Something Like Love

Reviewed by ryeme on August 3rd, 2008, 9:07pm

by Beverly Jenkins

Format: Print Books

Series: Other

I like this story. Ms. Jenkins' books show how far women have had to come to get the rights that we have. Her storytelling is timely for this time of year consider the political climate. I've never thought of myself as a women's liber but reading this story helps me appreciate everything that those early women political avocates were really fighting for and up against. It is hard to believe that a woman could be forced to marry some just because the male head of her family said so. Women no matter what race were treated like slaves even after the Civil War. Black women had it even worse. They not only had no civil rights, they also had to deal with Jim Crow laws as well.

I always learn something new and exciting when I read one of her books and this time was no different. Ms. Jenkins brings you back to the township of Henry Adams, back to where it all began with her first novel.

He was a wanted man.
But no one wanted him more than she did.

Desperate to escape an arrange marriage, Olivia Sterling flees Chicago and heads west. She dreams of setting up her own seamstress shop in Henry Adams, a small all Black town in Kansas. But her plans are derailed when her train is robbed by Neil July and his notorious band of outlaws.

Neil is enchanted by the headstrong and lovely Olivia.. No woman has ever set his blood on fire before, and he suspects no other woman ever will. When they meet again, Olivia is the town's newly elected mayor and Neil is still a wanted outlaw. With bounty hunters on his trail, he would be wise not to linger, yet he can't seem to leave her. Will Neil be able to convince Olivia to ride off into the sunset with him, or will he finally lay down his guns for love?