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Angela LaCross didn’t know how her Aunt Bess had roped her into coordinating the annual fundraiser, but she had. Angela decided to take a quick trip to see the Silver Queen, a riverboat that has been recently renovated, and see if it could be a potential place for the fundraiser. She didn’t count on falling and hitting her head only to wake up in a different time, 1875.
James McFarlain was on his last trip up the river before the eight week trail ride to his newly acquired cattle ranch. When Angela is found on board and mistaken for his woman, James has no choice but to agree to the captain’s rules – marry Angela or suffer the consequences.
Surprised and disorientated, Angela goes from modern day business woman to cattle rancher’s wife in the blink of an eye. James isn’t happy about the arrangement either, but soon neither can deny the passion they feel toward each other. Just when James and Angela begin to settle into their feelings, cattle rustlers and a Sioux warrior threaten their fragile love.
Jewel Adams has an amazing talent for storytelling. Her words and characters pull you in and don’t let you go until you’ve finished the book, and even then you’re still pondering the outcome. RIVERBOATS AND RAINBOWS is filled with complex twists and turns, and while much of the book is invested in building the tenuous relationship of James and Angela, it was one of those twists that threw me off the turn. I was disappointed to find that more than halfway through the book a new and vital character, Striker the Sioux warrior, was introduced as a rival to James. It wasn’t too difficult to imagine that modern day Angela would have problems integrating into 1875 and as the wife of a cattle rancher, but to have her so easily led astray by Striker was a little too much to swallow. Despite the surprising plot twist, RIVERBOATS AND RAINBOWS is exceptionally written and I look forward to more from Ms. Adams.
Reviewed by Tina Burns
for The Road to Romance
June 22, 2004
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