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Title: Terms of Engagement
Author: Lorrie Farrelly
Narrator: Keith Tracton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-21-13
Publisher: Lorrie Farrelly
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Romance, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Wyoming Territory, 1885.
On a train in the middle of nowhere, a young woman suddenly collapses.
Fellow passenger Dr. Robert Devlin, a widower traveling with his five-year-old daughter, responds immediately to the medical emergency. What he finds when he examines his new patient both shocks and outrages him, and soon he is tangled up in her no-way-out, life-or-death plight.
Teresa Rutledge has taken her toddler son and run for their lives. Fleeing her wealthy, cruelly abusive husband, knowing there is nowhere they will be safe for long, she is at the end of her strength and at the end of her rope.
Determined to protect Tess and her child, Rob takes them home to his sister, Annie, and her husband, former cavalry Captain Michael Cantrell.
As Tess regains her health, she and Rob fall passionately in love. But she is trapped in a brutal marriage, and on a desperate flight from a powerful, violent man determined never to let her go.
This much-anticipated sequel to best-selling, Orange Rose Award finalist Terms of Surrender (now in final processing as an ACX audiobook!) lets readers catch up with their favorite characters from the original story, while also being a wonderfully suspenseful, emotional, and exciting stand-alone novel in its own right.
Members Reviews:
Good story, weak narration
Nice addition to the TERMS series, set in Wyoming, 1885. However, the narration by Keith Traction is mediocre. He sometimes sounds almost robotic, and he consistently overdoes his vowel sounds. His enunciation is so perfectly precise that I found it distracting.
Good story, though! I loved the scenes with the children, the puppies, and the old war horse, Jet. Good to see Annie and Michael from the prequel Terms of Surrender. I also liked the sequel, book 3, Terms of Temptation, which includes all these characters and more.
PLOT in a NUTSHELL:
At the book's beginning, the heroine (Tess) is fleeing for her life from an abusive husband, taking her two-year-old son with her. She has been severely beaten. Dr. Robert Devlin (an adolescent in the prequel) gives her medical aide. They fall in love, and he takes her home to heal under the radar at the Devlin-Cantrell Ranch. Rob convinces her to get a legal divorce, instead of hiding and running for the rest of her life. Easier said than done, as her husband is rich, powerful, and psychotic.
Good story! Heartwarming, coherent, fairly engrossing, and smexy. Decent plot, despite the contrived part.
Quibbles: Usually Farrelly steeps her stories in the historical setting quite well, and she did here too (see epilogue for links to two key historical figures) with a few exceptions:
1) Tess would have been more circumspect. As a married woman -- married to a prominent figure in Denver society -- she wouldn't let herself be seen flirting and sharing the same hotel with Rob. She wouldn't have wanted to weaken her divorce petition by appearing to lack morals. Also, I didn't much like it that they had sex before her divorce was final.
2) Rob is a doctor who gets paid in food (eggs, apples, ham, etc). He tipped the carriage driver $5 for a ride across town. Then, another $5 tip to return to the hotel later that evening. According to my inflation calculator, $5 in 1885 is comparable to almost $130 today. And how much would the cab ride have cost him? Less than one dollar. His tip was nuts.
Quibbles aside, I liked the book and the series.
I wish the narrator would improve his craft.
