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Fugitive
Escaped murderer or fugitive betrayed?
When Tate Cantrell moves into the primitive Ozark mountain cabin she inherited from a father she never knew, she expects hardship. She doesn’t expect to be held at gunpoint by a convict from nearby High Ridge Penitentiary.
Carl Petersen is armed, dangerous and wounded. But when he tells her he’s really an undercover operative named Simon Vandergriff, sent to investigate conditions at the prison, Tate finds enough proof to wonder. How can she turn him over to the sheriff, knowing that she might be sending an innocent man to his grave?
As a runaway Tate learned to be suspicious of authority figures. Now, as she cautiously nurses Simon back to health and attraction grows, she is torn. Is Simon a good man in trouble or has she fallen under the spell of a master manipulator and murderer?
With her adopted family a thousand miles away and her new one suspicious and distant, Tate has no one to help her. No one but Simon himself.
When Tate Cantrell moves into the primitive Ozark mountain cabin she inherited from a father she never knew, she expects hardship. She doesn’t expect to be held at gunpoint by a convict from nearby High Ridge Penitentiary.
Carl Petersen is armed, dangerous and wounded. But when he tells her he’s really an undercover operative named Simon Vandergriff, sent to investigate conditions at the prison, Tate finds enough proof to wonder. How can she turn him over to the sheriff, knowing that she might be sending an innocent man to his grave?
As a runaway Tate learned to be suspicious of authority figures. Now, as she cautiously nurses Simon back to health and attraction grows, she is torn. Is Simon a good man in trouble or has she fallen under the spell of a master manipulator and murderer?
With her adopted family a thousand miles away and her new one suspicious and distant, Tate has no one to help her. No one but Simon himself.
- GenresRomantic SuspenseRomance
267 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1990
About the author
Emilie Richards
143 books951 followersI'm the author of seventy-something novels, including romance, women's fiction and mystery. When We Were Sisters debuted in June 2016, a stand alone novel about two foster sisters traveling back into their past together. I loved writing it and love the cover my publisher chose.
I'm also excited about my recent series, Goddesses Anonymous, which started with One Mountain Away and was followed by Somewhere Between Luck and Trust. The third book in the series, A River Too Wide, came out in July 2014. The Color of Light debuted in August 2015. Will there be more? We'll see.
I'm also putting up my newly edited romance backlist and love re-reading and updating them a bit.
Last year my husband and I moved from Virginia, to Osprey, Florida, the state where both of us were raised, met, and married. In the summer we live in Chautauqua, New York. I'm a quilter, knitter, kayaker, and the mother of four children, whom I regard as my greatest creative endeavors. And now there are four wonderful grandchildren to spoil.
Visit me at my web site, emilierichards.com, and my blog, www.emilierichards.com/blog. You can also find me at Twitter and on my Facebook reader page.
I'm also excited about my recent series, Goddesses Anonymous, which started with One Mountain Away and was followed by Somewhere Between Luck and Trust. The third book in the series, A River Too Wide, came out in July 2014. The Color of Light debuted in August 2015. Will there be more? We'll see.
I'm also putting up my newly edited romance backlist and love re-reading and updating them a bit.
Last year my husband and I moved from Virginia, to Osprey, Florida, the state where both of us were raised, met, and married. In the summer we live in Chautauqua, New York. I'm a quilter, knitter, kayaker, and the mother of four children, whom I regard as my greatest creative endeavors. And now there are four wonderful grandchildren to spoil.
Visit me at my web site, emilierichards.com, and my blog, www.emilierichards.com/blog. You can also find me at Twitter and on my Facebook reader page.
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December 23, 2018
You can find this review in English below.
Esta lectura ha sido una recomendación de una amiga (¡gracias, Jill!) y ha cumplido todas las características que prometía:
Slow-build romance: Mi elemento favorito en cualquier romance. Que la autora se tome su tiempo en presentar sus personajes y que ellos se conozcan a su vez es lo ideal. Para mí, lo mejor del romance es el comienzo. Después ya sabemos qué es lo que va a pasar, ¿no? Así que convencerme de que los protagonistas están hechos el uno para el otro sin cosas poniéndose firmes, ni rodillas temblando ni sentido común abandonando el barco en favor de la lujuria es un soplo de aire fresco.
