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Loving Mercy
THE WILD, WILD WEST
Mercy Clarke had no trouble getting a hundred head of cattle to Abilene. Getting back home through five hundred miles of untamed frontier is something else again, especially with a handsome gambler like Thad Buchanan tagging along. He swears to pay her in gold if she guides him to Fort Victory, but she doesn't quite trust his fine manners and gentlemanly ways. And then there's that look in his eyes --- he could make her forget that she's sworn off men for good ...
As Thad sees it, the same rules apply to playing poker and loving women: it's all about knowing when to hold 'em. And come to think of it, a pretty lady like Mercy Clarke would fit very nicely in his arms. Now, if she could be persuaded to put down that rawhide whip and tell him exactly what she has in mind, he has no doubt they could come to an agreement that will satisfy them both. No doubt at all ...
Mercy Clarke had no trouble getting a hundred head of cattle to Abilene. Getting back home through five hundred miles of untamed frontier is something else again, especially with a handsome gambler like Thad Buchanan tagging along. He swears to pay her in gold if she guides him to Fort Victory, but she doesn't quite trust his fine manners and gentlemanly ways. And then there's that look in his eyes --- he could make her forget that she's sworn off men for good ...
As Thad sees it, the same rules apply to playing poker and loving women: it's all about knowing when to hold 'em. And come to think of it, a pretty lady like Mercy Clarke would fit very nicely in his arms. Now, if she could be persuaded to put down that rawhide whip and tell him exactly what she has in mind, he has no doubt they could come to an agreement that will satisfy them both. No doubt at all ...
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First published January 1, 2005
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January 26, 2011
3.5 star American Western Romance
Hanging out at bookstores is one of my favorite ways of passing the time. Take me to a mall, show me a huge bookstore with loads of books to salivate over and I promise you wouldn’t find anyone else happier than myself at that very moment. Since Maldives is such a drag for book lovers like myself, coming to India where bookstores are as frequent as their chai (tea) stalls, needless to say I am in book heaven at the moment. So when I stumbled across this book cover at a used bookstore, I picked it up on a whim, based on its cover alone and because the back synopsis promised this book to deliver a good American-Western romance.
27 year old Mercy Clarke is one of those determined heroines who love their independence, who has had a bad marriage with her now deceased husband Nate and wishes to remain single and shoulder all the responsibilities of her family’s cattle ranching business in Colorado. Six feet tall Mercy always feels as if she were a giraffe in a menagerie and refuses to open up her heart to the possibility of love. Mercy still sports her wedding ring two years on after her husband’s death and is still haunted by the memory of how things ended up with him before his death. With a father who has been disabled from the accident that killed her husband and a younger sister to take care of, Mercy is a woman who takes her responsibilities very seriously and is determined that she would keep the family ranch no matter how much it costs her to do so.
23 year old Thaddeus Buchanan (Thad) is an ex-veteran who served in the civil war, who had his whole family taken from him in a war that has made little sense to him always. His only living relative is his sister Clarisse who lives up in Colorado and Thad is determined to reach her and make a home for himself up in the Colorado mountains. Easy going and charming, Thad is more than 6 feel tall, broad shouldered, blond haired with azure eyes and has a killer dimple in his right cheek when he smiles.
It is Thad’s determination that he reach Colorado that ends him up in the company of the prickly as a thorn Mercy Clarke in the town of Albiene where Mercy travels to auction off her cattle to pay off the debt on her ranch. From the first encounter between Thad and Mercy, Thad is totally captivated by Mercy and her independent nature. Though Mercy would rather cut off an arm than admit that the handsome and charming Thad gets to her more than any man ever had in her life, Mercy is determined that nothing come out of her inconvenient attraction to a man who seems too easygoing to her. But things take a turn when Mercy realizes that Thad is in reality her best friend Clarisse’s younger brother and that alone makes her enter into an agreement to take Thad along for the ride.
It is during this journey that these two make to Colorado that feelings Mercy had thought that she would never ever feel again crop to the surface and makes her give in to the heady desire she feels for a man that she knows is totally not for her. Thad who wants marriage and a family of his own knows that Mercy doesn’t want that role in her life nevertheless finds himself at the mercy of his feelings for her. Amidst danger from men who are after the money that Mercy had made in the auction, these two discover within one another their better halves but a lot of internal battles are waged within themselves to finally conclude that their lives would not be complete without the other.
