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Bluebonnet Springs #1
Second Chance Rancher
A military woman's Texas homecoming gives her a chance to renovate a ranch--and her love life--in this heartwarming romance.
At eighteen, Lucy Palermo couldn't wait to join the army and leave Bluebonnet Springs behind. Ten years later, she's come home to fix her family's falling-down ranch and repair the bond with her troubled siblings. Neighboring rancher Dane Scott is even more handsome--and distracting--than she remembers. The single dad's priority is making a stable life for his daughter. He needs someone who'll stay--and straight-talking Lucy doesn't seem to need anyone. But beneath that tough exterior is a loving, softhearted woman. A woman Dane can't help wanting, if he can show her that the town she once fled is the perfect place to start over--together.
Praise for Brenda Minton
"Brenda Minton has done her usual excellent job of showing us the quieter, more decent side of life. One could say she restores our faith in humanity." --Fresh Fiction
At eighteen, Lucy Palermo couldn't wait to join the army and leave Bluebonnet Springs behind. Ten years later, she's come home to fix her family's falling-down ranch and repair the bond with her troubled siblings. Neighboring rancher Dane Scott is even more handsome--and distracting--than she remembers. The single dad's priority is making a stable life for his daughter. He needs someone who'll stay--and straight-talking Lucy doesn't seem to need anyone. But beneath that tough exterior is a loving, softhearted woman. A woman Dane can't help wanting, if he can show her that the town she once fled is the perfect place to start over--together.
Praise for Brenda Minton
"Brenda Minton has done her usual excellent job of showing us the quieter, more decent side of life. One could say she restores our faith in humanity." --Fresh Fiction
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225 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2017
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About the author
Brenda Minton
116 books213 followersBrenda Minton lives, procrastinates, writes, drinks coffee, raises her kids and is wife to her husband, in the Ozarks.
Okay, now to first person because a third person bio sounds like someone else wrote it about me, and is just license to create flowery prose about myself.
I grew up on a farm in the Ozarks. It was long ago and far away, in a land before cable TV, video games and the internet. To pass the time we read books, watched (gasp) network TV that rarely came in clear, and had friends over on weekends to play music on the front porch, or card games in the dining room.
The result of growing up 'country' was an active imagination. For fun I wrote stories to entertain myself and I dreamed of being an author. Oh, but first, before writing, I wanted to be a jockey.
Writing won out over being a jockey. In the spring of 2006 I got the call that made those dreams come true: the call that welcomed me into the Steeple Hill family of authors.
The moral of this story, never stop dreaming.
Okay, now to first person because a third person bio sounds like someone else wrote it about me, and is just license to create flowery prose about myself.
I grew up on a farm in the Ozarks. It was long ago and far away, in a land before cable TV, video games and the internet. To pass the time we read books, watched (gasp) network TV that rarely came in clear, and had friends over on weekends to play music on the front porch, or card games in the dining room.
The result of growing up 'country' was an active imagination. For fun I wrote stories to entertain myself and I dreamed of being an author. Oh, but first, before writing, I wanted to be a jockey.
Writing won out over being a jockey. In the spring of 2006 I got the call that made those dreams come true: the call that welcomed me into the Steeple Hill family of authors.
The moral of this story, never stop dreaming.
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July 18, 2023
Nicely done author. Especially impressed by the second half ….
Broken families and teenage pregnancy and overcoming tough backgrounds.
Dane & Lucy.
Broken families and teenage pregnancy and overcoming tough backgrounds.
Dane & Lucy.
June 3, 2022
First, this is 'Second Chance Rancher', by Minton... not to be confused with 'Rancher's Second Chance', also by Minton. Because creativity.
Second, this is *NOT* the first book of a series. It's a continuation series of a previous series 'Martin's Crossing'. Which is where you find "Rancher's Second Chance". Just to be totally clear as mud. Because *MINTON*. Don't even get me started - and I have a metric TON of these Minton books to wade thru. Except I was stupid and started with Bluebonnet Springs #1, thinking I was starting a series, and found myself in the middle of a bunch of characters I don't know. A-Gain. Gee, thanks a lot. Might've been better to call the series "Texas Tales - series one" and "Texas Tales - series two", like Clopton with her six Mule Hollow series or Tronstad with her four Dry Creek ones. SO THE READERS KNOW. ((sigh.))
So about this book.
