"When life is just about managing there is still hope"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted January 5, 2019
Romance Western | Holiday
Learning to live with the hand you are dealt. Sure there is
sometimes the element of choice in decisions that affect
your entire life, but for so many, they are not given that
option. A TALL DARK COWBOY CHRISTMAS by Maisie Yates is part
of the Gold
Valley series and brings us back to the Get Out
Of Dodge ranch and characters we love. A TALL DARK COWBOY
CHRISTMAS is also a deep look into the lives of two
wonderful characters that have led their lives so far by
managing. Managing your life is a harrowing sometimes desperate and
definitely tiring ordeal. But when that is the only thing
for your survival that's what people do -- they manage.
Some manage better than others. In A TALL DARK COWBOY
CHRISTMAS, we meet two folks that have totally mastered the
art of managing -- at least in the best version they could
aspire to. Grant Dodge married his teenage sweetheart. So cliché but
this marriage was nothing like anything written in the
fairytale books. I hate to say the marriage of Grant to
Lindsay was doomed, but that was the unfortunate truth.
Lindsay had survived bouts of cancer but the prognosis was
dreary, and both of them knew that from the start. Their
marriage somehow lasted eight years. Grant is now a widower
and deals with the town's pity every day of his life. He
has not found the strength or desire to move on, and so he
basically hides in his home during the night and during the
day works at the family ranch. McKenna is at the end of her survival ropes so to speak. She
arrives in Golden Valley in search for a man whom she truly
believes is her father. The only proof she has is his name
on her birth certificate. McKenna was abandoned by her
mother when she was only two. Never adopted she remained in
social services until she turned eighteen. McKenna never
knew family, never knew love and certainly never felt as if
she belonged to anyone. And yet she is resourceful and an amazing survivor. Doesn't
really seem like it when she is discovered holding up in one
of the Get Out Of Dodge outer cabins by Grant. Cold and
hungry and totally without any more choices McKenna decides
to trust this tall dark cowboy. There is just something
about Grant and in short time McKenna learns that this is a
good man. Almost too good to believe. Certainly too good for
her. But for a short time she has his attention McKenna is
determined to enjoy their time together. As to finding her father well that's another story. McKenna
knows the odds of this man claiming her as his long-lost
child are practically nil. But McKenna just can't give up
hoping. When there is nothing else -- at least hope provides
a glimmer of light to follow. A TALL DARK COWBOY CHRISTMAS is filled with the joy of
family and the knowledge that the absence of one is a very
dark dismal void. So of course while reading this latest
story by Maisie Yates you will find yourself rooting for a
happy ending. As in all Maisie Yates books the characters
are very real and honest -- no shortcuts here.
SUMMARY
Grant Dodge didn’t expect to find a woman sleeping in an
abandoned cabin on his family ranch. Or to find her so
intriguing. Unlike every other woman in town, McKenna Tate
doesn’t know Grant’s a widower. There’s no pity in the looks
she gives him. McKenna wants him, and Grant has forgotten
what it’s like to feel like a man. A no-strings fling for
Christmas might be the kind of holiday cheer Grant needs… With only a suitcase to her name, McKenna came to Gold
Valley to confront her birth father. She didn’t plan to work
at the Dodge ranch or fall for the gorgeous cowboy who keeps
his heart roped off. But there’s no denying the way their
broken pieces fit together. Hope brought her to Gold
Valley—but will it be the gift that could finally heal
Grant, and McKenna’s own wounded heart? Also includes a bonus Gold Valley novella, SNOWED IN WITH
THE COWBOY!
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