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Mountain Rose
When Chase Donlin agreed to raise his stepsister's child, he never imagined that his niece would be such a beautiful young woman, and he is torn between his desire and his sworn duty as her protector. By the author of Kentucky Bride. Original.
448 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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Norah Hess
52 books95 followersAlways a daydreamer, and often scolded for it by the grandmother who raised her, Norah Hess always wanted to be a writer. At eighteen, she was sent to Chicago to live with an aunt after her grandmother's death. It was there that she met her husband. After raising three children, Norah decided to write her first novel, and since then has had fifteen published romances. After her husband passed away, she and her two cats moved to Palm Springs, where the desert and mountains inspire her to write her Western romances.
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December 21, 2021
Well.. I tried ya'll. I tried.
2.5/5 stars
2.5/5 stars
January 28, 2020
Both MCs confessed their love relatively early in the book, thus cutting out the OW shenanigans. The forbidden romance, , was initially very tantalizing but that aspect quickly fiddled out and all that was left was love and primal lust between them. There were no small romantic gestures in this one. This one was purely about expressing love through intense physical satisfaction. So H and h spent most of their time in pleasuring themselves even when others talked about them. The secondary characters were prominent which is why the romance was underdeveloped. The plot is threadbare and most of the book is just events that read quite similar to Ms Hess's other works. Ms. Hess really missed exploring the potential with so many other female characters that were left with only brief introductions.
May 27, 2023
Step-uncle/step-niece romance that moves at an unrealistic pace. Chase has been chastising himself for being attracted to Raegan, but then when she wakes him up in the middle of the night he immediately “gives in to the urge.” I genuinely thought I was reading a “I’m probably dreaming so I’ll just go ahead and do it” scene lol. He then rebuffs her the very next morning. Then the day after that, he has a preacher/rapist (I’ll get to this in a second) secretly marry them for real because they’ve been pretending all along to be a married couple.
There was OW drama in the form of a promiscuous widow Chase used to sleep with being jealous of Raegan. She attempts to essentially kidnap Chase and hold him captive at her home after he is attacked, but one of her other lovers goes and tells Raegan. The widow tries to get them caught in a compromising position by kissing Chase, but Raegan doesn’t fall for it - although the widow does, in fact, rape Chase while he’s delirious with fever from his wound. So like. Ew.
The widow is also a loose end that isn’t tied up in the end. She makes a threat to Raegan that Chase “won’t always be hers” and then just sort of disappears after that. And I can’t remember if Rafferty ever came back or learned that Roscoe was found?
To go back to the rape thing, Chase’s “rescues” of two rape victims are absolutely horrible. He does nothing to stop Roscoe from dragging off and continuing to rape a Native woman he kidnapped. He later finds the woman chained like an animal in a barn and, rather than help her flee close to the border of her tribe’s land before Roscoe wakes up from his forced drunken stupor, he leaves her tied up in the barn and essentially just forced Roscoe to confess that he kidnapped a Native woman so if the village was attacked, they’d know Roscoe was the reason why. And then he just lets him go with the woman again.
He also catches the preacher raping a Native woman as well. He doesn’t do anything to help beside ruin the preacher’s orgasm (“at least you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant”) and threatening to tell everyone in town. But he never does. Nobody ever finds out about the rape.
Roscoe stays in hiding for months while the woman’s tribe begins attacking the village to try to find her and avenge her. Turns out she’s the chief’s wife. He eventually shows up and tries to rape Raegan, but gets away and then goes into hiding again. He abandons his victim in a cage and she somehow manages to get to Raegan and Chase’s barn, where it’s revealed she’s in labor. Thankfully, the baby isn’t Roscoe’s. Sadly, she bleeds out after asking Raegan to make sure the baby is given to his real father, the chief, her husband.
