LOVESEEKERS
Author: Dorothy Garlock ISBN: 0446619221 3/2007 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: WARNER
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SING SOFTLY TO ME:
She thought she'd escaped the man—and the memories. But Tom Clary suddenly appeared in Minnesota to summon her home. Without hesitation, Beth Marshall left her hospital job and made the hazardous winter drive back to Cody, Wyoming, with the brash cowboy she'd tried so hard to forget. She couldn't refuse Tom's imperious command to return to nurse her ailing sister. But how could she share Tom's house, where her sister now lived? The magic was still there but so was the danger. Tom's searing embrace rekindled passions that had slept but never died. He swore the past was behind them. But had he really changed, or was she headed for heartbreak—again?
GENTLE TORMENT:
Tawny-haired Lindy Williamson fled the sun-graced south for the promise of the Alaskan frontier—leaving behind Jake, the rugged ex-husband who'd tormented her even as he tempted her. Facing a challenging job with an oil drilling company, Lindy was determined to build a new—and single—life for herself. Then Jake came to claim her, barging into her life to reopen the wounds he'd inflicted, to revive the yearnings he'd aroused. His burning kisses had seduced her once. Would his fiery passion win her again? |
RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS: 
LOVESEEKERS by Dorothy Garlock is a single volume containing two of her early novels, SING SOFTLY TO ME and GENTLE TORMENT. They are similar in that both stories have characters that are desperate for love, yet have to deal with difficult pasts. Their similarities continue in the settings for each novel, one in the bitter cold snow of Wyoming and the second taking place in Alaska.
I enjoyed both novels, and would have enjoyed them had they not been companioned together as well. They are both solidly written, engaging stories whose character-driven plots make it difficult not to read straight through, from beginning to end. Actually, that's exactly what I did with the second story. It interested me so fully that I didn't put it down until I had read the very last word!
Dorothy Garlock does a great job with LOVESEEKERS. Two wildly romantic, against-the-odds tales in one volume. What more could a romance reader ask for?
Kay James |