CRY OF THE WOLF

Author: Elaine Barbieri ISBN: 0843960132 6/2008 HISTORICAL Publisher: DORCHESTER
Time Period: Old West

CRY OF THE WOLF In the darkness came an eerie howling only she could hear. And with it the knowledge that tragedy would soon follow. This time, Letty Wolf would obey the teachings of her Kiowa heritage and bring back to New York her three estranged daughters…before it was too late. JUSTINE Hoping to develop the lovely singing voice she’d inherited from her father, Justine Fitzsimmons had signed on with a troupe of touring actors heading West. But she’d wound up stranded in a seedy Oklahoma saloon with her dreams in tatters. Still worse, there were two men on her trail, one who had orders to escort her safely back East, the other to make certain she never returned. But which was which? All Justine could be sure of was that Ryder Knowles was an arrogant, interfering know-it-all, and she felt almost as powerful an urge to slap his face as to kiss those incredibly sensual, wicked lips.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Well, everyone deserves a second chance, so I consider reading CRY OF THE WOLF my second shot at reading a Barbieri book. Funny thing is, this one has a dumb heroine in it just like the last one, so perhaps I cannot consider it all that different.

Silly. The best way I have to describe the third book in this Wolf series—that is not paranormal despite what some might think—is silly. Dreams of howling wolves and medicine men do not a paranormal make. Anyway, the bottom line here is a weak plot, uninteresting characters that suddenly take a backseat to the heroine's mother about half the way through instead of being incorporated INTO the storyline, and overused, tired, dramatics that just need to go away from romantic fiction period. Silly.

Shannon Johnson