Review: Another Good Tale by Jillian Hart!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2011
The Rancher's Reunion by Jillian Hart was first released by Zebra Kensington Publishing Corp.Hank Callahan murdered a neighbor, was accused of being a thief and disowned by his family he had disgraced. He was forced to leave the ranch he loved and went to live alone in the mountains. Full of guilt and self-disgust. He was returning after his brother asked him to make amends with their father, only now his father has died and some of his old neighbors had found him.Nettie Pickering is on the way to a funeral when she spots a man in the road and some of her neighbors. She realizes the beaten man is Hank and is disgusted how Jake Beckman is still abusing him while he is so hurt. She demands they put Hank in her wagon so she can bring him to the Doctor. Jake had been helping her since Richards death and wanted to marry her. He justified beating Hank because he had been the one to take Richards life. Away from her and from her son Samuel. But after seeing his hateful display of anger and temper towards Hank, she knew she would never feel safe having Jake around Sam or herself.When no one else will help Hank, Nettie brings him back to her home and Jake is furious. Hank tries to leave but with a broken leg and all his other injuries he don't get far. He knows it is hard for her that he is there, she can barely look at him---the man who murdered a husband in father. When the neighbors start losing animals to theft again, the blame is aimed once again towards Hank.Through different circumstances that happen Hank ends up staying with Nettie to help her out. They also start falling in love. Hank fears being like his father though and when the black rage surfaces and he almost kills again, he don't believe he can ever be the husband Nettie needs or the father to Sam.Hank grabs you from the beginning. Being beaten and abused while defenseless and knowing he is haunted by the past. The book gives a glimpse of how unforgiving some folks can be or how quickly those in tough times can be provoked to be vigilantes, without needing proof of a crime.Another good book by Jillian!**Sexual Situations