Posted on October 8, 2013 by Maryann Wakefield, author of A Gentle Sun Coming
Maddie’s Choice was
recently suggested to me by my agent, Jeanie Loiacono. I thought it
wasn’t a good time for me to read for-fun books. I was wrong.
It’s always a good time for reading a book that keeps me turning the
pages. This is the summary that caused me to buy the book.
Maddie’s Choice
By
Joyce Zeller
Maddie’s Choice4.5 of 5 stars4.50 · rating details · 2 ratings · 2 reviews
Romance
writer Maddie Taylor’s career is in trouble. Convinced that true love does not
exist outside of her imagination, she can’t complete her current manuscript.
When a friend, Jonah Spartman, dies and wills her half of his cattle ranch, she
seizes the chance to leave New York City. There is one catch: in order to
inherit, she must stay in Arkansas for three months. The other half of the
ranch belongs to Gideon Spartman, Jonah’s grandson, a black-ops veteran whose
humanity was torn from him in Afghanistan. Rugged and sexy, Gideon embodies the
hero in Maddie’s current manuscript. He is far from happy to be sharing an
inheritance that is rightfully his with a “gold-digging bimbo” and resents
having to care for his two orphaned nephews. But Maddie senses the need behind
Gideon’s rough and unwelcoming exterior. She must also contend with the two
love-starved boys and an Angus bull who craves chocolate. The ranch is hardly
the safe haven Maddie expected. It is operating in the red, and the area is
plagued with drug dealers and cattle rustlers. Maddie can return to her barren
New York existence or stay and fight to save the ranch and win Gideon’s love.
The choice is hers.
This
is a book about life and its content is very explicit at times. It’s also
about cattle rustling, drugs, and the way adults and kids go about getting what
they want. I thought it was very well written. I give it a thumbs
up.
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