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	McKettrick's Choice (McKettrick Cowboys Trilogy #3) Linda Lael Miller HQN Books, 2005 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

And he never looked back. He just prayed he'd be in time to save the man who raised him as a son and to keep his best friend from the gallows. He knew he'd encounter rustlers, scoundrels and thieves. But he'd never expected to find a woman like Lorelei Fellows.

Setting fire to her wedding dress in the town square probably wasn't the best way to stand her ground.

But Lorelei had had enough. She was sick of men and their schemes. All she wanted was to stake her claim on her own little piece of Texas. And with Holt McKettrick as a neighbor, things were beginning to look up. The man was a straight shooter with a strong will, a steady aim and a hungry heart.

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Read All 4 Books in this Series

I know it's a trilogy...but there is a 4th book about an out of wedlock child! Such a good story! If you love cowboys, romance, family and the old west...you'll love it as much as I did.


McKettrick's Choice

Great plot and I enjoyed the book . I am loaning it to my 91 year old mother to read.


Fantastic

Linda Lael Miller books are just great. I can't put them down until they're finished. I have enjoyed every one of the "McKettrick" series with their humor and compassion and all kinds of emotions. The quips back and forth between the characters is so good you feel like you are right there listening to them. I have read every one a second time!! Looking for more of the "McKettrick" and the "Stone Creek" series. Thank you Ms. Miller.

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Cattle Drive Romance

This is a good western romance love story set in the 1880s in Texas and Arizona. It's about a strong gallant cowboy falling for a very strong-willed, independent woman who is used to living a cushy life in town but left her home for ranching. Their encounters are humorous but the book is a bit far-fetched with all the dangers they encounter without getting hurt or killed. Holt, the cowboy, came across as some sort of super hero. I enjoyed it though. Lorelei, Holt's love interest, was very brave. The main plot wasn't really about love, but more about Holt's coming to the rescue of friends in trouble, sort of like Superman.

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Nice Western Romance

Holt McKettrick is just about to hitch himself to his mail-order bride when a rider comes into town, telling Holt that Gabe Navarro, a good friend of his, is about to hang in Texas, and his foster father is about to be run off his ranch. Secretly relieved at delaying his nuptials, Holt abandons his wedding and heads for San Antonio. One of the first things he sees when he gets there is lovely Lorelei Fellows burning her wedding dress in the town square, after catching her husband-to-be en flagrante delicto with a house maid. Holt runs into Lorelei again at her home when he goes there to speak to her father, the judge who sentenced his friend Gabe to hang. His meeting with Judge Fellows goes nowhere, however, as Holt knows the man is in league with Templeton, a wealthy rancher who is after Holt's foster father's ranch and who framed Gabe for the crimes for which he is about to hang.

Holt isn't the only one who has problems with Lorelei's father, however. When Judge Fellows threatens to commit Lorelei to an asylum for refusing to marry her cheating fiancé, she starts to think about changing her life and actually living it. When she finds out she's the owner of a small tract of land, she packs up her things and the Mexican couple who raised her, and heads out to start a new life on her own ranch. The house is a wreck and she has to start from scratch, but even the hardships Lorelei finds herself facing are exhilarating compared to her boring life in her father's house. Even more exhilarating, though annoying, is the fact that Holt McKettrick is staying on a neighboring ranch. Against Holt's better judgment, he invites Lorelei along on a cattle drive so that she can purchase some cattle, and the close proximity they find themselves in is of great amusement to the rest of their group, as just about everyone but Holt and Lorelei can see that they're falling in love.

I picked this book up simply because I was looking for a sweet historical romance and knew Linda Lael Miller would deliver. I don't read as many romances as I used to so I haven't read all the books by this author, but everything that I have read has been satisfying, and this book was no exception. Though the pace of the story dragged a bit in the middle and the relationship between Holt and Lorelei could have used just a touch more flash, this was a very good historical romance novel with engaging characters and it made me feel like I was right there on the dusty Texas trail. As usual, Linda Lael Miller is worth the read.

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