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Coltrane #3
Love and Glory
Kitty and Travis, united at last, have found happiness on her ancestral North Carolina farm — until the lure of adventure takes Travis to Haiti. When Travis returns, he finds his beautiful bride has been abducted by the murderous, swaggering Luke Tate.
Distraught when he is shown Kitty's grave, Travis is haunted by crushing memories of the one woman who ever filled his heart. And he knows he can never belong to another woman...even the lovely Marilee, whom he marries.
The stunning climax to the love story of Kitty and Travis — which blazed across a North and South consumed by war, which smoldered in the ashes of a conquered land — now reaches its magnificent conclusion in the triumph of true devotion and a love meant to last forever.
Distraught when he is shown Kitty's grave, Travis is haunted by crushing memories of the one woman who ever filled his heart. And he knows he can never belong to another woman...even the lovely Marilee, whom he marries.
The stunning climax to the love story of Kitty and Travis — which blazed across a North and South consumed by war, which smoldered in the ashes of a conquered land — now reaches its magnificent conclusion in the triumph of true devotion and a love meant to last forever.
376 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1982
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Patricia Hagan
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Pat is the published author of over forty books of romantic fiction. Several of her titles have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. One of her books, "Ocean of Dreams", is based on her own shipboard romance when she met her former husband, a Norwegian engineer.
She is also a former Radio/TV Motorsports Journalist, covering NASCAR Grand National Stock Car Racing. Her work has won many awards by the National Motorsports Press Association.
Pat has cruised the eastern and western Caribbean extensively, as well as the Greek Islands, the fjords of Norway all the way to the North Cape, and has made several transatlantic crossings.
She prefers traveling single, because it gives her more opportunities to meet and make new friends. While she admits going solo is not for everyone, she says for her it is perfect, because she is an outgoing person, and, being a writer, enjoys meeting new "characters."
The only thing she does not like about traveling is having to leave behind her best friend and companion, Krysy, a 14-year old Wire-haired fox terrier.
The author also uses the names:
Patricia Hagan Howell
Maggie James (4 spaces)
Please see: Patricia Hagan
Pat is the published author of over forty books of romantic fiction. Several of her titles have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. One of her books, "Ocean of Dreams", is based on her own shipboard romance when she met her former husband, a Norwegian engineer.
She is also a former Radio/TV Motorsports Journalist, covering NASCAR Grand National Stock Car Racing. Her work has won many awards by the National Motorsports Press Association.
Pat has cruised the eastern and western Caribbean extensively, as well as the Greek Islands, the fjords of Norway all the way to the North Cape, and has made several transatlantic crossings.
She prefers traveling single, because it gives her more opportunities to meet and make new friends. While she admits going solo is not for everyone, she says for her it is perfect, because she is an outgoing person, and, being a writer, enjoys meeting new "characters."
The only thing she does not like about traveling is having to leave behind her best friend and companion, Krysy, a 14-year old Wire-haired fox terrier.
The author also uses the names:
Patricia Hagan Howell
Maggie James (4 spaces)
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November 21, 2023
** Bodice Ripper Deluxe & Spoilers! **
Just finished reading the first three books in the Coltrane series by Patricia Hagan:
Love and War (1978)
The Raging Hearts (1979)
Love and Glory (1982)
Kitty Wright, stunningly beautiful Southern girl with reddish gold hair, lavender colored eyes, and a generous bosom… all the men want her .., bad enough that she gets raped repeatedly at the beginning of the story, abused, abducted and raped again throughout all the books.
Travis Coltrane, a sexy alpha handsome Union Calvary officer that brags that he never has to rape women as they all want him. He rescues Kitty and then holds her hostage.
Both are two of the most stubborn people I’ve ever encountered in a book… they hate and love each other! She’s deceitful, lies to him repeatedly.. but she endures!! He has sex thruout the books with other women but Kitty has his heart.
I’m not going to give details about the plot .., just sharing my overall thoughts about these books.
A deeply horrific, dark story full of graphic violence, the horrors of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the KKK.., including details of battles, wounded soldiers, amputations, surgery, rapes, death, discrimination, starvation etc.
The three books are interconnected and span about 10 years. They both marry others … she marries an evil depraived rich carpetbagger when she’s desperate, and he marries the sweetest woman ever, Marilee, when he thinks Kitty is dead.
Although these superbly written books are classified at HRs they read more like historical fiction to me. Why? Besides the horrors mentioned above, the long separations between Kitty and Travis… they spend more time in total with others than with each other. Minimal love scenes, passion, or words of love plus abrupt HEAs.
As HRs: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
As HF: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+
Splendid covers by the artist Tom Hall.
