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Montana Mavericks: Return to Big Sky Country #6
Outlaw Lovers
Man Most Wanted
Nick Dean needed a hideout - and fast. An attempt on his life forced him to seek shelter, and like a beckoning angel, Sara Lewis took him in. But once she offered Nick her passion, he knew all the rules had changed. Now he wasn't the only one in danger. And he'd do anything to protect the woman he loved.
251 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1994
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July 31, 2024
DNF @ p. 116.
I *really* want to read every book in this series, but at just over half-way though this one I'm so utterly BORED I honestly don't think I can trudge through another 100+ pages.
First up... nobody in this book is an outlaw. Let's get that out of the way.
So the premise is hapless PI and white man Nick is blown up in his car, and is rescued by museum worker and Native American woman Sara. Nick has no idea racisms exists in the world and comes out with cringingly naive statements designed to prompt correction and education at every turn, - whereas Sara is singularly obsessed with race and takes every little comment and interaction anybody makes as a racial insult to bristle and seethe over. These two spent every moment hammering out every single racial issue of the day.
It reads like an incredibly ham-handed lecture in which we the reader are led from one location to another on the reservation so that the heroine can explain is yawning detail about the cultural, economical, political and racial challenges faced by her community. Great, just greeeeeat.... but I'm here for romance? No... no romance... sorry.... just really angry, tetchy tellings-off about race I guess.
Sleeping With the Enemy, an earlier book in the series, was just amazing! It managed to talk about the complex issue of race and prejudice, and the situation on the res, without being a boring ass lecture. That book covered similar themes very well indeed - this book suuuucks.
I *really* want to read every book in this series, but at just over half-way though this one I'm so utterly BORED I honestly don't think I can trudge through another 100+ pages.
First up... nobody in this book is an outlaw. Let's get that out of the way.
So the premise is hapless PI and white man Nick is blown up in his car, and is rescued by museum worker and Native American woman Sara. Nick has no idea racisms exists in the world and comes out with cringingly naive statements designed to prompt correction and education at every turn, - whereas Sara is singularly obsessed with race and takes every little comment and interaction anybody makes as a racial insult to bristle and seethe over. These two spent every moment hammering out every single racial issue of the day.
It reads like an incredibly ham-handed lecture in which we the reader are led from one location to another on the reservation so that the heroine can explain is yawning detail about the cultural, economical, political and racial challenges faced by her community. Great, just greeeeeat.... but I'm here for romance? No... no romance... sorry.... just really angry, tetchy tellings-off about race I guess.
Sleeping With the Enemy, an earlier book in the series, was just amazing! It managed to talk about the complex issue of race and prejudice, and the situation on the res, without being a boring ass lecture. That book covered similar themes very well indeed - this book suuuucks.
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August 31, 2016Melissa Avery ran the Hip Hop Café in Whitehorn, MT and had some questions about her father, Charlie Avery, who had disappeared some 20 years ago. She hired Nick Dean, a private investigator to look into his death. Nick found out that Charlie had indeed been murdered. On Nick's way back to the motel he picked up a female hitchhiker that didn't look well. It had started to snow and he didn't see any cars around and didn't know how she got to the highway. Shortly after he picked her up, his vehicle exploded and he was thrown out.
Sara Lewis was on her way to her small house on the Laughing Horse Reservation, when she saw Nick staggering on the road. Nick didn't want to go to the hospital and the weather was getting worse so Sara took him home with her. Sara made a few calls to check out what little Nick had told her and found out that the woman with him had burned to death.
Nick had been married previously. His marriage dissolved after he was unable to be contacted when Beth went into labor early. The baby died and Beth blamed Nick and his job as a vice detective. There was nothing that Nick could have done to prevent Beth from losing the baby but he still blamed himself. Beth moved back home with her parents and filed for a divorce after the miscarriage. Nick lost interest in his job after that and went into business with a friend as a private detective.
