Just Imagine

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Two hard-headed, passionate people.... Two stubborn opponents with tender souls.... Sometimes wars of the heart can only be won through the sweetest of surrenders.

The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to Kit, the Yankee war hero is more than her bitterest enemy - he's also her guardian. And he'll be a lot harder to kill than she's figured on....

Believing that Kit's a boy, Cain offers the grubby rapscallion a job in his stable. But he has no idea what he's in for, and it's not long before the hero of Missionary Ridge discovers the truth. His scamp of a stable boy is a strong-willed, violet-eyed beauty who's hell-bent on driving him crazy.

©2009 Susan Elizabeth Phillips (P)2020 HarperAudio

Wonderfully Unexpected

I did not expect this story. It was beautifully written. Romance, history, hard topics, humor. This was the story I didn’t know I needed to read.

Loved the characters

It was soooo good, I want all my friends to read it! Great storyline and narrative

Good story

Nice story that really flowed well and was narrated beautifully. Characters that I could care about.

wow

one of the best love stories I've come across. the voices were perfect. listen or read you will love it.

Good flow

Kit is a fire cracker. The journey is with her as she becomes a woman. Cain is a a simple character not saying that is bad but he is what he is.

Civil war in a relationship

This was similar to Gone With the Wind, but with a HEA ending. Lots of fighting and angst, terrible stories of slavery and war battles, racism, love and loneliness - this book has all of that. Still, it's not as good as other SEP books. I'm a huge fan of many of her other books, but this one had just a tad too much heartache for me to give it 5 stars.

Great story!

This is a different style book for SEP, but it was a great story. I love the two main characters and the supporting characters were also very well developed.

Love her books

Never disappoints! I’ve listened and read most of her works. I only wish she would write faster.

fine until the end

I get it was written in 1984 but oh my god. I wanted him dead. She deserved better. Ugh!

Basic but okay

I expected a bit more based on the reviews and the description, but in the end, this is a romance novel set in the era after the civil war, with an enemies to lovers storyline. I think quite a few of the more serious issues of that era were handled too lightly, and the story overall could have benefited from a bit of editing, lengthwise, or from some more depth. As it is, I'd say this was a very traditional historical romance, nothing too special.