Name: Fair Is the Rose
ISBN: 9780440209133

Meagan McKinney

Disguising herself as "Widow Smith" as she tries to elude the dangerous gunmen who pursue her, New York-born Christal Van Alen meets the infamous outlaw Macaulay Cain, who becomes her only hope for survival. Reprint.

Fair Is the Rose

Lover of Romance 

Fair Is The Rose is a story that is the second in the series and it continues the series —four years after “Lions and Lace” takes place. This is Christal’s book. In the first book we see where she escapes from the mental facility she was being held in and is now on the run from her uncle who seeks to kill her. But then she finds herself in a situation she never imagined….she is being kidnapped but her captor is none like any other man she has ever met. Despite the circumstances there is a deep connection between them. Christal see’s that there is much more to Cain than meets the eye. I will admit in reading this story that this is a very close tie to the first book, in fact I probably like it a bit more in some respects. I did like seeing that there isn’t a “whole book length” of angst between the two characters. There is a beautiful building of trust that has to happen between them. Christal is wary of trusting anyone but once she discovers who Cain truly is, she is even more distrustful of him and she doesn’t know where to turn. But Cain is a alpha masculine male who never gives up fighting for the woman he loves and boy I adored that. That even though he fears their connection and what it might mean for the future, he doesn’t hold back. And man this book was so addictive, it started out a bit slow but once it got going, I just couldn’t put it down and its been a while since a historical has held my attention so much.

Running from the law and a false accusation of murder, Christabel Van Alen is abducted by a gang of outlaws and auctioned off to the highest bidder, a U.S. marshall working undercover. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.