Review: Montana 1870 Rutgers Ridge
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
I love this book .Julia Cutter is running for her life after her parents forced her to go with Jasper a man who was so cruel to her and wanted her dead  . Julia could feel her skin tear as she ran but she knew she could not stop no matter come what may.Julia prayed as she ran and then she heard the shot ring out.She was found by Mary and Lucille two older women who turned out to be sisters were also her saviors and nursed her back to health and then  she worked for them and they gave her a safe place to live .Julia still feared for her life and wondered if she was putting Mary and Lucille in danger too  .she worked hard  around the ladies ranch to pay for her keep and began calling them her aunts.Then one day Along comes a very handsome man who is practically gutted .Julia ,Mary and Lucille worked trying to save his life.Julia wondered at the cruel way he was left to die if it could possibly be Jasper catching up with her .They bathed him and found out his name Grant Gentry  and found he had been robbed and left for dead and three ranch hands  were dead and his brother Linc is missing .Grant thinks he has to leave until he realizes the extent of his injuries,and that the blood loss has him so weak.The women let him know that the  remains of the ranch hands were buried and there was no sign of his brother :Linc who was on the cattle drive with Grant was accused of murder before they left on the drive  and Grant knows he is innocent and  his other brother Emerson is the sheriff of Rutlers Ridge,can they find Linc and the men who left him for dead and can they prove Linc's innocence .Is the men who attacked Grant and his ranch hands and brother the same Jasper Smith who almost killed Julia and can Julia and Grants growing attraction survive after the way the last man in her life treated her ?Julia decides to go on the run when she believes Jasper has found her .Will she trust Grant and Emerson to keep her safe there is still a lot of story here people so get the book I am ready for book two in this series.I finished this book in one sitting I could not put it down .