"A hero worth fighting for"

May 1994: No one came to get him. They knew he was coming, but no one was there. He needed to get home, so he would just have to walk...

He was just a drifter, but Charlie sensed something different about him. So she bought him a meal. Charlie needs help on the farm she bought, but not badly enough to hire a stranger. When work starts getting done on its own, Charlie gets suspicious. Since she's sure she has neither a ghost nor a leprechaun, she figures it has to either be someone from her past or a drifter. Instead of trying to catch him, she feeds him and he works for her, but they never meet. This arrangement works well, until the night he gets beaten up. Now Charlie knows who he is and he's sure she will want him to leave. But then again, he doesn't really know her, does he -- any more that she knows him. She especially doesn't know the part about someone wanting him dead...

Two lonely people -- who need no one and no one needs them - - find that maybe they need each other.

This is a wonderful romance. The hero and heroine are both angst-ridden, but not in a really dark and depressing way. The heroine is older than the hero, which I think is grand. I admit that the book is long, but it doesn't really drag, just meanders some. It takes a very enjoyable path, always in the right direction. I liked the fact that when the hero came home, he still had friends, people who really cared about him. The intimate scenes are fairly plentiful and are all well done. I hesitate to compare books, but I really feel those readers who enjoyed Karen Robards' ONE SUMMER should give Morgan's REDEMPTION a try.

Sensuality: R. Descriptive sex; oral sex.

Reviewed by Flora Bell
Posted July 1, 2002

Summary

Former agent Charlotte Giles never expected to need her old job skills once she escaped to the wilds of West Virginia to build a horse farm. But when Charlie falls in love with handsome Drew Bailey, she trades her own demons for his personal nightmares. For an ex-con who has run out of options, hiding out in Charlie's barn seems the safest way to avoid run-ins with local law enforcement. However, the handsome loner never counted on staying around long enough to fall in love. Charlie's body proves to be more addictive than freedom, and her heart holds the key to his soul. Her love may be his only Redemption...