Review and Giveaway: THE HEARING HEAT by Bonnie Dee

A HEARING HEART by Bonnie Dee (Liquid Silver Books),was one of the best books I have read this year. Made me cry, made me laugh, made me angry as hell.

The love story between the two main characters is so raw, so passionate, so wanton, so sexy and at many times to utterly sad. Catherine is from an upper class NY family who has come out west to find her calling as a teacher. A job she loves and one she is damn good at. She is sassy and strong, strong willed that is. She is honest to a fault sometimes, but always kind hearted with her words which don't often betray her emotion.

Jim who is a deaf/mute is also a livery stable boy/man, also works in the local salon cleaning floors and odd jobs trying to save, his life goal; to own his own livery stables and perhaps by out the one he works at now. Saving his pennies everyday, Jim has a heart of gold and just mainly keeps to himself. Until he is dragged down the street by a bunch of drunks behind a horse and almost killed.

Catherine comes to the rescue quite literally and saves him, the first time they meet she is helping tend to his wounds. Passion, want and need burn deep in both Jim and Catherine and now that she has started teaching him how to read and write as well as sign language the town is in a bit of an uproar. Mostly the town gossips that is, but they can cause some serious waves. There desire for each other is palpably, so sexy and honest that I left almost as though I was intruding on them like a voyeur, but still not able to keep my eyes of them or my hands over my ears. Loving every minute of even their slightest encounter both characters jumped out off the page and into real life.

But their love be damned if propriety has anything to say about it, Catherine knows that Jim's birth and station in life is below hers and he as well as their love will NEVER be acceptable. Stolen moments is all they have and Jim wanted to prove himself worthy of such a lady and making a deal with the devil might just cost him his life.

I could stop reading this book until the last word . bonnie Dee blew me away with this painfully beautiful love story that made such a powerful impression on my own heart that I still haven't stopped thinking about Catherine and Jim and won't for some time to come!!

The heart conveys messages beyond what ears can hear.

After the death of her fiancé, Catherine Johnson, a New York schoolteacher in 1902, travels to Nebraska to teach in a one-room school and escape her sad memories. One afternoon, violence erupts in the sleepy town. Catherine saves deaf stable hand, Jim Kinney from torture by drunken thugs.

As she takes charge of his education, teaching him to read and sign, attraction grows between them. The warmth and humor in this silent man transcends the need for speech and his eyes tell her all she needs to know about his feelings for her. But the obstacles of class difference and the stigma of his handicap are almost insurmountable barriers to their growing attachment.

Will Catherine flaunt society’s rules and allow herself to love again? Can Jim make his way out of poverty as a deaf man in a hearing world? And together will they beat the corrupt robber baron who has a stranglehold on the town? Romance, love and sensuality abound in this jam-packed, old-fashioned tale with plenty of heart and some deeply sensual sex.

***Giveaway***
I was so overwhemly in love with this story that I think you all should read it. But that being said I am going to have one winner. So the winner will get a free download purchased by me in any format that is offered.
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Tell me the book that has touched your heart the most this year!
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Winner Chosen 08/20

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