Sara had met a white man in college. She fell in love with him and thought that they would stay together. Jack's family disapproved of her being an Indian and the relationship ended. Sara found out that Jack was never serious about her and to him it was just an affair. Sara found out that she was pregnant after they broke up and she lost the baby. Sara was brokenhearted and scared to get into another relationship. She tried to avoid becoming involved with Nick but it was a losing battle.
Nick stayed with Sara while he was healing from the accident. Sara showed him around the reservation and he met Sara's mother and grandmother. He found out that her father had left when she was around 8 and had died, drunk, in an accident a few months later. Her father wasn't well accepted on the reservation and couldn't get a job in town either because he was married to an Indian. He had turned to alcohol and it destroyed his relationship with his family and ended up killing him.
Nick kept in touch with the sheriff in Whitehorn but stayed on the reservation because he felt safer there. If a white man showed up on the reservation, he would be easily spotted and Nick didn't know who had tried to kill him. He didn't leave the reservation until one night when one of the Indian women started labor early. He drove Sara and Alice to the hospital. He took Sara to work the next day and went to see Melissa to ask more questions. Nick also went to talk to Ethan Walker who often fought with Charlie. He felt like their last fight was about a woman but he couldn't get much information from Ethan. Nick picked up Sara and felt like he was followed until he took the reservation turn off.
Nick and Sara made love that night. Sara felt like Nick was a man who could make her feel much, but he was the wrong man. Sara soon gave up and admitted to Nick that she was in love with him. He told her that he was in love with her too. He was totally convinced that he would get Sara to agree to marry him soon.
Nick called his father who owned a lumber company and asked him to send some supplies to the reservation. Nick needed to keep busy while he was there and most of the houses needed some type of repair work done. Nick visited with the Indians and they soon began to trust him and agreed to let him work on their houses.
Nick still worked on the investigation and found out that Ethan Walker had purchased the dynamite that blew up his truck. A more thorough search of the area where Charlie's bones had been found. Ethan's class ring was uncovered. It was found out that Ethan and Charlie had fought over a woman that Ethan was in love with. Ethan was arrested due to the circumstantial evidence.
Meanwhile, a tapestry had been stolen from the museum where Sara worked and Nick had agreed to see if he could find the thief. The museum director ordered another tapestry brought in and Nick and Sara hid to watch the case it was in so that the thief would be caught. The thief turned out to be Alice's husband who worked as a custodian at the museum.
Nick asked Sara to marry him and they could live part time in Butte and part time on the reservation. Sara told Nick that it wouldn't work and she didn't want to leave the reservation. Nick was upset that she refused to compromise and was gone the next morning before she got up.
Nick went back to Butte and back to work. He had a hard time concentrating on his job though and told his partner and friend, Nate Upton, that he was taking time off and going home. He went home and worked with his father's construction team during the day. He came home and rode his horse in the afternoons to keep himself busy. His mom asked what was wrong and he told her about Sara. She didn't normally interfere but she made a phone call to Sara.
Sara was no less miserable than Nick. She still worked at the museum and also at the reservation daycare. Her friends noticed that she was unhappy and that she had lost weight, Jackson in particular. He was the reservation attorney. He talked to Sara and told her that she needed to try and work things out with Nick. He wasn't like her previous boyfriend or her father.
After Nick's mother called, Nick was out riding one afternoon just before Christmas. He came home and saw Sara waiting for him. She told Nick that she was sorry. He meant more to her than the reservation and she agreed to marry him.
Sara Lewis was on her way to her small house on the Laughing Horse Reservation, when she saw Nick staggering on the road. Nick didn't want to go to the hospital and the weather was getting worse so Sara took him home with her. Sara made a few calls to check out what little Nick had told her and found out that the woman with him had burned to death.
Nick had been married previously. His marriage dissolved after he was unable to be contacted when Beth went into labor early. The baby died and Beth blamed Nick and his job as a vice detective. There was nothing that Nick could have done to prevent Beth from losing the baby but he still blamed himself. Beth moved back home with her parents and filed for a divorce after the miscarriage. Nick lost interest in his job after that and went into business with a friend as a private detective.
