"Fine historical romantic suspense"
In 1891 Alberta, Dr. Virginia Waters waits for her fiancé
Mounties marksman Zack "Bulls-eye" Bullock to come home.
The couple has not seen one another in years, but he felt
obligated to offer marriage when his brother, engaged to
Virginia for six years, married someone else. When the
train arrives in town, an explosion occurs. Two Mounties
are killed and Zack is wounded as someone shot him during
the chaos. As Zack heals, he realizes that his fiancée is a target of
an enemy James Stiller, whose brother he killed. To keep
Virginia safe, Zack publicly breaks their engagement
though that breaks his heart to do so. However his
actions fail as someone tries to shoot Virginia.
Admitting the truth to her, she tells him that once
Stiller is stopped she never wants to see either of the
Bullock brothers again. Zack plans to change her mind
with three kisses as the Mounties always get, in this
case, their woman, but first must keep her safe from
Stiller. Virginia makes the tale as she is intrepid and feisty as
expected of a female medical practitioner in the late
nineteenth century. The action never slows down from the
moment the dynamite strikes the train until the final
confrontation between the villain and his cohorts vs. Zack
and his supporters. Fans of historical romantic suspense
will appreciate this warm bridge back to Calgary during a
bygone era and will want to read the author's first
Canadian tale THE SURGEON. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 24, 2004
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