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This was an enjoyable and interesting read, it is an earlier work from Lorraine Heath and I liked seeing the early workings of her plotting and story telling shaping into what her works are today in 2021. Heath's writing as always is engaging, well paced and has a nice blend of the unexpected.
I found this story to have some lovely unique elements and some twists and turns that helped to keep the story lively and entertaining. The heroine is blind (and has been since she was 12) she is kidnapped after "witnessing" a robbery by some bandits. The Hero is know as a notorious outlaw who is wanted for murder. Believing that the heroine has seen his face, he abducts her and takes her on his journey home to Mexico.
This is one of Heath's Texas Historical Romances, I do tend to like her European Historical's better, but I found this to be entertain and embedded with lots of wonderful tropes-road trip, forced-proximity, misunderstood hero, strong family units. I really loved watching the heroine's clever brain help her to find a better understanding of the people she has been abducted by. I loved that the hero never looked down on the hero and that he had a strong appreciation of her independence and how smart and clever she was.
The hero and heroine are able to slowly build their relationship into one of friendship, comprehension of the other, and respectability-with this foundation they are able to take their attraction and explore their building love. Would definitely recommend this is you love Lorraine Heath, love a Western American Historical Romance, and love a story in which the hero and heroine learn to look past the surface to discover the truth of character that lies beneath.