While necessary for the plot to work, I would have preferred the author devise another explanation for his disappearance.Īlso, this book had a bit of extra padding that slowed down the pace at times, mostly related to the nemesis of the book. While they add quite a bit of humor to the story, I found much of the goings-on related to Samantha’s father a bit boring. This book also offers a rich array of secondary characters. But by the end of the story it is not so much Samantha who has changed, it is Sloan. When this book begins it is easy to assume that Sloan will tame the tomboy-ish Samantha as “man” tamed the west. It will take lots and lots of sexual tension, anger, betrayal, trust, amnesia, and another road trip to turn Sloan around. What Samantha and Sloan share is uncompromising and difficult. Sloan discovers that his humanity is slowly being awakened after a ten year sleep – make that coma. Samantha discovers what it is to be a woman. Their journey changes their lives in ways neither had ever imagined. Samantha and Sloan join forces to find Sam’s father. There is plenty of action in this book – those who enjoy Road Romances will approve. For that alone this book is worth reading. The difference between Sloan and most other heroes? He doesn’t fall for her “in spite of” her looks he falls for what he sees as a beautiful woman.

The difference between Samantha and most other romance heroines? She’s not beautiful.

Suffice it to say that one look at Samantha’s long legs and bountiful chest drives him crazy. Suffice it to say that Samantha and her family win the right to stay. Sloan, owner of the small town, wants nothing to do with these women indeed, he’s kept women out of his town for years because of the trouble they bring. Samantha and her family have moved to the California Rockies from Tennessee to track down her father and maybe, just maybe, kill Sloan for what she believes he’s done to her father. Although the author offers up the traditional feisty, red-haired heroine and an equally traditional hard-bitten, tortured hero, she injects enough humanity into them that they keep the reader interested.ĭenim and Lace is the story of Samantha Neely and Sloan Talbott. Denim and Lace is a cut above the hackneyed western romances that seem to be cropping up lately.

All a Woman Wants by Patricia Rice