The Dancing Bride

Name: The Dancing Bride
Rating: 4.309523582458496 (126 reviews)

Cynthia Woolf

Apr 2017 · Central City Brides Book 1 · Firehouse Publishing

4.3

126 reviews

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From the day she was born, Rita Baxter's mother encouraged her to follow her heart. Filled with innocent dreams and faith that her hard work training to be a Prima Ballerina on New York's bright stage will lead to fortune and fame, Rita is crushed when she loses her mother and must take a job dancing in a burlesque chorus line to keep a roof over her head. Witnessing a brutal murder is the last straw. The police promise to keep her safe, but Rita has learned to be a realist. Determined to escape the Irish gang that wants her dead and start a new life for herself, Rita heads to Colorado Territory as a mail-order bride.

Jack Colton struck gold in his Central City mine, but the dark recesses of the mine mirror the lonely, dark places in his heart. He longs for a wife and family, but the only women in town interested in a hard former soldier like him aren't really interested in him at all. Tired of being pursued for his newfound wealth, Jack decides to take a chance on a mail-order bride from New York. She's supposed to be petite and beautiful, a dancer who will bring color and warmth into his cold life.

Sparks fly when they meet, both hopeful for a bright future. But murder is a poison and it followed Rita all the way from New York. Jack thought his killing days were over, but when an assassin arrives to destroy everything Jack will stop at nothing to protect his new wife...no matter the cost.

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4.3

126 reviews

shai k

November 16, 2019

If it's a preview should just outright label it as sample. Don't put it as free & limit the available pages/chapters. No need to bait people to rate the book cause to be honest, that will instantly make people rated it as 1 star. The story has similar cliche plot & the writing is ok but the story telling is quite subpar in delving in emotion & character's arc.

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Leah Landrum

February 24, 2020

I have read some poorly written books in my time, but I could finish this one, it was so bad. The language is entirely too modern for a historical novel, it feels more like modern day people in costumes. It also was not very well researched. I know it's a free book, but it was truly terrible.

Sharon Nickless

April 27, 2019

what few pages i was able to read seem to be a book i would enjoy but said it was downloaded but would not stay open to read. NOTE... I was able to locate a different style print that was so tiny i could barely get the words in focus. If i didn't like the story i would never have stayed with it.

About the author

Cynthia Woolf is the award winning and best-selling author of thirty-one historical western romance books and two short stories with more books on the way.

Cynthia loves writing and reading romance. Her first western romance Tame A Wild Heart, was inspired by the story her mother told her of meeting Cynthia’s father on a ranch in Creede, Colorado. Although Tame A Wild Heart takes place in Creede that is the only similarity between the stories. Her father was a cowboy not a bounty hunter and her mother was a nursemaid (called a nanny now) not the ranch owner. The ranch they met on is still there as part of the open space in Mineral County in southwestern Colorado.

Writing as CA Woolf she has six scifi, space opera romance titles. She calls them westerns in space.

Cynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and her great friends and critique partners for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her creativity.

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