| Title | : | When The Wind Blows |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 206 |
| Publication | : | Published August 31, 2018 |
It’s not for the faint-hearted, filled with some very tantalising hot sex and a strong dominant man. It’s a sweeping saga of one woman’s struggle to live and love. It holds temptations and passions. Conflicts and torment to raise your own passions and bring them alive. If you’re looking for something to tempt your days and nights, you just found it. Enjoy!
Written mainly in British English, with Americanisms and slang from both languages.
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It was 1832. Before the forced Indian moves to the Reservations. Before the Little Big Horn. On the Plains of Dakota. A young woman found herself alone.
Was life meant to be this hard? She asked herself not for the first time.
Her life back East had been full of gayety and balls. The finery of silk and lace. Here, it was not.
The vast open Plains offered no refuge. No comforts and her home was here now. Her husband long gone and her child not long after. She’d thought herself in love. How wrong, she had been. She had believed in him and it had led her to here. In grief for the child, she no longer had. Alone.
She would make this work or die trying. It mattered not to her now.
The animals needed her and she had her home. What more did she need?
When the wind blew and the sun glinted off the horizon, he was there again. Silhouetted on the crest of the hill looking down on her. He sat proudly. Quietly as was his way. The master of all he surveyed. Gazing down on her. She could feel the heat of the intensity of his stare. She wasn’t alone anymore.
He would have seen them all go. She had no doubt of it, he knew all there was to know and she’d not left like he’d told her too. Too stubborn, too wilful some would say and that it would be her undoing.
He had warned her of what would happen, if she stayed.
She watched him as he kicked his mount on and slowly headed down towards her…..
When The Wind Blows Reviews
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What a horribly cheesy book that had some very questionable love scenes! I read the whole damn thing though because I enjoy torturing myself. The writing was terrible, but the plot was good. I feel like if a BR Queen had gotten her hands on this plot and wrote it back in the 80s, it would have been fabulous. However, written today it was severely lacking and just…well, read it if you must and find out.
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Very well written story about a woman who sets off to the Dakota plains. She and her husband had been rich but he spent all their money. His new dream is homesteading in the West. She is in a very unhappy marriage but out in the wilderness Clive works hard and the rich girl starts to enjoy the project. But then she is left alone in the wilderness with only the sheriff visiting once a month and a mysterious Indian looking at her from afar. She never sees that man as a threat but considers him her visitor.
Unlike many of these novels no instant love but a story that builds up slowly and spends a lot of time on day to day chores. It becomes obvious how much work running a farm in the middle of nowhere was in those days and in that climate. (A friend of mine is from that area and always is telling about the harsh winters). I found it interesting and endearing. There is explicit sexual activity and some of that might be a trigger for people who have a history of sexual violence. -
Wonderful
Heart breaking tale of a couple settling in the West. Her husband is a player repeatedly breaking her heart. She is left heartbroken when he is killed cheating at cards. She goes on to struggle to run her ranch. On the hill overlooking their ranch is a mysterious Indian... Uh... Not saying more.. You have to read it. You may cry... You may need a cold shower. -
What on earth?
So I managed to read half of this book.
The story has great potential.
However, there is no actual conversation anywhere. There are so many commas and partial sentences that I often was left confused even after reading a section again.
I'm disappointed as it sounded like a good book. -
Learning a new way of life.
Disappointed in her marriage.Traveling to a new land.Going hard ship .Losing husband and child.Hard working and smart running farm alone.Falling on love with man who watches her from afar.Good reading.Great love story. -
Memorable read
While this is a story th like I've not read before, it makes it one I will remember. The editing was poor and made for difficult understanding occasionally. -
It's a great book love how the adventure and romance go together in this book I would read it over and over again
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FREE to read KINDLE UNLIMITED UK
The author writes in the foreword:
“I am not caught up in POV or literacy genius. It's simply not me or my style and I will never be that person, so I apologize to all those who are focused on the POV and the genius of literacy. I envy those that are.”
The cover’s great, especially considering there might not be lots of cash to throw at it⁉️ The two models on the cover? My ideal of him (we never get to know his name) and her, Agnes, almost. I appreciate authors that can refrain from giving readers endless physical descriptions of the characters, and allow our imaginations to form our own. This is a skill only the best writer’s have imo.
I was hooked from the first paragraph:
“The wagons moved slowly across the Plains. The vastness of it surprised her. It had been like this for weeks. As far as you could see. Boundless valleys opened up to meet the sky. Wide-open spaces, immeasurable and limitless roamed around her. Agnes thought it breathtakingly beautiful. The wind seeming to almost blow them along through the grasses in welcome. The sun warm on her face. The ground far lusher than she’d ever expected, having read the stories on the West back East. All dust and red rocks but not here. This was nothing like that and she thought it truly a wondrous thing.”
It was the “wondrous thing” that nailed it. I just had the feeling I’d stumbled across a ‘wondrous’ story. I did. 💯🌹❤️💕💖
There wasn’t anything I didn’t love, and read it in one sitting. I don’t do that often. I was reminded of Lisa Day’s Wolfkeeper’s Woman’; another fictional western romance, except not so much romance as epic LOVE story, which I prefer. There’s not so much dialogue at the beginning but dialogues overrated, and not always needed, and often done badly. It works well here. Alphas are men of few words, and I can’t stand babbling females. The love scenes are few but absolutely delicious 😋, and I’m grinning widely at the memory. Again, reminiscent of Wolfkeeper’s Woman.
For Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling and Format pedants, this may drive you bonkers, but for the rest, like me, NOT AT ALL. It was just great; in fact WONDEROUS. If you love Western Romance in the vein of Ellen O’Connell and Catherine Anderson, give this a read. I highly recommend it.
💯❤️💕💖😍🥰🌹
PS Lisa Day: Wolfkeeper’s Woman had formatting errors when I downloaded from Amazon, and I don’t know if it was ever corrected. I eventually found it on Smashwords. -
This is the second time I tried to read this story but ended up with the same result 3 stars. The story is ok but the writing style bugs me plus it's a bit boring, not much action. She is left on a ranch by herself when her husband dies and eventually her baby daughter dies. An Indian has always been watching her and eventually befriends her. He helps and one thing leads to another. He takes her as his wife. HEA ending.
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I did like this story, the only reason I gave it a 4 and not a 5 is the Hero in this story doesn’t have a name! You named their kids and even the dog, but didn’t give him a first name. That would definitely be something I think she after that morning they were “together” would at least ask or say she had a right to know. I’m not trying to be overly critical but this isn’t reasonable if with it being fiction.
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In spite of the reviews, I enjoyed this book.
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Can someone please correct the language in this lady's books. First grader would do better
