Life, Love and Books

. Always Look Twice by Elizabeth Goddard In the second installment to the Uncommon Justice series, we return to the wilderness of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  It opens with a bear, a camera and a eyewitness to a murder! Harper Reynolds is on a sabbatical from her job, when in the midst of getting a award worthy shot  movement catches her eye. Now she is running from the killer that she just witnessed shooting a unknown woman. Heath McCade is now a reserve sheriff deputy in his home county, but he did not expect to have a witness fall right into his path. While he is out with a wilderness group from his ranch retreat;  something catches his attention in the woods. His dear childhood friend, Harper; was back in his life as fast as she had disappeared years before. Harper is devastated to hear that all the evidence of  the crime that she has witnessed has  disappeared. Now she is determined to ...

Home on the Range by Ruth Logan Herne The second book in the Double S Ranch series brings us back to Gray's Glen, Washington. We find the town still trying to rebuild after the disaster that has struck them. At the same time the Stafford brother Nick, has put his whole focus on working his family ranch and is now struggling to raise his daughters on his own. Ruth has done it again and written a story that pulls you in to the book. The little girls struggling with the issue of not having a mother in the picture, then all of sudden she reappears in their life. This story deals with a issue that is not touched very often in fiction. The struggle of a doting father trying to make the right decisions for his daughters without causing them more pain in the long run. Also the pain of having a parent that leaves and then chooses to reinsert themselves in their child lives for alternative reasons. I loved the way she created her characters to each have their own uniqueness a...

Back in the Saddle (Double S Ranch) by Ruth Logan Herne The prodigal son returns home to the Double S Ranch in Gray's Glen Washington, Colt Stafford returns back to his roots to only find his father not doing well and the ranch needing his assistance. To his surprise their is a new addition to his father's household of a feisty housekeeper named Angelina Morales. Ready to help his father out in their time of need, Colt buts head with his younger brother Nick, who has been their dad's right hand man. Even though Colt is broke, he feels that spending some time at home will get him to a point he could return to the world of Wall street. Upon meeting Angelina and her family, Colt's heart is deeply touched and starts to soften more toward a possibility of a new life with a family of his own. When tragedy strikes the town, the Stafford brothers put their heads together to form an idea that might revive the town and heal the deep wounds created by their father. R...