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Wedding
Bells at Wandering Creek Ranch
by Patricia
Thayer
Western romance with a bit of suspense
and an expansive view of love
Patricia Thayer's
western romance Wedding
Bells at Wandering Creek Ranch depicts the community surrounding
the hero and heroine, giving a look inside and beyond the couple to
bring love's transforming power to others. Private investigator Jack
Sullivan has a job to do --- find Dean Kingsley and investigate a case
of theft. If he has to camp out at Wandering Creek Ranch in his car, so
be it. Dean's sister Willow, daughter of THE Hollywood movie star
couple Molly Reynolds and Matt Kingsley, cherishes her privacy and she
will do anything to protect herself and her brother from tabloids and
gossip...even if it means inviting the persistent detective straight
into her home and hiring him to help around the ranch! Anything is
better than having someone seeing him camped out in his car and drawing
someone's attention. Can Willow see beyond her past and her family's
celebrity to trust Jack's claim that he wants to help her brother?
Patricia Thayer is an author who just keeps growing on
me with each romance I read of hers. She brings the reader right into
the heart of ranch life in her western romances, both the solitude and
also how western life is part of a larger community despite the large
spaces between ranches and others. She creates characters with
character backgrounds that allow the reader to see the person as whole.
Wedding Bells at Wandering Creek Ranch adds suspense to the romance and
Jack's character.
In Wedding Bells at Wandering Creek
Ranch, Patricia Thayer brings romance out beyond the hero and
heroine to an entire ranch or community of people. Her romances heal
hearts not just with the hero-heroine romance but also in not
necessarily love but in healing ways true of the romance genre to the
people surrounding the hero and heroine. In Wedding Bells at Wandering
Creek Ranch, Patricia Thayer expands her visions to family members and
troubled kids. The reader sees how the growing love and trust between
Jack and Willow changes the lives of those around them. Wedding Bells at Wandering Creek Ranch
is a powerful statement about love.
Patricia Thayer's Wedding Bells at
Wandering Creek Ranch has a bit of a general fiction short story
or novella with romance feel more than a short romance that focuses
more exclusively on the hero and heroine, adding a wonderful variety.
Readers who crave variety in romance reads will cherish this book. For
me, this kind of variety speaks to the the beauty of the short romance
form --- there are so many endless possibilities, so many endless types
of wonderful romances that reading can be an act of discovery. Wedding Bells at Wandering Creek Ranch
and Patricia Thayer bring something new and wonderful to the short
romance form. If you like romance, fiction and happy endings and want a
story about love transforming power into a community, Patricia Thayer's
Wedding Bells at
Wandering Creek Ranch is a great reading choice!
Publisher: Harlequin
Romance (April 2008)
Western Weddings
Reviewed by Merrimon,
Merrimon Book Reviews
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