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BOOK REVIEW: The Peacemaker
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: The Peacemaker Author: Lori Copeland Publisher: Tyndale ISBN: 0-8423-6930-9 Genre: Inspirational/Historical/Romance
Cole Claxton and his brother, Beau are on their way home from the Civil War. All he wants is to get back to Missouri, put his feet under his own table, and eat a couple of plates full of his mother’s chicken and dumplings. They haven’t heard anything from baby brother Cass, but hopefully he survived the war. Cass fought for the south, Cole and Beau were on the northern side. The brothers are only a short distance from home when they run across a gang of outlaws robbing the stage, and of course they have to see what they can do to help.
Wynne Elliott is on a mission. Humiliated and broke, she is out for revenge, with or without God’s help. She suspects it will be without. Wynne is going to shoot that no good man, Cass Claxton, who left her standing at the altar and took off with all her money. When outlaws hold up the stage and steal what little money she has left, it’s the last straw. The two who ride up, claiming they want to help don’t look any better than the other desperados, and besides, they’re wearing Yankee uniforms. Wynn, knows what Yankees are capable of. She threatens to shoot them, and as clumsy as she is, Cole suspects she just might accidentally hit one of them.
Wynne has no money, and no place to go, so Beau, who has a softer heart than Cole, invites her home with them. That’s where she learns their last name is Claxton and they are the brothers of the man she is planning to shoot. Cole is determined to stop Wynne from killing Cass. She has to be the most stubborn, addlebrained woman he’s ever met, so why can’t he stop thinking about her?
The Peacemaker s a delightful story with the kind of twisted plotting and trademark humor we have learned to expect from Lori Copeland. Cole and Wynne’s bumpy journey on the road to romance will keep the reader laughing and turning those pages. |
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