Raegan goes off alone with the baby to deliver him to his tribe and is held as a hostage as a way to sort of force Chase’s hand to find Roscoe. He does, and Roscoe is submitted to an excruciatingly painful execution (whipped and basically skinned alive). The chief shows interest in Raegan, but decides to return her to Chase if she shows him where they buried his wife so he can bring her body back and bury her on their land.
Another absolutely GLARING loose end? I don’t think Chase and Raegan ever tell anyone that they weren’t actually married before or that Chase is her step-uncle. There is an elderly woman in the village who seems suspicious about Raegan because she looks so similar to her parents, and Jamie, Chase’s best friend, sucker punches Chase because he believes Chase is being emotionally cruel to his wife - but they never tell anybody the truth. Even though Raegan also slips up a few times and almost calls Chase’s step-mother “Granny”.
I don’t know. It was all right, but I was expecting better, I guess.
There was OW drama in the form of a promiscuous widow Chase used to sleep with being jealous of Raegan. She attempts to essentially kidnap Chase and hold him captive at her home after he is attacked, but one of her other lovers goes and tells Raegan. The widow tries to get them caught in a compromising position by kissing Chase, but Raegan doesn’t fall for it - although the widow does, in fact, rape Chase while he’s delirious with fever from his wound. So like. Ew.
The widow is also a loose end that isn’t tied up in the end. She makes a threat to Raegan that Chase “won’t always be hers” and then just sort of disappears after that. And I can’t remember if Rafferty ever came back or learned that Roscoe was found?
To go back to the rape thing, Chase’s “rescues” of two rape victims are absolutely horrible. He does nothing to stop Roscoe from dragging off and continuing to rape a Native woman he kidnapped. He later finds the woman chained like an animal in a barn and, rather than help her flee close to the border of her tribe’s land before Roscoe wakes up from his forced drunken stupor, he leaves her tied up in the barn and essentially just forced Roscoe to confess that he kidnapped a Native woman so if the village was attacked, they’d know Roscoe was the reason why. And then he just lets him go with the woman again.
He also catches the preacher raping a Native woman as well. He doesn’t do anything to help beside ruin the preacher’s orgasm (“at least you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant”) and threatening to tell everyone in town. But he never does. Nobody ever finds out about the rape.
Roscoe stays in hiding for months while the woman’s tribe begins attacking the village to try to find her and avenge her. Turns out she’s the chief’s wife. He eventually shows up and tries to rape Raegan, but gets away and then goes into hiding again. He abandons his victim in a cage and she somehow manages to get to Raegan and Chase’s barn, where it’s revealed she’s in labor. Thankfully, the baby isn’t Roscoe’s. Sadly, she bleeds out after asking Raegan to make sure the baby is given to his real father, the chief, her husband.
Raegan goes off alone with the baby to deliver him to his tribe and is held as a hostage as a way to sort of force Chase’s hand to find Roscoe. He does, and Roscoe is submitted to an excruciatingly painful execution (whipped and basically skinned alive). The chief shows interest in Raegan, but decides to return her to Chase if she shows him where they buried his wife so he can bring her body back and bury her on their land.
Another absolutely GLARING loose end? I don’t think Chase and Raegan ever tell anyone that they weren’t actually married before or that Chase is her step-uncle. There is an elderly woman in the village who seems suspicious about Raegan because she looks so similar to her parents, and Jamie, Chase’s best friend, sucker punches Chase because he believes Chase is being emotionally cruel to his wife - but they never tell anybody the truth. Even though Raegan also slips up a few times and almost calls Chase’s step-mother “Granny”.
I don’t know. It was all right, but I was expecting better, I guess.
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July 17, 2025
I quite enjoyed reading this book. I even like the side characters
December 8, 2018
Been too long
Since I read a very nice historical romance, and this did it for me. A bit backwards in character description but it’s to be expected when I’m reading it in today’s political correctness day and age.
Since I read a very nice historical romance, and this did it for me. A bit backwards in character description but it’s to be expected when I’m reading it in today’s political correctness day and age.
