RECKLESS LOVE

Laural Merlington's gentle voice depicts Jana Wayland, a young woman who survives by her wits, her knife, and her friendship with a wild brood mare in the treacherous Utah Territory of the 1880s. Alone and scared for her own safety after her father dies from rattlesnake bites, Wayland binds her breasts and deepens her voice to assume the role of a boy. When she crosses paths with a tall, dark stranger, he believes her disguise, to her chagrin. Together they seek to escape the renegade Native American chieftain, the infamous El Cascabel, who is on their trail. Merlington's lightly accented delivery and textured characterizations breathe passion and tension into this story of survival and romance. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 07]