Of course he doesn’t want any woman tagging along, but our spunky heroine just refuses to take no for an answer. This is one guy who dresses to the occasion and has the mannerisms and speech of a spaghetti Western hero down pat, he may as well wear a giant billboard on his cowboy hat saying “Yo! Hero here out to get your sorry sad bums!” in ten vivid glows of neon. Adventures and hilarity – okay, just some hilarity – ensue. Suzanne decides to tag along when he refuses to let her hire him as an escort to Deadwood. The macho dude, Black Jack Sloan, is not letting any delay stop him in his usual quest for vengeance that drives his life. In the confusion that follows, Suzanne, a nice young boy, a merchant, and a surly macho cowboy dude get stranded in the middle of nowhere. The coach gets robbed by a gang led by Big Nose George Parrot, and in the process, some overexcited fellow lets loose a few gunshots. She is riding a coach to Deadwood to meet a friend of hers in some urgent mission, but things never go as planned, eh? Suzanne Bonneaux, who was a brat in The Horse Soldier, is now a young lady trying to juggle her finishing school polish with the wild, no-nonsense tomboy girl inside. It’s not a bad book, but the story just doesn’t come alive as it promised to be at the first few chapters. It has a great if sometimes sensibility-free heroine, a stereotypical and rather boring silent-hero archetype dude, and lots of adventures. Merline Lovelace’s The Colonel Daughter is a road trip Western romance.
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