Wild Rain: Women Who Dare

by Beverly Jenkins Narrated by Kim Staunton

Overview

USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her captivating Women Who Dare series with a female rancher who forges her own path in the wake of the Civil War...

Banished by her grandfather at the age of eighteen, Spring Lee has survived scandal to claim her own little slice of Paradise, Wyoming. She's proud of working her ranch alone and unwilling to share it with a stranger-especially one like Garrett McCray, who makes her second-guess her resolve to avoid men.

Garrett escaped slavery years ago and is now a reporter in Washington. He's traveled west to interview Dr. Colton Lee for an article, yet it's Lee's fearless sister, Spring, who captures his interest. Clad in denim and buckskins instead of dresses, she's the most fascinating woman he's ever met. And he's certain she also feels the connection that sizzles between them.

But when a shadow from Spring's past returns, all is on the line: her ranch, her safety-and this wild, fierce love.

Editorial Reviews

Shondaland

Jenkins is a historical romance legend — and if you haven’t yet gotten your hands on the USA Today bestselling author’s work, you should do so immediately.

Booklist (starred review)

"Memorable characters and fun, if fraught, dialogue make the highly anticipated second book in romance star Jenkins' Women Who Dare series a refreshing and keenly innovative historical romance. Readers will be clamoring for more well-researched and inclusive love stories featuring strong women in the American West." 

All About Romance (DIK)

"Wild Rain is a perfect, touching and romantic tale... An excellent romance with a wonderful and memorable heroine..."

NPR

Wild Rain will linger in your thoughts for its remarkably likable hero, spirited heroine, beautiful horses, scenery, adventure, and romance. It's the kind of excellent storytelling that keeps us coming back for more, again and again from Beverly Jenkins."

Entertainment Weekly

Jenkins knows how to craft a romantic yarn against a historical backdrop with all the attendant power and punch befitting her status as a romance icon.

"Memorable characters and fun, if fraught, dialogue make the highly anticipated second book in romance star Jenkins' Women Who Dare series a refreshing and keenly innovative historical romance. Readers will be clamoring for more well-researched and inclusive love stories featuring strong women in the American West."  %COMM_CONTRIB%Booklist (starred review)

Kirkus Reviews

★ 2020-12-15
After the Civil War, a woman rancher in Wyoming rescues a visiting newspaperman from back East and her life changes forever.

Spring Lee had a rough beginning, losing both of her parents, being thrown out by her grandfather at the age of 18, and prostituting herself to a White rancher and his son in order to avoid starving. Now Spring has found contentment, if not peace. She owns a ranch and breaks wild mustangs for a living. But life is still hard for a Black woman in Paradise, Wyoming, during the Reconstruction era. When she finds Garrett McCray, a greenhorn in new boots, limping along in a blizzard after being thrown from his horse, she’s wary about taking him home with her. But she knows if she doesn’t, he’ll die. Garrett is a Black man from Washington, D.C., come to interview Spring’s brother for a newspaper article. Although Garrett stands up for Spring when an old enemy insults and attacks her, he’s a milder hero, willing to stand back and let Spring take care of herself. This is part of what makes Jenkins’ novel so refreshing. It’s a tale of the American frontier that is lacking in the usual misogyny, anti-Indigenous racism, and idealization of White settlers that plague fiction about this era. Although it’s the second book in Jenkins’ Women Who Dare series, it’s also a crossover to her Old West series, incorporating characters from Tempest (2018). This book has all the hallmarks of Jenkins’ fiction—meticulous historical research, a frank look at social conditions for Black people of the time, masterful pacing, and complex, likable characters.

Jenkins' story reminds us that true love doesn’t require sacrificing our independence. You shouldn’t miss it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177590622
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/09/2021
Series:	Women Who Dare Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged

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