July 18, 2025
This has redefined one star for me as a rating. I feel like I need to go back and reup all the other one stars I’ve given. This is my rock bottom. You know when you read a book so bad you can only really blame yourself? Like, I need to reevaluate how I’m spending my time and why. That’s where I’m at right now with this one.
It all started in a Kilsyth op shop when I saw that out the back of the book section, there was a trestle table overflowing with romance books from the 70s-90s. They were all a dollar each, so I thumbed through them, choosing only the most problematic titles and tropes.
You see what I mean? My fault. It’s like putting your hand in a tiger cage then exclaiming in shock when you get fucked up. Why did I do it? I think I thought the lols would outweigh the eyerolls. This was a fatal miscalc on my part. What I hadn’t factored in was that I… you know… had to actually read the bad writing to form an opinion. Maybe this is an extension of another annoying part of my personality where I like to hunt for hidden gems in forgotten media just so I can brag that it was ME who found it FIRST. But that’s for therapy, not for goodreads.
This book has an Arrested Developmentian (totally a real adjective) premise where a step-uncle has to live with his step-niece but they both want to bang. Oh, and it’s the frontier times, so hope you enjoy a lot of racism against Native Americans crammed in.
The characters front load OTT yearning in the first thirty or so pages, but it was like Hess didn’t know what to do once they actually got back to the guy’s cabin. Her way of countering this was to make the uncle act like a jerk, the niece unreasonably jealous and interject a bunch of deeply random characters into the mix to force a nonexistent plot forward. The book is also rife with padding - do you like reading about a poorly sketched character weeding a garden? Do you like lengthy monologues about alternative sources of milk for babies (it’s goat milk)? If so, I STILL DON’T RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
Once they do the dirty, which happens with almost no lead up at about halfway through the book, the randoming really begins. The way Hess writes her sex scenes can only be described in the following valley girl verbiage: grody.
For some reason, an orgasm is only referred to as a little death (maybe she thinks this elevates the work, I don’t know, but we get it girl, le petit mort, very good) or cresting. A penis is exclusively “his arousal.” The protagonist’s breasts are always “proudly” jutting and thrusting in her dress, dangerously bordering on boobily boobing into every room. At one point in a scene, the not-really-her-uncle describes being inside her as like “fitting himself into a leather glove”, a phrase so abhorrent to read that I threw my ancient copy across the room in abject horror, in the process startling my dog.
Then, when discussing whether she could be pregnant, the protagonist reflects that his seed could well be growing right under her heart, which had me like… do you mean in her literal intestines? Like I get that technically the uterus is under her heart, but it’s under her heart in the same way her feet are. Just say “inside her” omg.
Sometimes you just have to put the damn book down, look in the mirror, and give the wag of the finger you were gonna reserve for the book to YOURSELF. I will be in silent contemplation, Billy Ray Cyrus style, with much to think about for some time to come. Or not come, sorry - *the little death.
It all started in a Kilsyth op shop when I saw that out the back of the book section, there was a trestle table overflowing with romance books from the 70s-90s. They were all a dollar each, so I thumbed through them, choosing only the most problematic titles and tropes.
You see what I mean? My fault. It’s like putting your hand in a tiger cage then exclaiming in shock when you get fucked up. Why did I do it? I think I thought the lols would outweigh the eyerolls. This was a fatal miscalc on my part. What I hadn’t factored in was that I… you know… had to actually read the bad writing to form an opinion. Maybe this is an extension of another annoying part of my personality where I like to hunt for hidden gems in forgotten media just so I can brag that it was ME who found it FIRST. But that’s for therapy, not for goodreads.
This book has an Arrested Developmentian (totally a real adjective) premise where a step-uncle has to live with his step-niece but they both want to bang. Oh, and it’s the frontier times, so hope you enjoy a lot of racism against Native Americans crammed in.
