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<\/a>A man who\u2019s lost everything that matters\u2026a child no one wants\u2026and a woman with trouble to spare.<\/p>\nDuel McClain sees no reason to keep taking up space on this earth until a poker game changes everything and he leaves the saloon with a baby in his arms, a baby he\u2019d won. He hasn\u2019t a clue what to do with the child. He only knows he\u2019ll protect the little girl with his life if need be. Thinking his life can\u2019t get more complicated, he gets another shock when a woman stumbles into the light of his campfire.<\/p>\n
Jessie Foltry is running for her life. She\u2019s hungry and afraid but the man and his child pose little threat. Trusting Duel is the easy part\u2026living without her knight on the Texas plains will be next to impossible.<\/p>\n
But is the price too high to become a family?<\/p>\n
KIRSTEN\u2019S THOUGHTS:\u00a0 Three lost and broken individuals find healing with each other and form a complete family. Warmth spreads through my chest just thinking of this story and the people Linda Broday brought into my home and left in my heart. Duel McClain *Huge Sigh* is truly a knight in buckskin.\u00a0 A man trying to avoid anything involving his heart can\u2019t stop a heart the size of Texas from rescuing a sweet little girl and a shattered woman. I mean really I don\u2019t know how many times I felt my mouth stretch in a smile at his interactions with his family and little Marley, or just want to cry at his gentle spirit and healing ways with Jessie. But there\u2019s no mistaking this gentle giant leaves a Texas sized boot print on the backside of anyone who threatens his family.<\/p>\n
And Jesse, talk about a heroine you can root for even as your heart breaks for her past. And boy does this woman have a lot to overcome from a past so steeped in horror and pain it would take a man like Duel to show her the world isn\u2019t only made of darkness as she brings light to his world, as well. I loved watching her bloom under Duel\u2019s tenderness and both of them find joy in little Marley (who if you just don\u2019t love to death\u2026well you need to get off my trail).\u00a0 Jessie easily became one of my favorite heroines. For all she\u2019d been through and the abuse she took, she could have easily been bitter and hard, but instead instantly cares and coddles Marley and aches for the love of kindhearted Duel.<\/p>\n
A secondary character who snatches your heart will be Duel\u2019s father, and equally goodhearted man who longs for his children to find happiness and peace. There are plenty of lighthearted moments, and the town of Tranquility and the people come to life in vivid color under Ms. Broday\u2019s skilled pen, but I\u2019ll warn you have tissue nearby there are some moments that steal your breath, and cause your eyes to leak.<\/p>\n
KNIGHT ON THE TEXAS PLAINS (KINDLE)<\/a><\/p>\n Another secondary character who I could have loved if Duel hadn\u2019t already stolen my heart was Luke McClain, and it just so happens\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Luke McClain thought the worst of his problems was losing his job as a Texas Ranger. Glory has had more trouble in her life than most women her age. With her mother ill and her father in prison, she\u2019s all that stands between her sisters and starvation. Then to top everything off she had to go and shoot Luke. Bringing him home and patching him up is the least she can do. She just never expected to find heaven in his arms.<\/p>\n But the real question is\u2026can the meddlesome cowboy be tamed?<\/p>\n KIRSTEN\u2019S THOUGHTS: Two people deep in shadows of struggles they\u2019re trying to hide, find in each other the vision that might lead them to their deepest desires. Okay, Luke is not a calming, gentle force like his brother, Duel.\u00a0 Luke is a teasing, smart-mouthed rogue more likely to stir a fire than douse the flame, and he keeps Glory caught between wanting to kiss him and shoot him. So she does both! But I\u2019ve always loved teasing, smart-mouthed rogues so I of course I love Luke McClain and his Texas sized mouth and ego. Because you always know beneath all that swagger is a man who\u2019s struggling with a big hurt and a heart in need of a strong love and a lesson in true strength.<\/p>\n Glory Day can meet Luke flame for flame, but her fire doesn\u2019t stem from teasing or self-assurance, her drive is contrived of preservation, hers and her family. \u00a0Her burdens are about to top out, and then she faces the loss of her eyesight, making all her struggles that much heavier. Glory is a heroine who grabs your heart. Glory is a young woman who is always told how strong and brave she is, and all she wants is someone who will share her load and stand by her side as she fights her battles. Good thing, Luke McClain comes calling. \u00a0(Another tissue alert folks the ending caused Cookie to get a \u201clittle smoke in his eye\u2019).<\/p>\n As in KNIGHT ON THE TEXAS PLAINS, the secondary characters in COWBOY CAME CALLING are priceless. I won\u2019t go into each, but you\u2019re sure to love Glory\u2019s sisters; Quiet, loving Hope with a hidden strength to rival Glory\u2019s, and rowdy, sassy Patience who only wants to be like her oldest sister. As Luke noted the sisters reminded me a lot of the sisters in LITTLE WOMEN (their favorite story).<\/p>\n THE COWBOY WHO CAME CALLING (KINDLE)<\/a><\/p>\n Both of these stories are just brilliant. You will truly become a part of the story, Linda does such a fabulous job of breathing life into every character and place. The family dynamics both the McClains and the Days are so true to life it\u2019s like sitting in their kitchens, parlors and living rooms and participating in all the antics you\u2019d expect with siblings.<\/p>\n I give KNIGHT ON THE TEXAS PLAINS and THE COWBOY WHO CAME CALLING my YOU MUST READ THESE IMMEDIATELY rating!<\/p>\n LINDA\u2019S INSPIRATIONS FOR THESE STORIES\u2026<\/p>\n When I growing up, our family lived next door to a\u00a0Latino couple and they had a little girl who played with me sometimes. I learned that she was won in a poker game by the man who posed as her father. He was a horrible drunk and made her life miserable. She always told me she was going to look for her real parents some day. That was the inspiration for Knight on the Texas Plains. I knew I had to write a story that was similar to hers\u00a0except I wanted to give her a happy ending.<\/p>\n Then when I wrote The Cowboy Who Came Calling I was struggling with\u00a0deteriorating eyesight because of a disease I have. It seemed no matter what I did we couldn’t stop the progression. It was a very scary time for me. In the book the heroine Glory Day\u00a0has to face\u00a0losing her vision. That wasn’t good for someone who\u00a0was the sole support of\u00a0her mother and two sisters. I totally related to Glory and was able to immerse myself in her character. Maybe that’s one reason that book is so strong and\u00a0won the National Readers’ Choice Award.<\/p>\n Make sure to check out other must read stories by Linda Broday. This lady knows how to write about cowboys and the women who love them, so if you\u2019re lookin\u2019 for a yarn for \u2018round the campfire just carry one of these in your saddle bags. But make sure ya start with KNIGHT ON THE TEXAS PLAINS and THE COWBOY WHO CAME CALLING!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WHOO-EEE!!!\u00a0 It is another blazen hot day here on the trail and all \u2018cause Ms. Linda Broday came ridin\u2019 up to the campfire with two heart seizin\u2019 cowboys, and two stories that are guaranteed to touch the ol\u2019 ticker (and … Continue reading <\/a>That\u2019s before he runs into a bullet and finds \u00a0himself staring into the beautiful eyes of Glory Day. She\u2019s the kind of woman who can make a man forget everything\u2026except finding the way to her heart. Calling on her is the answer to a dream, but leaving her is next to dying.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n