Always and Forever

Name: Always and Forever
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Beverly Jenkins
ISBN: 9781440779763

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Thomas Penny

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/27/2009

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

From the Blackboard best-selling author of The Taming of Jessi Rose comes another tale of passion in the Old West. Prim and proper, Grace Atwood is escorting a group of brides from Chicago to their prospective husbands in southern Kansas. But she desperately needs a man to lead their wagon train on the long trip. Former lawman Jackson Blake seems perfect for the job. In fact, the sexy Texan is perfectly irresistible.

About Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for historical romance. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature and was featured in the documentary Love between the Covers and on CBS Sunday Morning. Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for multicultural romance and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the Wall Street Journal, People magazine, and NPR.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on July 02, 2021

4.5 stars Ummm this was so good and this is one of Beverly Jenkins' books that I rarely hear people talking about! Grace works at a bank and her cousin asks her to bring a bunch of mail order brides from Chicago to Kansas for the men to marry. Grace decides to help her cousin and rounds up a group o......more

Goodreads review by Chan on April 23, 2020

A story of olden times when Jim Crow was running loose. There are parts of the story that hit hard because you know life back then was unfair to people who had any tint of color to their skin. Then there were parts that were funny and moving. Beverly Jenkins does a great job of capturing the determi......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on July 30, 2021

This was such a fun read! I giggled more than a few times at Jackson and Grace's journey. I don't think I've ever read the mail order bride trope. Grace organized a wagon train of women seeking husbands, and joined them up with men seeking brides. It was charming, and funny in ways I hadn't expected......more

Goodreads review by Lois on September 02, 2020

Adorable......more

Goodreads review by Megan on September 28, 2022

It’s Grace and Jackson’s story!! Loved it! I truly appreciate that the author bases her stories in history, but she never writes cookie-cutter characters. Each character is as unique as a real person, with issues, biases, and wonderful traits, which makes her books such a delight. I loved the charac......more