Lucy, Maria, Luke and Alex are messed up, because Daddy was a preacher of a 'small congregation' who raked in the dough by robbing his congregants blind and advocated beating wives and small children into submission. It was more cult than church. But because this is a 'chrischun' novel, none'a them good folk'd ever fall fer suchuva thing, so the townspeople all left the church... except then who's he robbing, again? And oh hey, none'a them good folk'd help the kids, neither - even though they have proof they were being abused. Because GOOD chrischuns. Riiiiiiight.
This monster's wife - who flits all over the country - was supposedly too afraid to leave him. But she FLITS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, at the start of this book. Um... no. And she left her kids behind, so Maria (who's seventeen... or sixteen... or eighteen, depending on what page you're on) is living on a ranch by herself with I-don't-know-how-many head of cattle to take care of, and high school, when this crapfest starts. SERIOUSLY?!?!?
We're batting a thousand, already. Alex and Luke are off riding rodeo, and Lucy ran away to the Army, and is now out of the service and working as a bodyguard in Austin. Daddy's dead, Mama's on husband #3 out in California... it's a hot mess, all the way around. And I'm just doing the set-up, here, for the book. (((sigh.)))
Anyhow, Maria's the baby and never done got beat like her sibs did, so she's a spoiled little hellion who runs the farm truck into Dane's fence and leaves it stuck in the mud there with the cattle getting out, walking home in the dark, five months pregnant, no food in the house... but no longer in school, because she 'graduated in December'. WHO IN HADES GRADUATES IN DECEMBER?!?!?!??! We moved states my brother's senior year, and he had enough credits from the previous state to graduate early here, and they STILL made him finish out the year part-time (as a work-study hybrid program with extra electives), hello. ((shakes head))
So Lucy's been summoned home by an aunt who can't keep up with hellion Maria (Maria was supposed to live with Auntie, but took off back to the ranch. After all, somebody's gotta feed the cattle...???) And Lucy arrives and finds her little sister pregnant and in trouble, but not... because Maria is a great cook, a super-genius who graduated early, and this paragon of holiness who watches blind children whilst going to Bible study at the shelter. What the what?!?!?!?
Which brings us to the town shelter. Minton calls it 'church', but there's nary a service to be had, not even by pg 185 (where I am when I had to start breakin' this down). It's Daddy's old 'church' building, but it's now a shelter for battered women... and they have daycare for the children so's the mamas can work, and classes to teach them to cook (except if they're going to college/working/getting counseling/attending Bible study, in WHAT TIME do they have time to cook, and where, praytell???).
So Lucy is being forced by the town into helping at the shelter, except it's Daddy's church and she's NOT okay, there. But because she's a bodyguard, apparently she's an expert at security system installation. Or so Minton says. (You DO know those are two completely different careers, right?) It's along the same lines as Dane having gone to college for Agriculture and Business so's he can better run the family ranch, but somehow he's also a genius electrician. ((((SIGH.)))) Yeah. That.
Speaking of Dane, he's a good ol' boy who married a citified brat who didn't want to live on his ranch. In. What. Universe?!?!?! Hello, if she was that cold and urban, she would NEVER have even gone back to Bluebonnet with him, let alone LIVED there. But then she has a preemie whose eyes are damaged in the incubator (stuff of the pre-2000s era, but check your brain at the door, please), so Issy is blind. And MamaDane couldn't handle it, so off she went.
But that's not all. Dane's wife apparently hated on him 'since before Issy was born', as he hasn't felt so 'domestic' as he does with Lucy since before Issy's birth. Only wouldn't bringing a wife/child home from the hospital to the ranch feel domestic, even if they're at odds? BAD writing.
As for Issy, she sleeps pretty much anywhere, loves everyone, and her daddy "keeps the path from his room to hers free of clutter". Okay... first, WHO DOESN'T keep walkways clear? Have you ever been on a cluttered path through a house? Even my Grandma Betty has tiny aisles she can hobble along from one room to another, with junk piled on all sides. MOST houses have clear paths, room to room. Sheeeeeesh, the writing...!!!
And of course Lucy is the one that got away, so... Dane's moon-eyed over her. Pretty much follows her all day, every day. While re-doing the electrical full-time at the shelter. And being a board member at the 'church' (which... since when do they have board meetings AT THE SAME TIME as the studies/not-really-services, so that they members can't get edified? Asking for a friend...). And all of this while Dane's full-time running a ranch *that he's never at*. And being a super-dad, of course. Except Minton has him on pg 109 going on a trip to visit his parents in Dallas WITHOUT his daughter. On top of him handing her off pretty much every moment of the book. (((Grr.)))
