A Conard County Reckoning

Conard County #9

by Rachel Lee

Janet Tate was through being the victim, but something about the stranger she'd discovered in the mountains demanded that she learn his secrets. Abel had lived with the memory of his father's untimely death and the name of those responsible--Tate, Parish, Laird. Now, he'd made a date with destiny in their once-safe domain--Conard County, Wyoming.

Genres: Romance

298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1996

About the author

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Rachel Lee is a New York Times best-selling author and the winner of Six Romantic Times magazine Reviewers' Choice Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA® Award. She has penned a wide variety of novels in several genres including fantasy, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy. She resides in Tampa, Florida.

Reviews

[Pam A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good action, suspense. Young pregnant lady returns home after being ditched by babys father, meets a young man who had a bad experience with his former spouse. Viet-nam, sheriff, detective, private eye, stalker killer in the mountains. Of course, the young lady and man finally get together. The part I could never understand, however, was the young man had alot of red flags on his character. Abrasive, stalker tendencies - not sure what the attraction was here.

[Val · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting.

[Dietrich West-Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read. Nice plot good characters. Nice easy read

[Rhapsody · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know why I keep on reading these Rachel Lee books. As usual with her books, I ended up skimming it. It was just so boring. Janet is back home in Conard County, pregnant and unwed, having been cheated on and then dumped by her boyfriend. She's pretty upset about the situation and ends up renting out a small house kind of in the wilderness, where she meets Abel, a cop who's camping in the area. When she and her family and various of their friends are targeted by a stalker, Abel protects her and they become involved.

Boring!! So boring. And full of cliches I've come to hate. Like her being so shocked and offended when her ex-boyfriend suggested she get an abortion. I'm not saying she should have gotten an abortion. Just that I don't like the possibility being presented like an crime, and I also don't like her refusal being used as a device to show what a wonderful person she is. I guess the book was written in a slightly different time. And then there's her constant worrying about her baby and protecting her baby and she has to do what's right for her baby... Ugh. I just can't stand that sort of thing. I didn't see much chemistry between her and Abel and really just wasn't drawn in at any moment. This book was really just sort of yet another of a particular genre, totally uninteresting, bordering on being a waste of time, which isn't something I say very often even about bad books.

[Rita · Rating 1 out of 5]

I struggled with this one. It took forever for anything to get resolved and the characters kept rehashing the same things in both their thoughts and their conversations. Also, plot threads got dropped along the way without ever being completed.

[Lesli · Rating 2 out of 5]

so freakin' boring.

[Sharon Sherman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vietnam vets and revenge, women and new babies can all be found in this good book of Conard County.

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Conard County Reckoning by Rachel Lee (1996)

[Debra McEathron · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really good story about some Vietnam vets that were in special forces. It is about one family in this town and how a man has decided he wants his revenge over something that he perceived happened 20 years ago.