Tempting the Marshal

Dodge City Brides Series, Book 2

By: Julianne MacLean

Narrated by: Charlotte North

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

All she wants is justice.

Disguised as a man, Josephine O'Malley strolls into a Dodge City mercantile with one thing on her mind: to even the score with the man who murdered her husband. What she doesn't count on is Fletcher Collins - the handsome and irresistible new marshal in town - bursting through the doors of the mercantile with guns blazing...and a plan to stop her from pulling the trigger.

He only wants to protect her.

There's a new marshal in town, but he's fighting inner demons of his own. Fletcher Collins is a man who has known his share of heartache, and when he finds himself apprehending a gorgeous widow for murder, he begins to re-evaluate what it means to be a lawman. But if Fletcher is going to keep the widow out of prison - and figure out what's really going on in Dodge - he's going to have to learn how to follow his gut. Unfortunately his gut is telling him that Josephine O'Malley is exactly the kind of woman who could make him break all the rules....

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Julianne MacLean Publishing Inc. (P)2021 Tantor

It was ok

I didn't love it or hate it. It kept me entertained while listening. Narrator did a nice job.

So so, not my favorite and wouldn’t listen to again

This book was alright. I listened to it in the span of one day since I was either driving or doing housework most of the day. I actually fell asleep for a bit listening to this book, but didn’t bother to rewind what I had missed while I slept. It was a little on the boring side. I have discovered I much prefer audio books that have both male and female narrators. When one person tries to do both voices, it just isn’t the same. One gender always ends up getting the short end of the stick and lacking emotion and cadence. In this book, the female narrator always used a rushed lower voice for the male part that just fell completely flat and I just couldn’t fall in love with the male character because of it. Also, I was under the impression that this was the second book in a series which is why I listed to it. The first book was called Prairie bride or something along those lines. I purchased this book only because I thought it would have characters from the previous book and tie the story lines together, but that was not the case. This is a stand alone book and doesn’t really have anything to do with the first one, other than the fact that the story takes place in the same town, and I think there was mention of one familiar name ( the widow Harper ) that was not a main character at all in the previous book. Unless I missed a bunch while I was asleep, but I don’t think that’s the case. Given the chance again, I would pass on this series even though I have enjoyed a few of the authors other books in the past. (I found the Highlander series much more entertaining)

waste of time and money

if you like books with a poorly written story line, no character development and constant sex tension between people who don't even know each other, this ones for you. struggled to finish it and wish I hadn't wasted my time.