Just finished reading the first three books in the Coltrane series by Patricia Hagan:
Love and War (1978)
The Raging Hearts (1979)
Love and Glory (1982)
Kitty Wright, stunningly beautiful Southern girl with reddish gold hair, lavender colored eyes, and a generous bosom… all the men want her .., bad enough that she gets raped repeatedly at the beginning of the story, abused, abducted and raped again throughout all the books.
Travis Coltrane, a sexy alpha handsome Union Calvary officer that brags that he never has to rape women as they all want him. He rescues Kitty and then holds her hostage.
Both are two of the most stubborn people I’ve ever encountered in a book… they hate and love each other! She’s deceitful, lies to him repeatedly.. but she endures!! He has sex thruout the books with other women but Kitty has his heart.
I’m not going to give details about the plot .., just sharing my overall thoughts about these books.
A deeply horrific, dark story full of graphic violence, the horrors of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the KKK.., including details of battles, wounded soldiers, amputations, surgery, rapes, death, discrimination, starvation etc.
The three books are interconnected and span about 10 years. They both marry others … she marries an evil depraived rich carpetbagger when she’s desperate, and he marries the sweetest woman ever, Marilee, when he thinks Kitty is dead.
Although these superbly written books are classified at HRs they read more like historical fiction to me. Why? Besides the horrors mentioned above, the long separations between Kitty and Travis… they spend more time in total with others than with each other. Minimal love scenes, passion, or words of love plus abrupt HEAs.
As HRs: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
As HF: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+
Splendid covers by the artist Tom Hall.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 25, 2021
Eh, it was alright but, where to start?
This book felt like it was three books mashed together, I actually had to put it down and come back to it later which may have added to that feeling but, the convoluted story is at times very silly and hard to follow or even care for the characters. At the beginning, Kitty and Travis are fighting as always except for when they're f**king. Travis is a grumpy bastard and Kitty knows he hates life on her father's old farm but, instead of literally just talking to him she starts ignoring him and treating him poorly, saying what a poor provider he is for no reason other than to push him away to get him to go back to doing what he loves which is traveling, I guess. So, because Kitty can't just open her mouth, Travis leaves her and their son that is mostly forgotten about when it's convenient, and Travis runs off to Haiti of all places. The villains from the first two books are present for a bit and essentially never talked about again, like most of the other characters in this book. Anyway, Travis goes to Haiti to seduce more women, he meets a native girl and she falls under his sex spell, he rejects her because of his "love" for Kitty which doesn't get in the way of him having sex with anything that moves but does when they want something more. Kitty gets captured, again, by Luke Tate. Fortunately in this book there's not graphic depictions of rape and violence but they are mentioned briefly. Travis has sex with a native girl who gets mad at him and attempts to seek revenge. It's uncomfortable how often the Haitians are referred to as "savages" and there's also several uses of the N word so if you're uncomfortable with these topics, avoid this one. We're introduced to several people in Haiti who don't matter and are never brought up again.
*spoilers from this point on*
Kitty is basically ignored beyond this point, Tate captures her and I guess the abuse she is subjected to is so bad that she dissociates and suddenly has amnesia? More on that later. Travis comes back and Tate has made a "grave" for Kitty but she's not dead, he drops her off at a hospital because she's suffering from "hysteria" I guess. Travis finds the grave and believing Kitty dead, kills Tate rather unceremoniously. Then Travis and his sidekick Sam Bucher try and infiltrate the KKK and save people from being mutilated or murdered. Doing so Travis first meets Alaina Barbeau, she's as horny as he is and they have good sex and that's all that they have in common. She's mad that he won't commit because he can't get over Kitty so logically once Travis meets Alaina's sister, Marilee, he has sex with her a few times and then marries her. Marilee seems to be the only redeeming character in the series even though I did find her rather annoying as well. She doesn't understand her only attraction to Travis is sexual and girl just needs a vibrator. There's a lot I'm skipping but it's neither that important nor interesting. Marilee does successfully infiltrate and spy on the KKK, revealing that her father is the main overseer of the KKK's horrible ideas and crimes.