No insta-nada: Aquí todo se va construyendo paulatinamente, poco a poco, de una manera creíble (dentro de lo que cabe). La situación en la que la autora pone a sus personajes lo pide. Pasan del miedo a la desconfianza y de ahí a la duda hasta llegar a la empatía y después a la atracción.
Personajes inteligentes que se hacen querer: ¡Oh, sí! Eso también ha sido un plus. Que la autora no tire de estupideces para darle fuelle a la trama es fantástico. El suspense creíble, con giros aquí y allá que se resuelven de una manera original (e inesperada) y los personajes son realmente encantadores. Se merecían su final feliz, eso seguro.
La historia tiene cierto aire ochentero (diskettes, teléfonos públicos, etc…), al fin y al cabo se publicó en 1990, pero no me ha chocado. El marco de la historia es ya de por sí original, lo anticuado de la misma sólo consigue sumar interés y ampliar las posibilidades, tú sabes, mucho más divertido sin GPS, ni móviles, ni satélites al alcance de la mano.
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This read has been a rec from a friend (Thank you, Jill!) and, true to her words, it has been:
A slow-build romance: A favorite of mine in my romances. The author takes her time adding layers to her characters and bringing them to live. We got to know them and, at the same time, they got to know each other. The best of every romance is always the beginning, after all, we already know how it will end, don´t we?
So, convincing me that the MC´s are made for each other without stuff stirring, weak knees and common sense jumping ship in favor of lust is a breath of fresh air.
No insta-lust: Here both, the suspense and the romance, are built gradually, little by little. The author throws her MC´s in a situation that asks for it. They go from fear to distrust and from there to doubt until they reach empathy and then attraction.
Likeable and smart MC´s: Oh, yeah! Isn´t this good? Definitely it has been a plus. The author doesn´t need TSTL situations to revitalize the plot. The suspense is credible, full of twists here and there which are solved in an original (and unexpected) manner. And the MC´s are utterly charming. They sure deserved their HEA.
The story was published in 1990, so it has certain eighties feeling, with diskettes, and public land lines, and so on. But it worked really well with the already interesting settling and added to the story new possibilities, you know, all is funnier without GPS nor cell phones neither satellites within reach.
Esta lectura ha sido una recomendación de una amiga (¡gracias, Jill!) y ha cumplido todas las características que prometía:
Slow-build romance: Mi elemento favorito en cualquier romance. Que la autora se tome su tiempo en presentar sus personajes y que ellos se conozcan a su vez es lo ideal. Para mí, lo mejor del romance es el comienzo. Después ya sabemos qué es lo que va a pasar, ¿no? Así que convencerme de que los protagonistas están hechos el uno para el otro sin cosas poniéndose firmes, ni rodillas temblando ni sentido común abandonando el barco en favor de la lujuria es un soplo de aire fresco.
No insta-nada: Aquí todo se va construyendo paulatinamente, poco a poco, de una manera creíble (dentro de lo que cabe). La situación en la que la autora pone a sus personajes lo pide. Pasan del miedo a la desconfianza y de ahí a la duda hasta llegar a la empatía y después a la atracción.
Personajes inteligentes que se hacen querer: ¡Oh, sí! Eso también ha sido un plus. Que la autora no tire de estupideces para darle fuelle a la trama es fantástico. El suspense creíble, con giros aquí y allá que se resuelven de una manera original (e inesperada) y los personajes son realmente encantadores. Se merecían su final feliz, eso seguro.
La historia tiene cierto aire ochentero (diskettes, teléfonos públicos, etc…), al fin y al cabo se publicó en 1990, pero no me ha chocado. El marco de la historia es ya de por sí original, lo anticuado de la misma sólo consigue sumar interés y ampliar las posibilidades, tú sabes, mucho más divertido sin GPS, ni móviles, ni satélites al alcance de la mano.
