Reunions don't always go smoothly. When Blake Cooper's wife
who vanished ten years ago with their daughter returns,
it's only because the child is sick. Young Lindsey has a
kidney ailment; she's in Tulsa needing a transplant.
THE COWBOY'S REUNITED FAMILY finds bitterness to overcome.
To begin with the background is unclear because we see
Blake's point of view and he doesn't like remembering the
past decade. Jana is English and she left the US with their
child. Now the reason she's back is because a tissue match
with relatives might provide a kidney donor. Blake meets
twelve-year-old Lindsey, finding that though she's small and
frail, she wants to ride a horse. Blake is reeling
from the shocks to his system but he realises that the
stress has been hard on Jana too. They just have to get on
with talking to the medical staff and trying to find a
donor... and hope there are no complications.
Jana met Blake as an exchange student and they married too
young. Now she admits to herself that she was living with
serious depression on the Cooper ranch. Nothing related to
the life she'd known in London and even loving Blake
could compensate. She saw leaving as survival. While
her husband is handling matters with great maturity she
wouldn't blame him if he told her to get out of his life
now he's got his daughter. Blake's sister Mia, a DEA
agent, doesn't trust Jana one inch, and she's not the only
one.
This unusual scenario caught my attention from the start.
We see a contrast of cultures and a plea for redemption.
Blake is perhaps too calm, quietly resenting having been
deprived of his child. Mia is suitably hardheaded, giving
young Lindsey an MP3 player with a secret tracking device.
I also liked that the fragile girl starts to assert
herself, tired of being dragged from pillar to post and
growing up without relatives. Now she's got a chance of a
stable home, she wants to grab it with both hands. This is
an inspirational romance so we see that the churchgoing
community tries to be open-minded and warm; in the interim,
Jana has learnt to pray for strength.
Brenda Minton is an
admirable writer and her characters, animals and settings
feel very real. THE COWBOY'S REUNITED FAMILY is well worth
a place on your shelf.
Blake Cooper thought he'd never see his daughter again. Then
his former wife, Jana Cooper, shows up on his doorstep with
Lindsay asking for help. Blake can't deny his ill child
anything. But he's struggling to sort out his feelings for
the woman who abandoned him ten years ago. Jana's back in
Oklahoma for Lindsay's sake, and a second chance with her
first love. Somehow she must prove she's no longer a
confused young wife, but a woman willing to do anything to
reunite her family forever.
Cooper Creek: Home is where the heart is for this Oklahoma
family
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