Review: Doubting heart
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
A professor of research biology disappears at Wildhorse Pass which is a tourist hospitality ranch. He had been checking out whether the ranch was located in an environmentally sensitive area. His grad student claims they were a couple and stays on as a ranch worker to search for him or clues as to what occurred. The reader is told pretty quickly that in fact they were not a couple but close friends.The cousin of the professor arrives, incognito, to work there for the new season while he can check out the disappearance and this strange claim from the student.  He's an EMT doctor and has been away with Army reserves until recently. As nobody is being quite honest around here, including the pleasant family running the ranch, it takes some time to work out what has been going on and the city-loving ranch daughter returns and makes a move on the 'new hand'.I liked the horse details and setting. I did think at times the discussions were repetitive, and clichéd words such as purred, sashayed and fumed were in use. I also thought that retracing the professor's steps to check his research was the first thing his grad student would have done, not the last, months after his loss.  This is an adult romance but a mild enough one for mature teens in my opinion, and there is a good dose of suspense.