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Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary #4
Once a Father
Logan Wolf Track had horses in his blood. For this "Indian cowboy," teaming up with army sergeant Mary Tutan to enter the Double D's wild mustang training competition was a win-win proposition. This tough yet vulnerable woman was a natural with horses—and with Logan. She soon had the single father yearning for love and family, something he'd lost when his grown stepsons left home. But as with horses, it wasn't enough for Logan to know how to ride this feeling; he had to know how to fall. And when Mary made a shocking discovery that threw their relationship into question, Logan knew he'd risk all to keep their untamable passion alive….
224 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2010
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Kathleen Eagle
117 books165 followersKathleen Eagle published her first book, a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award winner, with Silhouette Books in 1984. Since then she has published more than 40 books, including historical and contemporary, series and single title, earning her nearly every award in the industry. Her books have consistently appeared on regional and national bestseller lists, including the USA Today list and the New York Times extended bestseller list.
Born in Virginia and raised "on the road" as an Air Force brat, Ms Eagle earned degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Northern State University. She taught at Standing Rock High School in North Dakota for 17 years.
Eagle's work is often singled out by book reviewers for its exceptional quality and appeal. THE NIGHT REMEMBERS was a Chicago Tribune Notable Book. SUNRISE SONG, THE NIGHT REMEMBERS, THE LAST TRUE COWBOY, and WHAT THE HEART KNOWS made the Library Journal "Five Best Romances of the Year" list. BookPage listed WHAT THE HEART KNOWS among its "Top Six Romance Picks" for 1999. THE LAST GOOD MAN was a finalist for the 2000 Minnesota Book Award for Popular Fiction--the only Romance so honored thus far. YOU NEVER CAN TELL was named to RWA's "Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year" list. She is an RWA RITA award winner.
Kathleen Eagle lives in Minnesota with her husband, who is Lakota Sioux. The Eagles have three children and three grandchildren.
Born in Virginia and raised "on the road" as an Air Force brat, Ms Eagle earned degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Northern State University. She taught at Standing Rock High School in North Dakota for 17 years.
Eagle's work is often singled out by book reviewers for its exceptional quality and appeal. THE NIGHT REMEMBERS was a Chicago Tribune Notable Book. SUNRISE SONG, THE NIGHT REMEMBERS, THE LAST TRUE COWBOY, and WHAT THE HEART KNOWS made the Library Journal "Five Best Romances of the Year" list. BookPage listed WHAT THE HEART KNOWS among its "Top Six Romance Picks" for 1999. THE LAST GOOD MAN was a finalist for the 2000 Minnesota Book Award for Popular Fiction--the only Romance so honored thus far. YOU NEVER CAN TELL was named to RWA's "Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year" list. She is an RWA RITA award winner.
Kathleen Eagle lives in Minnesota with her husband, who is Lakota Sioux. The Eagles have three children and three grandchildren.
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August 5, 2021
4 Stars ~ This is book #4 in Ms. Eagle's Wild Horse Sanctuary series. While this book works as a stand-alone, I think readers would appreciate the stories if they are read as a series. On going in the series are the issues the Drexler sisters face during the expansion of the sanctuary and their feud with their neighbour Tutan. This story begins Sally's competition where horse trainers pick out one of the sanctuary's wild mustangs and show that the horse can be trained for various roles.
Mary Tutan is home on emergency furlough to help her mother recover from a heart attack. She's life long friends with Sally and is on her side of her father's fight over sanctuary land leases. Learning of the competition, Mary thinks her own horse sense and her vast training of army canines might put her in the running. But Sally doesn't think her dog training is enough experience. Logan Wolf Track is a member to the tribal council ruling on who should hold tribal land leases. He's also a renown horse trainer, even wrote a book. He'd love the prize money for the winner of the competition, but Sally says his role on the council would be a conflict. However, Sally does suggest that he could act as Mary's tutor, thus giving her a spot in the competition.
Their journey begins as Mary choses her mustang, and she teams up with Logan; he can have the prize money but she wants the horse. The wild mustang earns the name Adobe, and through the training process becomes an important character in the story. Logan builds a temporary holding paddock at a remote spot on the sanctuary and sets up camp with Mary. As the horse grows accustomed to them, Mary and Logan find their own connection as well.