But about this shelter... we're talking fixing the shelter... WHO exactly is funding the state-of-the-art security system, all new electrical, renovations to the building, etc? Because this is a tiny country community, and we're told that most of the folk there don't have a lot for money. So... is this just one of those 'suspend reality for the sake of the author' things, again?
And back to Issy. She's handed off to an invisible elderly nanny, taken care of by a barely-there Aunt Haven, and watched by Maria, who's puking every twenty minutes with her morning sickness. And when Minton *REALLY* needs to get Issy out of the picture, she sends her to Dallas to her grandparents. But only for a day, because reasons. ((Minton...))
So then enters Willa. Willa's a battered wife with a young son at the shelter. Her husband shows up, Lucy flattens him to the ground (EGADS! VIOLENCE! We don't condone that - we're chrischuns!! Nevermind all the battles Israel was *commanded* to fight)... and then Willa goes home to him, anyhow, making excuses for him. Until he kicks her and breaks her nose, bruises her ribs, and she ends up BACK at the shelter, where they coo over her and tell her it's all okay... IT'S NOT OKAY. When he kicked her he killed her unborn baby - that's NOT okay. That's murder. And nobody will be tough-love and state it as murder. Nobody at the 'church' will tell her she and her son are next, because no good chrischun would EVAH say a thing like dat. (((GRRRR!!!!)))
And add icing to that cake? Lucy tells Willa that she's "far stronger than I ever have been". BULL-crap - Lucy was abused, got out, and never went back. Willa's took her son back into the abuse, time and again, hello!!! That's *NOT* strength. What crap is this???? But Lucy takes Willa home with her, and offers her apartment in Austin to her... Willa talks about college there and nursing and starting new in Austin, just for Minton two pages later to 180 and say Willa's plan is to go and stay with an aunt. (((Sigh.))) BAD, bad writing.
Something like Dane telling Lucy he'd fix the fence, then he'd have his guys do it... then he'd fix it? Because why keep track of who's doing what in your novel, amIright? Oh, and by the way, the MOMENT that Willa moves in with Lucy/Maria? Maria's morning sickness is miraculously cured! Wow, who knew taking in abused women did THAT?
Maria is wildly fun stupidity, too. Doesn't want her baby. But she says babies are a blessing. And she loves children. But she doesn't want her baby. But she watches the little ones at the shelter. But she doesn't want her child. But if she kept her, the baby would be a princess. But she's going to give it away, because ME-ME-ME-MEEEEEE!!!! (((sigh.))) It. Makes. NO. Sense. And like we don't know that Dane and Lucy are going to adopt the baby? Totally predictable plot, there...
Pg 81, we have someone slinking around in the field behind the house. WHO in Hades crawls on their belly in a cow pasture in TEXAS, home to the second largest venomous creature population, hello? Cuz I'd like to know. I'm at page 185, and there's nary another mention of it. Is it supposed to be Dane's city wife? Cuz I think not... Undeveloped plot weirdness via pitifully shoddy writing, much?
And the ranch is fun, too. On pg 133 we're told about all the changes being made on Lucy's ranch - fences mended, more cattle, etc. Except SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR SOMETHING LIKE *ONE* WEEK, and has been with Maria or at the shelter the entire time, so... who is doing these repairs and re-stocking things, and why???? NONE of this makes any sense. Nor does Dane's maybe-I'll-sell-my-ranch-but-maybe-not weirdness. Because reasons.
And then there's fun dialogue:
Her: "I have to get to Essie's. I'll be back."
Him: "I'm headed to Essie's, myself. I'll meet you there."
"What was he thinking? He'd practically invited her to lunch..."
Um... NO, he didn't. At all. WHAT THE FARTS?!?!
As for the 'inspirational' part of this book, Minton equates good deeds with spirituality. If you fix a shelter and care for the battered, you're going to Heaven. ((Christ would have a thing or two to say about this... as in 'Lord, Lord, didn't we [insert good deed], but I will say to you in that day, depart from me, ye who are Torah-less, I never knew you".)) Lucy hates God because Daddy issues and wonders if He gives a crap about her, anyhow. Dane's religion is mission board meetings and supper with the Bible study ladies. There's NO real Biblical edification to be found in this book. Not even close.
Which brings me to the place where I say... "WHY am I reading this?" And close the book and walk away. DNF @ pg185.
