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A Candle in the Window
This is a re-issue. Approx. 100,000 Words. Sensual content.
Stranded in a blizzard with a bounty hunter on his trail, Luke McKenna is desperate to find someplace safe for his young daughter. Sure to freeze to death in the Montana wilderness, Luke and his daughter are rescued by the only person within miles.
School teacher Molly Lambert knows that letting a handsome, rugged stranger sleep in her house could ruin her reputation and get her fired, but she can't turn away the sweet child and her wounded father. Snowed in with the fugitive, Molly can't help but notice the tenderness he shows his daughter and the soft heart he hides beneath his tough exterior.
The cold winter winds can't subdue the heat between Luke and Molly, but Luke knows he can't risk staying in Montana and being caught. He knows he must do the best thing for everyone and leave Molly and his daughter or risk putting them both in danger. But can love light the darkest places and overcome the impossible forces pulling them apart?
Stranded in a blizzard with a bounty hunter on his trail, Luke McKenna is desperate to find someplace safe for his young daughter. Sure to freeze to death in the Montana wilderness, Luke and his daughter are rescued by the only person within miles.
School teacher Molly Lambert knows that letting a handsome, rugged stranger sleep in her house could ruin her reputation and get her fired, but she can't turn away the sweet child and her wounded father. Snowed in with the fugitive, Molly can't help but notice the tenderness he shows his daughter and the soft heart he hides beneath his tough exterior.
The cold winter winds can't subdue the heat between Luke and Molly, but Luke knows he can't risk staying in Montana and being caught. He knows he must do the best thing for everyone and leave Molly and his daughter or risk putting them both in danger. But can love light the darkest places and overcome the impossible forces pulling them apart?
261 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2000
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Jillian Hart
190 books600 followersJillian Hart grew up on her family's homestead in Washington state, where she raised cattle, rode horses and scribbled stories in her spare time.
After earning her English degree from Whitman College, she worked in travel and advertising before selling her first novel.
When Jillian isn't working on her next story, she can be found puttering around her rose garden, curled up with a good book and spending quiet evenings at home with her family.
After earning her English degree from Whitman College, she worked in travel and advertising before selling her first novel.
When Jillian isn't working on her next story, she can be found puttering around her rose garden, curled up with a good book and spending quiet evenings at home with her family.
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April 28, 2018
Luke McKenna is on the run from bounty hunters with his six-year-old daughter, Beth. They are hot on the trail when he gets to Montana and finds himself in the middle of a blizzard. On the verge of freezing to death, they find themselves rescued by school teacher Molly Lambert. Molly nurses Luke's gunshot wound and Beth's fever. As the storm rages on, she finds that Luke isn't the outlaw that she first thought he was. He wants to find a mother for his daughter...someone who can care for Beth while he disappears into the Canadian wilderness.
This historical romance had potential, but it just didn't work for me. Luke is in grave condition when he is found by Molly. The next day he is up hauling firewood for her and scrubbing the blood from the floor. The writing was very repetitive. How many times do we have to hear that he is trying to find someone who can raise his daughter since he is not able to when he is being hunted down. How many times does Beth have to say she doesn't want him to leave? On the plus side, Molly's aunt, uncle and the population of the small town are likeable characters who enhance the story. My rating: 2 Stars.
This historical romance had potential, but it just didn't work for me. Luke is in grave condition when he is found by Molly. The next day he is up hauling firewood for her and scrubbing the blood from the floor. The writing was very repetitive. How many times do we have to hear that he is trying to find someone who can raise his daughter since he is not able to when he is being hunted down. How many times does Beth have to say she doesn't want him to leave? On the plus side, Molly's aunt, uncle and the population of the small town are likeable characters who enhance the story. My rating: 2 Stars.
May 23, 2021
Good but slow
This book started out with a bang and then kind of stagnated in the middle. And a other ending that left me with unanswered questions
Molly is a schoolteacher and finds a man and child in her backyard half frozen to death and shot. She nurses them both back to health. He was being hunted for a crime he didn't do by really evil men. He stays there and They end up falling in love. The little girl annoyed me though. I usually love children in stories but she was so mean to Molly and I hated that. Molly was such a good person. I understand the girl had been traumatized but her behavior was just not right. The ending was a tad bit unsatisfying too. I wanted him to be exonerated but it was still an HEA.
This book started out with a bang and then kind of stagnated in the middle. And a other ending that left me with unanswered questions
Molly is a schoolteacher and finds a man and child in her backyard half frozen to death and shot. She nurses them both back to health. He was being hunted for a crime he didn't do by really evil men. He stays there and They end up falling in love. The little girl annoyed me though. I usually love children in stories but she was so mean to Molly and I hated that. Molly was such a good person. I understand the girl had been traumatized but her behavior was just not right. The ending was a tad bit unsatisfying too. I wanted him to be exonerated but it was still an HEA.
