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Trinity Street West #7
Clay Yeager's Redemption
TRINITY STREET WEST
WHAT SHE WANTED: Casey Scott was used to stray animals wandering onto her property. But stray men? A series of menacing midnight calls had alarmed her senses, so the dark, rugged looks of the mysterious loner were enough to frighten her. If she were smart, she'd think twice about letting him work on her ranch but the sexy stranger was hard to ignore.
Clay Yeager knew there was more to Casey Scott than met the eye, and this beautiful rancher was stirring up emotions he'd thought were long dead. Would the ex-cop be able to forget his past and protect this woman he couldn't live without? Where danger lies around every corner and the biggest danger of all is falling in love.
WHAT SHE WANTED: Casey Scott was used to stray animals wandering onto her property. But stray men? A series of menacing midnight calls had alarmed her senses, so the dark, rugged looks of the mysterious loner were enough to frighten her. If she were smart, she'd think twice about letting him work on her ranch but the sexy stranger was hard to ignore.
Clay Yeager knew there was more to Casey Scott than met the eye, and this beautiful rancher was stirring up emotions he'd thought were long dead. Would the ex-cop be able to forget his past and protect this woman he couldn't live without? Where danger lies around every corner and the biggest danger of all is falling in love.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1999
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About the author
Justine Davis
252 books216 followersAuthor biographies are supposed to give you all those statistics, books written, awards won, etc. and I will, I promise...but first let me tell you about this ornery little tomboy (back then, the boys had all the fun...) who was always the one to make up the stories the neighborhood kids would "play". For those who came of age in the computer game era, this is something that was done usually in the backyard, by any number of summer-bored children, with props where appropriate. (Did you know a 55 gallon drum tied to a picnic bench makes a very cool horse?) It wasn't until much later that this tomboy realized two things: A) not everyone made up stories in their heads all the time, and B) in real life, the boys that had already had all the fun now seemed to always be winning.
But I digress. I was born on a farm down in Iowa....well, not quite, but close; Boone, Iowa is in the middle of farm country, but I arrived at a hospital. In a snow storm. Make that a blizzard. My sister tells me she knew my destiny when I was very young, because when I first saw the Disney classic Old Yeller, I was apparently so upset that I promptly went home and rewrote the story. In my version, the dog lived, of course. Should have been a clue.
Possibly in response to that blizzard I was born in, I've been a West Coaster since before I was a year old, and intend to stay that way. I have a history of staying. I started my first full time job right out of school (well, there was a very brief sojourn at a place where they made, among other things, burial vaults, but I prefer not to recall that one...) and stayed for twenty-one years. I've been married to the same wonderful guy for going on two decades now. We lived in our last house for seventeen years. (I won't even mention how many dumpsters we filled moving after that long....)
Readers seem as fascinated by my first career as they are with my writing. My time in law enforcement was many things, exciting, nerve wracking, and irritating, but most importantly never, ever boring. It was fascinating enough that I didn't think about writing seriously for several years. I kept a journal, and wrote long letters, collected quotes, mentally rewrote movies, and still made up those stories in my head, but never dreamed of actually writing for publication. I was having too much fun helping to catch bad guys, and being continually amazed at the situations people get themselves into. And eventually I walked away with a wealth of background and story ideas, and knowing some truly great people who work very hard to keep all of us safe. I'm proud to have been one of them, and I'm very aware that I have had the great good fortune of having had two jobs in my life that I love. Many people don't get even one.
But now that I'm in the delicious position of being able to make a living telling those stories in my head, I promise my readers two things: A) I'm staying--I'll keep writing as long as you keep reading, and B) in my stories, the girl--tomboy or not--always wins!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
And now, the official stats:
Justine Dare Davis sold her first book in 1989, and followed that up with the sale of nineteen novels in less than two years. Her first four books were published in 1991, and she saw all reach the finals for either the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award or the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA Award. She has since won the RITA award four times, along with several Reviewer's Choice awards and three Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times. At the 1998 national conference, Justine was inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame, making her one of a very select group of just eight writers. She also had four titles on the Romantic Times "Top 200 of All Time" list. Her sales now total more than 45, and her books have appeared regularly on best seller lists, including the USA Today list. She has been featured in several local newspapers and nationwide by Associated Press, has appeared on CN
But I digress. I was born on a farm down in Iowa....well, not quite, but close; Boone, Iowa is in the middle of farm country, but I arrived at a hospital. In a snow storm. Make that a blizzard. My sister tells me she knew my destiny when I was very young, because when I first saw the Disney classic Old Yeller, I was apparently so upset that I promptly went home and rewrote the story. In my version, the dog lived, of course. Should have been a clue.
