"Entertaining contemporary romance"
As a teenager, Katrin Kowalski's parents died in a car
accident with her mother's final message to her beloved
daughter to marry an educated man. A decade later Katrin
using the moniker Katherine Kirby has taken a sabbatical
from college teaching to complete her dissertation. She
earns living money teaching a GED class in Houston. Katherine follows the curriculum to the letter
resulting in plenty of teaching, but no learning. She soon
realizes that the GED means a lot to her students. In
particular, Katherine is attracted to Tony Martinelli, who
runs his family's construction business, but always wanted
to be an architect. As Katherine and Tony fall in love,
their educational differences, family demands (hers from
the grave) and their backgrounds make a relationship seem
remote. TRUE-BLUE TEXAN is an entertaining contemporary romance
that stars two people who find love may not be enough for
them to make it together. The story line is well written,
but has too many secondary plots that take time away from
the audience understanding the dilemmas facing Tony and
Katherine. Still, the lead couple makes for a dynamic duo
and the support cast, especially his immediate family and
the other students, augments the tale by adding depth to
the prime pair. The author has written an engaging novel
that will entice readers to search for the author's other
books. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted August 9, 2001
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