There are some moments of angst between Mary and her father, not just over the sanctuary but over his over bearing treatment of her mother. With every day that passes she learns more about Logan, his commitment to the tribal way of life and his own loyalty for family. When his older ex-wife abandoned her sons with him, he adopted them, gave them his name and raised them. He shows Mary that family is more than a blood connection.
The HEA was lovely. The epilogue gave us a double wedding, Mary and Logan's, and Sally and Hank's from the previous book. Carrying forward into the next book in the series is the feud with Tutan and the sanctuary competition. I'm looking forward to reading Logan's son Trace's story next.
Mary Tutan is home on emergency furlough to help her mother recover from a heart attack. She's life long friends with Sally and is on her side of her father's fight over sanctuary land leases. Learning of the competition, Mary thinks her own horse sense and her vast training of army canines might put her in the running. But Sally doesn't think her dog training is enough experience. Logan Wolf Track is a member to the tribal council ruling on who should hold tribal land leases. He's also a renown horse trainer, even wrote a book. He'd love the prize money for the winner of the competition, but Sally says his role on the council would be a conflict. However, Sally does suggest that he could act as Mary's tutor, thus giving her a spot in the competition.
Their journey begins as Mary choses her mustang, and she teams up with Logan; he can have the prize money but she wants the horse. The wild mustang earns the name Adobe, and through the training process becomes an important character in the story. Logan builds a temporary holding paddock at a remote spot on the sanctuary and sets up camp with Mary. As the horse grows accustomed to them, Mary and Logan find their own connection as well.
There are some moments of angst between Mary and her father, not just over the sanctuary but over his over bearing treatment of her mother. With every day that passes she learns more about Logan, his commitment to the tribal way of life and his own loyalty for family. When his older ex-wife abandoned her sons with him, he adopted them, gave them his name and raised them. He shows Mary that family is more than a blood connection.
The HEA was lovely. The epilogue gave us a double wedding, Mary and Logan's, and Sally and Hank's from the previous book. Carrying forward into the next book in the series is the feud with Tutan and the sanctuary competition. I'm looking forward to reading Logan's son Trace's story next.
July 22, 2017
Disappointing entry from this author. She's married to a Lakota Sioux, so her books give a look at modern Native American life, on and off the reservation, that I find fascinating and you get a guaranteed HEA. This one, however, spent a lot more time on horse training techniques than I wanted to read, and a fair amount of the writing contained slang I didn't understand or some just plain embarrassing metaphors. (Fox hole. Really???)
Skip this and read something else by Eagle. This Time Forever for instance.
Skip this and read something else by Eagle. This Time Forever for instance.
April 14, 2019
excellent story - like her native AMERICAN STORIES.
October 1, 2010
This story centers around training mustangs to ride. The hero is an expert horse trainer. The heroine is in the army where she trains dogs to work as bomb finders and other things. The person with the mustangs won't admit them to a mustang-training contest unless they work together. He's supposed to teach her to train the horse.
He's Lakota Sioux. She's the daughter of an Anglo rancher who leases Lakota land. She's home on leave to help her mom after a heart attack, but there are these horses. And this man.
I really liked this story. I loved the complications and the feel of the story and the secondary characters and just everything about it. It's just a great read.
He's Lakota Sioux. She's the daughter of an Anglo rancher who leases Lakota land. She's home on leave to help her mom after a heart attack, but there are these horses. And this man.
I really liked this story. I loved the complications and the feel of the story and the secondary characters and just everything about it. It's just a great read.
August 11, 2013
Hank Wolf Track and Mary Tutan meet To help the Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary. Mary's father wants to lease that to lease that land while she, a soldier on leave from the middle end is determined to do her part for the horses. She buys one. Recruited to help her with the horse Hank puts up a Lakota teepee and a circular for the horse they call Adobe. In spite of her difficult father, they fall in love but Mary has a surprise waiting for her which might ruin her new found relationship.
December 23, 2011
Two-haiku review:
They become partners
In wild horse training contest
But she has secret
Fam'ly dysfunction
And she's on leave from Army
She has to go back
They become partners
In wild horse training contest
But she has secret
Fam'ly dysfunction
And she's on leave from Army
She has to go back
April 19, 2013
This book was a good read.
August 6, 2016
Nice Read
A good interesting story.One that teaches you lessons about Native Americans I never knew.I liked this one and I'll look for more by this author.
A good interesting story.One that teaches you lessons about Native Americans I never knew.I liked this one and I'll look for more by this author.
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