I am someone who always loves a good American-Western romance. However, I felt that this one didn’t deliver what I was looking for. Thad was a hero I could have liked, hell I could have loved him to bits if he were a bit more assertive and if he could have just stood up for what he felt half the time. I love an independent heroine as much as the next girl but Mercy tended to get on my nerves a bit during the first half of the story and later on redeemed herself by following up on what she felt for Thad. I loved the fact that this was a romance between an older heroine and a younger hero but that didn’t factor into much of the story. This could have been a really great story if it had hit all those spots which you crave to be petted and stroked as a reader. All in all not a bad read though I wouldn’t recommend anyone to sit and read through this book except if you like myself want to discover whether the underlying does justice to a drool-worthy cover.
Hanging out at bookstores is one of my favorite ways of passing the time. Take me to a mall, show me a huge bookstore with loads of books to salivate over and I promise you wouldn’t find anyone else happier than myself at that very moment. Since Maldives is such a drag for book lovers like myself, coming to India where bookstores are as frequent as their chai (tea) stalls, needless to say I am in book heaven at the moment. So when I stumbled across this book cover at a used bookstore, I picked it up on a whim, based on its cover alone and because the back synopsis promised this book to deliver a good American-Western romance.
27 year old Mercy Clarke is one of those determined heroines who love their independence, who has had a bad marriage with her now deceased husband Nate and wishes to remain single and shoulder all the responsibilities of her family’s cattle ranching business in Colorado. Six feet tall Mercy always feels as if she were a giraffe in a menagerie and refuses to open up her heart to the possibility of love. Mercy still sports her wedding ring two years on after her husband’s death and is still haunted by the memory of how things ended up with him before his death. With a father who has been disabled from the accident that killed her husband and a younger sister to take care of, Mercy is a woman who takes her responsibilities very seriously and is determined that she would keep the family ranch no matter how much it costs her to do so.
23 year old Thaddeus Buchanan (Thad) is an ex-veteran who served in the civil war, who had his whole family taken from him in a war that has made little sense to him always. His only living relative is his sister Clarisse who lives up in Colorado and Thad is determined to reach her and make a home for himself up in the Colorado mountains. Easy going and charming, Thad is more than 6 feel tall, broad shouldered, blond haired with azure eyes and has a killer dimple in his right cheek when he smiles.
It is Thad’s determination that he reach Colorado that ends him up in the company of the prickly as a thorn Mercy Clarke in the town of Albiene where Mercy travels to auction off her cattle to pay off the debt on her ranch. From the first encounter between Thad and Mercy, Thad is totally captivated by Mercy and her independent nature. Though Mercy would rather cut off an arm than admit that the handsome and charming Thad gets to her more than any man ever had in her life, Mercy is determined that nothing come out of her inconvenient attraction to a man who seems too easygoing to her. But things take a turn when Mercy realizes that Thad is in reality her best friend Clarisse’s younger brother and that alone makes her enter into an agreement to take Thad along for the ride.
It is during this journey that these two make to Colorado that feelings Mercy had thought that she would never ever feel again crop to the surface and makes her give in to the heady desire she feels for a man that she knows is totally not for her. Thad who wants marriage and a family of his own knows that Mercy doesn’t want that role in her life nevertheless finds himself at the mercy of his feelings for her. Amidst danger from men who are after the money that Mercy had made in the auction, these two discover within one another their better halves but a lot of internal battles are waged within themselves to finally conclude that their lives would not be complete without the other.
I am someone who always loves a good American-Western romance. However, I felt that this one didn’t deliver what I was looking for. Thad was a hero I could have liked, hell I could have loved him to bits if he were a bit more assertive and if he could have just stood up for what he felt half the time. I love an independent heroine as much as the next girl but Mercy tended to get on my nerves a bit during the first half of the story and later on redeemed herself by following up on what she felt for Thad. I loved the fact that this was a romance between an older heroine and a younger hero but that didn’t factor into much of the story. This could have been a really great story if it had hit all those spots which you crave to be petted and stroked as a reader. All in all not a bad read though I wouldn’t recommend anyone to sit and read through this book except if you like myself want to discover whether the underlying does justice to a drool-worthy cover.
