Man with a Mission

by Suzanne Barclay

A label stitched into a fur coat was her only clue to her true identity, but the name "Roseanne" meant nothing to her. She knew only that a bullet had grazed her skull, robbing her of her memory and plunging her into a nightmare existence lived on the run. And the one man who could help her -- a lone wolf wrapped in his own aura of mystery -- was convinced she had done murder.

250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

Carol Suzanne was born on 20 December 1945 in USA, daughter of Phyllis and Whit Hoose. She married Kenneth E. Backus, and obtained four stepchildren.

Published since 1992 as Suzanne Barclay, was an author for Harlequin Historical, specializing in romance set in the Medieval era. She founded the Lake Country Romance Writers in 1993, and served as the chapter's first president. She passed away on 15 September 1999 after a long battle with cancer.

Reviews

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was undecided about giving this 3 or 4 stars, maybe 3.5, I did enjoy it and would rate it the 4 if not for the fact it had the same thing I dislike that nearly all Silhoutte books have which is why I need to stop reading them thinking "this will be the rare one that doesn't have it"lol. In general I like clean romances which is why I tend to stick to older young adult romance, and older historical romances as they're usually clean, it's not even that fact they make love in these Silhoutte and Harlequin books that's the issue per say, it's usually how it's done. I can't speak for others but I don't find anything romantic about 2 page descriptions of throbbing body parts etc. (you get the picture lol) I find it completely off putting, and usually the dialogue between the characters during these love scenes are cringy too, like in this book, the dialogue in general was fine but when it got to the love scenes, it just goes cringy in my opinion and again the throbbing body parts and aching to be taken descriptions are not romantic in the slightest to me. I guess I know the reason the scenes are like this and seem forced is because they probably are, the authors are usually told by the publisher of these series what they need to include and "steamy" scenes let's call them, are usually what they're told to include, but it results, in my opinion, as being unnecessary and forced.
Also in a lot of these books, the sex scenes seem to be a substitute for any actually romantic development between the couple so I don't enjoy most of these, I usually end up not finishing them, but at least this book had an actual story that held my interest, and the 2 main characters were likable and had personalities and they also at least had development before ending up in bed together so that's why i ended up finishing this one, so I did enjoy it, the story is decent enough. The book cover is beautiful which is always a plus.