October 18, 2012
I bought this because I'm putting together some books to release at Christmastime and while I will release it I really found many things in the book annoying. What are they going to do with the two frozen bodies in the back yard once the snow melts? I realize this is a Romance and almost a Bodice Ripper but I really became tired of the sculpted muscles (his), russet curls (hers) and the ultimate "his rock hard shaft straining his too tight pants"! How do you light candles on a huge outdoor tree and how do you keep them lit in a snow storm? It's surprising that everything our characters want or need is still available from the rapidly emptying shelves of the store and the railroad may have canceled train service but they would have arranged some sort of emergency delivery, especially since it was apparently possible to bring a sleigh of some sort over the road. What was a caboose doing on a passenger train and if it was a mixed train then why weren't there a couple of freight cars back there with that caboose? A good editor should have caught a number of times when ideas were needlessly repeated.I just hope someone enjoys this more than I did.
January 16, 2016
A Candle in the Window by Jillian Hart
Luke McKenna has been accused of murder and spent one year in prison before escaping. He found his daughter in an orphanage and they headed out of Texas to Canada. Bounty hunters were always close on his tail, too close. When a blizzard almost took their lives, Molly Lambert found them and brought them into her home.
Molly is a school teacher in Evergreen, Montana. She was estranged from her family and had started over about six months ago with her own land and home. Her hound, Lady, had found Beth and Luke in the blizzard. Luke had been shot and mostly dead. His will to protect his daughter pulled him through. When she found out Luke was a fugitive she was afraid until watching the way he cared for Beth. No man who was so tender and loving towards a little girl could be that bad, right?
I really enjoyed the story. There is the suspense of constantly looking over their shoulders, staying up for several nights not knowing if little Beth would live or die and knowing Luke would leave Beth with Molly and head for Canada. Never to see his daughter again. There are sensual situations and some mild language.
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Luke McKenna has been accused of murder and spent one year in prison before escaping. He found his daughter in an orphanage and they headed out of Texas to Canada. Bounty hunters were always close on his tail, too close. When a blizzard almost took their lives, Molly Lambert found them and brought them into her home.
Molly is a school teacher in Evergreen, Montana. She was estranged from her family and had started over about six months ago with her own land and home. Her hound, Lady, had found Beth and Luke in the blizzard. Luke had been shot and mostly dead. His will to protect his daughter pulled him through. When she found out Luke was a fugitive she was afraid until watching the way he cared for Beth. No man who was so tender and loving towards a little girl could be that bad, right?
I really enjoyed the story. There is the suspense of constantly looking over their shoulders, staying up for several nights not knowing if little Beth would live or die and knowing Luke would leave Beth with Molly and head for Canada. Never to see his daughter again. There are sensual situations and some mild language.
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July 29, 2014
Sad to think that someone would be found guilty and convicted on very little evidence. This was a nice story in that it showed how good people can be. The townspeople accepted Luke and deemed him to be a good match for the school teacher. His daughter didn't seem to warm up to her, but it seemed liked the author was making the point that the little girl wouldn't accept anyone because if she did, she knew her father would leave, but it would have been nice if we would have seen the daughter warm up to her a little more- she did in the train, but before that, not so much. The story is about a man running away from the law and he ends up on the doorstep of the spinster school teacher. She takes them in and cares for them during a bad snow storm. Later, he moves in with her aunt and begins to pretend courting her, so he can marry her to have someone to take care of his daughter.
March 15, 2018
Could have been at least a four star
. . . . . If there hadn’t been so many references to Luke’s groin. I’m sorry, but those references contributed absolutely nothing to the story. Neither did the almost having sex in the wake of a Montan blizzard.
. . . . . If there hadn’t been so many references to Luke’s groin. I’m sorry, but those references contributed absolutely nothing to the story. Neither did the almost having sex in the wake of a Montan blizzard.
February 15, 2022
Captivating Story
This story by Jillian Hart kept me locked into the pages. I like how the author makes the reader feel deeply apart of the characters within the story. I really enjoyed this book.
This story by Jillian Hart kept me locked into the pages. I like how the author makes the reader feel deeply apart of the characters within the story. I really enjoyed this book.
February 17, 2018
Lovable book
This book was happy and sad I couldn't put it down.I hope the next book is just as interesting.I loved it.
This book was happy and sad I couldn't put it down.I hope the next book is just as interesting.I loved it.
August 11, 2014
A Father's Love
A Father's Love
This is a heart warming story of a father's love of which there are no lengths he will not go to in order to protect his child. I very much enjoyed reading this book. Ms. Hart has the ability to keep a reader so much into the story that you are hard pressed to not set it down until you have finished it. I am looking forward to reading more of her work.
A Father's Love
This is a heart warming story of a father's love of which there are no lengths he will not go to in order to protect his child. I very much enjoyed reading this book. Ms. Hart has the ability to keep a reader so much into the story that you are hard pressed to not set it down until you have finished it. I am looking forward to reading more of her work.
April 27, 2011
Still updating my shelves with past reads. This is another book read and reviewed for All About Romance, the review is archived HERE .
March 7, 2012
it was a wnderful sweet romance
August 1, 2014
Great read!!
November 17, 2018
This was an inspirational story. I loved that he was such a wonderful father. These two were meant to be together.
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