Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Cowboy
Author: Staci Stallings
Publisher: Spirit Light Publishing
ISBN: 1-4116-7480-4
Release Date: 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Inspirational Romance
Year/Setting: Current/Silver Plume, CO and various other cities
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: None
Language (Profanity) Rating: None
Voilent Content Rating: None
Staci's Website: www.stacistallings.com
Beth McCasland has had her share of hard knocks in life. The man she loved died unexpectedly and she never even got to say goodbye. The only thing that eased her pain was finding out he left her with a child. Kenzie is the best gift Kevin ever gave her and gets her through each day. Knowing she had to raise her child alone brought Beth to this small town to work as a waitress in a diner. But they have love around them and each day is a good one together – except maybe late at night in the quiet.
Ashton Raines has everything a man could dream of. He is a raising music star with money, talent, women (if he wanted) and more. Except he too has a hole in his life he is trying to fill. The rudder keeping him sane in the world he has chosen was his wife and he lost her to cancer. Everything now seems a blur.
One night he walked away from it all, rented a car and drove. Was it just a coincidence that brought him to her diner? Was it just a coincidence Beth happened to be working that night when she normally didn’t work nights? (It probably helped that Beth wasn’t a huge fan and didn’t recognize him.) Beth doesn’t think so. She lives her life through the help of God and therefore knows there is a reason for the two of them to be friends. (at least that’s how it started)
Staci Stallings has written one of the sweetest stories I have read in a long time. Her characters are so real I almost feel as if I am in the room with them. So, okay, I don’t have the frame of reference of being on stage in front of adoring fans but the feeling of wanting to run away is one I have experienced. This author has illustrated very dramatically how life can get away from us and we feel as if there is no one who cares and then introduces a light to guide the rudderless ship.
Cowboy captures the reader’s heart strings through sympathy, anticipation, compassion and many other emotions – ones not always captured in this venue. This would be one of the truest of love stories because they fell in love after only one actual meeting and many long phone conversations. Conversations with things said on multiple levels and some with very little said at all. It took meeting again, however, for everything to gel. God often does that to us by creating multiple levels. Staci Stallings did it by creating each new chapter with a new depth of character beautifully done. This is book one of the "The Harmony Series" and I am looking forward to more.
Lori
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