book so much fun. At the end you are wishing for more even after 700 and something pages.
I think this reprint will find a whole new generation of Rosemary Rogers fans.
I received an advanced review copy of this book from Sourcebooks, Inc.
Tags: book reviews, historical, Romance, Sourcebooks
