And then she gets super clingy and claims she can't sleep unless Nathan is with her. Now, I can believe this would really happen, but Hannah's 'guilt' felt more like lip service considering the two find themselves in various compromising situations while Frank is still alive.Also, once Frank dies Hannah has no problem sleeping in the same bed, cuddled with Nathan, which would be weird enough in a contemporary novel let alone a historical book. There's even a line in the book where Hannah states that she feels lust for him.

Which made Nathan's character all the more problematic.

Other than that he was pretty much a non-entity except as a good person that Hannah was in love with and didn't have a problem being married to. It was a bit refreshing that he was optimistic about his paralysis, but it was, as obvious from the title, all for naught. Frank was pretty one dimensional he was a good preacher who was trying his hand at farming and then he died. I'm also used to reading historical romances in third person so it was a bit jarring.I didn't much like any of the characters. I didn't much like being in Hannah's head as she was pretty naive, spoiled, and later on annoying. My first issue was that it was in first person. It's also pretty short, which was good considering it was pretty terrible. Review 2: I got this book as a free Kindle Download. She didn't care what people thought then! But I didn't see how she thought it would be acceptable for Nathan to stay in her bed when she couldn't sleep after Frank died. Hannah is so concerned about society and what people think but I guess that was the way it was for a city woman at that time. more n was a gambler and drunkard - he must be no good.I enjoyed this story and learned a lot about that time period. Not only is it not proper for her to have feeling for any man other than her husband, she remembers her family's instructions that if a man was a gambler or drank, no was no good.

Hannah and Nathan were drawn to each other even before Frank dies which she is very uncomfortable about. She tries to cope with her grief and keep the farm going but relies on one of the hands, Nathan, to take care of the farm. He then get pneumonia and dies leaving Hannah a widow at 19. Frank falls off a roof while helping neighbor and is paralyzed. They build a house and Frank hires two man to help build other buildings and plant the fields. Review 1: This historical romance takes place in the 1800s with Hannah and her husband, Frank, who is a preacher, moving to Colorado Territory to farm.

Western Kisses by Carré White