Reviewer: Connie Payne
Title: The Bounty Hunter’s Bride
Author: Victoria Bylin
Publisher: Steeple Hill
ISBN-13: 9780373827886
Release Date: May 2008
Genre/Sub-genre: Inspirational Historical Romance
Year/Setting: 1882 Colorado
Overall Rating: 3.75
Sexual Content Rating: None
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: Minimal
Victoria's Website:
www.victoriabylin.com
At last. Dani Baxter is going to have a home and a love of her own. She never dreamed she’d fall in love with Patrick simply by corresponding with him, yet here she was in Colorado ready to give her heart to him and his three little girls, ready to start a new life. She had it all planned out never dreaming her life and that of Patrick’s girls could be altered so dramatically in a matter of moments.
It was Beau Morgan, Patrick’s brother, who bluntly greeted her with the news of Patrick’s death. How could God allow this to happen? How could He leave three little girls orphaned? What is she to do now?
The options given to her are really not options at all as far as Dani is concerned. The option she gives bounty hunter Beau is to let her adopt the girls and run the farm. After all, he’s not interested in anything but gunning for the man who changed his life in more ways than one. She on the other hand already loves the girls and wants to give them a loving, stable home.
Beau can’t afford to hunger for anything other than what he’s been living with for the past five years. God’s abandoned him so he has to rely on himself to right the wrong done, to see that justice is done. But he’s torn. Yearnings of a different life surface, but his bitterness trumps it all leaving him determined to finish what was started so long ago.
Little by little, situation by situation, Dani and Beau are drawn to each other, but wanting such different things from life makes it impossible to see how they can fully commit themselves to the other without the possibility of resentment and angst eventually clouding their relationship. It’s easier said than done; to trust that God’s plan is the best plan. Will they be able to put their future, their love in God’s hands or will anger and pain overrule anything God has in store for them?
Ms. Bylin is very generous in her writing; scriptures and prayer, thoughts and feelings, imagery and verbal sparring, love and hate. They are all generously layered into a thought provoking yet moving romance. You can also add vivid and engaging characters and a surprising look into the mind of "the bad guy."
When a book such as The Bounty Hunter’s Bride evokes a plethora of thoughts and feelings in the reader how can it be anything but a pleasure to read?
Connie
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