The story is fun and I love how Deveraux uses the Western genre here. There are so many twists and turns that I soon couldn't put the book down. And the story becomes riveting after Chris decides to help an accident victim during the journey. I thought it was boring at first, but then the story picked up when Tynan, Asher and Chris began to travel around the Washington rain forests. This novel was sort of an acquired taste for me because I wasn't crazy about the first few chapters. Will they manage to keep their hands off each other throughout the long journey home? There are many twists throughout the novel. But that may not be easy, for mutual attraction and sexual tension between them is inevitable. He is also told by her father not to touch her if he wants his freedom back. The other man is a maverick named Tynan (no last name), who was in prison for a crime he hadn't committed and who may receive a pardon if he looks after Chris throughout the journey home. One of the men is the one she feels her father wants her to marry - a respectable man who isn't at all respectable because he is after her money.
But one day two men go and fetch her to bring her back to her disapproving father. She is the famous, admired newspaper reporter pen-named Nola Dallas, who is known for her snooping around and risking her life for adventurous, risque exposes. Christiana Montgomery-Mathison is a twenty-eight-year-old heiress making it on her own in late nineteenth century (the author doesn't mention the year, but my guess is it is set some time around the late 1880s to the mid 1890s).
It is kind of different from the other Deveraux novels I have read, a somewhat cross between Twin of Ice and Temptation, but the author's signature romance, wit and twist ending are there. However, The Temptress turned out to be one fun romance full of adventure, humor and twists and turns. I say "surprisingly good" because I hadn't expected to enjoy this book after reading the bad reviews here.
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