The characters front load OTT yearning in the first thirty or so pages, but it was like Hess didn’t know what to do once they actually got back to the guy’s cabin. Her way of countering this was to make the uncle act like a jerk, the niece unreasonably jealous and interject a bunch of deeply random characters into the mix to force a nonexistent plot forward. The book is also rife with padding - do you like reading about a poorly sketched character weeding a garden? Do you like lengthy monologues about alternative sources of milk for babies (it’s goat milk)? If so, I STILL DON’T RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
Once they do the dirty, which happens with almost no lead up at about halfway through the book, the randoming really begins. The way Hess writes her sex scenes can only be described in the following valley girl verbiage: grody.
For some reason, an orgasm is only referred to as a little death (maybe she thinks this elevates the work, I don’t know, but we get it girl, le petit mort, very good) or cresting. A penis is exclusively “his arousal.” The protagonist’s breasts are always “proudly” jutting and thrusting in her dress, dangerously bordering on boobily boobing into every room. At one point in a scene, the not-really-her-uncle describes being inside her as like “fitting himself into a leather glove”, a phrase so abhorrent to read that I threw my ancient copy across the room in abject horror, in the process startling my dog.
Then, when discussing whether she could be pregnant, the protagonist reflects that his seed could well be growing right under her heart, which had me like… do you mean in her literal intestines? Like I get that technically the uterus is under her heart, but it’s under her heart in the same way her feet are. Just say “inside her” omg.
Sometimes you just have to put the damn book down, look in the mirror, and give the wag of the finger you were gonna reserve for the book to YOURSELF. I will be in silent contemplation, Billy Ray Cyrus style, with much to think about for some time to come. Or not come, sorry - *the little death.
October 16, 2022
This one seemed like it could be icky, but it was actually very sweet. Regan lives with her mother and they have been taking in miner's washing since her father died. Then her mother takes ill with consumption and knows she is not long for this world. She writes to to the stepbrother she has not seen for 20 years and asks him to come look after her "little Reagan".
Chase Donlin is a trapper living in Oregon with his best friend, the half-breed, Jamie Hart. Chase has fond memories of his older step-sister and has missed her since she married and moved away. He immediately goes to retrieve "little Reagan", only coming to discover that she is actually a young woman of 18 years of age.
Both Chase and Reagan are very attracted to each other from the first glance. Both try to hide their feelings as they feel that they are wrong to have them, as they are sort of related. However, when Chase brings Reagan into town, he claims her as his wife in order to protect her from the leering men.
By doing that, it puts them in closer proximity to each other. The sparks fly as Reagan settles into being the wife on the farm, as they both try to physically stay away from each other. They do not share a bed at first, but Jamie pushes Chase to tend to his wife.
In addition, there is a feud with the Tillamook Indians, when a horrible white man stole the chief's wife to use and abuse her. the Tillamooks seek revenge onto any white people as long as his wife is not returned to him. Obviously, this means that innocent people are victim to violence. Chase's actions with Roscoe in the beginning did not make sense and seemed to draw out the inevitable. Also, Reagan ended up doing an incredibly stupid thing towards the end of the novel which made me shake my head in disbelief. It was literally the one thing she knew that she should not do.
I liked the relationship between Chase and Reagan and basically forgot how it began as a step uncle and step niece. I liked less the subplot of Jamie Hart and his ploys to get Chase jealous by making time with Reagan. Also, I did not like the subplot of the wild woman, Star, Chase picked up from her grandfather. He knew he was dying, so he made Chase promise to look after her. I found her annoying and did not care if she and Jamie got together or not. It took away from the main story and stretched out the story, unnecessarily.
Chase Donlin is a trapper living in Oregon with his best friend, the half-breed, Jamie Hart. Chase has fond memories of his older step-sister and has missed her since she married and moved away. He immediately goes to retrieve "little Reagan", only coming to discover that she is actually a young woman of 18 years of age.
