by
Vanessa Vale Published by Self-published Genres: Erotic Romance,
Historical,
Romance
A Wanton Woman: Mail Order Bride of Slate Springs by Vanessa Vale
Date of Publication: November 1, 2016
Blurb
Celia Lawrence can’t show her face in her conservative, small town. First, she discovered her husband in bed with another man’s wife, and then she witnessed both their murders. While she didn’t pull the trigger, small town gossip is not forgiving and everywhere she goes she is chastised for not being woman enough to keep her straying husband at home. Eager to flee her old life, Celia heads to Colorado as a mail-order bride.
As mayor of Slate Springs, Colorado, Luke Benson is expected to set the example. Their small town is hidden away in a remote mountainous region where few women have the courage or desire to tread. As mayor, it falls to him to test out their newly passed law and share a wife with his brother. The truth is, Luke has no interest in a woman of his own, and agrees to a mail-order bride out of duty, not anticipation.
His brother, Walker, is jaded and hard after the death of his first wife and unborn child. For Walker, loving again is out of the question. But a man has needs, and he’ll eagerly take his pleasure from their new bride while expecting Luke to provide the tenderness and caring a woman expects.
A marriage based on everything but love should be doomed. But Celia, Luke and Walker discover one thing they have in common: desire. Will that be strong enough to survive the danger that follows Celia from Texas? Will desire be strong enough to teach the three that sometimes you have to risk everything for love?
Stephanie’s 4 Star Review:
I was given a copy of this book from the author for an honest review.
I’m not a Historical Romance reader these days. I read a lot of it in my early teen years but not so much in recent. When this menage story came across my email I said “yes!” I love menage stories. So I was pretty surprised to see it was set in the late 1800’s.
Now this would probably have been a DNF for me if the language would have not been modern. I really enjoyed reading this book by Vanessa Vale. I’ve not read her stories before. I was captured in the story and read it quickly.
The female lead was a little shaky but it’s understandable with her experience as a wife the first time around to what she fears is expected of her the second time around. Vastly different experience and in that day and age it would have been so very difficult to navigate the changes with out any support.
If you’re a fan of menage stories you should give this one a try. It might be a favorite of yours as well.
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About Vanessa Vale
Who doesn’t love the romance of the old West? USA Today Bestselling author Vanessa Vale takes the sensual appeal of rugged cowboys a step further with her bestselling books set in the Montana Territory. They are much more than just sexy historical westerns. They’re deliciously naughty reads that sometimes push the boundaries of fantasy. It’s pure escapism with quite a few very hot, very alpha cowboys.
When she’s not writing, Vanessa savors the insanity of raising two boys, is figuring out how many meals she can make with a pressure cooker, and teaches a pretty mean karate class. She considers herself to be remarkably normal, exceedingly introverted and fairly vanilla, which does not explain her steamy stories and her fascination with cowboys, preferably more than one at a time.
She lives in the Wild Wild West where there’s an endless source of ‘research’ material.
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