February 22, 2016
Mercy is a tall woman trying to do a man's job in a man's world. She just brought a 100 head of cattle to Abilene from Colorado. Now she is ready to head back with two young people and a sexy blond of a greenhorn named Thad. She agrees to guide him back to Colorado for a price. The only problem is she has her cash from the cattle drive and three bad men who are going to stop her and take her cash. The story line was there, but the delivery wasn't. Thad and Mercy have heat, but once they give in to it, their relationship becomes uneven. Thad tells Mercy that she was just basically a "charity booty call" and he had it out of his system and he never apologizes for that. Even though Mercy thought the same thing about it being just a one time thing. Then once they admit their feelings for one another, he is constantly trying to leave Mercy, because he doesn't feel he can be the man she needs. Yet he does everything he can to ensure she falls in love with him. I got to where I wanted to scream at Mercy to cut the loser lose. He was just too inconsistent. In his head he was strong and a standby your woman man, but in actions he was a runner. Mercy was a better drawn to me, she was a strong woman who loved and took care of the people in her lives. She had huge regrets and guilt over her dead husband and it colored how she was with men. This wasn't a bad story I just wish it could have been tweaked a bit for Thad's dual personality.
May 27, 2007
28. It's been a long time since I read a western romance. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was an easy read with excellent and well thought characters. I'm looking forward to reading her other title: Loving Miranda.
November 17, 2016
I’d not heard of this author before, but I picked this book up because of the cover. The picture is a little misleading, in that I did not realize looking at the cowboy on the cover that he was a Civil War era cowboy, not a contemporary cowboy. But I got over that pretty quickly and settled into the story.
We first meet Mercy and her younger sister, Miranda, as they are driving a herd of cattle from Colorado to Kansas, along with two hired hands. Mercy is a strong, serious, determined young widow, who I judged to be in her mid-twenties. She’s been running her ranch alone since her husband died and her father was severely injured. She’s borrowed money from a neighboring rancher, and she needs to get a good price for her cattle in order to repay the loan by its due date, which is fast coming up. If she doesn't pay, she’ll lose her ranch, and that is what drives her. She is all about that ranch, and being the boss of that ranch. Miranda is 19, a typical young, flighty girl. The two hired hands are surly, and resent taking orders from a woman.
Then we meet Thad, a name I almost dislike just because I never know whether it should be pronounced with the th sound, or pronounced as Tad. Which shouldn’t matter when you’re reading silently but I like to know the proper pronunciation of names. I finally settled on Thad with the th sound, since his full name is Thaddeus, and you wouldn’t pronounce that as Taddeus. I don’t think. Thad has an unspecified injury that affects his arm/shoulder at times, and his father and brother both died in the war. After the war he worked on the family ranch with his mother, and after she died he ended up losing the ranch. Now he’s trying to get to Colorado, where his sister and her family live, and he’s looking for someone to guide him through the unfamiliar territory.
Mercy flat out refuses to let him travel back to Colorado with her, but as luck would have it her two hired hands demand their money and inform her they are not returning with her, leaving her to face the long trip back with just her sister. The fact that they would be two women traveling alone doesn’t seem to bother her, but she does prefer to travel with more than two people as there is safety in numbers, especially when you’re carrying a lot of cash with you. And as luck would also have it, Thad’s sister happens to be Mercy’s best friend. She’s often heard Clarisse talk about her “baby brother”, and even though she wants nothing to do with Thad, who she thinks is a no-account drunken gambler, she also knows how much it would mean to Clarisse to see her brother, so she grudgingly agrees to take him with her, along with another young man who is friends of her family. With the understanding, of course, that she is the boss.
I liked Thad right off the bat. What little money he has comes from his poker winnings, so he does spend time in saloons, but he doesn’t drink, and does not consider himself a gambler, as he only plays poker, which he explains is a game of skill. Where Mercy’s mission in life at the moment is her single-mindedness drive to sell her cattle and return home with enough money to save her ranch, Thad is single-mindedly determined to find someone to guide him to Colorado. His sister has told him she knows a widow who would be a perfect wife for him, and the thought of marrying and starting a family and working a ranch again appeal to him. When Thad mentions that to Mercy, she speculates that Clarisse probably intends to introduce Thad to a widow they both know who has two young sons, and she spends some time telling Thad about her. Despite the fact that Mercy is also a widow, it never seems to occur to either her or Thad that maybe Clarisse meant Mercy, though I assumed so immediately.
I was caught up in the story from the beginning, and enjoyed Mercy’s and Thad’s interactions. They’re attracted to each other of course, and Mercy is determined to not acknowledge that. She’s been hurt before, and she doesn’t plan to ever marry again. From the brief mentions of her husband, you get the impression that he was not kind to her and that their relationship was not on good footing (though later in the story we get a better look at their relationship), and she is bent on protecting her heart now. And even when she admits to herself that she likes Thad, she’s still set on not getting involved with him, because he wants a family, which she can’t give him. I’m particularly drawn to stories where the hero and heroine bicker with each other and find each other frustrating and trying, and this book had that in spades.