Sara had met a white man in college. She fell in love with him and thought that they would stay together. Jack's family disapproved of her being an Indian and the relationship ended. Sara found out that Jack was never serious about her and to him it was just an affair. Sara found out that she was pregnant after they broke up and she lost the baby. Sara was brokenhearted and scared to get into another relationship. She tried to avoid becoming involved with Nick but it was a losing battle.
Nick stayed with Sara while he was healing from the accident. Sara showed him around the reservation and he met Sara's mother and grandmother. He found out that her father had left when she was around 8 and had died, drunk, in an accident a few months later. Her father wasn't well accepted on the reservation and couldn't get a job in town either because he was married to an Indian. He had turned to alcohol and it destroyed his relationship with his family and ended up killing him.
Nick kept in touch with the sheriff in Whitehorn but stayed on the reservation because he felt safer there. If a white man showed up on the reservation, he would be easily spotted and Nick didn't know who had tried to kill him. He didn't leave the reservation until one night when one of the Indian women started labor early. He drove Sara and Alice to the hospital. He took Sara to work the next day and went to see Melissa to ask more questions. Nick also went to talk to Ethan Walker who often fought with Charlie. He felt like their last fight was about a woman but he couldn't get much information from Ethan. Nick picked up Sara and felt like he was followed until he took the reservation turn off.
Nick and Sara made love that night. Sara felt like Nick was a man who could make her feel much, but he was the wrong man. Sara soon gave up and admitted to Nick that she was in love with him. He told her that he was in love with her too. He was totally convinced that he would get Sara to agree to marry him soon.
Nick called his father who owned a lumber company and asked him to send some supplies to the reservation. Nick needed to keep busy while he was there and most of the houses needed some type of repair work done. Nick visited with the Indians and they soon began to trust him and agreed to let him work on their houses.
Nick still worked on the investigation and found out that Ethan Walker had purchased the dynamite that blew up his truck. A more thorough search of the area where Charlie's bones had been found. Ethan's class ring was uncovered. It was found out that Ethan and Charlie had fought over a woman that Ethan was in love with. Ethan was arrested due to the circumstantial evidence.
Meanwhile, a tapestry had been stolen from the museum where Sara worked and Nick had agreed to see if he could find the thief. The museum director ordered another tapestry brought in and Nick and Sara hid to watch the case it was in so that the thief would be caught. The thief turned out to be Alice's husband who worked as a custodian at the museum.
Nick asked Sara to marry him and they could live part time in Butte and part time on the reservation. Sara told Nick that it wouldn't work and she didn't want to leave the reservation. Nick was upset that she refused to compromise and was gone the next morning before she got up.
Nick went back to Butte and back to work. He had a hard time concentrating on his job though and told his partner and friend, Nate Upton, that he was taking time off and going home. He went home and worked with his father's construction team during the day. He came home and rode his horse in the afternoons to keep himself busy. His mom asked what was wrong and he told her about Sara. She didn't normally interfere but she made a phone call to Sara.
Sara was no less miserable than Nick. She still worked at the museum and also at the reservation daycare. Her friends noticed that she was unhappy and that she had lost weight, Jackson in particular. He was the reservation attorney. He talked to Sara and told her that she needed to try and work things out with Nick. He wasn't like her previous boyfriend or her father.
After Nick's mother called, Nick was out riding one afternoon just before Christmas. He came home and saw Sara waiting for him. She told Nick that she was sorry. He meant more to her than the reservation and she agreed to marry him.
December 14, 2018
I would be lying if I said it didn’t capture me. This was my first romance novel and I think it was a decent start. Good story, feely good romance and good main characters and their stories. The “mystery” of the story kinda caught up quickly though, it seemed almost forgotten due to so many other things going on (or lack there of).
Decent book.
Will not reread...
Decent book.
Will not reread...
March 22, 2019
This was a pretty good book. There was 2 story lines: the finding of Charlie Avery's body after 20 years and Nick's meeting Sara Lewis after his car is blown up. It was a good story
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