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Another dawn

Sandra Brown

560 pages

A sweeping, high-angst historical romance where forbidden passion and dark family secrets collide under the vast Texas sky.

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What it feels like

Reading this book feels like being swept up in a turbulent, emotionally charged storm of classic romance. The atmosphere is thick with the suffocating tension of forbidden desire and the heavy burden of long-buried family secrets. It moves at a brisk pace, driven by unabashed melodrama and characters who feel everything at a fever pitch. The prose is sweeping and intense, perfectly matching the high-stakes emotional landscape of the Texas frontier. It is a deeply angsty, passionate experience that immerses the reader in a world where guilt and longing constantly war with one another. This will thoroughly delight fans of vintage historical romances and sprawling family sagas who want their love stories served with a heavy dose of dramatic, hard-won redemption.

Mood
  • sweeping
  • emotionally turbulent
  • tense
  • romantic
Tone
  • melodramatic
  • earnest
  • intense
  • passionate
Pace
brisk
Themes
forbidden desire · family legacy · guilt and redemption · burden of secrets · healing past trauma
The writing
Emotionally charged and unabashedly dramatic, leaning heavily into the sweeping intensity of classic historical romance.
The arc
Moves from the suffocating tension of forbidden, guilt-ridden longing through explosive emotional confrontations, culminating in a hard-won, sweeping redemption.
Who it's for
Readers who crave high-angst, sweeping family sagas where intense, forbidden passions collide with dark, long-buried secrets.
Content notes
  • murder
  • past trauma
  • violence
  • explicit sexual content
  • betrayal

About the book

Jake Langston wasn't a man to go looking for trouble, though if it found him he'd settle it -- with a gun or a soft threat. But the night beautiful Banner Coleman forced his hand, he was lost...

Torn by secrets he'd never shared, Jake Langston had grown to bitter manhood on the wagon train west to Texas. Baptized by the senseless murder of his brother, introduced to passion in the arms of a woman incapable of love, Jake wanted no part of the seductive purity of the spirited daughter of his best friends Ross and Lydia. But on a night when her dearest illusions about love had been shattered, Banner Coleman went in search of the one man who could never refuse her anything. Shame warred with desire --and lost...

In the cold light of morning their guilt stilled their raging passions, and they turned from one another in sorrow and remorse. But when their enemies joined in a plot of jealousy and revenge that threatened all they held dear, they were forced to confront the demons of a shadowy past. Only then would they be free to face the new day, a future limited only by their dreams...and their love for each other...

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