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Sweet Fury
She was beautiful and exasperating, a little hellcat with barnyard manners. If anyone was to make a lady of her, it would be Marshal Travis Kincaid, and even with outlaws overrunning his town, he swore to silence her sassy mouth with his lips and unleash all her wild Sweet Fury.
448 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1990
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Catherine Hart
39 books117 followersCatherine Hart is one of today's most popular romance authors and has earned many prestigious writing awards since she started her craft. With 16 historical romances and 2 novellas under her belt, Catherine keeps very busy giving romance readers lots of great reading. Many of her books have made their way to bestseller lists then went on to win awards such as the Romantic Times Storyteller of the Year, a Lifetime Achievement Award for Western Romance. Also, she was recently inducted into her high school's Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, an honor she cherishes. Catherine is donating total profits from one of her novellas to promoting adult literacy and she credits her success to a firm belief in true and lasting love, an overactive imagination, an insatiable thirst for knowledge and an off-the-wall sense of humor.
Catherine resides in Ohio, where she was born and raised and she is the mother of 3 grown children, a "Nana" and the adoptive "mama" of a Siamese cat named Sassy and a Pekingese dog named B.J., both of whom have found a place in her historical novels. Ms. Hart has a passion for Ohio State football, Native American crafts and culture, romantic movies and books, travel, "oldies tunes" and her husband of 29 years, her own special hero.
Catherine resides in Ohio, where she was born and raised and she is the mother of 3 grown children, a "Nana" and the adoptive "mama" of a Siamese cat named Sassy and a Pekingese dog named B.J., both of whom have found a place in her historical novels. Ms. Hart has a passion for Ohio State football, Native American crafts and culture, romantic movies and books, travel, "oldies tunes" and her husband of 29 years, her own special hero.
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December 15, 2015
The author spends the first half of the book building up her heroine as this feisty, hilarious, strong-willed, kick-ass outlaw cowgirl, and the second half taming her through the power of the H's magical penis into a complete Stepford wife content to do laundry, cook, and go through a multitude of mundane housework chores, when she is not busy heating up the sheets at night. A perfect little doll. *eye roll* Too bad, because the writing had some genuinely funny moments as well as poignant ones. But once I saw where this was headed, I just had to struggle through the rest. The story goes through unnecessary fourth and fifth acts and we are treated to flat, boring minutia including a list of every single Christmas present that the people of this small town decided to make for each other and why. Not. My. Cuppa.
March 23, 2025
dnf.
i gave it a two stars solely based on the first 200 pages were really good and built up well. then it got so strange and i couldn’t even finish. the main guy did a lot of uncharacteristic things that made me absolutely hate him. the main guy was and is a brat, but i just overlooked that as it was for the “plot”.
i gave it a two stars solely based on the first 200 pages were really good and built up well. then it got so strange and i couldn’t even finish. the main guy did a lot of uncharacteristic things that made me absolutely hate him. the main guy was and is a brat, but i just overlooked that as it was for the “plot”.
October 25, 2025
ชื่อไทยว่าหวานใจนายอำเภอ
คือมันแล้วแต่คนชอบจริงๆ
คนอื่นรีวิวบอกว่าพีนิสมหัศจรรย์
เปลี่ยนนิสัยทุเรศๆของนางเอกได้
กุอ่านละขำ แต่มันก็จริงแหละ เปลี่ยนได้จริง(?)
จากไม่มีมารยาทกลายเป็นแม่บ้านแม่เรือน
แต่กุก็สงสัยว่าละอยากให้นางเอกเป็นยังไงล่ะ
ยังจะให้มันจับปืนไปยิงคนอีกเหรอ แบบนึ้ก็น่ารักดีนี่นา
แล้วเนื้อเรื่องคือเขียนได้อิ่มมาก มีบทสรุปทุกคน
แต่ก็ยังตกใจการแปลอยู่ดี แปลได้แบบหนักหน่วง
ใส่อารมณ์สุดๆ พระเอกด่านางเอกในใจว่านังตอแหลอะ
โอยยยยย แปลโหดเกิ๊นนนน
คือมันแล้วแต่คนชอบจริงๆ
คนอื่นรีวิวบอกว่าพีนิสมหัศจรรย์
เปลี่ยนนิสัยทุเรศๆของนางเอกได้
กุอ่านละขำ แต่มันก็จริงแหละ เปลี่ยนได้จริง(?)
