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Crossing #2
Archer's Crossing
When Margaret Sheridan is kidnapped by convicted murderer Archer Owen, who is desperate to clear his name, she succumbs to the forbidden passion that rages between them and vows to stop at nothing to win his love. Original.
400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1999
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Jean Barrett
51 books11 followersJean Barrett is the pseudonym of Bob Rogers. Don't ask him how it happened, because he has no idea how he ended up teaching fourth graders for more years than he cares to say. It wasn't supposed to happen that way. He'd known from a tender young age that what he was meant to be was a successful writer. The problem was that the muse in charge of her talent didn't seem to know that. It turned out all right, though. He is sure he learned more from his fourth-graders than he ever taught them, and knowledge is good. It helped him to finally win publication and an award-winning career in the romance world he loves.
In 1979, he published her first novel All These Splendid Sins as Lee Rogers. As Jean Barrett, he is the author of twenty-three contemporary and historical romance novels for Kensington, Berkley, Dorchester and Harlequin-Silhouette. His books have been printed in numerous foreign editions. Those books have appeared on such best seller lists as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Bookscan. He was the proud recipient of the national Booksellers' Best Award and twice won the national Write Touch Readers' Award. He also wrote as Jean Thomas.
Rob and her wife Laura live in an English-style cottage overlooking Lake Michigan on Wisconsin's scenic Door Peninsula. When not traveling to research his books, he walks daily, tries to keep her bonsai collection alive and the song birds happy at him feeders. Those chores attended to, he settles down each afternoon at his computer, where he writes the kind of books he loves to read: sometimes historical romance, but mostly romantic suspense.
In 1979, he published her first novel All These Splendid Sins as Lee Rogers. As Jean Barrett, he is the author of twenty-three contemporary and historical romance novels for Kensington, Berkley, Dorchester and Harlequin-Silhouette. His books have been printed in numerous foreign editions. Those books have appeared on such best seller lists as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Bookscan. He was the proud recipient of the national Booksellers' Best Award and twice won the national Write Touch Readers' Award. He also wrote as Jean Thomas.
Rob and her wife Laura live in an English-style cottage overlooking Lake Michigan on Wisconsin's scenic Door Peninsula. When not traveling to research his books, he walks daily, tries to keep her bonsai collection alive and the song birds happy at him feeders. Those chores attended to, he settles down each afternoon at his computer, where he writes the kind of books he loves to read: sometimes historical romance, but mostly romantic suspense.
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April 8, 2025Current 2024 rating: No rating, DNF at page 70 of 408
Original 2013 rating: 5-stars and a keeper.
This story takes place somewhere near Independence, Missouri.
The hero has been wrongly accused of murder and sits in a tiny jail cell waiting for his public hanging.
The heroine is the twin sister of the man that wrongfully accused the hero as being guilty of murder. The heroine is engaged to some rich, prominent city fellow that hates scandal. He hears in the newspapers that the heroine's twin brother is a witness to a crime, so he sends the heroine to visit her brother to make sure everything is under control (and that nothing will come back to taint his saintly image thru his connection to the heroine).
So the heroine arrives to this tiny town, finds that her twin brother has just up and left to join a random wagon train, leaving his wife and baby behind on their own. So she sticks around to help her sister-in-law run her boarding house, which involves delivering meals to the jail. And this is how she meets the hero. Once he realizes that she is the sister to the loser that falsely accused him of murder, he comes up with a plan to escape from the jail and kidnap her, hoping she will help him convince her twin brother to clear his good name. And so the story and adventure takes off.
I just looked at my comments on Book 1 and Book 3 of this series, and I had noted that I disliked both of the heroines in those books. Why did I like this heroine for Book 2? I have no idea… because this time around, she was a cold stuck-up fish and I couldn’t see any reason why the hero would waste his time being flirty with her. The hero was awesome, intelligent and had witty comebacks…. But the heroine was a fail for me. She was allergic to cooking and housework, was afraid/didn’t want to hold her infant nephew, constantly thought of her rich fiancée (that she wanted to marry so she could have an easy life with nice dresses)… no good vibes from her at all.
When the hero did the old 1990’s bodice ripper trick of kissing the heroine to shut her up, it didn’t come across as passionate or emote any feelings to me whatsoever. It felt corny. Which is just probably the result of comparing this 1990’s writing style to today’s current steamy scenes.
If you still like bodice rippers though, you might enjoy this as I did when I originally read it!
Original 2013 rating: 5-stars and a keeper.
This story takes place somewhere near Independence, Missouri.
The hero has been wrongly accused of murder and sits in a tiny jail cell waiting for his public hanging.
The heroine is the twin sister of the man that wrongfully accused the hero as being guilty of murder. The heroine is engaged to some rich, prominent city fellow that hates scandal. He hears in the newspapers that the heroine's twin brother is a witness to a crime, so he sends the heroine to visit her brother to make sure everything is under control (and that nothing will come back to taint his saintly image thru his connection to the heroine).
So the heroine arrives to this tiny town, finds that her twin brother has just up and left to join a random wagon train, leaving his wife and baby behind on their own. So she sticks around to help her sister-in-law run her boarding house, which involves delivering meals to the jail. And this is how she meets the hero. Once he realizes that she is the sister to the loser that falsely accused him of murder, he comes up with a plan to escape from the jail and kidnap her, hoping she will help him convince her twin brother to clear his good name. And so the story and adventure takes off.
I just looked at my comments on Book 1 and Book 3 of this series, and I had noted that I disliked both of the heroines in those books. Why did I like this heroine for Book 2? I have no idea… because this time around, she was a cold stuck-up fish and I couldn’t see any reason why the hero would waste his time being flirty with her. The hero was awesome, intelligent and had witty comebacks…. But the heroine was a fail for me. She was allergic to cooking and housework, was afraid/didn’t want to hold her infant nephew, constantly thought of her rich fiancée (that she wanted to marry so she could have an easy life with nice dresses)… no good vibes from her at all.
When the hero did the old 1990’s bodice ripper trick of kissing the heroine to shut her up, it didn’t come across as passionate or emote any feelings to me whatsoever. It felt corny. Which is just probably the result of comparing this 1990’s writing style to today’s current steamy scenes.
If you still like bodice rippers though, you might enjoy this as I did when I originally read it!
June 2, 2021
Enjoyed the setting and the storyline. Liked the characters. Was a good, interesting read. Just kept wanting to turn the page to find out what would happen next.
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