Jolie Jensen and her ten-year-old daughter, Dannie, steal
away from their trailer home in the middle of the night to
escape her abusive, meth-addict, ex-husband, Billie.
Jolie switches license plates from another car just in case
Billie reports their beat up old car stolen. Jolie's
Cousin Amanda is a deputy sheriff in the West Texas town of
Locket and she has gotten Jolie a job as a cook at the
Circle C Ranch, a large and very prosperous spread owned by
J. D. Strayhorn and his daughter, Jude Fallon.
Jolie and Dannie are furnished a small two-bedroom house as
part of the salary package, and neither of them has ever
lived in anything but a trailer house. Everyone is so
nice, and Dannie fits right in at the small school in
Locket, which is twenty-eight miles from the Circle C. No
one back in Grandee, Texas knows where Jolie has gone, but
she still expects that Billie will find her and cause her
trouble.
Jake Strayhorn is the nephew of J. D., but they have not
spoken to each other in nearly twenty-years. Jake's
father and J. D.'s second wife had an affair and died
together in a car wreck. Jake and his mother left the
ranch after the funerals and moved to Dallas, but Jake has
recently returned to Locket and is the sheriff. When he
meets Jolie he knows without a doubt that she is running
from something or some one, but he senses that she is one
of the good people God put on this earth, and admires her
spirit and her innate beauty, and J. D. comes to care a
great deal for her. When he finally gains her trust and
confidence, Jolie tells him about Billie, and J. D. vows to
keep her and Dannie safe.
MAN OF THE WEST is a terrific book with true-to-life flawed
characters and several fascinating subplots. Sadie
Callahan's superb narrative will run the gamut of your
emotions and the pitch-perfect pacing of the story help the
pages fly by rapidly. Characters introduced in LONE STAR
WOMAN are featured prominently and continue with their
lives. MAN OF THE WEST has it all -- drama, romance, a
smidgen of mystery, and just may be the best book you will
read this year.
Second in an engaging series about a legendary ranching
dynasty in Texas-from an exciting new author
Jolie is a newcomer in Willard County, and Sheriff Jake
Strayhorn is as drawn to her vulnerability as he is
intrigued by her beauty. Jolie is clearly on the run from
something, but she refuses to reveal her past- or let any
man into her heart. Still, Jake can't turn his back on her-
even if she winds up bringing trouble to his town...
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