Hearts Crossing Ranch
A beautiful city slicker and a rugged cowboy…The perfect Wild West adventure.
Cowboy Kenn Martin bears the guilt for allowing a coach to ruin his younger brother’s
bright athletic future. Feeling unworthy of any happiness, he’s lost his faith in
relationships and in God. When he meets Christy Forrest, he begins to hope for
redemption but soon learns his past mistakes aren't something she'll easily forgive. On
the Colorado wagon train adventure planned by her late father, landscape designer
Christy Forrest seeks to find peace in the nature she loves. However, she can't let go of
her anger at the drunk driver who killed her dad—or the woman who did nothing to stop
the man from driving. Falling for Kenn Martin begins to lighten her heart…until she
realizes the handsome cowboy carries heavy a burden all his own—a burden she’s not
sure she can accept.
The romance in Hearts Crossing Ranch takes place over a three-day wagon train
tour. Everything in the story moved a little too quickly – possibly a result of the novella
format instead of a full novel. The author set up both Kenn and Christy’s reasons for
falling away from their faith very well, and she does a good job describing conflicting
emotions, for example, when Christy mulls over why her mother didn’t join her on the
trip…“Sometimes her sympathy tangled itself with irritation, and she didn’t like the
sensation.” There was a lot of good set up for this story, and for a series of stories about
the Martin family of Hearts Crossing Ranch. I also liked the notion of Joe Montana as
a horse!
But this story was marred by the sudden resolution of all their problems by then end of
the third day, with the only real soul searching that seemed to occur by Kenn. Kenn
came across well and was a decent romantic hero, but I couldn’t identify with Christy.
Their romance had the heat of a summer flirtation – nice, with possibilities, but hard to
see the passion to make it last.
Tracy
Cowboy Kenn Martin bears the guilt for allowing a coach to ruin his younger brother’s
bright athletic future. Feeling unworthy of any happiness, he’s lost his faith in
relationships and in God. When he meets Christy Forrest, he begins to hope for
redemption but soon learns his past mistakes aren't something she'll easily forgive. On
the Colorado wagon train adventure planned by her late father, landscape designer
Christy Forrest seeks to find peace in the nature she loves. However, she can't let go of
her anger at the drunk driver who killed her dad—or the woman who did nothing to stop
the man from driving. Falling for Kenn Martin begins to lighten her heart…until she
realizes the handsome cowboy carries heavy a burden all his own—a burden she’s not
sure she can accept.
The romance in Hearts Crossing Ranch takes place over a three-day wagon train
tour. Everything in the story moved a little too quickly – possibly a result of the novella
format instead of a full novel. The author set up both Kenn and Christy’s reasons for
falling away from their faith very well, and she does a good job describing conflicting
emotions, for example, when Christy mulls over why her mother didn’t join her on the
trip…“Sometimes her sympathy tangled itself with irritation, and she didn’t like the
sensation.” There was a lot of good set up for this story, and for a series of stories about
the Martin family of Hearts Crossing Ranch. I also liked the notion of Joe Montana as
a horse!
But this story was marred by the sudden resolution of all their problems by then end of
the third day, with the only real soul searching that seemed to occur by Kenn. Kenn
came across well and was a decent romantic hero, but I couldn’t identify with Christy.
Their romance had the heat of a summer flirtation – nice, with possibilities, but hard to
see the passion to make it last.
Tracy
Author: Tanya Hanson
Category: Christian Romance
Publisher: White Rose Publishing
Rating:
Released: June 2010
Category: Christian Romance
Publisher: White Rose Publishing
Rating:
Released: June 2010
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