Angel Creek
1991
- colorado in fiction
- fiction
- water rights
- water rights in literature
- fiction, romance, historical, general
- fiction, westerns
- colorado, fiction
The story
DESIRE CAME LIKE A WILDFIRE TO THE COLORADO HILLS . . . TO CLAIM A WOMAN'S PROPERTY AND HER HEART For five years after her father died, lithe, beautiful Dee Swann held onto Angel Creek valley and her independence. The homestead was hers, and she vowed no one else would ever own it . . . or her. Then Lucas Cochran came back to Colorado. In the drought-cursed high country, he needed Angel Creek and its cool water to turn his Double C ranch into the cattle dynasty he craved. His ruthless ambition guaranteed he would fight to take it away from the black-haired, green-eyed spitfire who claimed it. But the passion that blazed when Dee Swann and Lucas Cochran met shocked them both. Unbidden, unexpected, their kisses swept them toward a dangerous destiny where dreams might be scattered . . . men could be killed . . . or love would be born as wild and unfettered as this glorious frontier. Related Books - 2
What it’s like
Wide, sun-bleached Colorado high country, rendered in Linda Howard's brisk, sensory prose: dry wind over sagebrush, the glint of a creek that everyone is fighting over, dusty ranch yards and sweaty horses under a hard summer sky. The voice is confident and warm, with a steady undercurrent of heat, both weather and attraction, and the scenes move quickly between open-air tension and charged close-quarters moments. It suits a lazy afternoon on the porch, a long weekend read, or a summer getaway when you want the frontier feel with a romance at its center. The pacing is brisk and the emotional register is passionate and combative: two proud, stubborn people who push against each other until the friction turns into longing. Its arc follows a fiercely independent woman learning to trust a rival who wants what she has. Sensuality is present and frank, with love scenes that are explicit enough to be felt; violence is occasional and tied to the land dispute, with some fistfights and a few deaths, but it stays secondary to the romance. For readers who love historical Westerns, feisty heroines, and slow-building heat across a drought-stricken landscape.
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