Unforgiven

by Deborah Cox

Out of Print

Reece McBride left the south after the war with nothing but ashes and memories. He's built himself a new world around the credo, "Never care deeply so about anything you can't bear to lose it." He didn't reckon on a lady journalist digging into his affairs or his past.

Emma Parker is a journalist, and a journalist fights for the truth. And no sweet talking scoundrel is going to make her compromise her principles.

Emma's determined quest for the salvation of Reece's soul is matched only by Reece's painful struggle to be the man Emma believes him to be.

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First published October 1, 1999

About the author

I’m cautious in real life. The biggest chances I have taken were 1) quitting my job and going back to college at the age of 38 – two years before I sold my first novel, and 2) moving to New Orleans without a job in 2002. Or maybe it was moving back in 2011 after being away for six years since Katrina threw my life into chaos.

I wasn’t born in New Orleans, but this is where my heart wants to be, and as we know the heart wants what the heart wants.

So as I was saying, except for those big leaps and the fact that I live in a dangerous, mercurial, funky, amazing place, I’m pretty cautious.

While I yearn for adventure, I am too much of a worst case scenario thinker to actually take big risks. But that’s what I do in my writing. My novels and stories are all about people taking chances – often out of necessity. The difference is with the stories I write, no matter how bad things look, I have seen the ending and it is happy.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't writing or reading. I've wanted to be a writer since I was old enough to hold a pencil. I am also a very amateur photographer, professional sightseer, and I make a mean gumbo!

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started as a fanfic for the tv show, Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, a Canadian production starring Eric McCormack, of Will & Grace fame. He was the dashing antihero, Col. Francis Clay Mosby, a tortured Civil War veteran, who had settled in Curtis Wells, Montana.

Tragically, the show was cancelled after season 2, but lives on on dvd. Check it out, if you like quality Western programs!

The author changed names, but the characters are recognizable to fans of the show; some dialogue is even lifted from episodes!

Clay is one of my all-time favorite characters, hands-down, so I give this an extra star for continuing his story.....sort of, lol.

[Atunah]

Now called "Ashes and Memories".