Rogue in Texas Book

5 stars - Frontier/Western Historical Romance

I loved Lorraine Heath's Scoundrels of St. James Victorian historical romance series and contemporaries, Hard Lovin' Man and Smooth Talkin' Stranger, and they made me want to read her entire backlist.

This is the first book in her Rogues in Texas series, and it's a sweet, emotional, touching romance of a duke's son, an English rogue, who finds himself completely out of his element on a Texas cotton farm, working for a widow with three children. While enduring the hardships of rural life and grueling manual labor in the cotton fields, Grayson Rhodes finds that which he never expected: purpose, peace, a sense of belonging, pride, profound happiness, pure joy...and most shocking of all, love. There's just something about Heath's writing that tugs the heartstrings, and Gray and Abbie's beautiful, poignant, and passionate love story is no exception. Gray's tenderness and gentle affection towards Abbie and her children was sigh-inducing and swoon-worthy...I just loved him! It's a wonderful, moving romance, and pretty steamy, too! 5 stars!