***
This read has been a rec from a friend (Thank you, Jill!) and, true to her words, it has been:
A slow-build romance: A favorite of mine in my romances. The author takes her time adding layers to her characters and bringing them to live. We got to know them and, at the same time, they got to know each other. The best of every romance is always the beginning, after all, we already know how it will end, don´t we?
So, convincing me that the MC´s are made for each other without stuff stirring, weak knees and common sense jumping ship in favor of lust is a breath of fresh air.
No insta-lust: Here both, the suspense and the romance, are built gradually, little by little. The author throws her MC´s in a situation that asks for it. They go from fear to distrust and from there to doubt until they reach empathy and then attraction.
Likeable and smart MC´s: Oh, yeah! Isn´t this good? Definitely it has been a plus. The author doesn´t need TSTL situations to revitalize the plot. The suspense is credible, full of twists here and there which are solved in an original (and unexpected) manner. And the MC´s are utterly charming. They sure deserved their HEA.
The story was published in 1990, so it has certain eighties feeling, with diskettes, and public land lines, and so on. But it worked really well with the already interesting settling and added to the story new possibilities, you know, all is funnier without GPS nor cell phones neither satellites within reach.
May 11, 2018
This one was a nice book. The heroine has recently discovered her previously unknown father who bestowed his cabin to her after his death. She has been living there isolated with no electricity, plumbing, telephone when the she comes upon the hero, a fugitive. He pulls a gun on her but by a strange twist of fate the hero becomes the prisoner when because of his wounds he loses consciousness. The heroine not knowing why decides to nurse him and save his life. This one was a really slow book, the romance doesn't really kick in till the very end but that didn't bother me much. The hero isn't who he says he is and I will admit who I thought would be the bad guys weren't. All in all a nice one.
Read as part of the Outlaws and Lovers omnibus.
Read as part of the Outlaws and Lovers omnibus.
November 5, 2020
Fugitive by Emilie Richards is #3 in her Homecoming trilogy. At centre stage is Tate, we meet her as a runaway in #1 and a little in the second book as well.
Now she has left Kris and Jess and is living in a mountain cabin in Mountain Glade, Arkansas, left to her by her late father. It has no running water or inside bathroom. It's pretty lonely - just an ol' dog named Cinn that her father has left behind. Tate is quite savvy, she's fended for herself on the streets so she is no helpless young woman. However when confronted with an escaped prisoner, she is in for a rather wild ride. He is a convicted murderer. Yet he says he is someone else. Can Tate trust him?
This story is full of twists and turns, the plot just speeds along and I loved Tate as a character. She has had a tough life, her mother never wanted her, she never met her father. But... possibly she is not that far from family if she is willing to look. And when she does look, they sure are something else!
The escaped prisoner? Well no more to be said. Discover for yourself. Let's just stay he the features quite a bit!
The setting is vivid and I could picture the area, the cabin, the trees, the river. So well written. I liked all the books in this trilogy, but this just might be my favourite.
Now she has left Kris and Jess and is living in a mountain cabin in Mountain Glade, Arkansas, left to her by her late father. It has no running water or inside bathroom. It's pretty lonely - just an ol' dog named Cinn that her father has left behind. Tate is quite savvy, she's fended for herself on the streets so she is no helpless young woman. However when confronted with an escaped prisoner, she is in for a rather wild ride. He is a convicted murderer. Yet he says he is someone else. Can Tate trust him?
This story is full of twists and turns, the plot just speeds along and I loved Tate as a character. She has had a tough life, her mother never wanted her, she never met her father. But... possibly she is not that far from family if she is willing to look. And when she does look, they sure are something else!
The escaped prisoner? Well no more to be said. Discover for yourself. Let's just stay he the features quite a bit!
The setting is vivid and I could picture the area, the cabin, the trees, the river. So well written. I liked all the books in this trilogy, but this just might be my favourite.
