Though Judith is supposed to spend her holidays with her golf-playing Aunt Louise, she quickly finds a happier home at Nancherrow, the Carey- Lewises' luxurious estate on the Cornish coast. Setting up the third title in the ongoing ‘Cowboy Crossing Western Sweet Romance’ series of novels, as they each feature their own self-contained romance. Pilcher makes Judith Dunbar - only 14 years old when the book begins - the heroine and focal point of the story, but in some ways she is a very colourless character. As with her other novels, Pilcher’s prose is packed with warmth and sincerity, and her storytelling skills are serene and beguiling.

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Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for. Most of the other characters, during the development of the novel, manage to be at least interesting, if not utterly convincing and appealing. I did not mind it in the first half of the book, but as I was nearing the end and their HEA was still nowhere in sight, I got very frustrated as both of them were such lovely persons.

This is a captivating, eerie tale that sweeps you up and immerses you in the complex reverberations of what occurs upon opening a Pandora’s Box of familial secrets, sins, and sorrows. Only just gaining custody of his children, Zane Hudson now requires a permanent housekeeper to help look after them whilst he works upon the farm. Pilcher's books always look like romance novels, and some do have a touch of romance included, but they are so much more than that. It lives up to my memory pretty well, though I sympathized more with characters that I don’t think I understood well, that I thought were weak or selfish before. Finally, after a lot of long walks and Cornish cream teas, WW II begins, and the beautiful young men who decorated the lawns of Nancherrow are wounded, taken prisoner, or killed.

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Set in Adelaide Hills, South Australia in 1959, Morton is masterful in her descriptions of place and time. With a little real effort on the author's part this could easily have been a much better read, one with the Big Reveal not having been telegraphed from the first quarter of the book. I'll stop now, but I really like the evocative writing in this book, at which Pilcher certainly excels.Pacing lags in the upsweep to the middle of the story but I found myself rushing through the last 200+ pages to find the answers to the central mystery. One would have thought, that after so many books I would have been accustomed to such goodbyes and voids.

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Amy uses other aspects of the Tellington Method to help horses learn to trailer safely, and to learn improved confidence on the ground and under saddle. We get to know her at the start of the novel, but from then on, we only get to see what she does, not so much what she feels.The Kesh use technological inventions of civilization such as writing, steel, guns, electricity, trains, and a computer network (see below). Amy and the staff at Heartland are depicted over the course of the series using several alternative treatment methods for horses.