Possibly in response to that blizzard I was born in, I've been a West Coaster since before I was a year old, and intend to stay that way. I have a history of staying. I started my first full time job right out of school (well, there was a very brief sojourn at a place where they made, among other things, burial vaults, but I prefer not to recall that one...) and stayed for twenty-one years. I've been married to the same wonderful guy for going on two decades now. We lived in our last house for seventeen years. (I won't even mention how many dumpsters we filled moving after that long....)
Readers seem as fascinated by my first career as they are with my writing. My time in law enforcement was many things, exciting, nerve wracking, and irritating, but most importantly never, ever boring. It was fascinating enough that I didn't think about writing seriously for several years. I kept a journal, and wrote long letters, collected quotes, mentally rewrote movies, and still made up those stories in my head, but never dreamed of actually writing for publication. I was having too much fun helping to catch bad guys, and being continually amazed at the situations people get themselves into. And eventually I walked away with a wealth of background and story ideas, and knowing some truly great people who work very hard to keep all of us safe. I'm proud to have been one of them, and I'm very aware that I have had the great good fortune of having had two jobs in my life that I love. Many people don't get even one.
But now that I'm in the delicious position of being able to make a living telling those stories in my head, I promise my readers two things: A) I'm staying--I'll keep writing as long as you keep reading, and B) in my stories, the girl--tomboy or not--always wins!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
And now, the official stats:
Justine Dare Davis sold her first book in 1989, and followed that up with the sale of nineteen novels in less than two years. Her first four books were published in 1991, and she saw all reach the finals for either the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award or the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA Award. She has since won the RITA award four times, along with several Reviewer's Choice awards and three Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times. At the 1998 national conference, Justine was inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame, making her one of a very select group of just eight writers. She also had four titles on the Romantic Times "Top 200 of All Time" list. Her sales now total more than 45, and her books have appeared regularly on best seller lists, including the USA Today list. She has been featured in several local newspapers and nationwide by Associated Press, has appeared on CN
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May 7, 2011
Clay Yeager was a hero, he was the cop all looked up to in Trinity West and he saved them all but one horrible tragedy ripped his life apart and he left without a word. He was searched for but never found. We find Clay living a nomadic life in a truck which as weary as him and with only his dog as his companion. For the past 5 years Clay has led a terrible life , swallowing in guilt wanting to end the agony but considering it to be an easy way out for him. He has cut all human contact and is starved and broke.
Casey has re-built her life from scratch trying to let go of what happened to her in the city. She is content running her catering business when she runs into Clay on her property when his dog Mud steals her prime-rib. Clay promises to make up for it by working on repairs in the house and Casey is wary but relents for a day and when she sees how bad Clay's condition is offers him more odd jobs which she needs done in return for food and small wages. Clay is so hurt and keeps himself aloof and Casey lets him but gradually some barriers come down, Clay even makes a run for it but comes back.
Casey makes Clay realize that one can't be a hero in life and sometimes things happen that are out of control. Casey was so strong and she could have become bitter in life but she didn't and came to terms with her past and she tries to make sure Clay did the same even though he is not very amenable to it.
I liked the book, it showed that people can move on after tragedies and that sometimes you have to have faith that life will become better.
Casey has re-built her life from scratch trying to let go of what happened to her in the city. She is content running her catering business when she runs into Clay on her property when his dog Mud steals her prime-rib. Clay promises to make up for it by working on repairs in the house and Casey is wary but relents for a day and when she sees how bad Clay's condition is offers him more odd jobs which she needs done in return for food and small wages. Clay is so hurt and keeps himself aloof and Casey lets him but gradually some barriers come down, Clay even makes a run for it but comes back.
Casey makes Clay realize that one can't be a hero in life and sometimes things happen that are out of control. Casey was so strong and she could have become bitter in life but she didn't and came to terms with her past and she tries to make sure Clay did the same even though he is not very amenable to it.
I liked the book, it showed that people can move on after tragedies and that sometimes you have to have faith that life will become better.
May 19, 2011
Reading this story again at the end of TSW series has improved the story furthermore. It was already good but now I could understand better Clay Yeager past and his lost connections with his friend. Besided in this book there's a wonderful dog, Mud, so funny and sweet and caring I couldn't resist him at all. He was so sweet I had tears in my eyes.