November 2, 2020
“The Fugitive” by Emilie Richards
November 1, 2020
267 pages
Romantic Suspense
Tate Cantrell had led a frightening and unhappy childhood. Born of a woman who didn’t want her, and not knowing the identity of her father, she was dumped off to live with her grandmother until she died when Tate was a young teen. Being shifted around to different foster homes, Tate ended up living on the streets—lastly in New Orleans, Louisiana.
It was there that she met Krista, a young woman who was passing herself off as a prostitute hoping to find her younger runaway sister, Rosie, who went by the name of Anna. Though Tate was tough and aloof, Krista felt a certain affinity toward her and was able to protect her from the clutches of a pimp. Journalist Jess Cantrell was also in the city researching information for a book he was writing about kids who run away from home. Helping Krista search for Anna, without luck, they fell in love and later married.
Krista and Jess adopted Tate, bringing her to their new home in the mountains of Virginia where they sheltered runaways. For the first time, Tate felt loved and secure then learned about the man who fathered her. A recluse, Millard Carter left her his rustic cabin in the Ozarks, and Tate decided to head there so see if she could learn anything about him.
Her new residence was as primitive as can be with no running water, electricity, or plumbing facilities, but being one with nature, Tate hoped to get her bearings and learn about her roots. Her only company was her father’s old pooch, Cinn, and a bunch of Millard’s journals he had sequestered in a private basement.
After chopping wood, Tate enters her cabin and is accosted by a man wielding a gun. She had heard about a convict escaping from the nearby High Ridge Penitentiary, but she never considered he would show up in her home.
The convict, known as Carl Peterson, is wounded, bleeding, and very weak. He chains Tate to the bed, and she tries not to show fear of him. Living on the streets for so long, she is tough, but seeing his wounds, she compassionately tends to him. He admits he escaped from prison but is not Carl Peterson. Rather he has been working undercover to investigate conditions at the prison, which have been termed as brutal. His real name is Simon Vandergriff and he tells Tate he’s on a mission to find his partner who was supposed to get him released in a month, but he’s been incarcerated for three months.
As she cleaned his wound, she thought of him as a strong man. “It felt odd to think of him as a strong man when he was lying unconscious and burning up with fever. It felt odd to be caring for him so intimately. She owed him nothing, certainly not tender, loving care. But he was a human being, and so was she. He was a fine specimen of the human male—at least physically. And even if she didn’t owe him anything exactly, wasn’t it her human duty to keep him alive? . . .
. . . “Silently she made a guess that the escape had been attempted without help. This was not a man who wanted to rely on anyone. Last night, he had believed until the bitter end that he was just going to sleep off the effects of the infection raging through his boy. Only when he’d realized that he had really lost, that not a shred of hope was in sight, had her asked for her help.”
A good judge of character, Tate cannot in good conscience turn him over to the police. What if what he confided to her is the truth? Isn’t everyone allowed a second chance? Not only that, but his story is too surreal to be made up, and she has heard stories about the inhumane conditions at High Ridge.
As Simon regains his health, the two become close, sharing secrets of their past. Before long, an attraction builds between them. Tate is drawn to his rugged good looks and sincerity, and Simon admires her spunk and strength. Realizing he’s been framed, Tate determines to help him find his partner so the truth can be disclosed. But how can they allude the law that is on his trail believing he is someone else?
The third issue in the Homecoming series can well stand on its own, though it would benefit reading the first two novels. Highly intense with hair-raising suspense, “The Fugitive” also offers romance and insight into the emotional factors of heartache as well as joy.
November 1, 2020
267 pages
Romantic Suspense
Tate Cantrell had led a frightening and unhappy childhood. Born of a woman who didn’t want her, and not knowing the identity of her father, she was dumped off to live with her grandmother until she died when Tate was a young teen. Being shifted around to different foster homes, Tate ended up living on the streets—lastly in New Orleans, Louisiana.
It was there that she met Krista, a young woman who was passing herself off as a prostitute hoping to find her younger runaway sister, Rosie, who went by the name of Anna. Though Tate was tough and aloof, Krista felt a certain affinity toward her and was able to protect her from the clutches of a pimp. Journalist Jess Cantrell was also in the city researching information for a book he was writing about kids who run away from home. Helping Krista search for Anna, without luck, they fell in love and later married.
