Only Love (Only Series #4) Book

Concluding my Elizabeth Lowell "Only"-athon, last but not least we have Book Four, wherein Rafe "Whip" Moran, thusly nicknamed for his skill with a bullwhip (cue obligatory Indiana-Jones fangirly snicker), volunteers himself as the protector of the young 'widow' Shannon Conner Smith. She's living all alone in a remote cabin, and she's roused the interest of the predatory Culpepper brothers, who are very, very interested in the location of the gold claims worked by her alleged "husband".

Villains Du Jour: The Culpeppers, who are fairly interchangeable in their general assholitude, and who are mostly notable for being the main villains for a related duology of novels that Lowell does later.

Big Misunderstanding Du Jour: Holy Crap! She's a Virgin! (There's a lot of that in these novels, too.) Only this time around, it's with a side helping of But Wait, I Thought She Was a Widow! ('Cause of course Shannon was lying about the man who was reputed to be her husband, in protective self-defense!)

Hotness Du Jour: The Indiana Jones fangirl in me has to be a sucker for Rafe wielding a whip, I must admit. Also, of the four heroes in this quartet, he's the only one that takes the time to actually do some nice things for the girl he's interested in: working for her, hunting for her, and playing music for her; his only real issue is a pathological fear of being tied into marriage, since he's an inveterate wanderer. Yep, he's made of the most amount of Win.