Review: Nice Read.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 24, 2013
Everything about this novella was nice...the writing, the plot, the characters......nice, but nothing amazing.  Furthermore, it could do with a bit of editing.  There were several misspelt words, missing punctuations, etc.  I'm not staying that this was anything too terrible, just there and noticeable.Sadie is the daughter and only child of a wealthy, influential cattle baron.  Her natural mother was a one night stand of her father's while he was engaged to another woman.  Sadie went to live with her father and stepmother when she was a very young child.  She does not know her mother, but knows who she is.The book begins with Sadie as a captive of a gang of outlaws who had robbed the stagecoach of which she was a passenger.  After receiving a letter informing her that her mother was gravely ill, Sadie had set off alone to go see her mother. It was while on the last leg of her travels that Sadie is kidnapped by the outlaws.The hero, Harrison is a pig farmer (of all things) who followed the outlaws when he discovered that they had stolen the mailbag from the stagecoach during the robbery.  There is some very important mail in that bag that Harrison desperately wants to get his hands on.  No one realized that Sadie had been taken captive until Harrison saw her tied up in the gang's hideout.  Harrison rescues Sadie and takes her back to town....the same town she'd been heading to when she was kidnapped.  From there the the plot develops until, ultimately, Harrison and Sadie get their HEA.This story is very sweet and quite romantic.  You actually get to see the relationship between Sadie and Harrison develop.  Harrison's family tree is a bit complicated.  He is the youngest of three sons, his older brothers were in prison after being falsely accused of a crime (this too gets resolved by the end of the book), and Harrison is living with his stepfather and two stepbrothers (two useless good for nothing bums who also get theirs by the end of the book).  They treat Harrison like crap and have him do all the work around the pig farm.But don't get the wrong idea, Harrison is very much a man, one with manners that belong in a English ballroom.  That's because Harrison is English.....very English.  I couldn't quite reconcile the image of a cowboy with an English accent.  I'm not complaining, but I prefer a good old red blooded American cowboy who says things like, darlin, howdy, and ma'am.  BTW this book is a clean romance.