Krista and Jess adopted Tate, bringing her to their new home in the mountains of Virginia where they sheltered runaways. For the first time, Tate felt loved and secure then learned about the man who fathered her. A recluse, Millard Carter left her his rustic cabin in the Ozarks, and Tate decided to head there so see if she could learn anything about him.
Her new residence was as primitive as can be with no running water, electricity, or plumbing facilities, but being one with nature, Tate hoped to get her bearings and learn about her roots. Her only company was her father’s old pooch, Cinn, and a bunch of Millard’s journals he had sequestered in a private basement.
After chopping wood, Tate enters her cabin and is accosted by a man wielding a gun. She had heard about a convict escaping from the nearby High Ridge Penitentiary, but she never considered he would show up in her home.
The convict, known as Carl Peterson, is wounded, bleeding, and very weak. He chains Tate to the bed, and she tries not to show fear of him. Living on the streets for so long, she is tough, but seeing his wounds, she compassionately tends to him. He admits he escaped from prison but is not Carl Peterson. Rather he has been working undercover to investigate conditions at the prison, which have been termed as brutal. His real name is Simon Vandergriff and he tells Tate he’s on a mission to find his partner who was supposed to get him released in a month, but he’s been incarcerated for three months.
As she cleaned his wound, she thought of him as a strong man. “It felt odd to think of him as a strong man when he was lying unconscious and burning up with fever. It felt odd to be caring for him so intimately. She owed him nothing, certainly not tender, loving care. But he was a human being, and so was she. He was a fine specimen of the human male—at least physically. And even if she didn’t owe him anything exactly, wasn’t it her human duty to keep him alive? . . .
. . . “Silently she made a guess that the escape had been attempted without help. This was not a man who wanted to rely on anyone. Last night, he had believed until the bitter end that he was just going to sleep off the effects of the infection raging through his boy. Only when he’d realized that he had really lost, that not a shred of hope was in sight, had her asked for her help.”
A good judge of character, Tate cannot in good conscience turn him over to the police. What if what he confided to her is the truth? Isn’t everyone allowed a second chance? Not only that, but his story is too surreal to be made up, and she has heard stories about the inhumane conditions at High Ridge.
As Simon regains his health, the two become close, sharing secrets of their past. Before long, an attraction builds between them. Tate is drawn to his rugged good looks and sincerity, and Simon admires her spunk and strength. Realizing he’s been framed, Tate determines to help him find his partner so the truth can be disclosed. But how can they allude the law that is on his trail believing he is someone else?
The third issue in the Homecoming series can well stand on its own, though it would benefit reading the first two novels. Highly intense with hair-raising suspense, “The Fugitive” also offers romance and insight into the emotional factors of heartache as well as joy.
November 2, 2020
The third book in the Homecoming series is Tate’s book. If you’ve read the other two, you’ll remember that Tate was a runaway on the streets of New Orleans when Krista found her. By the end of the story, Krista and Jess convinced Tate to come to Virginia with them where they founded Stagecoach Inn, a shelter for teen runaways. Fast forward several years, Tate is now 21 and living in her father’s cabin in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Tate never knew her father, but he left the cabin and land to her if she was ever found.
This book is very different from the first two, I wouldn’t call it romance but maybe suspense with a little romance mixed in. The story is very twisty; no one is who they initially seem to be and it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys which kept me turning the pages till the very end.
I really enjoyed this whole series and am happy the author is re-releasing them, because it probably wouldn’t have been on my radar otherwise.
This book is very different from the first two, I wouldn’t call it romance but maybe suspense with a little romance mixed in. The story is very twisty; no one is who they initially seem to be and it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys which kept me turning the pages till the very end.
I really enjoyed this whole series and am happy the author is re-releasing them, because it probably wouldn’t have been on my radar otherwise.
