ARC REVIEW ~ CADEN'S VOW BY SARAH MCCARTY

Title: Caden's Vow

Author: Sarah McCarty

Expected Release Date: November 20, 2012

Publisher: Harlequin HQN

ARC provided by NetGalley

Book Blurb from Goodreads

Gunslinger Caden Miller's compadres are becoming a bit too domesticated for his liking. So he's off to Kansas territory to carve out a living and a space of his own-alone, just the way he likes it.

Maddie O'Hare has been drawn to Caden ever since she escaped to the Hell's Eight compound from the brothel where she was born and raised. And she's not ready to let him go so easily...until she's captured by his new neighbors.

When Caden discovers that Maddie is being held against her will on a nearby ranch, he demands they release his fiancé e. Caden is as surprised by his own lie as Maddie is, but the fiery promise in her grateful kiss is far more unexpected. With old enemies catching up with him, Caden and Maddie will face a danger that tests their passion-and will either bind them together forever or break them apart for good.    

Book Review

I fell in love with Sarah McCarty's writing with the first book in this series-Caine's Reckoning.  Her writing of historical romance is a joy to read and puts the reader in 1800's Texas; where her cowboys, the men called Hell's Eight, are sexy, loyal, and fierce.  The women are just as strong and love their men with everything they have. You can practically smell the horse manure and experience life how it used to be with the picture McCarty paints with her words.

Caden Miller, a bit of a loner, tries to fight is attraction to Maddie O'Hare. He is not one to settle down like the other five men that are his friends and his feet have started to get itchy. When the opportunity to leave Hell's Eight presents itself, Caden sets out in search of gold and to make something of himself.  

Maddie O'Hare has grown up in a brother, whored out at the ungodly age of eight and knows of no other way of life until she flees one night and is brought to Hell's Eight. Unable to deal with the brutality of her past, she "escapes" inside her mind at times, and finds peace in the make believe.

But when Caden leaves Hell's Eight without saying goodbye, her world is shattered. She has quietly loved this man who has always treated her as if her past didn't matter. And she soon realizes that everyone else has a purpose, a self recognition of what and who they are--all but Maddie.

"Once a whore, always a whore", Maddie has struggled to overcome her past and recognize her own inner strength, her own worth, her own desires. How can a man like Caden Miller want to be with a woman like her? She needs to make a life of her own and find her purpose, so she leaves Hell's Eight to track down Caden and start her life anew.

This is a story about overcoming and seeing how Maddie slowly returns to reality and faces her past is heartwarming.
She finds her inner strength, her purpose, and stands on her own two feet. It's something she must do before she can commit to the only man she has ever loved.

And along the way, she discovers how two people can be stronger together without losing who you truly are inside.

LUSTING FOR COVERS ~ CADEN'S VOW BY SARA MCCARTY

Lusting for Covers is a weekly meme, held on Sunday, that allows bloggers to share their current cover obsession with fellow book lovers.

This meme is hosted by TBQ @ TBQ's Book Palace.

To view complete instructions on how to participate, as well as grab the code for the graphic, see this page first!

Once you are ready to join the fun, please fill out Mister Linky below with your name/blog name and the direct Link to your Lusting for Covers for this week!

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Here's my candidate for the week:



Book 6 ~ Hell's Eight



Blurb from Goodreads

Expected release date:  November 20, 2012

His past has haunted him for a lifetime...but one woman could be his salvation.

Gunslinger Caden Miller's compadres are becoming a bit too domesticated for his liking. So he's off to Kansas territory to carve out a living and a space of his own-alone, just the way he likes it.

Maddie O'Hare has been drawn to Caden ever since she escaped to the Hell's Eight compound from the brothel where she was born and raised. And she's not ready to let him go so easily...until she's captured by his new neighbors.

When Caden discovers that Maddie is being held against her will on a nearby ranch, he demands they release his fiancée. Caden is as surprised by his own lie as Maddie is, but the fiery promise in her grateful kiss is far more unexpected. With old enemies catching up with him, Caden and Maddie will face a danger that tests their passion-and will either bind them together forever or break them apart for good.

 

 

 

I have this juicy book waiting on my kindle. Unfortunately, I have 3 books in front of it. I have loved Sara's cowboys and Caden looks like it he will be just as delish as the others....

 

Now show me what you've been lusting over this week~!

Book Review~ Shadow's Stand by Sarah McCarty

Title: Shadow’s Stand (Hell’s Eight, Book 5)

Author: Sarah McCarty
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: HQN Books (January 31, 2012)

ISBN-10: 0373777051
ISBN-13: 978-0373777051

Links To Buy:
Amazon
B&N

Where you can find the author, Sarah McCarty:
Website
Yahoo Groups



Book Blurb:

Shadow Ochoa is lying low in the western Kansas Territory, waiting for his fellow Texas Rangers—the Hell's Eight brotherhood—to clear his name. That is, until he's unjustly strung up for horse thieving…and pretty Fei Yen intervenes. Invoking a seldom-used law, the exotic lady prospector claims Shadow as her husband and rides off with the bridegroom shackled to her buckboard.


Savvy, fearless Fei is single-mindedly devoted to her hidden claim and all it promises: wealth, security and freedom. A husband is just a necessary inconvenience and a name on paper to hold the claim she cannot.


Shadow isn't a man to take orders from anyone, especially from lovely Fei—except that the daily friction between them ignites into nightly blazes of all-consuming passion. Soon Shadow is dreaming a little himself: of the life they could have if only Fei could see past the lure of independence. If only bounty hunters weren't closing in on him. If only he's left standing when the impending showdown has ended….  (provided from Goodreads.com)

Book Review:

I am a huge fan of the Hell’s Eight Series-and that’s saying something. To be perfectly honest, historical fiction is not my favorite genre to read. In fact, there are just a few authors that I will read in this genre, and Sarah is one of them.

The fact that we get to see small snippets of all the men that make up Hell’s Eight had me a bit giddy. I think that Sarah has done a great job with developing such strong characters and she stays true to their ARC’s.

Synopsis:

Shadow Ochoa has been sentenced to death by hanging for stealing his own horse. Literally at the end of his rope, he meets Fei Yen, who has come to claim him as her husband. She needs a man for protection, and the one hanging at the end of the noose is her only choice.

Fei’s spit-fire personality and fierce determination has her climbing Shadow like a monkey scrambles up a tree for a banana--cutting the rope free before the tight noose can still his breaths.

Shadow quickly becomes her Dragon-and the attraction between the two is heady.

Both harbor secrets that threaten to keep them apart-Shadow’s a wanted man after killing an Army man, and the darkness from his past keeps him admitting his love for Fei.

Fei struggles against the restraining upbringing by her Chinese father. A father who has slipped away from her because of a devastating mental illness that leaves him unable to know right from wrong.

Fei is fiercely loyal, smart as a whip, and stands up to Shadow’s intensity. Their verbal sparring is amusing and lined with underlying sexual tension.

“What kind of man are you?” Picking up her pack, he emptied out the last few sticks of dynamite onto the ground.

“The kind you need right now.”

Although this is not my favorite book, (Caine’s Reckoning has that honor), it is NOT one that fan’s of the Hell’s Eight should miss.

Shadow’s Stand was and ARC provided by Net Galley.

Rating: 4.5 Stars Sensual Rating: 4 Stars