"An interesting read!"

Hannah Benning was trained by her father to be the best crook there could be. When he was lynched, Hannah found her way to a convent ready to become a nun. Then one night when she, another nun and the priest go to the prison to see why new graves were being dug, Hannah's life changes forever.

It seems a so-called doctor, Warden Briggs and Titus the guard have a deal whereby the doctor injects prisoners with his cure-all solution he calls Fenwick's Solution and sees how it makes the prisoners react. Most of the prisoners injected don't make it.

While Briggs decides what to do with the three interlopers from the Convent, Quinn Landry escapes from his hole of a cell and takes Hannah prisoner. It seems he was wrongfully accused of killing his sister-in-law and was tried and sent to the New Mexico Penitentiary all in a matter of two weeks, four years before.

All Quinn wants to do is get back to Texas and figure out who set him up and why. Before he escapes Briggs injects him with some of the Fenwick Solution. Hannah can do nothing but try to help Quinn. It's not her nature to let someone suffer. The longer she and Quinn are in each other's company the more they come to care for each other. Quinn doesn't want this to happen because he has to clear his name and he knows that Hannah is nearly a nun.

Pam Crooks doesn't pull any punches with this book. She tells it just like it was in the old west. It was harsh and sometimes unfair. Even though Quinn and Hannah had it rough through the whole book they never let anything get them down. They knew what they wanted and they did everything to see that what they wanted happened. This culminated into a gloriously happy ending! I highly recommend this one!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 27, 2002