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Drifter Mass Market Paperback – May 1, 1998

by Susan Wiggs (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
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Jackson Underhill has said nothing of his wretched past to the lovely Dr. Leah Mundy out of fear that she will no longer love him, but his outlaw past will catch up with him of he stays, and there can be no future with a woman who refuses to leave. Original.
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  1. Print length
    376 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Mira
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    4.25 x 1 x 6.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1551664593
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1551664590
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It isn't easy to be a female physician in 1894, but Leah Mundy is fiercely committed to healing her fellow humans. Being awakened in the dark of night to heal the sick is a common occurrence, but never before has she woke to a threatening gun barrel and a dangerous stranger demanding her services. Outlaw Jackson Underhill is grimly determined that the doctor will save his childhood friend, but nothing about his difficult and dark past has prepared him for the changes the beautiful doctor will bring to his life. When Leah manages to disable his sailboat and force him to bring his "wife" to her boarding home to be cared for, Jackson has no option but to comply, setting forces in motion that will change both of their lives forever.

Dr. Leah Mundy is a strong but emotionally vulnerable woman who has struggled her entire life to win the approval of her difficult, indifferent father. Now that he is dead, she is determined to build a life on Puget Sound's beautiful Whidbey Island. Accused of committing a murder he can't deny, outlaw Jackson Underhill is a man on the run, committed to saving his childhood friend while eluding the law. Leah is a woman who cannot leave the island that has become her sanctuary and Jackson Underhill is a man who cannot stay. Reason and logic tell them that they should never have fallen in love, but their hearts ignore all warnings. Inexorably drawn together by circumstance and fate, what possible resolution can bring them happiness and not disaster? Thrown together by chance, they find a love that neither of them had ever dared hope for - but darker forces and old alliances threaten their chance at happiness. With crisp, clean writing, Ms. Wiggs deftly weaves a seamless tale set against the background of the sea and sky of the Pacific Northwest. The beauty of Puget Sound pulses from every page, elevating the land and elements of nature to the level of a living character that is essential to the healing of Jackson and Leah's inner scars. Emotionally intense and well-plotted, The Drifter has all the components of a great summer read and is a jewel of a novel.

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Wiggs (Lord of the Night) turns an able and sensual hand to the old story of the capable, straitlaced spinster and the sensual roving rogue. Jackson T. Underhill (tall and blond with the requisite facial scar) is running from the law with his childhood friend Carrie, a prostitute and opium addict who shot the mayor of Rising Star, Texas, and who is posing as Jackson's wife. When Carrie falls ill, Jackson rouses Dr. Leah Mundy from her bed at gunpoint in the picturesque seaside village of Coupeville, on Washington's Puget Sound. Leah, whose whole life has been devoted to hard work, and whose self-esteem as a woman has been undermined by a charlatan father, allows herself to dream of a home and family with Jackson (including the social acceptance she never receives as a female in a typically male profession). And Underhill, the sexy drifter who has never belonged anywhere, dreams of coming home each night to his passionate physician and an extended family of endearing misfits. It's a smart, unorthodox coupling to which Wiggs adds humor, brains and a certain cultivation that will leave readers anticipating her next romance.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mira; Reprint edition (May 1, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1551664593
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1551664590
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1 x 6.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 403 ratings

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I like to believe I am the person my dogs think I am.

I phone my parents every day, as they are elderly and adorable, and they read me stories every day of my freakishly normal childhood. I was a writer before I learned to read, by creating scribbles on paper and dictating the stories to my saintly mother. You can see examples here: https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/104585203815605467940/albums/5587379107269629729?banner=pwa&partnerid=pwrd1.

Untold eons later, I still read and write everyday and I've gotten very good at it. I live in a ridiculously gorgeous place in the world--an island in Puget Sound, Washington where we have a lot of the same flowers you grow in the UK. But bigger slugs. Much bigger slugs.

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Mary J. Aigner
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2023
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This was a wonderful story. Sad in many ways, filled with danger and uncertainty, but with a terrific happy ending.
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mamabee4
4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016
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Joel felt he was the protector of a young girl that he had grown up with and it took a lady doctor to make him see the truth about her and to see that he could live on the right side of the law and to love her too. A good story
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Page Turner
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2013
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This is a Susan Wiggs story, which says a lot if you're familiar with her work. It's extremely well plotted and crafted, evoking the primitive, almost raw atmosphere of the Northwestern Frontier of the USA, just across the water from Canada, a land which beckons to the outlaw hero with the promise of freedom, and highlights the courage of the heroine, a medical Doctor in an age when women couldn't vote, could barely own property, and were second-class citizens by "courtesy."

Both of our protagonists are deeply wounded, of course, and it's their struggle to extricate themselves from the shackles of their past which form the heart of the story. It's well-worth reading, but then I've liked almost everything the author has ever written.

There was one egregious editorial glitch in the phrase 'Ever since the Français trappers and the Bostons came here from the east...' in that the 'c-cedilla' and the adjacent 'a' are conflated into an above-the-line 'a-cedilla which looks truly odd. I suspect that this was a conversion error by whomever did the Kindle version of the book, but haven't checked the paper copy to be sure.

I'll let 'instruments for extracting teeth and suppurating wounds' slide, since the general gist of the sentence is clear, and lacks only "lancing" or some such authentic treatment for pussy wounds to make it clear, since it's fairly obvious that one can't extract a suppurating wound. I tend to be a stickler for such details, but many just skip over stuff they don't recognise.
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Karen Knappmeyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Shipping was great
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2022
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I like this author but have not read this book as yet. Shipping was great and product as advertised.
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Kimberly D.
3.0 out of 5 stars Ehhhhh
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2013
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Definitely not the best Susan Wiggs I have ever read. I liked it, but could have done without spending the money. Predictable story even though the plot was a but different from most. I was glad when I was done.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic..
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2014
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Fantastic.... Susan Wiggs is one of my favorite authors. She weaves a wonderful can't-wait-to-turn-the-page story with lots of little surprises in the end. She certainly has a knack for drawing you in so you feel the love and agony.
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Janice C. Wagoner
5.0 out of 5 stars THE DRIFTER by Susan Wiggs
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013
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This was one of Ms Wiggs books ,that I have ever had the good luck. To read! This book is the best
I've ever read from this Genre. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK & Author, to any& all I'd
my friends and anyone who enjoys this Genre of books!!! Janice Wagoner

This is way far &above one of Ms Wiggs best books she has EVER written!KUDOS... Well Done!! In the top 3 of any books I have read! I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to ALL Of my friends & lovers of this Genre of books... again, Well Done, Ms. WIGGS.

Janice C. Wagoner
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Eselu
5.0 out of 5 stars Great page turner of a read. Could not put it down, then went back and reread parts of it again.
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020
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Susan Wiggs never disappoints. She writes refreshingly different page turners. She outdoes herself.
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MaryDavad
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Canada on August 22, 2023
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Another winner by Susan Wiggs. Certainly enjoyed.
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Joan Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars The Drifter
Reviewed in Australia on August 27, 2018
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Another great read by Susan Wiggs.
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Dee
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2015
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I normally do not like historical romance but this I found hard to put down, gripping and lovely story, worth reading
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NiK
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good
Reviewed in Canada on November 16, 2023
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This was the first historical novel I’ve read by this author. It was quite a change of pace from the other books I’ve read, but it was pretty good.
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jean forrest
4.0 out of 5 stars Drifter review.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2017
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I really enjoyed this book as I have other novels by Susan Wings she has a way with her characters they draw you into their lives
Which makes you miss them when the book is finished, great.
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