In this really great opening book into a new series, you will get to
meet the feisty, smart and scared Carlin Reed.
And, yes she was named after George Carlin! She is being stalked by
someone nobody would ever expect it of, and her stalker has already killed one
person that Carlin cares about. Now she
is on the run.
Her running takes her to an unlikely place by the name of Battle Ridge, Wyoming a very quiet ranching town that is sort of on the way out, with people
moving trying to make a living elsewhere.
After working for a while for Kat the owner of The Pie Hole here in town,
Carlin gets sort of coerced into taking a job for Zeke Decker, a cattle ranch owner who is just walking sex on
a stick, if you know what I mean! He is gruff, blustery and the type of guy who
wants to fix everything for almost everyone!
This was a wonderful romance, but even more importantly, it was a
terrific suspense novel. This is
something that Linda Howard is known for, and she really worked it. I had trouble seeing just where Ms Jones left
her mark, as the writing was so seamless between the two women.
Some of the passages got to be a little too much with the inner angst
but they were soon bypassed by increasingly suspenseful…well…suspense scenes.
Zeke does get around to eventually getting his own way and teaching
Carlin just what she needs to know about saving herself if she ever finds
herself in need too. And of course she
will eventually need to. She makes for a
great kick-butt heroine who also knows when to let someone more experienced
take over in the kicking butt department.
This was written with a tight plot, great, well-rounded characters of different
kinds all with their own voices. The scene descriptions where vividly written,
the scenery descriptions made you actually see them in your mind. There was even plentiful humor to break up
the fear factor. The sexual aspect took
quite a while to come up and I appreciated that. I don’t always like a book where the couple
has to fall into bed in the 5th chapter. I could actually believe that
they took their time and really fell into love instead of it being simply lust disguised
to look like love.
I loved this book and will be buying the next one in this series, and I
will be keeping this on my to –be- re-read shelf!
*ARC SUPPLIED BY PUBLISHER*
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