Temptation's Trail

Miss Amanda Duncan has traveled all the way from New York to Texas to meet up with the famous and heroic Harmon Bass. Amandas brother has gone missing and it is said that there is no better tracker in the West than Mr. Bass. Upon meeting, Harmon is not exactly what Amanda expected. She expected tall, breathtakingly handsome...a man that wore a gun low on his lean hips and helped others out of honor rather than for payment....She is utterly disappointed when she and Harmon first come face to face, but seeing that she really has no other choice, she decides to trust him to find her brother. Along the way, Amanda finds that Harmon is a good man, but a troubled one...eventually they fall in love. I ADORED Amanda. She has got to be one of my favorite heroines that I have ever read. I wanted to give this book a full 5 star rating, but I felt that it could have had some of its length shaved off. I did not always agree with the characters and their actions, but I felt like they were very well developed and that their faults just made them more realistic. This was a great book. It has most definitely earned a spot on my keepers shelf.

This is a super fun book; the first of a great series. The most important thing in any book is the characters, not the genre. Well, the couple in this one take the cake. They have a real rocky start, but their romance, continued through five books, is one of my all-time favorites. The author's idea of making one couple's story the foundation of a series of novels, really works for me. Each book (other than Temptation's Trail), has another couple in the forefront, but Harmon and Amanda Bass are as important to each story as the others. You will rarely come across as interesting a character as Harmon Bass, and Amanda is the only one who can drive him crazy. The plot in this book (and the other four) is complex and involving, especially since the characters become like old friends. I wish Dana Ransom (a pseudonym), would write five more books about these two. Don't miss this treat.

Worried and desperate, rich Amanda Duncan travels from her priveleged life in a fancy boarding school in New York to the arid frontier of Texas. Convinced of her ability of finding her missing brother with the help of one legendary Harmon Bass, she sets out on the Camanche Trail only to have her rugged half-breed tracker lead her to much more than the fortune in missing jewels that had dissappeared with her brother, but to a love that was waiting at the end of the trail.

This is the beginning book of the Texas series and it is definitely the best one. If you like western romances you'll like this one.