And then I was suddenly jolted out of the story when, on page 88, the author tells us “Thad was only twenty-three, but sometimes he felt like an old man.” Twenty-three! I was picturing him as being in his late twenties, maybe even thirty. At this point Mercy’s age has not been mentioned, but if Thad is only twenty-three, then Mercy is probably also younger than I thought she was!
After I got over that shock, I settled back into the story. And finally, about fifty pages later, Mercy, too, is surprised when Thad tells her he is twenty-three, saying “Really? I thought you were closer to my age.” She then reveals she is twenty-seven. So I was right about her, at least. But I had to take a few second to wrap my mind around this, as I am not a fan of older woman/younger man. However, I realized at this point I’m way to invested to care about that, and thinking back now I like that the author revealed their ages the way she did. It added some realism to the buildup of their relationship.
On the trail home there are plenty of adventures, as they are attacked, more than once, and grow closer, and push each other away, and get closer again. And by the end of the book I was getting a little weary of the constant push and pull and wanted to knock their heads together and tell them to just admit they want to be with each other. Everything resolved nicely in the end, if a bit pat, and I really enjoyed this sweet western romance.
Review first posted on my blog.
We first meet Mercy and her younger sister, Miranda, as they are driving a herd of cattle from Colorado to Kansas, along with two hired hands. Mercy is a strong, serious, determined young widow, who I judged to be in her mid-twenties. She’s been running her ranch alone since her husband died and her father was severely injured. She’s borrowed money from a neighboring rancher, and she needs to get a good price for her cattle in order to repay the loan by its due date, which is fast coming up. If she doesn't pay, she’ll lose her ranch, and that is what drives her. She is all about that ranch, and being the boss of that ranch. Miranda is 19, a typical young, flighty girl. The two hired hands are surly, and resent taking orders from a woman.
Then we meet Thad, a name I almost dislike just because I never know whether it should be pronounced with the th sound, or pronounced as Tad. Which shouldn’t matter when you’re reading silently but I like to know the proper pronunciation of names. I finally settled on Thad with the th sound, since his full name is Thaddeus, and you wouldn’t pronounce that as Taddeus. I don’t think. Thad has an unspecified injury that affects his arm/shoulder at times, and his father and brother both died in the war. After the war he worked on the family ranch with his mother, and after she died he ended up losing the ranch. Now he’s trying to get to Colorado, where his sister and her family live, and he’s looking for someone to guide him through the unfamiliar territory.
Mercy flat out refuses to let him travel back to Colorado with her, but as luck would have it her two hired hands demand their money and inform her they are not returning with her, leaving her to face the long trip back with just her sister. The fact that they would be two women traveling alone doesn’t seem to bother her, but she does prefer to travel with more than two people as there is safety in numbers, especially when you’re carrying a lot of cash with you. And as luck would also have it, Thad’s sister happens to be Mercy’s best friend. She’s often heard Clarisse talk about her “baby brother”, and even though she wants nothing to do with Thad, who she thinks is a no-account drunken gambler, she also knows how much it would mean to Clarisse to see her brother, so she grudgingly agrees to take him with her, along with another young man who is friends of her family. With the understanding, of course, that she is the boss.
I liked Thad right off the bat. What little money he has comes from his poker winnings, so he does spend time in saloons, but he doesn’t drink, and does not consider himself a gambler, as he only plays poker, which he explains is a game of skill. Where Mercy’s mission in life at the moment is her single-mindedness drive to sell her cattle and return home with enough money to save her ranch, Thad is single-mindedly determined to find someone to guide him to Colorado. His sister has told him she knows a widow who would be a perfect wife for him, and the thought of marrying and starting a family and working a ranch again appeal to him. When Thad mentions that to Mercy, she speculates that Clarisse probably intends to introduce Thad to a widow they both know who has two young sons, and she spends some time telling Thad about her. Despite the fact that Mercy is also a widow, it never seems to occur to either her or Thad that maybe Clarisse meant Mercy, though I assumed so immediately.
