Review| Trail of Redemption, Merry Farmer

Trail of Redemption by Merry Farmer
Series: Hot on the Trail 6
on June 24, 2015
Genres: Historical Romance
Pages: 219
Source: Self
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Estelle Ripley is not who she says she is. Running from the past she’s left behind on a Georgia plantation, she’s taken a job in a wagon train heading to new horizons along the Oregon Trail. If she can just keep her head down, do her job, and keep any of her new friends from discovering her secret, she’ll be fine. After all, people don’t ask questions on the frontier.

But Estelle didn’t count on a shadowy figure from her past coming along on the journey, and she most certainly did not plan to fall head-over-heels in love.

Graham Tremaine’s only reason for heading west is to deliver his sister Lynne’s belongings to her new home in Denver. The Civil War has left him with more scars than his missing leg. Convinced he is now only half a man, wounded and with no future, he fights hard not to fall in love with the dark and mysterious Estelle. It’s a losing battle, and as his passion for Estelle flares, so does his desire to protect her. But how can he fight her battles when she keeps so many secrets from him? And what kind of a life can a man who has lost himself provide?

Love is a journey that proves the heart has no limitations…

Please Be Advised - Steam Level: HOT

I was excited to see this, I am on a deep early American kick and I recognize this is a difficult era to write about and include happy Black Americans, I get it, I do, I do. I loved the heroine Estelle, she was leaving behind her family and life as she knew it. How bad or great it was did not matter, we are talking the end of an era. She was from Georgia the daughter of a plantation owner and slave but that was just her back-story. The author did not harp on the bad, although there were some stuff that made me say what the fukery (you’ll should see my notes). This was more of a look toward the future tale which I liked.

The hero Graham started out as this guy who had this phobia due to his disability which caused him to not want to deal with anyone. He could not help the fact he was drawn to Estelle, little Miss Happy. He was a good upstanding guy who was not thrown off by the fact that she was not white, once he found out she was passing and he might lose out on his new career possibilities. He had no idea what he would do with himself but he started to look forward to a new future even though dark characters casted doubt on the things he could do with a woman of color on his arms. But dude did not care and I loved that.

The bad…okay, we poc have all watched movies or read books growing up and whenever there is the possibility of death or bad guys and that one black person shows up we chant the mantra. You know…Please don’t let the black guy/girl die, please don’t let the black guy/girl be the bad guy. Well you know there where two black people in this book, you know the heroine was black so would I be spoiling anything to tell you who the bad guy was. It was such a cliché but then I had to look at it from the author’s point of view and for her it might not have been a cliché.

The steam level per the book description is hot and that is crazy, this is safe to read on a long car ride sitting beside your Granny, you will not get over heated.