Review: Better than ever
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
The Cowboy Rescues a Bride is book 7 in the Chance Creek Cowboys series by Cora Seton.  She manages to keep up the rhythm of this book even though it is number seven.  Her momentum is not lost.Ned Matheson is in love with Fila Safar.  Fila had escaped and run away from and fought back the Taliban who kidnapped her when she was twelve.  Her parents were killed in the raid on her grandmother’s funeral procession. She came to Montana to see Aria Cruz’s daughters and thank them for their donation to their mother’s charity. It was that money that allowed Fila to be helped to escape.  Instead of being safe, the Taliban follow her and are arrested after an altercation.  Now Fila is frightened and is behaving more like the girl who was held by the Taliban than her former self.  She no longer knows who she is and where she belongs.  Ned knows- she belongs to him.Ned has taken over the running of the family ranch but takes time to get to know Fila well.  When guests take over the B&B; that Ethan Cruz and his wife own, Fila and Mia move in with Ned and his brother Luke.  Not long after they move in, they change places. Ned seems to understand what Fila needs more than she does.  He uses sympathy when it is warranted but also used tough love to get her to go out of her comfort zone.  His latest method to get her out of herself is to buy her a restaurant. She is afraid to run it but she is also taught to make men  happy. What is she to do?Meanwhile, Holt Matheson is pushing Ned to get that foreigner off his land.  He doesn’t trust Fila and isn’t ready to even allow her a reasonable doubt.  He sends Ned to scrape snow off the hunting cabin to get him away from Fila.  He takes her with him to the cabin.  Despite her efforts, the roof collapses and the cabin is in ruins.  Where did the two of them go?  How could she move Ned when he had a broken leg?  How would she get him to the main road miles away?As usual, Cora has several plots going on simultaneously yet they all intertwine around the Matheson family and Chance Creek.