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Thunder Creek #3
Thunder at Dawn
TWO LONG-AGO LOVERS. ONE UNFORGETTABLE PASSION.
Prosecutor Faith Barclay has made a successful career putting bad guys behind bars. But the work is starting to get to her. Haunted by the one misstep that set a stalker free, Faith escapes to her family’s cabin in Thunder Creek, far from the big city and the recent menacing calls that have her spooked. When she arrives, she encounters another kind of Zach McCallum, the sexy, wild-hearted cowboy who walked out on her ten years before.
A SECOND CHANCE IN THE TOWN WHERE IT ALL BEGAN…
Zach will never forget those hot, lazy nights in Faith’s arms he prayed would never end. Now the beautiful attorney is back in the Wyoming town where they first tasted passion, and this time Zach is determined not to let her get away. But someone else is watching over Faith, leaving threatening messages–someone who has tracked Faith all the way to Thunder Creek. And as passion and danger ignite, it’s up to Zach to protect the fiercely independent woman he never stopped loving–no matter what the risk....
Prosecutor Faith Barclay has made a successful career putting bad guys behind bars. But the work is starting to get to her. Haunted by the one misstep that set a stalker free, Faith escapes to her family’s cabin in Thunder Creek, far from the big city and the recent menacing calls that have her spooked. When she arrives, she encounters another kind of Zach McCallum, the sexy, wild-hearted cowboy who walked out on her ten years before.
A SECOND CHANCE IN THE TOWN WHERE IT ALL BEGAN…
Zach will never forget those hot, lazy nights in Faith’s arms he prayed would never end. Now the beautiful attorney is back in the Wyoming town where they first tasted passion, and this time Zach is determined not to let her get away. But someone else is watching over Faith, leaving threatening messages–someone who has tracked Faith all the way to Thunder Creek. And as passion and danger ignite, it’s up to Zach to protect the fiercely independent woman he never stopped loving–no matter what the risk....
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Jill Gregory
62 books200 followersNew York Times and USA Today best-selling author Jill Gregory is the award-winning author of more than thirty novels. Jill has been awarded the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence and her novels NEVER LOVE A COWBOY and COLD NIGHT, WARM STRANGER were honored with back-to-back Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice awards for Best Western Historical Romance.
Jill Gregory's novels have been translated and published in Japan, Russia, Norway, France, Taiwan, Sweden, Italy, and Germany. Jill grew up in Chicago and received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Illinois. She currently resides in Michigan with her husband.
Jill Gregory's novels have been translated and published in Japan, Russia, Norway, France, Taiwan, Sweden, Italy, and Germany. Jill grew up in Chicago and received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Illinois. She currently resides in Michigan with her husband.
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October 8, 2019
Read all three books in this series and I must say that all they left behind was a trail of blunt and insipid mucus -despite the crimes and the gore and the (most indifferent) romance.
All three heroes in each of these books are your customary mixture of half cardboard muscle-and-erection bearer and half excruciating, box ticking fluff. All three heroines are irritating (naturally, photo-model gorgeous with amazingly successful careers in big cities) but special mention must be made to Faith Barclay, the most irritating of them all. She is supposed to be this amazing prosecutor yet all we get is an infantile, petulant and off-putting idiot who nobody could suffer for more than 30 seconds let alone harbour a grand passion for over a period of ten years!