จากไม่มีมารยาทกลายเป็นแม่บ้านแม่เรือน
แต่กุก็สงสัยว่าละอยากให้นางเอกเป็นยังไงล่ะ
ยังจะให้มันจับปืนไปยิงคนอีกเหรอ แบบนึ้ก็น่ารักดีนี่นา
แล้วเนื้อเรื่องคือเขียนได้อิ่มมาก มีบทสรุปทุกคน
แต่ก็ยังตกใจการแปลอยู่ดี แปลได้แบบหนักหน่วง
ใส่อารมณ์สุดๆ พระเอกด่านางเอกในใจว่านังตอแหลอะ
โอยยยยย แปลโหดเกิ๊นนนน
January 23, 2022
Felt like the story was dragged towards the ens and some parts were really unnecessary . Also , didn’t really like how sam was this badass girl who defied all gender rules but somehow his ✨magical penis✨made her the perfect little housewife .
January 28, 2025
Excellent
June 12, 2012
3 and 1/2 Stars - Entertaining Texas Romance Between a Young, Female Outlaw and a Marshal
I found this one hard to rate. While the author's writing is excellent, the story itself is a bit odd. Yes, it's a romance, but mostly it's the story of the heroine's family and of the redemption of her and her brothers and how that affected a small town in Texas. We know little of the hero except that he's an upstanding Marshal; the only back story on him is a reference to his military career.
Set in 1877-78 in Texas, SWEET FURY tells the story of Samantha ("Sam") Downing, whose father and three brothers became the Downing gang (and dragged her along) after the family lost everything in the Civil War. While robbing a bank in Tumbleweed, Texas, Sam is caught and taken prisoner by Marshal Travis Kincaid, the handsome single lawman who every girl in town wants to marry. When he captures her, Sam is an uneducated hellion with bad manners and crude speech who dresses and acts like a boy. Travis decides to take her in hand to try and turn her into a young lady. Meanwhile, her father and brothers want her back.
This is a pretty simple story, as historical romance novels go. It is charming and the taming of young Sam by the seasoned marshal who falls in love with her is delightful to watch. The heroine does come across not so much as the enticing redhead pictured on the cover, but rather, a tomboy who has yet to grow up. After the guy gets the gal, the action slows a bit and the story really becomes one about her brothers and a few others in Tumbleweed. I can't recall another romance where that happened (that is the last third of the book takes off on other characters).
I recommend it for lighter Western historical romance. For the more serious stuff, read Ellen O'Connell, Shirl Henke or Catherine Anderson.
I found this one hard to rate. While the author's writing is excellent, the story itself is a bit odd. Yes, it's a romance, but mostly it's the story of the heroine's family and of the redemption of her and her brothers and how that affected a small town in Texas. We know little of the hero except that he's an upstanding Marshal; the only back story on him is a reference to his military career.
Set in 1877-78 in Texas, SWEET FURY tells the story of Samantha ("Sam") Downing, whose father and three brothers became the Downing gang (and dragged her along) after the family lost everything in the Civil War. While robbing a bank in Tumbleweed, Texas, Sam is caught and taken prisoner by Marshal Travis Kincaid, the handsome single lawman who every girl in town wants to marry. When he captures her, Sam is an uneducated hellion with bad manners and crude speech who dresses and acts like a boy. Travis decides to take her in hand to try and turn her into a young lady. Meanwhile, her father and brothers want her back.
This is a pretty simple story, as historical romance novels go. It is charming and the taming of young Sam by the seasoned marshal who falls in love with her is delightful to watch. The heroine does come across not so much as the enticing redhead pictured on the cover, but rather, a tomboy who has yet to grow up. After the guy gets the gal, the action slows a bit and the story really becomes one about her brothers and a few others in Tumbleweed. I can't recall another romance where that happened (that is the last third of the book takes off on other characters).
I recommend it for lighter Western historical romance. For the more serious stuff, read Ellen O'Connell, Shirl Henke or Catherine Anderson.
April 24, 2012
This historical romance set in the wild west had lots of action but it was kind of unrealistic. The heroine initially acted more like a ten year old and I almost quit reading but I did finish and overall it was an enjoyable story. Marshall Travis manages to catch the youngest outlaw Sam after the gang robs the bank.
August 25, 2007
I am such a sucker for books where the female character is a strong, independent woman who happens to fall in love with the man she hates. Catherine Hart does such a great job with her historical romance novels that you never leave feeling dissatisfied. I miss her books.
September 8, 2016
I absolutely LOVED this book! Set in the late 1800's in Texas. The story reminded me of the movie My Fair Lady! While reading any book I love it when it stirs many emotions from me-this book did! I will be reading more books from this author.
August 30, 2013
Loved the heroine's twist at the beginning and I'll never get the scene with a pregnant sheriff's deputy standing on the bar making the bad boys clean up their mess. Grrrrreat read.
August 11, 2016
One of my favorites <3
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