This was my first book by Sarah McCarty and I was impressed. This book was just the ticket and pushed all my buttons (the good ones). I love westerns and well written erotic love scenes and the marriage of convenience storyline is one of my favorites. Although not perfect, it was a very enjoyable read.

Asa MacIntyre was a wonderful hero, sweet, funny, and very sexy. And very protective of Elizabeth. But Elizabeth was harder to warm up to. She was an independent strong character who knows what she wants and goes out and gets it, but on the other hand I found her rather humorless and prickly or maybe it was just that she was too serious. Asa loved to tease her, but most of the time she was clueless. Asa had a difficult childhood with a prostitute mother but he wasn't scarred by it and had a good sense of humor with a determination to live his dream of a wife and home. He wants a complete marriage but she want to maintain a cool distance. Elizabeth was raised by a brutal father and her skittishness is understandable but I still thought she was a bit annoying. Although their chemistry is hot, she takes quite a long time to admit that she loves him.

Asa and Elizabeth work together to save their ranch from foreclosure. Asa believes her old friend is trying to sabatoge the ranch but Elizabeth has a hard time believing it. The mystery around the sabatoge was just enough to keep the story moving along.

PL had a good plot, great character development, and some very erotic love scenes. The sex on horseback scene is worth the price of the book alone. (Grade: B) ( )

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very steamy, and fun read; good alpha hero and storyline takes place in the 1860's wyoming. willing to read more from the author ( )

BookInfo:
Wyoming Territory 1868

Elizabeth Coyote will do anything, anything at all, to save the ranch she loves, including marrying Asa MacIntyre, a broad shouldered, lean-hipped, silver-eyed gunslinger with a ruthless reputation for getting the job done.

Asa dreams of a place of his own, a wife and the respectability that comes with both. Marrying Elizabeth may have started as a means to an end, but nothing in Asa's wildest dreams prepares him for the excitement of unleashing the carnal woman beneath his wife's prim and proper exterior.

Publisher's Note: Promises Linger was previously published elsewhere under the title Cast a Long Shadow, under pen name Bree McKenna. It has been substantially rewritten and re-edited for Ellora's Cave. ( )

Fairly traditional western romance with lots of explicit sex. Someone is sabotaging Elizabeth Coyote's ranch and so she marries (for the second time in as many days) Asa MacIntyre, a renoun gunslinger to make everything better. He's delighted to have a lady, she expects to be beaten and they fall in love. Not excellent, but better than average. I've kept it :) ( )