Travis rejects Alaina but don't worry, she's in the next book with almost no explanation for how things were left in this book. He then marries Marilee and they're miserable together because Travis is a bastard and only wanted her for sex and someone to be a mother to his son that he just remembered that he has. In the last maybe three chapters, Kitty shows up as Stella Musgrave, she's been given that name because she showed up at the hospital with no information but somehow she remembered and is able to practice medicine as a woman in the late 1800s. Okay, whatever. Travis sees her and knows its her and she doesn't recognize him at first but conveniently she suddenly remembers in the middle of the night one night and wakes Travis up and I think they have sex but honestly who can remember. Somehow she knows it's Travis but both refuse to say anything because Travis is now married to both Marilee and Kitty and Travis tries to save Marilee even though he's never been a good husband to her. Travis makes his contempt for Marilee clear even though she's been nothing but kind and supportive the entire novel. He hates that she's not Kitty and because of that and the fact that she's apparently not very pretty is why he wants nothing to do with her. She knows this and she also realizes that the doctor that is tending to her as she's about to give birth is Travis' "late" wife, Kitty who, surprise, isn't dead after all. Now all of the sudden as she's giving birth, Marilee wants to be a martyr so she tells Travis she knows that Kitty is alive and well and that Travis never loved her (Marilee) so she essentially kills herself. Kitty later tells us that the other doctor told Marilee not to move after she gave birth as she was already weak and bleeding out so logically because I guess Marilee either wanted to martyr herself or she was just really that miserable, she walks around (literally right after giving birth??) and makes herself bleed to death but not before she gives Travis her blessing. With almost no mention of her newborn daughter. That's about it then, that's basically how the book ends. I finished it last night and I honestly don't remember much else and I already put it on my shelves so I can't peek at it and it's not that important anyway. If you've read the series thus far and enjoy historical fiction with a smidge of "romance" (steamy sex scenes) then this is for you, it's something to pass the time but if you skip this one you shouldn't be too lost if you choose to continue with the series.
This book felt like it was three books mashed together, I actually had to put it down and come back to it later which may have added to that feeling but, the convoluted story is at times very silly and hard to follow or even care for the characters. At the beginning, Kitty and Travis are fighting as always except for when they're f**king. Travis is a grumpy bastard and Kitty knows he hates life on her father's old farm but, instead of literally just talking to him she starts ignoring him and treating him poorly, saying what a poor provider he is for no reason other than to push him away to get him to go back to doing what he loves which is traveling, I guess. So, because Kitty can't just open her mouth, Travis leaves her and their son that is mostly forgotten about when it's convenient, and Travis runs off to Haiti of all places. The villains from the first two books are present for a bit and essentially never talked about again, like most of the other characters in this book. Anyway, Travis goes to Haiti to seduce more women, he meets a native girl and she falls under his sex spell, he rejects her because of his "love" for Kitty which doesn't get in the way of him having sex with anything that moves but does when they want something more. Kitty gets captured, again, by Luke Tate. Fortunately in this book there's not graphic depictions of rape and violence but they are mentioned briefly. Travis has sex with a native girl who gets mad at him and attempts to seek revenge. It's uncomfortable how often the Haitians are referred to as "savages" and there's also several uses of the N word so if you're uncomfortable with these topics, avoid this one. We're introduced to several people in Haiti who don't matter and are never brought up again.
*spoilers from this point on*
Kitty is basically ignored beyond this point, Tate captures her and I guess the abuse she is subjected to is so bad that she dissociates and suddenly has amnesia? More on that later. Travis comes back and Tate has made a "grave" for Kitty but she's not dead, he drops her off at a hospital because she's suffering from "hysteria" I guess. Travis finds the grave and believing Kitty dead, kills Tate rather unceremoniously. Then Travis and his sidekick Sam Bucher try and infiltrate the KKK and save people from being mutilated or murdered. Doing so Travis first meets Alaina Barbeau, she's as horny as he is and they have good sex and that's all that they have in common. She's mad that he won't commit because he can't get over Kitty so logically once Travis meets Alaina's sister, Marilee, he has sex with her a few times and then marries her. Marilee seems to be the only redeeming character in the series even though I did find her rather annoying as well. She doesn't understand her only attraction to Travis is sexual and girl just needs a vibrator. There's a lot I'm skipping but it's neither that important nor interesting. Marilee does successfully infiltrate and spy on the KKK, revealing that her father is the main overseer of the KKK's horrible ideas and crimes.
