Reviewed by
Tonya Ramagos

Reviewer Rating: * * 
Title:     Bound
Category:        Historical
Author:     Roberta Olsen Major
Publisher:     Starlight Writer's Publications
Release date:     October 2000
ISBN:  1-58697-110-7

Williams Trace, Texas, 1852. 

Bess Murphy arrives with four youngsters and no man by her side. The children belonged to her sister who has recently passed away. 

Now Bess is set to deliver the children to their reverend father. Williams Trace is not Bess's type of town. The women of Williams Trace are the homebodies, tend to their men and children type while Bess is far from anything of the sort. She's is an actress with a traveling theatre troupe. She's a feisty woman who speaks whatever happens to be on her mind at the time. But despite it all she just can't say no to trouble.

Bess stays on in Williams Trace to help the reverend with the adjustment of now having the four children. But just when she's about to return to the life of an actress an injured man falls at her feet. The man is Ben Elliott, shot and on the brink of death. Unable to send an injured man away Bess does what she can to save his life. It's then that she discovers the law is after Ben.

Being the woman that she is there's no way Bess can turn her back on a man in trouble even if it means putting herself in a heap of trouble right along with him.

With the creating of many intriguing characters in "Bound," Roberta Olsen Major tells an interesting story of lives and events in this historical romance. I found the plot to be a bit drawn out at times but otherwise a good read.

Copyright © 2001 by Tonya Ramagos