Promise Me Forever [Mass Market Paperback]

The final installment in the Sisters of Mercy Flats trilogy picks up abruptly from its predecessors ( Promise Me Today and Promise Me Tomorrow ). The McDougal sisters, trapped in a runaway jail wagon, are being chased by teenaged Comanches. Watching the women's plight are Morgan Kane, a Union spy, and two other men who join forces to rescue them. Kane saves Amelia McDougal, a featherbrained, silly twit of a girl. He promises to see her safely to Galveston, where after just a few hours on her own she falls prey to a villain who sells women into prostitution. Destined to become an infamous privateer's prize, Amelia is taken aboard a ship where she meets 10 other captives. The villain mistakes Kane for the privateer--who happens to be the subject of the spy's secret mission--and Kane acts out the charade aboard ship. All escape and flee on a riverboat which hosts a series of uneventful scenes that end when the villain's riverboat catches up with them and the boilers of both boats explode. Everyone is blown into the water, but only the good guys and gals survive. A witless heroine, inane dialogue and a shallow plot are only a few of the myriad maladies that ail this story. Undoubtedly meant to be a lighthearted, humorous romance, it falls ill on page one and never recovers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This novel is the final volume in "The Sisters of Mercy Flats" trilogy. Still dressed as nuns, the three infamous McDougal sisters are being taken to jail when their wagon is attacked by Comanche braves. Miraculously, they are each rescued by three very different men. Amelia thinks her hero, Captain Morgan Kane, is the most dashing of the lot-until he leaves her to fend for herself, and she ends up with a boatload of women, headed for a life of prostitution in New Orleans. Copeland is a seasoned, popular writer noted for funny, fast-paced, sensual adventures. Readers who enjoy reading Pamela Morsi or Rebecca Paisley should like this.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In her previous two novels of The Sisters of Mercy Flats series, the adventures of two of the McDougal sisters were played out with tantalizing conclusions. Copeland's western romance starts with the crash of a jail wagon that is being pursued by a band of Comanches. The three sisters inside are rescued by three very different men. In this novel, the finale, we follow the adventures of Amelia, rescued by Union spy Morgan Kane. Kane delivers Amelia to Galveston and offers her money to buy passage to meet up with her sisters. She fritters the money away, is ensnared into a white slavery ring, and again requires Kane to come to the rescue. Copeland's story is well plotted; for paperback romance fans, it's sure to be enticing. Denise Perry Donavin

When the swindling trio are saved from the gallows by a band of rescuers, Anne-Marie was scooped up by an Indian, Abigail got a prissy-looking gentleman, and Amelia held on for dear life to the dashing figure of Captain Morgan Kane. When she confeses she's running from the law, he drops her in Galveston, only to come to her rescue again, in more ways than one....