Both Chase and Reagan are very attracted to each other from the first glance. Both try to hide their feelings as they feel that they are wrong to have them, as they are sort of related. However, when Chase brings Reagan into town, he claims her as his wife in order to protect her from the leering men.
By doing that, it puts them in closer proximity to each other. The sparks fly as Reagan settles into being the wife on the farm, as they both try to physically stay away from each other. They do not share a bed at first, but Jamie pushes Chase to tend to his wife.
In addition, there is a feud with the Tillamook Indians, when a horrible white man stole the chief's wife to use and abuse her. the Tillamooks seek revenge onto any white people as long as his wife is not returned to him. Obviously, this means that innocent people are victim to violence. Chase's actions with Roscoe in the beginning did not make sense and seemed to draw out the inevitable. Also, Reagan ended up doing an incredibly stupid thing towards the end of the novel which made me shake my head in disbelief. It was literally the one thing she knew that she should not do.
I liked the relationship between Chase and Reagan and basically forgot how it began as a step uncle and step niece. I liked less the subplot of Jamie Hart and his ploys to get Chase jealous by making time with Reagan. Also, I did not like the subplot of the wild woman, Star, Chase picked up from her grandfather. He knew he was dying, so he made Chase promise to look after her. I found her annoying and did not care if she and Jamie got together or not. It took away from the main story and stretched out the story, unnecessarily.
April 8, 2019
A TYPICAL CLASSIC WRITTEN IN THE LATE 90S THAT YOU MAY HAVE READ BEFORE. IT WAS A BIT LONG-WINDED AND THE REJECTION FROM THE HERO JUST BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T TALK THINGS OUT AND HIS PRIDE MADE IT ALL SO MELODRAMATIC.
HERO is a shithead who just always gets what he wants and if it's a situation he's never been in before, you definitely won't hear him asking please. When his dead sister (not by blood) writes to him to take care of her baby girl, he assumes the child to be that...a child. During her funeral he spots a beautiful woman who to his SHOCK is his niece. How on Earth can he be attracted to his family member? Albeit they aren't blood related. When he takes her back home, he's nice during the journey but when his best friend settles in, he green monster rears its ugly head and the hero turns into a total jerk. Honestly I don't get why classics like this always resort to miscommunication or no communication at all. I can only conclude men in the past were too goddamn proud and stubborn to own up to their feelings. Or did the author just want to make the whole story angsty for the sake of it?
HEROINE is a sweet girl although she's mostly the poor rabbit in this story. First her father dies, then her mother and the uncle who is now her only family is the most handsome man alive, she falls quickly for him. She struggles with jealousy and makes me think of a child with the way she deals with her emotions...but hey, she's only 18. Not the kind of heroine everyone will find palatable because while brave and submissive, she just didn't stand stronger.
OVERALL it's okayyyy but not something I'd revisit again or recommend to people who want to enjoy their first almost Wild Wild West book during the Red Indian war.
HERO is a shithead who just always gets what he wants and if it's a situation he's never been in before, you definitely won't hear him asking please. When his dead sister (not by blood) writes to him to take care of her baby girl, he assumes the child to be that...a child. During her funeral he spots a beautiful woman who to his SHOCK is his niece. How on Earth can he be attracted to his family member? Albeit they aren't blood related. When he takes her back home, he's nice during the journey but when his best friend settles in, he green monster rears its ugly head and the hero turns into a total jerk. Honestly I don't get why classics like this always resort to miscommunication or no communication at all. I can only conclude men in the past were too goddamn proud and stubborn to own up to their feelings. Or did the author just want to make the whole story angsty for the sake of it?
HEROINE is a sweet girl although she's mostly the poor rabbit in this story. First her father dies, then her mother and the uncle who is now her only family is the most handsome man alive, she falls quickly for him. She struggles with jealousy and makes me think of a child with the way she deals with her emotions...but hey, she's only 18. Not the kind of heroine everyone will find palatable because while brave and submissive, she just didn't stand stronger.
