Something Like Love

Name: Something Like Love
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Beverly Jenkins
ISBN: 9780063054691

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/22/2021

Categories: Fiction, Western, African American & Black Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another lush historical novel featuring brothers that were first introduced in her award-winning novel Always and Forever. This is the story that readers have been waiting for.He was a wanted man. But no one wanted him more than she did.Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Olivia Sterling flees Chicago and heads west. She dreams of setting up her own seamstress shop in Henry Adams, a small all Black town in Kansas. But her plans are derailed when her train is robbed by Neil July and his notorious band of outlaws.Neil is enchanted by the headstrong and lovely Olivia. No woman has ever set his blood on fire before, and he suspects no other woman ever will. When they meet again, Olivia is the town's newly elected mayor and Neil is still the wanted outlaw. With bounty hunters on his trail, he would be wise not to linger, yet he can't seem to leave her. Will Neil be able to convince Olivia to ride off into the sunset with him? Or will he finally lay down his guns for love?

About Beverly Jenkins

Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2018 Michigan Author Award by the Michigan Library Association, the 2017 Romance Writers of America 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 both 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 inclusive romance and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, People magazine, and NPR.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lover of Romance on May 08, 2016

This review was originally posted onAddicted To Romance Summary Olivia Sterling seeks an escape. She has gone through an eduction, set up her own business as a dressmaker but when her father arranges a marriage with a much older man that only wants the money he can gain from their......more

Goodreads review by steph on December 02, 2016

I liked this. Not as much as the author's previous ones, this one was a bit slower but I still enjoyed this. I liked Olivia, she is very strong and independent and it was nice seeing a reformed Neil July after meeting him in all the previous books and I really liked seeing all the outlaws-who-became......more

Goodreads review by AlexTRBG on May 14, 2025

This was pretty cute ngl. Something like love follows Olivia, who recently ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage, and Neil July, a famous train-robbing outlaw. So this was very much good girl/bad boy trope and I truly ate it up. 🙂‍↕️💕 Like the heroines in Beverly’s other books, Olivia is......more

Goodreads review by Dosha (Bluestocking7) on January 29, 2022

I loved everything about this book, including the narrator. The story is pretty clean and although there are some juicy descriptions of lovemaking, there is no pornography. There is a lot of playfulness and intrigue so get ready to laugh and wonder what is going to happen next. Madam Jenkins has giv......more

Goodreads review by Lois on November 04, 2019

This was cute and fun......more