Second, this is *NOT* the first book of a series. It's a continuation series of a previous series 'Martin's Crossing'. Which is where you find "Rancher's Second Chance". Just to be totally clear as mud. Because *MINTON*. Don't even get me started - and I have a metric TON of these Minton books to wade thru. Except I was stupid and started with Bluebonnet Springs #1, thinking I was starting a series, and found myself in the middle of a bunch of characters I don't know. A-Gain. Gee, thanks a lot. Might've been better to call the series "Texas Tales - series one" and "Texas Tales - series two", like Clopton with her six Mule Hollow series or Tronstad with her four Dry Creek ones. SO THE READERS KNOW. ((sigh.))
So about this book.
Lucy, Maria, Luke and Alex are messed up, because Daddy was a preacher of a 'small congregation' who raked in the dough by robbing his congregants blind and advocated beating wives and small children into submission. It was more cult than church. But because this is a 'chrischun' novel, none'a them good folk'd ever fall fer suchuva thing, so the townspeople all left the church... except then who's he robbing, again? And oh hey, none'a them good folk'd help the kids, neither - even though they have proof they were being abused. Because GOOD chrischuns. Riiiiiiight.
This monster's wife - who flits all over the country - was supposedly too afraid to leave him. But she FLITS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, at the start of this book. Um... no. And she left her kids behind, so Maria (who's seventeen... or sixteen... or eighteen, depending on what page you're on) is living on a ranch by herself with I-don't-know-how-many head of cattle to take care of, and high school, when this crapfest starts. SERIOUSLY?!?!?
We're batting a thousand, already. Alex and Luke are off riding rodeo, and Lucy ran away to the Army, and is now out of the service and working as a bodyguard in Austin. Daddy's dead, Mama's on husband #3 out in California... it's a hot mess, all the way around. And I'm just doing the set-up, here, for the book. (((sigh.)))
Anyhow, Maria's the baby and never done got beat like her sibs did, so she's a spoiled little hellion who runs the farm truck into Dane's fence and leaves it stuck in the mud there with the cattle getting out, walking home in the dark, five months pregnant, no food in the house... but no longer in school, because she 'graduated in December'. WHO IN HADES GRADUATES IN DECEMBER?!?!?!??! We moved states my brother's senior year, and he had enough credits from the previous state to graduate early here, and they STILL made him finish out the year part-time (as a work-study hybrid program with extra electives), hello. ((shakes head))
So Lucy's been summoned home by an aunt who can't keep up with hellion Maria (Maria was supposed to live with Auntie, but took off back to the ranch. After all, somebody's gotta feed the cattle...???) And Lucy arrives and finds her little sister pregnant and in trouble, but not... because Maria is a great cook, a super-genius who graduated early, and this paragon of holiness who watches blind children whilst going to Bible study at the shelter. What the what?!?!?!?
Which brings us to the town shelter. Minton calls it 'church', but there's nary a service to be had, not even by pg 185 (where I am when I had to start breakin' this down). It's Daddy's old 'church' building, but it's now a shelter for battered women... and they have daycare for the children so's the mamas can work, and classes to teach them to cook (except if they're going to college/working/getting counseling/attending Bible study, in WHAT TIME do they have time to cook, and where, praytell???).
So Lucy is being forced by the town into helping at the shelter, except it's Daddy's church and she's NOT okay, there. But because she's a bodyguard, apparently she's an expert at security system installation. Or so Minton says. (You DO know those are two completely different careers, right?) It's along the same lines as Dane having gone to college for Agriculture and Business so's he can better run the family ranch, but somehow he's also a genius electrician. ((((SIGH.)))) Yeah. That.
Speaking of Dane, he's a good ol' boy who married a citified brat who didn't want to live on his ranch. In. What. Universe?!?!?! Hello, if she was that cold and urban, she would NEVER have even gone back to Bluebonnet with him, let alone LIVED there. But then she has a preemie whose eyes are damaged in the incubator (stuff of the pre-2000s era, but check your brain at the door, please), so Issy is blind. And MamaDane couldn't handle it, so off she went.
But that's not all. Dane's wife apparently hated on him 'since before Issy was born', as he hasn't felt so 'domestic' as he does with Lucy since before Issy's birth. Only wouldn't bringing a wife/child home from the hospital to the ranch feel domestic, even if they're at odds? BAD writing.