Travis rejects Alaina but don't worry, she's in the next book with almost no explanation for how things were left in this book. He then marries Marilee and they're miserable together because Travis is a bastard and only wanted her for sex and someone to be a mother to his son that he just remembered that he has. In the last maybe three chapters, Kitty shows up as Stella Musgrave, she's been given that name because she showed up at the hospital with no information but somehow she remembered and is able to practice medicine as a woman in the late 1800s. Okay, whatever. Travis sees her and knows its her and she doesn't recognize him at first but conveniently she suddenly remembers in the middle of the night one night and wakes Travis up and I think they have sex but honestly who can remember. Somehow she knows it's Travis but both refuse to say anything because Travis is now married to both Marilee and Kitty and Travis tries to save Marilee even though he's never been a good husband to her. Travis makes his contempt for Marilee clear even though she's been nothing but kind and supportive the entire novel. He hates that she's not Kitty and because of that and the fact that she's apparently not very pretty is why he wants nothing to do with her. She knows this and she also realizes that the doctor that is tending to her as she's about to give birth is Travis' "late" wife, Kitty who, surprise, isn't dead after all. Now all of the sudden as she's giving birth, Marilee wants to be a martyr so she tells Travis she knows that Kitty is alive and well and that Travis never loved her (Marilee) so she essentially kills herself. Kitty later tells us that the other doctor told Marilee not to move after she gave birth as she was already weak and bleeding out so logically because I guess Marilee either wanted to martyr herself or she was just really that miserable, she walks around (literally right after giving birth??) and makes herself bleed to death but not before she gives Travis her blessing. With almost no mention of her newborn daughter. That's about it then, that's basically how the book ends. I finished it last night and I honestly don't remember much else and I already put it on my shelves so I can't peek at it and it's not that important anyway. If you've read the series thus far and enjoy historical fiction with a smidge of "romance" (steamy sex scenes) then this is for you, it's something to pass the time but if you skip this one you shouldn't be too lost if you choose to continue with the series.
July 9, 2017
Travis is the worst 'hero' I've ever read about.
May 1, 2021
I read some of Patricia Hagan's later novels online and found I liked them a lot, especially the way she gives enough historical background so you feel you're learning some history rather than just passing the time. So I decided to give this earlier series a try, and I have to say I was disappointed as well as disgusted with the first novel, because, though these things happen in real life (unfortunately) I don't happen to like rape and violence scenes in romance novels. Also, I didn't find either Travis or Kitty appealing characters, both seemed so full of themselves, you'd think they were part of the 60's and 70's "Me Generation". I skipped through the rest of Book One and went to the next, and it occurred to me that this couple (if you could call them that) spend more time apart than together and the time they were together they spent in arguments and misunderstandings, not to mention a tug-of-war over their baby. I don't know why I didn't skip Book three, but when I started it, I actually found it more entertaining, but once again couldn't figure out why Kitty and Travis were together, since, besides their son and sex, they had nothing in common and didn't communicate at all. They kept their true feelings from each other about what they really wanted, and if they were a real life couple they'd be in divorce court in no time at all. All that hot sex would have cooled down sooner or later and then what would they have, besides an unhappy little boy?
To me, the best parts were all the adventures Travis had, I thought they were entertaining, especially since I learned quite a bit about voodoo and found it all fascinating. Both Kitty and Travis should have remained single; he liked casual sex too much to make a real commitment and she wanted a career in medicine so much, she needed to be free to concentrate on that.
The worst part of the story was sacrificing Marilee so Kitty and Travis could get back together (why?????). In my opinion, Marilee was a much better person than either of them, but she gives them her deathbed blessing, not to mention her baby and readers are supposed to be happy???? I sure wasn't! While he was with Marilee, Travis was a better person than he ever was with Kitty, though she should have been with a man who could really love her, instead of having to compete with a (not so very good) memory.
I would have preferred Marilee to survive, Kitty and Travis to realize their time was past, no going back, she leaves for medical school, he stays with Marilee and the children and realizes what a fool he was and promises to make it up to her. In my mind, that's how it happened.
And, while I intend to read more of Patricia Hagan's books, I definitely will NOT be reading any more in this series!
To me, the best parts were all the adventures Travis had, I thought they were entertaining, especially since I learned quite a bit about voodoo and found it all fascinating. Both Kitty and Travis should have remained single; he liked casual sex too much to make a real commitment and she wanted a career in medicine so much, she needed to be free to concentrate on that.
The worst part of the story was sacrificing Marilee so Kitty and Travis could get back together (why?????). In my opinion, Marilee was a much better person than either of them, but she gives them her deathbed blessing, not to mention her baby and readers are supposed to be happy???? I sure wasn't! While he was with Marilee, Travis was a better person than he ever was with Kitty, though she should have been with a man who could really love her, instead of having to compete with a (not so very good) memory.
I would have preferred Marilee to survive, Kitty and Travis to realize their time was past, no going back, she leaves for medical school, he stays with Marilee and the children and realizes what a fool he was and promises to make it up to her. In my mind, that's how it happened.
And, while I intend to read more of Patricia Hagan's books, I definitely will NOT be reading any more in this series!
November 20, 2019
3rd book in the saga, Travis meets up with anew family. And the klue klutz klan. Kitty is kidnapped by luke Tate and they are separated again.He has a new life only to find Kitty at the end.
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