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1860 - Palo Pinto, Texas. Under the spectacular glow of a Comanche moon, a family is slaughtered, their homestead torched. Nineteen-year-old Barleigh Flanders survives the terrifying midnight raid. Fiercely determined to rebuild, she seizes an opportunity meant for another. Desperate, near penniless, her foolhardy scheme could prove calamitous, yet it's her only hope. Her grueling physical journey stretches from Texas, to Missouri, and into the rugged Utah Territory. However, it's her emotional journey that takes her to places of uncharted darkness, discovery, and redemption when old family secrets are revealed. What she accepted as her past turns out to be an elaborate lie that reaches across generations, reshaping her memories of the Grandfather she despised, the father she adored, and the mother she never knew. Along her journey, she encounters a mysterious stranger. In Hughes Levesque, Barleigh gains an unsought ally with dark secrets of his own. A Texas Ranger turned hired gun, Hughes makes it his personal mission to keep Barleigh safe. Doing so may cost him his life, his job, and his heart, none of which he's keen to lose. Orphan Moon is a heart-wrenching saga of family love, loss, and betrayal. Both a gripping adventure and a timeless love story, it gallops across the bleeding edge of the western frontier.… (más)
Between September 1860 and December 1850, someone masquerading as Indians kills most of Barleigh's family except for a new baby girl. Barleigh finds back taxes owing on the now destroyed ranch and she takes off across several states (territories) to join the Pony Express in order to pay the taxes and rebuild the ranch. She's an expert rider, never had a mother, and has a mean, ornery grandfather. Disguised as boy, she is accepted as a Pony Express rider, makes friends with another new rider, and embarks on long rides across the western US through Indian territory and all kinds of winter weather.
Meanwhile, her mother, who she thinks is dead, is dying and wants a Texas Ranger friend to find her daughter. This is a good story that held my attention. I didn't think Barleigh's time to grieve such huge losses was realistic, both at the start of the story and the end. Remember, this story takes places in just a few short months and she's a young person experiencing the loss of close family.
The writing suffers a little from an apparent too overworked, trying-too-hard attempt to ramp it up, and that's mainly in the beginning of the book and a tad near the end. The middle of the story flows better and more naturally. There are typos as there are in most published books these days, oversight by the publisher, not the author. The overworked bits have some awkward sentences and repetitious words/phrases in one sentence, but are minor detractions.
This is number one in a series of 3, so look for the next book. A lovely, engaging, exciting book. I received the book from Goodreads Giveaways.
1860 - Palo Pinto, Texas. Under the spectacular glow of a Comanche moon, a family is slaughtered, their homestead torched. Nineteen-year-old Barleigh Flanders survives the terrifying midnight raid. Fiercely determined to rebuild, she seizes an opportunity meant for another. Desperate, near penniless, her foolhardy scheme could prove calamitous, yet it's her only hope. Her grueling physical journey stretches from Texas, to Missouri, and into the rugged Utah Territory. However, it's her emotional journey that takes her to places of uncharted darkness, discovery, and redemption when old family secrets are revealed. What she accepted as her past turns out to be an elaborate lie that reaches across generations, reshaping her memories of the Grandfather she despised, the father she adored, and the mother she never knew. Along her journey, she encounters a mysterious stranger. In Hughes Levesque, Barleigh gains an unsought ally with dark secrets of his own. A Texas Ranger turned hired gun, Hughes makes it his personal mission to keep Barleigh safe. Doing so may cost him his life, his job, and his heart, none of which he's keen to lose. Orphan Moon is a heart-wrenching saga of family love, loss, and betrayal. Both a gripping adventure and a timeless love story, it gallops across the bleeding edge of the western frontier.
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Meanwhile, her mother, who she thinks is dead, is dying and wants a Texas Ranger friend to find her daughter. This is a good story that held my attention. I didn't think Barleigh's time to grieve such huge losses was realistic, both at the start of the story and the end. Remember, this story takes places in just a few short months and she's a young person experiencing the loss of close family.
The writing suffers a little from an apparent too overworked, trying-too-hard attempt to ramp it up, and that's mainly in the beginning of the book and a tad near the end. The middle of the story flows better and more naturally. There are typos as there are in most published books these days, oversight by the publisher, not the author. The overworked bits have some awkward sentences and repetitious words/phrases in one sentence, but are minor detractions.
This is number one in a series of 3, so look for the next book. A lovely, engaging, exciting book. I received the book from Goodreads Giveaways.
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