As for Issy, she sleeps pretty much anywhere, loves everyone, and her daddy "keeps the path from his room to hers free of clutter". Okay... first, WHO DOESN'T keep walkways clear? Have you ever been on a cluttered path through a house? Even my Grandma Betty has tiny aisles she can hobble along from one room to another, with junk piled on all sides. MOST houses have clear paths, room to room. Sheeeeeesh, the writing...!!!
And of course Lucy is the one that got away, so... Dane's moon-eyed over her. Pretty much follows her all day, every day. While re-doing the electrical full-time at the shelter. And being a board member at the 'church' (which... since when do they have board meetings AT THE SAME TIME as the studies/not-really-services, so that they members can't get edified? Asking for a friend...). And all of this while Dane's full-time running a ranch *that he's never at*. And being a super-dad, of course. Except Minton has him on pg 109 going on a trip to visit his parents in Dallas WITHOUT his daughter. On top of him handing her off pretty much every moment of the book. (((Grr.)))
But about this shelter... we're talking fixing the shelter... WHO exactly is funding the state-of-the-art security system, all new electrical, renovations to the building, etc? Because this is a tiny country community, and we're told that most of the folk there don't have a lot for money. So... is this just one of those 'suspend reality for the sake of the author' things, again?
And back to Issy. She's handed off to an invisible elderly nanny, taken care of by a barely-there Aunt Haven, and watched by Maria, who's puking every twenty minutes with her morning sickness. And when Minton *REALLY* needs to get Issy out of the picture, she sends her to Dallas to her grandparents. But only for a day, because reasons. ((Minton...))
So then enters Willa. Willa's a battered wife with a young son at the shelter. Her husband shows up, Lucy flattens him to the ground (EGADS! VIOLENCE! We don't condone that - we're chrischuns!! Nevermind all the battles Israel was *commanded* to fight)... and then Willa goes home to him, anyhow, making excuses for him. Until he kicks her and breaks her nose, bruises her ribs, and she ends up BACK at the shelter, where they coo over her and tell her it's all okay... IT'S NOT OKAY. When he kicked her he killed her unborn baby - that's NOT okay. That's murder. And nobody will be tough-love and state it as murder. Nobody at the 'church' will tell her she and her son are next, because no good chrischun would EVAH say a thing like dat. (((GRRRR!!!!)))
And add icing to that cake? Lucy tells Willa that she's "far stronger than I ever have been". BULL-crap - Lucy was abused, got out, and never went back. Willa's took her son back into the abuse, time and again, hello!!! That's *NOT* strength. What crap is this???? But Lucy takes Willa home with her, and offers her apartment in Austin to her... Willa talks about college there and nursing and starting new in Austin, just for Minton two pages later to 180 and say Willa's plan is to go and stay with an aunt. (((Sigh.))) BAD, bad writing.
Something like Dane telling Lucy he'd fix the fence, then he'd have his guys do it... then he'd fix it? Because why keep track of who's doing what in your novel, amIright? Oh, and by the way, the MOMENT that Willa moves in with Lucy/Maria? Maria's morning sickness is miraculously cured! Wow, who knew taking in abused women did THAT?
Maria is wildly fun stupidity, too. Doesn't want her baby. But she says babies are a blessing. And she loves children. But she doesn't want her baby. But she watches the little ones at the shelter. But she doesn't want her child. But if she kept her, the baby would be a princess. But she's going to give it away, because ME-ME-ME-MEEEEEE!!!! (((sigh.))) It. Makes. NO. Sense. And like we don't know that Dane and Lucy are going to adopt the baby? Totally predictable plot, there...
Pg 81, we have someone slinking around in the field behind the house. WHO in Hades crawls on their belly in a cow pasture in TEXAS, home to the second largest venomous creature population, hello? Cuz I'd like to know. I'm at page 185, and there's nary another mention of it. Is it supposed to be Dane's city wife? Cuz I think not... Undeveloped plot weirdness via pitifully shoddy writing, much?
And the ranch is fun, too. On pg 133 we're told about all the changes being made on Lucy's ranch - fences mended, more cattle, etc. Except SHE'S BEEN THERE FOR SOMETHING LIKE *ONE* WEEK, and has been with Maria or at the shelter the entire time, so... who is doing these repairs and re-stocking things, and why???? NONE of this makes any sense. Nor does Dane's maybe-I'll-sell-my-ranch-but-maybe-not weirdness. Because reasons.