A very great story, a wonderful ending for this great series.
A very great story, a wonderful ending for this great series.
July 5, 2018
My first read date of 2001 is approximate; I acquired the original Silhouette MMPB used, but not too much after its release. I have Justine Davis's newest, part of her SFR series, near the top of my TBR (from NetGalley), but I just decided to go ahead and read this short novel when I got the e-copy on sale: I'm kind of a sucker for "two wounded souls help each other start to move forward" romances. And there's even a clever canine!
Trigger warnings: suicidal thoughts, on his part, rape in her backstory (not explicitly described), and death of a child in his backstory (not much of a spoiler).
Other than the annoying complete lack of spaces to indicate mid-chapter scene-breaks (which also often involve switching to the other lead's PoV), a handful of missing punctuation marks, and a few other OCR errors (crowing for growing, an italicization error, and, most oddly uncaught, pnde for pride), the writing is generally good. Some parts are predictable, and I could have done without the "baby epidemic" in the ending, the inevitable sweet reunion and all (look, when I can see something coming a mile away, I don't bother hiding it within SPOILER tags!), but I still enjoyed the story. If it hadn't been for the scene breaks issue, I would have rounded up to 4 stars.
Trigger warnings: suicidal thoughts, on his part, rape in her backstory (not explicitly described), and death of a child in his backstory (not much of a spoiler).
Other than the annoying complete lack of spaces to indicate mid-chapter scene-breaks (which also often involve switching to the other lead's PoV), a handful of missing punctuation marks, and a few other OCR errors (crowing for growing, an italicization error, and, most oddly uncaught, pnde for pride), the writing is generally good. Some parts are predictable, and I could have done without the "baby epidemic" in the ending, the inevitable sweet reunion and all (look, when I can see something coming a mile away, I don't bother hiding it within SPOILER tags!), but I still enjoyed the story. If it hadn't been for the scene breaks issue, I would have rounded up to 4 stars.
July 5, 2018
I'm a sucker for "two wounded souls help each other move forward" romances.
Trigger warnings: suicidal thoughts, on his part, rape in her backstory (not explicitly described), and death of a child in his backstory (not much of a spoiler).
Trigger warnings: suicidal thoughts, on his part, rape in her backstory (not explicitly described), and death of a child in his backstory (not much of a spoiler).
October 1, 2020
An enjoyable read and I loved the series!
April 10, 2012
I am slowly reading all the books in Trinity Street West series. This is the fourth book that I have read in the series and I really enjoyed it.
I have several on my wish list for the Kindle. I hope that when the series is complete that amazon will offer it in a series bundle.
I wanted to cry when I heard Clay's story. He was a decorated police officer that lost his wife and child. He had been busy with an undercover assignment and not spending as much time as his wife felt he should with her. She killed herself and his daughter to get back at him.
He quits the police and becomes a street person. He leaves town and goes out on the road with the family dog. His truck breaks down and he lands on the private property of the heroine who is being harassed by the mad she put in prison for rape.
She becomes Clay's savior. I loved this book.
I have several on my wish list for the Kindle. I hope that when the series is complete that amazon will offer it in a series bundle.
I wanted to cry when I heard Clay's story. He was a decorated police officer that lost his wife and child. He had been busy with an undercover assignment and not spending as much time as his wife felt he should with her. She killed herself and his daughter to get back at him.
He quits the police and becomes a street person. He leaves town and goes out on the road with the family dog. His truck breaks down and he lands on the private property of the heroine who is being harassed by the mad she put in prison for rape.
She becomes Clay's savior. I loved this book.
March 8, 2015
This is the book I remembered reading long ago in the '90's. The entire series is okay, but I liked the final book the best. Since Clay is not in California, but rather in Iowa, this book could be read as a standalone except for the ending where we see characters from all the previous books. Having read the other books, I really enjoyed that part, too.
I liked the heroine in this one. She was no doormat, but fought back when needed. She and Clay slowly got to know a bit about each others' pasts and slowly came to trust that things could be better for the two of them together. I'm glad I was able to read the book again after all these years, this time as an ebook.
I liked the heroine in this one. She was no doormat, but fought back when needed. She and Clay slowly got to know a bit about each others' pasts and slowly came to trust that things could be better for the two of them together. I'm glad I was able to read the book again after all these years, this time as an ebook.
February 8, 2011
Good solid book and conclusion of the series. The build up to this book was tremendous, and it was a little anticlimactic.
June 14, 2015
amzaing story
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