DP is one of my favorite Historical Romance writers. She enterlaces history through out her books. You are not wasting time reading fictional work but rather, you are getting educated as well on various subjects. DP is well read herself and does a great job researching her material.

The town of Jacobsville has become legendary in DP's books. It was named after its founding father Big John Jacobs who also founded an empire here. The county is likewise named Jacobs. DP has a lot of charm and humor in her stories. She tells compelling tales with her Jacobsville Tough Guy Cowboys, Sheriffs, and Mercenaries. This is a good book to read if you are a western fan and like the Texas Rangers. Good reading material--I gave this one a five star rating.

Only my second book by this author and I don't remember the first one. I am wondering how dumb she thinks her readers are that she has to repeat the same facts over and over and over. For instance that our hero and heroine were once almost lovers, except she couldn't, but they never got over each other. That she dresses like an old maid and he is soooo attractive he turns all the girls heads. He wears an off-white stetson he tips over his piercing gray eyes and he has a hair roughened chest. I agree with other readers that who done it was not at all hard to guess and I've only read the first 160 pages. Does anyone ever heed the warning given by other readers to skip this one? I didn't think so.

Texas Ranger Marc Bannon finds himself forced to work with the woman he has spent the last two years trying to forget. After finding themselves on opposing sides of a murder case, Josette joined the state attorney's office in Austin while he did a quit stint in the FBI before retuning to the rangers. When the man jailed in the murder that was the catalyst of their breakup escapes from a work furlough and winds up murdered himself, it looks like a possible mob hit.

As the two walk the tight rope trying to solve the crime and refrain from picking up where they left off, both are finding that they are still attracted to one another - but can Josette forgive Marc for betraying her trust?

This is such an obvious segment of a series of stories - so many under-developed characters pop in and out of the story, expecting the reader to have read the other novels. The suspense was light - it does not take a brain surgeon to determine who is behind the killings - and if I had to hear the term "minor surgery" one more time... If this is the level of storytelling I can expect from the rest of the series, I can bow out now. Which is a real disappointment since "Paper Rose" and "True Colors" showed a lot of promise.

I enjoyed this book. It is the story of Marc Brannon & Josette Langley. Despite their differences Marc is still drawn to Josie. They need to uncover the truth about a murder & see that justice is served.

This has to be one of the worst books I have ever read...Diana Palmer needs to buy a Descriptionary so she can broaden her terminology and quit using the same words in different ways...You can only have so many 'wicked smiles', 'smiling wickedly', and 'he said with a wicked grin.' By the time you are a quarter of a way through the book you have already put two and two together and know who the bad guys are...Maybe I need to move to Texas and become a Ranger because the very CLUELESS Marc Barron and his girlfriend that works for the State Attorney couldn't figure it out until the woman was in front of him pointing a gun....DUH!...Maybe if the Ranger spent more time trying to work the case instead of dipping his wick into his former girlfriend every 3 pages then it would have saved everyone a lot of time and maybe some of the characters in the book would still be alive and well...He more or less sexually assaults his former girlfriend every chance he gets, when she says no he says yes (can you say rape?)and then makes comments that scream SEXUAL HARRASSMENT LAWSUIT FROM HELL...The characters aren't very well written, the former girlfriend is far more forgiving than the Virgin Mary at the Crucifixion...I would love to meet a woman like her that forgave me after I treated her like the main character did....Bypass this book, don't waste your time on it...A soap opera is more intelligently put together than this book....Talk about someone typing out garbage just to make a quota...Woof!...I have read better prose on the back of a shampoo bottle while taking a crap...Burn this book if you ever get your hands on it and save the world from this kind of tripe...If I could rate it lower than zero I would be in negative 7 digits...I think you catch my drift...