I was caught up in the story from the beginning, and enjoyed Mercy’s and Thad’s interactions. They’re attracted to each other of course, and Mercy is determined to not acknowledge that. She’s been hurt before, and she doesn’t plan to ever marry again. From the brief mentions of her husband, you get the impression that he was not kind to her and that their relationship was not on good footing (though later in the story we get a better look at their relationship), and she is bent on protecting her heart now. And even when she admits to herself that she likes Thad, she’s still set on not getting involved with him, because he wants a family, which she can’t give him. I’m particularly drawn to stories where the hero and heroine bicker with each other and find each other frustrating and trying, and this book had that in spades.
And then I was suddenly jolted out of the story when, on page 88, the author tells us “Thad was only twenty-three, but sometimes he felt like an old man.” Twenty-three! I was picturing him as being in his late twenties, maybe even thirty. At this point Mercy’s age has not been mentioned, but if Thad is only twenty-three, then Mercy is probably also younger than I thought she was!
After I got over that shock, I settled back into the story. And finally, about fifty pages later, Mercy, too, is surprised when Thad tells her he is twenty-three, saying “Really? I thought you were closer to my age.” She then reveals she is twenty-seven. So I was right about her, at least. But I had to take a few second to wrap my mind around this, as I am not a fan of older woman/younger man. However, I realized at this point I’m way to invested to care about that, and thinking back now I like that the author revealed their ages the way she did. It added some realism to the buildup of their relationship.
On the trail home there are plenty of adventures, as they are attacked, more than once, and grow closer, and push each other away, and get closer again. And by the end of the book I was getting a little weary of the constant push and pull and wanted to knock their heads together and tell them to just admit they want to be with each other. Everything resolved nicely in the end, if a bit pat, and I really enjoyed this sweet western romance.
Review first posted on my blog.
February 19, 2018
This was a bit predictable in places, but I enjoyed it. I don't read much romance these days, so it was a nice change of pace.
February 13, 2013
Ok, this book is set shortly after the Civil War. Keep that in mind.
There were a lot of things wrong with this, to the extent that even the (exceedingly rare) moments of humor could not redeem it. First off, take the heroine (take her! You must take her!!!) She's a self-absorbed, feminist, know-it-all with the sensitivity of a brick. Anachronistic? Heck yes!! She's a widow and she can't figure out why her wearing the pants in the family would have alienated her husband. D'oh. So that's her personality. Now let's get to other things...
So as I said, this was after the Civil War. You'd think there would be a few war widows running around. Instead, one is given the impression that nobody in the area took sides (yeah; right). And you'd think that a cattle ranch of any size would oh I dunno - have a few ranch hands and a foreman? As in, who is managing the ranch while she's on the cattle drive? Or rather, why is SHE on the cattle drive instead of a few hands and a foreman? Then there are the pants. I know women did occasionally wear pants then, I also know that some areas outlawed women wearing men's clothing. Yeah...
Distance - somewhere in Colorado territory to Abilene - which was in Colorado territory? Eh? Come again? I don't KNOW what year Texas became a state - would have to look it up - but am pretty sure Abilene was in whatever Texas was at the time. She, her kid sister (who is 19 by the way), and two hands she hired for the trip took a herd of cattle. Generic herd, mind you; no mention of them being steers (for an expert cattleperson by her own reckoning, that seems dumb), also she's wondering if she should have brought more. Uh... I thought it was customary to take every marketable steer to market at once; not just grab a handful for a month-long drive. Seems like an inefficient method of operation to me. And then there's the return trip. First, the two hands bug off, then she has a run-in with some low-life who has issues with women, so our H convinces her to (reluctantly, I might add) let him come along (which I find strange since she supposedly was his sister's best friend). And this trip supposedly will take nearly a month. Ok, with cows in tow, I can see it taking forever because they aren't going to move any faster than they have to, but endurance horses often do 50 miles in a few hours so why would it take so long to ride home? Even at a working trot, a horse should be able to cover quite a distance, and these were ranch horses so used to being ridden rather a lot. Does not compute.
Hero... been in war, doesn't want to talk about it. Wants to see sister, get married, start a family.
Sister - 19 and told by heroine that she's "too young" to start a family. Yeaaahhhh... I'm almost certain that many women were married off as young as 16 at the time.
Sister's beau - dingbat. He grew up on that side of the Mississippi and didn't know how to shoot? At all? Did they not hunt? Wasn't like there was a Kroger just around the corner. His defining moment - getting kneecapped by would-be robbers, thus forcing him to be left behind at the fort (following losing his lower leg) - to go back to Abilene and be a store clerk I guess. Sister stayed behind with him.
