Sweet, Christian, Historical, Western Romance! Cowboy Murphy Kavanagh had found the love of his life and married her. When the Civil War was over, he went back to Arkansas to start his life with Brooke. Upon reaching the farm her father shows him an unmarked grave and sends Murphy on his way.Years later Murphy gets a telegram that the old man died. Thinking he had to settle the … Thinking he had to settle the affairs he heads to Arkansas. What he finds brings him happiness, but it also enrages him. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?
This Christian Historical Western Romance will pull at your heart strings!
If You Love Sweet, Inspirational, Historical Westerns Filled With Heroic Cowboys, Adventure, Mayhem and Marriage of Convenience, You’ll Be Enamored of Kathleen Ball’s Emotional, Faith-Based Books. She Also Writes Touching Mail-Order Brides Series Along with Exciting Oregon Trail Series.
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Wonderfully written story full of hardships and triumphs!
This starts off in such a sad way.
This starts off in such a sad way Murphy meets Brook during the Civil War and they married but he was still fighting. When the war ended he came back only to be told his Brook was gone. Going home to Texas for the next eight years he mourned his loss. Then he is contacted and told that he was the owner of the farm Brook’s father had he goes to Arkansas to settle the estate. What he finds was completely unexpected. Brook had been told that Murphy had abandoned her but here he was telling her that her father had told him she was dead. Their tale is one of finding each other again and building up a relationship not just between themselves. It was beautifully written and will tug at your heart. The ending was outstanding. This is a book I highly recommend. I did receive a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.
This was a beautiful story. How love and romance can come back into your life after you thought it was destroyed.
Murphy is a strong Kavanagh Man. He lived through the Civil War and came home to his wife in Arkansas, only to find his wife dead.
Returning to the Kavanagh ranch in Texas, he didn’t share his past with them. Now he returns to Arkansas to finalize a will with
an attorney and discovers his father in law lied. How does he feel and how does Brooke feel? Anger, hurt, desperation and lies!
Can they come to the answers they need? These characters are strong and written well. The story flows and grabs you the moment you start
to read. I was given an ARC of this book and am choosing to leave an honest review.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Booksprout and I am voluntarily reviewing it.
This is a quick read. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Murphy and Brooke. There was a terrible deception played on both Murphy and Brooke by her father. Murphy travels from Texas to Arkansas upon the death of his father-in-law. His family knows nothing of his brief marriage that occurred during the war as just the mention of her name brings his grief to an unbearable level. Upon returning to Brooke after the war, his father-in-law tells him that she is dead. Murphy wants to stay and mourn her death. To help work her family’s farm but the father-in-law orders him to leave. To Brooke, her father at first leads her to believe that he died in the war. After a few years, she decides that she should remarry and her father springs the news that Murphy survived the war but went home to Texas instead of returning to her. Both now struggle to overcome the hurt and anger that this terrible lie brought into their lives.
I adored the dual POV format. Seeing into the characters’ thoughts really helped me to fully understand and identify with them. This was especially true here as these two face such an enormous lie that separated them eight years ago.
This second-chance romance is set in a historical western setting. There is a wonderful religious undertone here so it is a sweet, clean read that everyone would enjoy. While this is a part of a series of brothers, this can be read as a stand-alone.
Yes, it is a clean romance; yes, it can be considered a Christian read; but, there isn’t the depth in the characters that I was expecting. When a man comes home from the war and learns his wife has died, I would expect that man to find out how, when, where and the cause. Not happening in this story. There are many things to enjoy about this book, namely MJ, and I thank the author for writing about Murphy Kavanagh, one of the nine brothers.
The characters in this story are people you want to help get through the trying times they have been put through, yet you care deeply for them both along with the MJ. The twists and turns in this story are uniquely unexpected. This story is unique from most of the rest of the series as it happens away from the ranch home. I encourage you to read this one along with the entire series. The Kavanagh boys are good people.