OVERALL it's okayyyy but not something I'd revisit again or recommend to people who want to enjoy their first almost Wild Wild West book during the Red Indian war.
March 24, 2024
Mountain Rose started off with an interesting story … After the death of her mother, Raegan goes to live with her step uncle, Chase in Oregon, they are attracted to each other, pretend they are married, fall in love etc. They are not blood related.
About halfway thru the story gets bogged down with tracking down an evil man, Roscoe who captured and horribly abused a Tillamook woman. (He seems to appear at odd moments thru out the entire story.) She dies in childbirth at Raegan and Chase’s home. Way too much written about this part of the storyline … Roscoe gets captured, turned over to the Tillamook chief (it was his wife), tortured etc. I was bored and quickly skim read to the HEA.
I kept thinking about Tillamook cheeses and ice creams … excellent, sold all over the US, they are named after Native Americans who live in the Pacific Northwest. Highly recommend the Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese, and the caramel toffee crunch ice cream… and I don’t recommend this book. ⭐️⭐️
About halfway thru the story gets bogged down with tracking down an evil man, Roscoe who captured and horribly abused a Tillamook woman. (He seems to appear at odd moments thru out the entire story.) She dies in childbirth at Raegan and Chase’s home. Way too much written about this part of the storyline … Roscoe gets captured, turned over to the Tillamook chief (it was his wife), tortured etc. I was bored and quickly skim read to the HEA.
I kept thinking about Tillamook cheeses and ice creams … excellent, sold all over the US, they are named after Native Americans who live in the Pacific Northwest. Highly recommend the Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese, and the caramel toffee crunch ice cream… and I don’t recommend this book. ⭐️⭐️
April 7, 2025
This book made me mentally travel back to reading the entire Little House on the Prairie series in fourth grade — it carried the same level of detail regarding every nuance of daily life living in frontier Oregon.
When I say “every nuance”, I truly mean every nuance. There is a two page section of (basically) monologue where a man describes how he fed his infant granddaughter after her parents died (TLDR it was goats milk).
That doesn’t inherently make this a bad book (although I have /many/ other qualms with it, such as the fact that we are simply told that characters care for one another vs actually having plot that creates shared experiences to build depth of emotion, among other things) but it isn’t what I was expecting and this took sheer power of will to finish and move out of my TBR pile for good.
Additionally — if you have issues with the word “suckling” or “arousal” used as a noun, it’s best you skip this one.
Format: Well worn mass market paperback
When I say “every nuance”, I truly mean every nuance. There is a two page section of (basically) monologue where a man describes how he fed his infant granddaughter after her parents died (TLDR it was goats milk).
That doesn’t inherently make this a bad book (although I have /many/ other qualms with it, such as the fact that we are simply told that characters care for one another vs actually having plot that creates shared experiences to build depth of emotion, among other things) but it isn’t what I was expecting and this took sheer power of will to finish and move out of my TBR pile for good.
Additionally — if you have issues with the word “suckling” or “arousal” used as a noun, it’s best you skip this one.
Format: Well worn mass market paperback
June 8, 2025
Ok, so the romance part - the part of the main characters getting together, was truly awful.
And there is some VERY problematic stuff in here (lots of sexual assault on women, a consensual relationship with side characters where the female is 16!! AND her wolf pet basically gets forgotten in the second half - I liked the wolf!)
But the action is non stop and I really enjoyed the plot of this book. I did really like the 2 main characters after they got together, and I really enjoyed how all the plot points wrapped up. This book felt very real for slice of life in frontier Idaho and I really really like it.
And there is some VERY problematic stuff in here (lots of sexual assault on women, a consensual relationship with side characters where the female is 16!! AND her wolf pet basically gets forgotten in the second half - I liked the wolf!)