Bad guys... to be honest, I stopped prior to finding them out but... they attempted to lay waste to our party 2 hours out of the fort (what are they; nuts?). Suspect low-life woman hater is one of them (foreshadowing in the form of H thinking some suspected him of rustling cattle). Likely two cow hands were too.
Random bit - several thousand spent to import some Hereford bulls. No mention of how many, and they landed in Panama and were driven up through Mexico? Say whaaa?
There were a lot of things wrong with this, to the extent that even the (exceedingly rare) moments of humor could not redeem it. First off, take the heroine (take her! You must take her!!!) She's a self-absorbed, feminist, know-it-all with the sensitivity of a brick. Anachronistic? Heck yes!! She's a widow and she can't figure out why her wearing the pants in the family would have alienated her husband. D'oh. So that's her personality. Now let's get to other things...
So as I said, this was after the Civil War. You'd think there would be a few war widows running around. Instead, one is given the impression that nobody in the area took sides (yeah; right). And you'd think that a cattle ranch of any size would oh I dunno - have a few ranch hands and a foreman? As in, who is managing the ranch while she's on the cattle drive? Or rather, why is SHE on the cattle drive instead of a few hands and a foreman? Then there are the pants. I know women did occasionally wear pants then, I also know that some areas outlawed women wearing men's clothing. Yeah...
Distance - somewhere in Colorado territory to Abilene - which was in Colorado territory? Eh? Come again? I don't KNOW what year Texas became a state - would have to look it up - but am pretty sure Abilene was in whatever Texas was at the time. She, her kid sister (who is 19 by the way), and two hands she hired for the trip took a herd of cattle. Generic herd, mind you; no mention of them being steers (for an expert cattleperson by her own reckoning, that seems dumb), also she's wondering if she should have brought more. Uh... I thought it was customary to take every marketable steer to market at once; not just grab a handful for a month-long drive. Seems like an inefficient method of operation to me. And then there's the return trip. First, the two hands bug off, then she has a run-in with some low-life who has issues with women, so our H convinces her to (reluctantly, I might add) let him come along (which I find strange since she supposedly was his sister's best friend). And this trip supposedly will take nearly a month. Ok, with cows in tow, I can see it taking forever because they aren't going to move any faster than they have to, but endurance horses often do 50 miles in a few hours so why would it take so long to ride home? Even at a working trot, a horse should be able to cover quite a distance, and these were ranch horses so used to being ridden rather a lot. Does not compute.
Hero... been in war, doesn't want to talk about it. Wants to see sister, get married, start a family.
Sister - 19 and told by heroine that she's "too young" to start a family. Yeaaahhhh... I'm almost certain that many women were married off as young as 16 at the time.
Sister's beau - dingbat. He grew up on that side of the Mississippi and didn't know how to shoot? At all? Did they not hunt? Wasn't like there was a Kroger just around the corner. His defining moment - getting kneecapped by would-be robbers, thus forcing him to be left behind at the fort (following losing his lower leg) - to go back to Abilene and be a store clerk I guess. Sister stayed behind with him.
Bad guys... to be honest, I stopped prior to finding them out but... they attempted to lay waste to our party 2 hours out of the fort (what are they; nuts?). Suspect low-life woman hater is one of them (foreshadowing in the form of H thinking some suspected him of rustling cattle). Likely two cow hands were too.
Random bit - several thousand spent to import some Hereford bulls. No mention of how many, and they landed in Panama and were driven up through Mexico? Say whaaa?
January 21, 2011
In "Loving Mercy" Ms. Bodwell captures the atmosphere and times of the untamed plains of Kansas and Colorado. She also writes a delicious romance theme intertwined as well.
Mercy Clarke is a widow that has, through hard work, managed to hold on to the family ranch and kept her family together, but, at the sacrifice of her own personal love life.
Enter a handsome military veteran of the Civil War and you have the foundations of a solid, entertaining romance.
There is excitement, drama, and caring love scenes for you to enjoy as you join Mercy and Thad on the trail.
Mercy Clarke is a widow that has, through hard work, managed to hold on to the family ranch and kept her family together, but, at the sacrifice of her own personal love life.
Enter a handsome military veteran of the Civil War and you have the foundations of a solid, entertaining romance.
There is excitement, drama, and caring love scenes for you to enjoy as you join Mercy and Thad on the trail.
March 28, 2009
I just could not get into this book. I do not know if it is the story or the way it is written or the characters of this one. Just could not hold my interest
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February 22, 2010Despite the lovely cover, I'm just not going to be able to finish this one. It won't stay at the top of the reading pile.
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