This author was suggested to me and it was a quick read. Interesting viewpoints...the author bounced back and forth between 1919 and 2007 (something I don't normally like). I hung in there and enjoyed it but this way of writing is not my favorite. Love historicals but this twist made me have to concentrate to know what era I was in. ( )

Sierra McKettrick has come to live on the Triple M after her mother, Eve McKettrick, ends their long estrangement by offering medical insurance for Sierra's sickly son, Liam, with the requirement the two spend a year on the ranch. Sierra meets Travis Reid, who looks after the horses on the ranch, and is quite taken by him, particularly because of how well he gets along with Liam. Soon after Sierra moves in, she notices an antique teapot seems to move around of its own accord, she hears piano music playing late at night when no one else is around, and Liam claims to see another boy in his room. Meanwhile, in 1919, Hannah McKettrick is dealing with grief after losing her husband, Gabe, to the war, tending her sickly son, Tobias, and trying to deny her attraction to her brother-in-law, Doss. She also notices the teapot moving around, and Tobias is claiming to see another boy as well.
This sweet little tale connects the first part of the McKettrick series, which takes place in the late 1800's to the more contemporary second part. The two women are connected by their similar stories as well as ancestry. Both are fun to read about, but both stories could use more fleshing out. This is a pretty slim novel, and the action seems rather rushed. ( )

It was about 1am when I finished book 4, I was sleepy but nothing could stop me from continuing on to book 5 (Sierra's Homecoming).
After reading the first sentence which reads... "Present Day
“Stay in the car,” Sierra McKettrick told her seven-year-old son, Liam" I felt like I was robbed! The next few paragraphs talked about all of the gravestones Sierra read and the names engraved were like the names of my own family members. HOW could an author, after 4 incredible historical romance stories kill off all of the people she made us fall in love with and move the series to present day? I kept reading, I was introduced to relatives of each of the original children (5 all together as a daughter was born while the sons were looking for brides)
The author tried to incorporate some kind of paranormal activity with another mother and child living in the house at the same time but in a different time period. It was odd, confusing (I can't keep my own family members families together in my head now I have to figure out how all these people are related to people I read about from like 100 years ago!)
I stopped reading about chapter 3... Depressed and let down. I then continued to read on in the series...what a mistake! The current day cowboys were all billionaires, single or divorced and each book contains the same recipe of cousins trying to find a woman who just happen to come to town and be the most beautiful gal they ever saw. And they sure had a LOT of sex. Maybe the incredible characters of the first few books brought money in for the remaining cookie cutter books in the series. Such a shame to spoil what started out as one of the BEST 4 series books I ever read. ( )

my copy has 275 pages and has a novella by B.J. Daniels in it ( )

my copy has 275 pages and has a novella by B.J. Daniels in it ( )