Jade: The Jewels of Texas

Jewels of Texas #3

by Ruth Ryan Langan

The Town Preacher And The Town Madam…Haunted by his sordid past as the notorious gunslinger Nevada, Reverend Wade Weston had declared war against sin in the small town of Hanging Tree, Texas. But he hadn't counted on the arrival of the exotic Jade Jewel, whose visions of building a pleasure palace threatened the peace of the community, and whose person aroused in him passions that threatened to claim his immortal soul.

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Historical, Westerns

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Ruth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.

Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.

Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.

Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan

Reviews

[Laurie Stoll · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, I learned one thing today. While suffering to begin my summer tan, don't take a book outside. Living in the Middle East is so hot that the glue melted and the pages fell out! Lol

[Regiane Moreira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Se equiparou ao primeiro com um 3,7

Uma jovem e inocente mestiça criada para o prazer. A mente dela tão bem trabalhada pela tutora que ela não conseguia enxergar outro caminho para ela. Bom enredo... o que atrapalhou para mim foi a teimosia dela e aquele pai amoroso aceitar deixar a filha numa casa de prazer. Se a mãe dela não queria ir para o Texas, ele deveria ter levado a filha..., mas aí não teria história, não é?
Quanto ao Nevada... só posso dizer que a Ruth Langan nos faz ter vontade de colocar esses mocinhos no colo e dar muitos beijos.
Só sei que com tudo isso me divertiu e conseguiu me entreter e mereceu 3,7
Recomendo

[Teriel Donovan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Io amo profondamente questa autrice fin da quando ero piccolina e la considero fra le mie scrittrici preferite in assoluto. Questo romanzo a mio avviso è ben costruito. Intenso, passionale ma assolutamente non banale o ripetitivo. I personaggi sono ben costruiti e adoro il modo in cui l'intera storia si evolve passo dopo passo.

[Jess · Rating 1 out of 5]

was i too delusional to think that the reverend was going to be an age appropriate love interest and not the 30+ y.o who kissed her when she was 16 in prologue? was i too hopeful thinking he was just a really kind age appropriate former gunslinger turned reverend?
most likeable couple so far in the series before the identity reveal 💔

[Jerry Jares · Rating 3 out of 5]

At the age of 16, Jade Jewel met a man who would have a profound effect on her. At the ‘house of pleasure’ of her mother, Jade met a gambler named Nevada. The story resumes three years later. After the unexpected deaths of both of Jade’s parents, she found that she had 3 sisters in Texas. She decided to visit them; then decided to open a ‘pleasure palace’ in Hanging Tree, Texas.

There, she meets Reverend Wade Weston, a handsome man looking for redemption amongst the town’s citizens. I am surprised that Jade did not recognize Weston as the gambler Nevada immediately.

Although the interest between the town’s preacher and the new madam sounded like an interesting proposition, I didn’t think the characters had much depth. The resolution of Jade’s fancy bordello was an absolute shock and very unrealistic.

[Adriana Fogaça · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Jóias do Texas 03
Jade
Ruth Langan


Apesar de todo conhecimento teórico, Jade é inocente, pois desconhece na pratica o que acontece entre os homens e as mulheres, a intimidade.

E ao permanecer naquela pequena cidade do Texas, Jade pretende abrir um palácio dos prazeres. E continuar com um negócio de sua família, que vem da milenar China.

Mas os habitantes da pequena cidade e mais o reverendo Wade vão tentar fazê-la desistir do empreendimento.

O que ninguém sabe, que o passado de Wade é sombrio, e que três anos antes ele conheceu Jade e roubou-lhe um beijo e seus coração.

Mas, agora ele é outro homem, um religioso, que tentar persuadi-la a mudar de idéia.

E tenta salva-la de si mesmo e dele próprio.

Será que Wade vai conseguir?

Será que o reverendo vai conseguir se livrar da paixão que sente pela belíssima Jade?

Bom, para saber o que acontece você vai ter que ler.

Posso garantir que vai ser uma leitura emocionante e extremamente proveitosa.

ADORO!!!!!!!!!!

[Kris]

Start this series with Diamond. She is the first sister.