Ho Hum--it's a rehashing of an often used plot for this genre. A woman leaves her husband, divorces him, and conceals her pregnancy from him (if the kids are even biologically his--that's not even revealed in this book). The man (Jax) finds out when she dumps the kids off at his door (without him even being home--though to be fair, later in the novel we find out he is usually home except Sundays for church and occasional necessary shopping trips). A newcomer to the area (Faith) has purchased Jax's ranching experience in a fundraiser and happens to be with him when he rushes home and finds the twins. She's able to help him through those first few moments. And of course, they both have reasons why they can't be in love with anyone else, let alone each other.

Both Jax and Faith are hurting souls. Jax's heart was broken when his wife rejected him shortly after the accident that caused his scars. Faith's heart was bruised when a guy she'd been seeing for a couple years rejected her, refused to let her see his son with whom she'd bonded, and disparaged her parenting skills. Both turned to horses for healing: Jax feels more comfortable with horses where he doesn't have to worry his one-sided deafness keeps him from understanding what's going on. Faith has a heart to save wild mustangs.

I admire Faith's heart for rescue horses, but she buys a dilapidated farm (perhaps because of the cheap acreage) and jumps in with both feet before having anything ready, including a way to keep the horses within her property. I can't believe that her old mentor, an experienced horse rescuer, who brought the first two horses, would allow them to stay on a property where they weren't safely contained--but apparently she does. It just doesn't seem that Faith was very responsible as far as the horses she planned to rescue. ( )