About the Book
Shannon Wilde is the middle sister--and the one who loves animals. She's established her own homestead and is raising sheep for their wool. Things are going fine...until Shannon gets swept over a cliff by Matthew Tucker!
Tucker seizes every opportunity to get away from civilization, but one particular walk in the woods ends with him sprinting away from an angry grizzly and plunging into a raging river, accidentally taking Shannon Wilde with him. Their adventure in the wilderness results in the solitary mountain man finding himself hitched to a young woman with a passel of relatives, a homestead, and a flock of sheep to care for.
As Tucker and Shannon learn to live with each other, strange things begin to happen on Shannon's land. Someone clearly wants to drive her off, but whoever it is apparently didn't count on Tucker. Trying to scare Matthew Tucker just makes him mad--and trying to hurt the woman he's falling in love with sets off something even he never expected.
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This book was released in February 2004
This is a well loved library book that was reviewed
My Review
“Now & Forever”
by Mary Connealy is the second book in her 'Wild at Heart' series,
and wow what a book. This is a book where it is not exactly
necessary to have read the first book “Tried & True” but it
will help with figuring out a few of the characters, especially the
Wilde family and that dynamics. I think that reading this first two
books will be somewhat required reading when it comes to “Fire & Ice”
this fall, for the two major characters are seen all through the
first two books. I would like to say that the two major characters
in “Fire & Ice” is not a great surprise, HOWEVER, this is Ms.
Connealy and with her nothing is a sure thing.
This is so predictable
again to Ms. Connealy's writing, which of course is not predictable.
The villain of the story is one of two characters, though I suspected
one more than the other, just because of a hunch. However, the hints
and clues all fitted each of the characters that are suspect, so
honestly either one could have been it. The one who was the villain
truly had a hidden dark soul without a doubt and frankly it was
almost scary how this character seem to find enjoyment with what they
were doing.
This is Shannon Wilde's
story and what a story it is. As her back story comes out it almost
horrific with what this young lady went through in her past.
Regardless what happened though there is something gentle within
Shannon that she is not afraid to show to her sheep, though she is
guarded with everyone else. It seems almost if Shannon is trying to
figure out where she fits in the world, for she is so use to doing
things one way but now due to a marriage of no choice she is finding
that there are other ways of doing things. Some of those new things
are things she likes and some not so much.
Matt Tucker is a man we
also meet in “Tried & True” and we learn a great deal more
about this mountain man. He is the typical Alpha Male who has to
protect everyone, can do everything, doesn't need anyone, and
especially hates being laid up. His pride gets in the way at times
but he is not reckless on the most part. Tucker is a man who is a
thinker, and careful. There is a reason why he has the reputation
that he has and frankly it is well earned. Though Tucker seems
almost perfect for the Alpha Male, he isn't and it shows at times.
The romance within the
story is some different and yet, so similar to “Tried & True”.
Again the chemistry between Shannon and Tucker is there from the get
go, well maybe from “Tried & True” but honestly that is only
hinted at. But now in “Now & Forever” that chemistry is
different for it is not between a man and woman but now it is between
man and wife. It is that same chemistry with a little more
intensity, after all this time it is between man and wife, though
never once is the reader privy to their private husband and wife
moments. I truly found myself falling in love with the characters as
the story works itself out even with all the crazy things going on by
the hands of the villain.
The story takes several
twists and turns throughout the story and I almost have to wonder if
there isn't a part of this story that will be carried over into “Fire
& Ice” for things seems to have gotten off track on that.
Other than that wondering, the story on the part is pretty well
concluded within the book, but with Ms. Connealy what might seem
concluded in a book, but in the next book shots that idea out of the
water. So I am looking forwarded with baited breath for the fall for
“Fire & Ice”.
I highly recommend this
book to all who enjoy historical romances that has a touch of
suspense and plenty of humor, all of which are so characteristic of
Ms. Connealy's writing.
Other "Wild at Heart" Books
Tried & True
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