Kentucky Woman
1993
- collectionid:wbodice_ripper
- romance
- romantic fiction
- fiction
- historical romance
- fiction, general
- fiction, romance, historical
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, romance
- historical romance
The story
Certain that trapping, drinking, and carousing leave him no time for settling down, Spencer Atkins soon changes his mind when he meets Gretchen Ames, a beautiful woman fresh from the poorhouse.
What it’s like
Frontier Kentucky in the early nineteenth century, rendered as rough-hewn cabins, river mud, woodsmoke, and long hard days of hunting and trapping, with a sense of wilderness close at hand. The mood is brash and heated at first, a rough-edged man's easy swagger giving way to something more tender, with the tension carried by attraction and reluctance rather than dread. The pacing is steady and emotionally driven, built around scenes of courtship and clashing pride. Its romance follows a hardened, self-assured man slowly rethinking his restless bachelor life for a woman who has known deprivation, and the book's attention stays on that shift. Sensual scenes are frank in the manner of the classic bodice-ripper romance, with heat and physical intimacy more prominent than any tenderness beyond that, while violence is incidental, a matter of frontier hardship rather than graphic cruelty. It suits a weekend read with a warm drink, or a rainy afternoon for readers who enjoy old-fashioned historical romance. It is for readers who want passion, sharp-edged banter, and a rugged setting, and who don't mind the genre's heat.
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