The Lone Texan

September 15, 2009
Sage is returning home four years after leaving to become a doctor, and the first person she sees in Galveston is Drummond Roak. The bane of her teen years who always asserts that Sage is his woman, and who now undertakes the Texas Rangers most impossible missions. True love never seems to run smoothly in Sages family, so she must consider her feelings for her recently deceased mentor/husband, the underhanded schemes of his unsavory brother, the practicalities of opening a local clinic, and the care and safekeeping of two beguiling orphans caught up in the middle of an international power struggle. All the while she fends off Drums seduction efforts and her brothers well-meaning attempts to protect her. Thomas concludes the Whispering Mountain historical romantic-suspense series with another fast-paced, if knottily plotted, intensely emotional and colorful narrative set in Texas as the Civil War and secession loom in the foreseeable future, and Texas Rangers continue to protect the states citizens.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)