Review: Loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2012
I'm a sucker for cowboy love stories and when a whodunit element is added, I'm hooked! Set in West Texas, "Standing in the Shadows" follows the Browder family, owner of the Lazy B ranch. But, all is not well. Finally home after 8 years, Marcie Browder saw her father Mason hit her mother Carlinda. The next day, she found her father dead from a gunshot wood.But, she was not the first on the scene. The new ranch foreman Tucker McGeen, gorgeous and mysterious was leaning over Mason Browder's body. Marcie shivers, not just from the shock but also from the sexual awareness she felt towards Tucker McGee. She's attracted to him alright, but could she trust him with her heart and her life?Ken Casper, the author, writes in an easy prose; a friendly style that makes you feel as if he is telling a story in a group of intent listeners in a front porch. The characters are very much alive. You can feel the sexual tension between Marcie and Tucker; and you can also feel their pain. The supporting characters were also developed extensively, their back stories told in the same easy manner as the rest of the book. You might not know the Lazy B ranch and its inhabitants in the beginning, but by the time you finish reading, you feel that they are old friends.