But there is more that is odd about the sketching (and that is all it is, it never gives you a sense of a real character) of such a heroine. We are supposed to buy as reasonable the fact that a woman who works for the legal system believes she can handle a stalker who has threatened his ex wife and her children with murder all by herself! The ridiculous reason given in all pompous seriousness in 'Thunder at Dawn' is that the stalker is an ex cop so she cannot trust cops! However, if like me you are masochistic (or bored) enough to have read the whole series, you'll remember that the hero of the second book, Ty Barclay, the sheriff of Thunder Creek (the town this blasted series is set in), is her brother. So the next question is why doesn't she speak to her brother about this problem? The idiotic answer is that she would rather not tell her 'over protective' brother about it, she wants to handle things herself, she is 'independent' you see! Only in Romancia is ridiculous willfulness mistaken for 'independent spirit'. Only in Romancia the inane are represented as objects of admiration. Only in Romancia infantile tantrums are considered sexily witty. And only in Romancia women in their late twenties 'feel the clock ticking' or feel hollow if they don't hold a baby. Only in Romancia, women in their forties are only good to flirt and dance with men in their sixties (never with men in their thirties).
Strangely, romance stories that are supposed to be about 'strong, independent heroines' often end up more misogynistic than ones that are about doormats. And this series is no exception.
Also, few things irritate me more than Little House on the Prairie views of small mountain communities in the USA (or anywhere else in the world). And as a final stroke of the most absurd absurdity in this series, all the men are into ranching and oil while working as sheriffs or vets or god knows what.
All three heroes in each of these books are your customary mixture of half cardboard muscle-and-erection bearer and half excruciating, box ticking fluff. All three heroines are irritating (naturally, photo-model gorgeous with amazingly successful careers in big cities) but special mention must be made to Faith Barclay, the most irritating of them all. She is supposed to be this amazing prosecutor yet all we get is an infantile, petulant and off-putting idiot who nobody could suffer for more than 30 seconds let alone harbour a grand passion for over a period of ten years!
But there is more that is odd about the sketching (and that is all it is, it never gives you a sense of a real character) of such a heroine. We are supposed to buy as reasonable the fact that a woman who works for the legal system believes she can handle a stalker who has threatened his ex wife and her children with murder all by herself! The ridiculous reason given in all pompous seriousness in 'Thunder at Dawn' is that the stalker is an ex cop so she cannot trust cops! However, if like me you are masochistic (or bored) enough to have read the whole series, you'll remember that the hero of the second book, Ty Barclay, the sheriff of Thunder Creek (the town this blasted series is set in), is her brother. So the next question is why doesn't she speak to her brother about this problem? The idiotic answer is that she would rather not tell her 'over protective' brother about it, she wants to handle things herself, she is 'independent' you see! Only in Romancia is ridiculous willfulness mistaken for 'independent spirit'. Only in Romancia the inane are represented as objects of admiration. Only in Romancia infantile tantrums are considered sexily witty. And only in Romancia women in their late twenties 'feel the clock ticking' or feel hollow if they don't hold a baby. Only in Romancia, women in their forties are only good to flirt and dance with men in their sixties (never with men in their thirties).
Strangely, romance stories that are supposed to be about 'strong, independent heroines' often end up more misogynistic than ones that are about doormats. And this series is no exception.
Also, few things irritate me more than Little House on the Prairie views of small mountain communities in the USA (or anywhere else in the world). And as a final stroke of the most absurd absurdity in this series, all the men are into ranching and oil while working as sheriffs or vets or god knows what.
January 16, 2013
This book was an OK end to the series. Overall I was underwhelmed.
October 17, 2020
Amazing, off my seat incredible!
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August 7, 2011I enjoyed this book a bit of mystery/suspence involved in it as well
December 30, 2011
I read this in one day. It was fast paced exciting and great characters lots of plot twists. It was a perfect fun afternoon read I will definitely read more of Jill's books.
April 10, 2017
I liked this book better than I thought I was going to. I enjoyed the characters and I liked the mystery. I thought the connection between the two main characters was very strong. It was one of the better long-lost love stories that I've read in a while. My only criticism comes from the ending. It was a little abrupt to my liking. I felt like there was a loose end in the plot. Still, I would definitely read more from this author.
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June 22, 2017Saw this listed in The Oakland Press and the author resides in MI and it sounded interesting, so I gave it a try. Good story lines, but I thought she could have developed it even more. Suspenseful parts, but could have been less predictable.
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