As the oldest of five siblings, I understood in a visceral way, the anguish of the decisions she has to make. Sacrifice comes naturally as does the hope and faith that he will come to his senses and finally do the right thing but there may also come the time when she has to let him go. She's more mother than sister to her brother. Ryan does a superb job of writing the conflict in Sadie's heart. The price of Sadie's loving heart and refusal to give up on her brother just may be her life. Her father's health is rapidly failing and her brother has signed on with some truly bad dudes. Several years later, she's still doing the same, working two jobs and trying to keep her drug-addicted, ungrateful brother out of trouble but things are getting worse instead of better. When her mother died, sixteen year old Sadie Higgins put her life on hold to take care of her father, help run the family ranch, and raise her sweet little brother.

I've enjoyed all of her Montana Men books but Stone Cold Cowboy, the first of the Kendrick brothers' stories, is headed straight for my keeper shelf. I discovered Jennifer Ryan about a year ago and she's quickly become one of my favorite contemporary romantic suspense authors. Townsend isn’t so beastly afterĪll? Or now that their charges are safe, will Anthony and Fenella remainįorever opposites fighting their attraction? Proximity convince Fenella that perhaps Mr. But whenįenella insists on sharing the desperate search for the boys, fate offersĪnthony a chance to play the hero and change her mind about him. Into her house and accusing her of conniving with the runaways. Especially after he’s made such a woeful first impression by barging Man’s courtship, even if that man is now one of the richest magnates inĮngland. Surely such a refined and aristocratic creature will scorn a rough, self-made Nephew, the lovely widow’s beauty and spirit turn his world upside down. Lady Deerham’s fashionable Mayfair mansion demanding the return of his orphaned Life with the last man she ever imagined? Impetuous quest astonish this dashing widow with a breathtaking new love, and Will this tumultuous journey end in more tragedy? Or will the Setting off alone in the middle of the night with high-handed bear of a man,Īnthony Townsend. School friend go missing, she vows to find them whatever it takes. But beneath her exquisite exterior, this delicate blond beauty concealsĭepths of courage and passion nobody has ever suspected. Now she’s fêted as a diamond of the first water and London’s perfect Rejoined society after five years of mourning her beloved husband’s death at

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