Colt spends their conversation adjusting his expectations from the suitable woman he thought he’d found to the thoroughly unconventional woman seated before him. When he goes to visit Regan the next day and they finally get a good look at each other Regan is conscious of his being as handsome as an African god, while he can’t take his eyes off her beautiful face and body, both their minds traveling ahead to their wedding night. He is determined that neither judgmental and sanctimonious Minnie nor defiant and rebellious Spring have the raising of the girl
Spring, likewise, feels that Regan is the woman to bring Colt out of the frozen shell to which he’d retreated following his wife’s death.Ĭolt is resigned to giving Regan a chance, because he is desperate to find a mother for his six-year-old daughter, Anna. Here is a kindred spirit, and she feels hopeful of her future. Regan is immediately beguiled by Spring’s independent outlook, her can-do attitude, and competent nature. Luckily, Colt’s sister, Spring, is more than welcoming. But when she encounters Minnie Gore’s hostile nature – Minnie is Adele’s great aunt – and the mean room she allocates her, Regan requests that she be put up elsewhere. What kind of unladylike woman has he asked to take the place of his beloved, deferential late wife, Adele? When Colt refuses to speak to her, the sheriff decides to drive her to a boarding house to spend a few days before the wedding. While his closest friend, the sheriff, fights laughter, Colt is decidedly not amused and wonders if he was mistaken in his choice of bride. Seeing a posse riding hard on their heels, Regan fires off a couple of quick shots of warning… and shoots her intended in the shoulder. Impressed, the driver asks her to sit up top in case the villains come back. As she’s closing in on her destination, her stagecoach runs into some miscreants, but armed with her Winchester and sharpshooting skills she efficiently routs them. Regan takes this up as the adventure of her life and sets out on her journey. Seeing that they seem compatible on paper, Colt asks if she will move from her loving home in Arizona Territory far up north to where he lives in Wyoming Territory. In an impulsive moment, Regan decides to answer Colt’s advertisement and starts corresponding with him, intending to become his mail-order bride. And it truly does for Regan Carmichael and Dr.
It takes such courage and such belief in the innate goodness of mankind that it will all work out. Tempest is a western mail-order bride story, and I’m in awe of the heroine’s willingness to start a new life in a new land all by herself by marrying a virtual stranger. Who hasn’t read a Beverly Jenkins book? Her stories are as memorable as the author herself, and I am delighted to have this opportunity to review one of her novels.
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