But the action is non stop and I really enjoyed the plot of this book. I did really like the 2 main characters after they got together, and I really enjoyed how all the plot points wrapped up. This book felt very real for slice of life in frontier Idaho and I really really like it.
August 31, 2023
my favorite so far by this author
Normally, her books are full of angst and misunderstandings that don’t get resolved until the last pages. I liked how the heroine had more sense than to be taken in by the lies of a scheming woman after her man. The supporting characters were very likable and added a lot to the story line.
Normally, her books are full of angst and misunderstandings that don’t get resolved until the last pages. I liked how the heroine had more sense than to be taken in by the lies of a scheming woman after her man. The supporting characters were very likable and added a lot to the story line.
dnf
March 6, 2025Dull.
Plain. Didn’t feel intrigued as how it should be felt in a forbidden romance.
The H’s introduction was yuck. He was scanning every lady his eyes could see. He was looking for a potential sleepmate because he was horny af. Already the book was dull and in that this.
Read for a bit and abandoned.
Plain. Didn’t feel intrigued as how it should be felt in a forbidden romance.
The H’s introduction was yuck. He was scanning every lady his eyes could see. He was looking for a potential sleepmate because he was horny af. Already the book was dull and in that this.
Read for a bit and abandoned.
August 30, 2024
How can a book with a cover like this be so boring!? It was sooooooo boring! It moved so slow and the characters were boring and stupid. It was such a chore to get through this book but I was determined to finish it so I did. And now I’m mad at myself for wasting my time.
March 25, 2018
Mountain Rose
I loved this story. I look forward to reading more of her books. I recommend everyone to read this book. Kattie.
I loved this story. I look forward to reading more of her books. I recommend everyone to read this book. Kattie.
May 3, 2020
Great book
Love all Nora Hess novels. She keeps the action going through each chapter. I would love for her to do extended dialogues.
Love all Nora Hess novels. She keeps the action going through each chapter. I would love for her to do extended dialogues.
July 6, 2020
Great read by Nora Hess
I have always loved Nora Hess books.. This one kept you interested.. I couldn't lay this one down!!!! Can't wait till I start the next one
I have always loved Nora Hess books.. This one kept you interested.. I couldn't lay this one down!!!! Can't wait till I start the next one
January 18, 2023
Boring … DNF 57%
June 12, 2024
A good read
I enjoyed reading Mountain Rose. I did skip a few pages due to boredom but overall it had a good storyline.
I enjoyed reading Mountain Rose. I did skip a few pages due to boredom but overall it had a good storyline.
November 24, 2025
Mountain Rose
I have read Norah Hess's books for years. She keeps the reader guessing and the book interesting. Mountain Rose is Excellent..
I have read Norah Hess's books for years. She keeps the reader guessing and the book interesting. Mountain Rose is Excellent..
September 22, 2024
-⭐️ you can't make me root for a hero who basically lets one white guy abduct and rape a Native woman and who interrupts but ultimately ignores a different white guy raping a Native woman. oh but there were reasons! yeah, and you can shove them up your ass
April 25, 2012
I loved this book, it had everything in it that needed to be. It was based in the 1800's, so that's a fair warning to those who avoid these type of books. The characters were simply charming, I fell in love with quite a few of them. I had to curse the main hero a couple dozen times for being so heartless at the start. This "romance" has a definite mix of adventure, drama and action as well which kept me flipping pages. There are some parts in the book that are racist towards Indians, so that might actually offend some of you but other than that the book was a peach, sweet and ripe for reading and the hero was definitely sweet and ripe for the taking. Haha!
January 3, 2013
I'm a sucker for this type of books. I loved this one it's one of my re-reads. Also it's one of my favorite's American Historical books.
July 8, 2014
Another great book form Norah
was great from the start!! now to find another book to read by Norah. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes historical romance books!!!
was great from the start!! now to find another book to read by Norah. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes historical romance books!!!
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