Denied entrance into vet school because of her gender, fiery and determined Jillian Matthews trained at her father’s side and then headed west to Montana Territory after answering an ad using only her father’s initials and last name. She is convinced that her skills will override local ranchers prejudice. She’s wrong and handsome Wade Parker, the one who hired her, is the first to make his … displeasure public. But Jillian refuses to back down and sets out to win Wade’s approval. Soon that’s not all she hopes to win.
Widower Wade Parker is furious the new vet he helped hire is a woman. The fact that she’s beautiful, smart and wakes parts of him that he thought dead burns even more. Feeling tricked, Wade is determined to send her back east but when the town turns on Jillian and her enemies become dangerous, he steps up to be her protector. And that’s not the only role Jillian has him contemplating.
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A Rancher’s Surrender offers the opportunity for reader’s to understand the problems women have faced when trying to have a career instead of just keeping the home fires burning. The reader becomes intimately involved in the struggle of the young lady who trained all of her life with her father to become a vet just to be shunned by every community because of her gender.
It’s provides insight into life in the small developing population in Montana. It has the usual problems involved in ranching such as cattle rustling, rough characters and community conflicts caused by jealous and greed among a small number of the population. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has its romantic moments and ends happily. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy historical fiction.
This book was so good that I bought the other 2 in the series!
Well written. Good characters. Different from the usual story lines. Easy, light read.
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enjoyed, would recommend
Interesting story highlighting the difficulty women faced only a little over a hundred years ago. How far women have come thanks to our pioneers
Enjoyable the entire book as well as showing how minds can be changed given certain circumstances
Enjoyed the read.
When u lose someone you love, it’s hard to transfer that love to another. Our main character does just that, he feels he doesn’t need another wife.
Women have long been told be a good wife, have children, and that their career choice belongs to a man. You have something to prove, and that’s what our heroine does, you can have a family and a job.
They both fight the attraction, but in the end its inedible.
The author makes the reader think about women’s choices in the developing territories. By the end of the book you realize that it took a lot of courage and was a lonely life for any woman who chose to have a position in a man’s world.
I thought it was a very good book! Good Ranch Book.
Haybob
If any hero needed a swift kick in the pants, this one did. Hung up on his pride is a really stupid excuse for letting the lady go.
I really enjoyed this book. Easy to read and the leading character was a very strong woman and she could do a lot of jobs.. she found a great guy that respected women.
Really enjoyed the story line of this book; like western romance novels.
I enjoyed the characters and now I need to find the next book to continue. Thanks for good, clean fiction.
Good light read
I love it . And fit topics of this time also.
I really liked this book hard to put down
Read it twice…..now what does that tell you?
Was very good hard to put down.