Review: City Girl Forced Into the Cowboy's Life
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2014
Boone was only 14 when his angelic mother died. He was only 14 when the father he had idolized allowed his grief to turn his heart cold toward both his sons. Boone made the mistake of marrying a city girl who hated life on the ranch when Boone returned there to help his ailing and ungrateful father. Her boredom turns into infidelity which leads to her death and that of his unborn child. Now, following the death of his estranged father, Boone has returned to make the ranch his home. His father might be dead, but he reaches out from the grave to deliver one more blow to Boone--the ranch house has been left to a total stranger... worse yet, she's a city girl! Maddie has been shuffled around from one place to another by her father, thus she's never had deep friendships. Now she has become a talented chef and entered into a business with her boyfriend, only to have him become critical of everything she does. After finding out that he's cheating on her, she leaves him and the restaurant behind, glad to retreat to the Texas ranch house that she has mysteriously inherited. Her joy is short lived as she encounters Boone and becomes the object of his fury. She decides she wants to sell the house to Boone, but the will states she can't do so until she has stayed at the house for 30 days--failing to do so will not only strip her of the house, it will also give it to a family that hates Boone. Can they live in close proximity without killing each other?A good, old fashioned Western love story, except for the one long and rather graphic sex scene. Even with it, I'd recommend this book.