November 2, 2020
The third novel in the Homecoming series focuses on Tate Cantrell, the young runaway adopted by Jess and Krista Cantrell. Now 20, she is living on her own in what once was her biological father’s cabin in the Ozarks.
When a fugitive (Simon Vandergriff) from a nearby prison shows up at her door, armed and wounded, Tate’s strength guides her through the next several days. Is Simon really who he says he is?
As twists and turns lead the two through some dangerous situations, they each call upon their own strength and determination. They both also discover that they have room in their hearts for true love.
When a fugitive (Simon Vandergriff) from a nearby prison shows up at her door, armed and wounded, Tate’s strength guides her through the next several days. Is Simon really who he says he is?
As twists and turns lead the two through some dangerous situations, they each call upon their own strength and determination. They both also discover that they have room in their hearts for true love.
November 2, 2020
Two strangers are alone in a rustic mountain cabin located in the Ozarks of Arkansas. One of them is a fugitive from High Ridge Penitentiary, known as Carl Peterson. Tate must let him into her newly inherited cabin, as he has a gun on her. Fortunately for her, he becomes delirious and unable to help himself due to the gunshot wound in his leg. Due to his injuries and inability to help himself, she attempts to keep him alive instead of turning him in to authorities. This book is a powerful ending to this three-book series. Trust, honor, secrets, and lies make this book exciting and moving. It left me wanting more from this author in any genre she writes. I loved it.
November 2, 2020
Fugitive is a re-release with small changes throughout and is a wonderful story. The main character, Tate, is introduced in the previous 2 books, but this can be read as a stand alone story. So not what I expected to happen to Tate, I didn't think she'd find her biological family and when she does suddenly she's taking care of an escaped convict? Story takes a few twists and turns that I didn't see coming, but I loved how it ends. Definitely recommend!
November 2, 2020
“You walk alone. So do I.”
A fast paced read with twists and turns. I adored the Tate’s personality. She had courage & vulnerability, and strength & passion. The two main characters are life-long “runners” and together they deal with trust issues, overcoming secrets and lies, and letting down their guards.
The third book in the Homecoming series brings it to a very satisfying end.
*This is a three-book series. The books do not end in cliffhangers, but each book expands the storyline.
A fast paced read with twists and turns. I adored the Tate’s personality. She had courage & vulnerability, and strength & passion. The two main characters are life-long “runners” and together they deal with trust issues, overcoming secrets and lies, and letting down their guards.
The third book in the Homecoming series brings it to a very satisfying end.
*This is a three-book series. The books do not end in cliffhangers, but each book expands the storyline.
November 2, 2020
This is an exciting story. Tate and Simon are thrown together by fate. She's a survivor and he's an escaped prisoner. He's burst into her life and she's not sure how far she should go to protect him. She's not sure she can trust her instincts. The dogs are in the distance and approaching. With great stamina and the help of her community, she prevails. This story with many twists and turns is suspenseful and fast-paced. I enjoyed how it ends.
April 23, 2019
No, objektivně asi tak dobrá není.
Autorka neřešila jak a kam bude hrdina (připoutaný k posteli) chodit na záchod.
s. 44 sh-nít
s. 61 po-lknout
s. 173 dotýkaly [ona a on]
s. 225 nebyly [ona a on ]
Bylo by dobré ujednotit, jestli „žúžú" nebo „žužu“, např. s. 174.
uvozovky - s. 169, 173
ji/jí - s. 158
Autorka neřešila jak a kam bude hrdina (připoutaný k posteli) chodit na záchod.
s. 44 sh-nít
s. 61 po-lknout
s. 173 dotýkaly [ona a on]
s. 225 nebyly [ona a on ]
Bylo by dobré ujednotit, jestli „žúžú" nebo „žužu“, např. s. 174.
uvozovky - s. 169, 173
ji/jí - s. 158
November 4, 2020
Excellent read.
This third book of the series was really good. Have enjoyed this series. I have heard there may be a fourth book.
This third book of the series was really good. Have enjoyed this series. I have heard there may be a fourth book.
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