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Cowboy Christmas Guardian (Gold Country Cowboys) Kindle Edition
Someone is dead set on stopping Shelby Arroyo from doing her job: assessing mineral rights in a mine in gold country. But after rancher Barrett Thorn rescues her from an attack, the handsome widowed cowboy seems to feel responsible for her. That is, until he discovers she’s from the family that he’ll never forgive for his wife’s death. As the threats against Shelby escalate, cowboy honor and an unexpected attraction keep Barrett by her side, even at his own risk. And since Shelby won’t back down, Barrett must protect the brave, loyal woman he has no business falling for . . . a woman someone wants to kill by Christmas.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLove Inspired Suspense
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2017
- File size1362 KB
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- ASIN : B06XZN573S
- Publisher : Love Inspired Suspense; Original edition (November 1, 2017)
- Publication date : November 1, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 1362 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 244 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,005,291 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,327 in Christian Suspense
- #6,757 in Christian Mystery & Suspense
- #12,169 in Clean & Wholesome Romance (Kindle Store)
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Dana Mentink is a USA TODAY and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author. She's written more than forty mystery and suspense novels for Love Inspired Suspense, Harvest House, and Poisoned Pen Press. She is honored to have received two ACFW Carol Awards, a Holt Medallion Award, and a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. Please visit her on the web at www.danamentink.com to sign up for her newsletter, or find her on Twitter, Facebook and Bookbub.
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Shelby Arroyo has come to Gold Bar to assess the mineral rights of the mine. Her uncle has fallen on hard times, and she wants to do whatever she can to help him. She didn't count on running into a mystery that results in numerous attempts on her life. She also didn't count on running into cowboy Barrett Thorn.
Barrett finds himself attracted to Shelby until he learns that she is related to the man who caused the accident that killed his wife. Barrett wants to have nothing to do with Shelby or her uncle, but honorable man that he is, he can't leave Shelby unprotected. He risks his own life to keep her safe. Soon Barrett and Shelby find themselves not only fighting their mutual attraction, but also fighting to stay alive.
With Christmas only a few days away, will Barrett and Shelby discover the secret of the mine before the holiday? Even more important, will they be alive to celebrate?
Cowboy Christmas Guardian is the first novel in Dana Mentink's new Gold Country Cowboys series. True to Dana's form, the book throws you into the action on page one and keeps you hooked. You'll feel the characters' pain and be a part of their struggle to resolve their differences. Once again Dana Mentink has written a fast-paced novel filled with suspense, romance, and inspiration. Thumps up, Dana--another five-star novel.
*i have been given a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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This is my favorite Love Inspired suspense by Dana Mentink! Shelby Arroyo is an assayer who loves her family and is dealing with forgiving. Barrett Thorn is cowboy who has been hurt, is working on forgiving, too. Barrett becomes Shelby’s accidental guardian. I enjoyed seeing their relationship change through love and forgiveness, that only Christ can help us with. I loved meeting the Thorn family and can’t wait to see what happens with them in the next books!
I liked the Thorn family. They seem close-knit and like they really care about each other and support each other. Barrett is a widower who lost his wife to an accident. Owen was hurt while serving in the military.
In contrast to other families in the novel: the Arroyos and the Hatchers. Shelby Arroyo blamed her mom from keeping her from her father--only to later find that the father had opted out of being a father. Shelby views her Uncle Ken as a kind of father, but he lost his wife in childbirth and has lost his son to prison. Joe Hatcher's wife Cora left him and left their daughter, Emmaline, with him.
Shelby is loyal to her uncle. She's promised him she'll get some samples from a mine he holds the mineral rights to. I think both are hoping it will help him improve his financial situation. Unfortunately, the mine sits on Hatcher's property and he's not too thrilled about letting her do her job. Shelby seems a magnet for problem situations. In this novel alone, she's been hit then locked in her car trunk; fallen into a ravine; been threatened by Hatcher; had a stick of dynamite thrown at her; been locked in the mine; fallen into a water-filled hole in the mine; had a knife held to her throat; had her uncle's stable set on fire, then been trapped in the stable along with two of the horses as it burned; had a warning painted on the inside wall of her uncle's house; been inside the mine when someone exploded stored TNT to block the entrance she'd used to enter; had the mine floor give way; discovered a body in the mine; watched Barrett fall when the ladder they used to bridge a gap gives way; been run off the road while driving to an assay appointment with her uncle; and had a gun pointed at her by someone attempting to kill her. Yet, somehow, Barrett still sees a future with her.
I didn't suspect who the culprit really was--though in retrospect, I can see clues as to who it was.