The
Christmas Treasure by Mallory Kane
From
award-winning, best-selling romantic suspense author Mallory Kane., comes a
short, historical Christmas novella, about loss and lies and the healing power
of love.
Lorilla traveled alone over the treacherous Santa Fe Trail to find love. What she finds instead is a man whose heart is turned to stone.
Gabriel Beltran paid dearly for a widow who'd born a child. What he got was a virgin and he is not happy about it.
The Christmas Treasure is 35,000 words.
Lorilla traveled alone over the treacherous Santa Fe Trail to find love. What she finds instead is a man whose heart is turned to stone.
Gabriel Beltran paid dearly for a widow who'd born a child. What he got was a virgin and he is not happy about it.
The Christmas Treasure is 35,000 words.
Published & Release Date: Self-published,
October 26, 2014
Time and setting: New
Mexico 1847
Genre: Western Historical
Romance
Heat Level: 1
Reviewer rating: 5 Gold Crowns
Reviewed by Vikki
What a wonderful heart-felt Christmas story. Sometimes
the best things really do come in a small package, or in this case, a short
story. I could not read this little gem fast enough. One of my favorite troupes
is a marriage of convenience story, and this one is excellent. Mallory Kane has
such a smooth and flowing writing style, bringing to life the vivid countryside
surrounding Santa Fe, New Mexico with a masterful touch, and allowing me to
experience the deep desires of the hero and heroine.
Lorilla Harmon arrives in Santa Fe on Christmas Eve
and is rushed to her wedding with Gabriel Beltran. Lorilla’s stepfather had told
Gabriel she was a widow who had delivered a stillborn child. Perfect for his
purposes. All he wants is a son, and a sensible, biddable woman, one he will
never give his heart to. Gabriel is outraged when he discovers her virginity. The
last thing he wants or needs is an innocent woman.
All Lorilla has dreamed of a man to love her and a
family. When Gabriel turns from her, she takes matters into her own hands and
seduces him. He succumbs to her charms, but remains distant. Lorilla prays he
will grow to love her if she gives him a son. Will Gabriel let the memory of
his first wife go, or will he cling to the past and lose what could be his
greatest treasure.
I thoroughly
enjoyed Lorilla and Gabriel’s love story. For such a short story the character
development is incredible. The plot is intriguing and captured me from the
first page to the last. The emotions run deep in this enchanting tale of a
woman’s determination to gain the love she has so desperately craved all her
life. Lorilla is an engaging heroine and she grabbed at my heart strings along
the way and had me rooting for her “Happily Ever After”.
Gabriel is my favorite kind of hero, a tortured
soul, scared to let go of the past and grasp a new life, yet brave enough to
take a second chance on love. But in the end, willing to humble himself to gain
Lorilla’s heart.
If you like western historical romance and warm-hearted
Christmas stories, then this is a book you will love. It is one you will want
to pull out and read each year during the holiday season. I know I will. Oh,
and I must say: Love the amazing cover. Happy reading!
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