And then there's fun dialogue:
Her: "I have to get to Essie's. I'll be back."
Him: "I'm headed to Essie's, myself. I'll meet you there."
"What was he thinking? He'd practically invited her to lunch..."
Um... NO, he didn't. At all. WHAT THE FARTS?!?!
As for the 'inspirational' part of this book, Minton equates good deeds with spirituality. If you fix a shelter and care for the battered, you're going to Heaven. ((Christ would have a thing or two to say about this... as in 'Lord, Lord, didn't we [insert good deed], but I will say to you in that day, depart from me, ye who are Torah-less, I never knew you".)) Lucy hates God because Daddy issues and wonders if He gives a crap about her, anyhow. Dane's religion is mission board meetings and supper with the Bible study ladies. There's NO real Biblical edification to be found in this book. Not even close.
Which brings me to the place where I say... "WHY am I reading this?" And close the book and walk away. DNF @ pg185.
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August 13, 2017What is there not to love about a BRENDA MINTON story? I can’t think of a one, which is why she is one of my favorite authors, and most definitely my favorite Love Inspired author. When I spotted SECOND CHANCE RANCHER (BLUEBONNET SPRINGS) I didn’t hesitate to grab it off the shelf and purchase it. The challenging part is knowing it is in my house while I am in the middle of a book that I need to finish before starting MS MINTON’S. Purse torture, I tell you.
Lucy Palermo has been running for as long as she can remember. The time has come to stop running, face up to her past, and look to the future God has for her.
Dane Scott was left without answers to questions. When the girl he loved all those years ago comes back into his life, he isn’t about to let her tough act or her past take away what he believes is meant to be.
I distinctly remembered Lucy from a prior book. I thought her to be cold, which was indeed what she was. So to slide into her story in SECOND CHANCE RANCHER should have taken quite a bit for the reader to warm up to her character, but in true BRENDA MINTON fashion, that wasn’t the case. I LOVE Lucy’s back story. I love how her character is played out, which complements so well with Dane’s.
Another amazing story written with perfection. Can’t wait for the next!!!!!
Lucy Palermo has been running for as long as she can remember. The time has come to stop running, face up to her past, and look to the future God has for her.
Dane Scott was left without answers to questions. When the girl he loved all those years ago comes back into his life, he isn’t about to let her tough act or her past take away what he believes is meant to be.
I distinctly remembered Lucy from a prior book. I thought her to be cold, which was indeed what she was. So to slide into her story in SECOND CHANCE RANCHER should have taken quite a bit for the reader to warm up to her character, but in true BRENDA MINTON fashion, that wasn’t the case. I LOVE Lucy’s back story. I love how her character is played out, which complements so well with Dane’s.
Another amazing story written with perfection. Can’t wait for the next!!!!!
October 10, 2018
Her Texas Homecoming At eighteen, Lucy Palermo (bodyguard) couldn't wait to join the army and leave Bluebonnet Springs and her abusive past behind. Ten years later, she's come home to at her aunt Essie’s request to try and repair the bond with her troubled sister Marie, who she discovers is pregnant. Neighboring (rancher) Dane Scott is even more handsome - and distracting - than she remembers. The single dad's priority is making a stable life for his daughter Issy who is blind. He needs someone who'll stay - and straight-talking Lucy doesn't seem to need anyone. But beneath that tough exterior is a loving, softhearted woman. A woman Dane can't help wanting, if he can show her that the town she once fled is the perfect place to start over - together. Seeing the church transformed from a cult into a Women’s Shelter and helping those women become empowered is helping Lucy get over her past with a deranged pastor for a father and pastor.
May 7, 2020
So this was an easy light read. A couple of chapters seemed a bit disconnected and some loose ends were tied but not with much detail. I do wish the writer would have spent a little more detail in some areas of the book. Overall though the story line of the book was humble hearted and a positive message.
September 15, 2017
Second Chance Ranch a Bluebonnet Springs series by Brenda Minton. Romance, healing. A great book
August 7, 2017
good book
September 29, 2017
One of her quirky stories - Definitely MINTON
Lacked something I'd come to love about hers, therefore - not the 5 I'd usually give.
Lacked something I'd come to love about hers, therefore - not the 5 I'd usually give.
September 2, 2018
great series great book.
January 27, 2020
Excellent, emotional book!
February 25, 2020
Loved it!
December 13, 2024
Love this series
May 21, 2025
I love Brenda Minton writing but this book is definitely a favorite
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