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Crossing #1
Delaney's Crossing
One of a group of women seeking the promise of a new life in Oregon, Agatha Pennington lures hostile Cooper J. Delaney into leading and protecting them, as their mutual attraction is challenged by Native Americans and the harsh elements. Original.
- GenresRomance
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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About the author
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 22, 2014
Opening Line: “The twenty-two women gathered around the open grave tried not to look confused and frightened.”
This was a pretty good historical romance once I replaced the mulleted dude from the cover with the guy from Hell On Wheels as my hero. Anyways,(Anson Mount) kept me entertained with the trials and tribulations of life as a settler on the passage west. All the expected elements are here: a plucky virgin heroine, a hero with a dark tortured past, distrust and animosity then lust and love makin while they battle the weather, raging rivers, Indians, snowstorms, getting stuck in a mineshaft and a bad guy named Duke who without any true motivation shows up randomly and plots how to stop the wagon train while ordering his brother around and brandishing a big knife.
Womanizing, hard-as-nails bad boy Cooper J Delaney has just been tricked by a group of destitute women into leading their wagon train across the Oregon trail. Only steps away from realizing his dream of buying back his families land in California, this has really put a kink in his plans. Waking up in the Merchants Hotel with the mother of all hangovers, he has no recollection of the night before in the saloon and worst of all he’s missing his money belt. Cooper knows that one of those 22 women has his gold but he can’t prove it, so for now he’s stuck signing Aggie’s contract as their guide.
Prim and proper spinster Agatha Pennington had little choice in her methods of securing an experienced pilot out of Independence Missouri. Their previous chaperon Hiram had gotten them this far before succumbing to some sort of 1841 ailment, even managing to teach them how to use a gun and handle their wagons and mules. Aggie knows the trail is going to be harsh, hostile and unforgiving but she’s also unwavering in her determination. She will get her rag tag assembly of women into Oregon territory where they have secured a plot of land and promise of a better life.
I enjoyed several of the secondary characters, in particular the double crossing Magpie and Callie an orphaned tomboy who cuts off her hair, dons boys clothing and follows Cooper around like a lost puppy. The ending went on way to long however, morphing into another story altogether before abruptly finishing with several loose ends still to tie up. All in all this was exactly what I was expecting from a 1997 second-hand bookstore find.
This was a pretty good historical romance once I replaced the mulleted dude from the cover with the guy from Hell On Wheels as my hero. Anyways,(Anson Mount) kept me entertained with the trials and tribulations of life as a settler on the passage west. All the expected elements are here: a plucky virgin heroine, a hero with a dark tortured past, distrust and animosity then lust and love makin while they battle the weather, raging rivers, Indians, snowstorms, getting stuck in a mineshaft and a bad guy named Duke who without any true motivation shows up randomly and plots how to stop the wagon train while ordering his brother around and brandishing a big knife.
Womanizing, hard-as-nails bad boy Cooper J Delaney has just been tricked by a group of destitute women into leading their wagon train across the Oregon trail. Only steps away from realizing his dream of buying back his families land in California, this has really put a kink in his plans. Waking up in the Merchants Hotel with the mother of all hangovers, he has no recollection of the night before in the saloon and worst of all he’s missing his money belt. Cooper knows that one of those 22 women has his gold but he can’t prove it, so for now he’s stuck signing Aggie’s contract as their guide.
Prim and proper spinster Agatha Pennington had little choice in her methods of securing an experienced pilot out of Independence Missouri. Their previous chaperon Hiram had gotten them this far before succumbing to some sort of 1841 ailment, even managing to teach them how to use a gun and handle their wagons and mules. Aggie knows the trail is going to be harsh, hostile and unforgiving but she’s also unwavering in her determination. She will get her rag tag assembly of women into Oregon territory where they have secured a plot of land and promise of a better life.
I enjoyed several of the secondary characters, in particular the double crossing Magpie and Callie an orphaned tomboy who cuts off her hair, dons boys clothing and follows Cooper around like a lost puppy. The ending went on way to long however, morphing into another story altogether before abruptly finishing with several loose ends still to tie up. All in all this was exactly what I was expecting from a 1997 second-hand bookstore find.
March 25, 2024
This book wasn't....bad. The little girl in this book is the heroine in the 3rd book (and she was horrible in that book, which I read first. So it made me not like her in this story).
I am trying to figure out how this book could have been better for me.... The heroine came off as a cold, spinster-type, but I didn't think the reasonings explained were enough for her to act that way. It made her argue too often with the hero.
I thought it was silly that the suspicious sabotage actions happening were not questioned more, and the culprit was getting away with it. The little scene where he invites her to the picnic seemed unrealistic, given the heroine's opinion all along of the hero.
I am trying to figure out how this book could have been better for me.... The heroine came off as a cold, spinster-type, but I didn't think the reasonings explained were enough for her to act that way. It made her argue too often with the hero.
I thought it was silly that the suspicious sabotage actions happening were not questioned more, and the culprit was getting away with it. The little scene where he invites her to the picnic seemed unrealistic, given the heroine's opinion all along of the hero.
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