Wyoming Heather

Review copy provided vie Reading Alley in exchange for an honest review.

Summary: Wyoming Heather

He rode alone coming back after five years to an empty cabin, a run-down ranch, and a grave on a hill. A former Texas Ranger, burnt out on life and afraid to love. Whip had spent five years hunting the man that took his wife's life and left him to die.

Heather is a spirited, independent woman living alone on a ranch left to her by her parents. A woman doing a man's work running a ranch that everyone said couldn't be done, no in this untamed, vastly unsettled land, in the mid 1800's. not only was Heather doing it, but she was doing it well. The ranch was her life. it had everything she needed except water. But she'd managed to over come even that. She stole it from a neighboring abandoned ranch watched over by a lonely cabin and a grave.

Heather's life is devoted to her ranch and her love for animals. She is considered a healer, we known throughout the rough and untamed Wyoming country. She has a full life. Then why is it so empty?

Whip vowed he would take up his dream abandoned five years ago and make his beloved ranch profit and to put aside the sweet linger of all memories shared by his and his wife. The ranch would be a jealous mistress occupying his every though and every minute. He had no time or desire for a woman much less a pair of runaways from The Orphan Train stowaway in Whip's wagon and onto the Powder River Ranch.

Whip and Heather meet in an explosive moment on the banks of the Powder River, reacting to one another like fire and wind. But, underlying the tangles over property rights, there's a chemistry between the two. both are lonely, both are drawn to one another, and both fight the attraction-Whip, because of memories he's not ready to put to rest, and Heather, because of her stubborn resolve to succeed as a woman rancher.

But fate heeds no one or no thing. The criminal from Whip's past reemerges in the present. Now, Heather is in danger and Whip stands, once again, on the cusp of loss. Fate shows a strong, wilful woman, full of love and compassion, just what she's been missing in her life. And it shows a calloused Texas Ranger that Heather and love does flourish on the Wyoming plains.

Review: Three point five stars.

I've read a couple other books by this author and thoroughly enjoyed them, this one wasn't up to par with her others. The development of the Characters and Plot were well done. The flow felt choppy at times as if this was a working copy and not the finished product.

Throughout the book there were grammatical and punctuation errors. I know all this plays in the rating I'm giving this book. Also, parts of the storyline wasn't believable; if this would have been the first book from this author I read I won't have tried any others but since this was the third, I'll let it slide as poor editing. As the plot was well thought out and was easy to follow even through the choppy parts.

Conclusion:

Would I recommend this book to others? NO, since I don't recommend books riddled with errors; Would I read other books from this author? Yes, since the others I've read before reading this were great.