The Rancher’s Surprise Son
Christine Wenger
Harlequin Special Edition, Aug 18 2015,
$5.50
ISBN: 9780373659128
In Arizona, although she knows her affluent rancher parents would
go into a rage over her visiting the neighboring Double M spread, Laura Duke
asks thirteen year old Cindy Masters to watch her young toddler Johnny. While the two females chat, Cindy’s brother
Cody comes home after spending over three years in prison for killing his
abusive stepfather Hank Lindy stunningly driven by Duke Ranch foreman Slim
Gonzales. Slim explains to Laura that
following a visit from Cody’s mother Georgianna, her father arranged for the
felon’s release.
As Slim drives Cody to see Laura’s dad, he tells his passenger that
she married someone at college; but it didn’t last long though she had a child
with this stranger. Hurt that his
beloved failed to wait for him and obviously lost faith in him, she turned to
someone else. Cody is further stunned
when he recognizes the eyes of the almost four years old staring at him.
The fourth Gold Buckle Cowboys romance (see The
Cowboy Code, How to Lasso a Cowboy, and Lassoed into Marriage) is an
entertaining contemporary due to the wonderful West Side Story couple and a
deep bench. Although the final
unnecessary denouement seems over the top of the Rincon Mountains, Christine Wenger authors a
pleasant family drama.
Harriet Klausner
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