Last Chance

by Joannie Kay

Horse thieves, Romance and a lot of Mischief!

Samantha lived with her uncle, ever since her parents passed away. He could be a strict man, but she was stunned when he announced that she would be marrying Carson Edwards within a month. Edwards was old enough to be her father! And he was reported to be a cruel man. She simply could not marry him! With no other options available, she chose to run away. Eventually she hoped to land a teaching position, but until then she would try to keep to herself.

Gunshots forced her out of hiding. She couldn’t just ignore them, in case someone needed help. And someone did! One man was pinned, taking fire from three others. She scared off the would-be horse thieves with a few shots, first firing near their feet and then over their heads. But before she could escape, the man she’d rescued came to thank her.

Mistaking her for a young boy, Cort Hadley offered her a job helping him to bring in his herd. Sam knew it was a mistake, but dang, if he wasn’t a fine looking man! And he was a much better cook than she was. As long as he thought she was a kid, she figured there couldn’t be any harm in it.

Mistaken identities create plenty of tension, and when her uncle catches up to them, all hell is about to break loose!

This full-length sweet historic western has plenty of romance to keep you reading until the very last page! It contains the spanking of adult women. If such material offends you, please do not buy this book.

278 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[D.V. Ant · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a disappointment, however, I read it through to the end. I kept thinking it might improve, but it never got there. The characters were not compelling. In fact, the two female characters were ditzy, at best. It was hard to have any sympathy for them. The male characters were better, but still very shallow.

Although there is spanking in it, it is repetitive and fairly pointless. Yes, the spanking is the point in a spanking story, but, in this case, it was so poorly described, brief, and sparse that it was unsatisfying for the genre reader it purports to be trying to reach.

There were numerous typographical errors, many homonym errors (one that made me laugh for 10 minutes, it was so perfectly, though inadvertently, wrought). Overall, it was very badly edited.

I do not recommend this book to anyone who is looking for quality writing.

[Alicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Samantha runs away from her Uncle when he tries to force her to marry an evil man. While on the runm she saves Cort from horse theives and he mistaking her for a boy offers her a job. Whern he gets fed up and decides she needs a spanking he realizes a second to late she is a girl just as her Uncle rides up. Now she is faced with her uncles choice for a husband or Cort. She chooses Cort but of course nothing runs smoothly at first but eventually they do come to love each other.

[Katerina Kinsley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Joannie Kay came up with an interesting story in Last Chance. The characters were likeable and the conflicts were stimulating. My one issue with the book was that it seemed to play hard to get throughout the whole novel. A character is threatened with a spanking on every page, but rarely does anything come of it. At first I found myself wishing for more spankings, but after a while I just wished for fewer threats.