Travel the USA with Janet Dailey’s New Americana series! A visit to this close-knit community in Tennessee is the perfect escape this winter. Fans of Lori Wilde, RaeAnne Thayne, and Debbie Mason will want to visit every state for love stories with heart and happily ever afters… together to save the small mountain community. Times like these can make a hero out of a man—no matter what dark secrets he carries in his heart . . .
A desire for absolution brought ex-con Travis Alden to Paradise Peak. But when he finds honest work, along with a keen sense of belonging, he shelves his plan to unburden his guilty secret, instead working to rehabilitate a ranch—alongside the very people his transgressions hurt the most. With the chance to create a haven for wildfire refugees, Travis seizes the opportunity to do good, to earn the respect his new boss shows him. Only Travis doesn’t count on his feelings for his boss’s beautiful niece.
Hannah Newsome is a woman with a past as bleak as Travis’s—the kind of woman he should protect, not pursue. But once the rugged loner sees her wariness turn to warmth, once he tastes the potent passion between them, all he can think about is having it all right here in Paradise Peak, with Hannah by his side . . .
Praise for the Novels of Janet Dailey
“Wonderful.”
—Cowgirl Magazine on Sunrise Canyon
“Dailey vividly brings to life the mystique that embodies Texas . . . artfully weaving romance, intrigue, greed, jealousy and murder.”
—Texas Tea & Travel on Texas True
“Solid, well-paced read with an appealing, multigenerational cast. As usual, Dailey delivers.”
—Kirkus Reviews on Calder Promise
“Dailey’s standalone contemporary western . . . does everything right.”
—Publishers Weekly on Long, Tall Christmas
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Book Five in the New Americana series is about Travis an ex-con and the woman he falls in love with Hannah. It is a very well written book about forgiveness, redemption and love. Kept my attention the whole way through. Loved the storyline and how the characters interact. Well worth reading.
Too short
“{How is the value of a man measured? With what instrument? And how does a man prove he is worthy of forgiveness?}”
Paradise Peak was a beautiful story and heartbreaking at the same time. I have not read anything else by Janet Daily but she did a wonderful job with this book. You can’t help but fall in love with the characters. The lesson about forgiveness was just as beautiful to watch unfold as you read this book. It’s like the book says “{Who is forgiveness for, if not for sinners.}”
It really is just a lovely story. I can’t help but wonder what the authors other books are like. Happy reading everyone!
I like anything written by Janet Dailey…have read many over the years.
I enjoyed it.
Emotional story! Travis’s soul searching journey brought tears to my eyes! I really cared for him! Forgiveness is so hard to seek, to gain, to receive and to accept! Well written, heart tugging! Loved secondary characters Red , little Zeke and Oreo. Highly recommend!
I must say it has been awhile since I have read a Janet Dailey book but am so glad I decided to read this one. I thought the story was interesting, the characters were real and the writing was beautiful. Travis was a man just out of prison trying to atone for what happened twenty years earlier. As he is hitchhiking in the mountains of Tennessee he runs into Red, who is such a kind soul. He offers him a place to rest for the night at his ranch,along with the woman he shares the expense of his ranch with, and his niece who has come to Red to recover from her failed marriage. This is a story of redemption, of trust, and recovery. Although a strong romance, actually more than one, it is not an whimsical read. It reads like Women’s fiction and even though i have not read any other of the New Americana books, I am so glad to have read this book. Beautifully done.
It’s been a few months since I’ve read anything by this amazing author and she didn’t disappoint with Paradise Peak. I cried, laughed, and fell in love with these wonderful characters. Travis comes to Paradise Peak for redemption from what he did as a teenager. He’s served his time and now wants to try to help his victim’s mom, in any way he can. Margaret is who he hopes to get absolution from. Hannah came to her uncle’s ranch, after leaving her abusive husband. Red co-owns Paradise Peak Ranch with Margaret. He’s been in love with her for years. Will Travis get what he’s hoping for or will they send him packing when he reveals his true identity? I won’t leave any spoilers, but I will say, this is the kind of book that will stay with you, long after the last page has been read. I look forward to reading more books from this wonderful storyteller.
I received an advanced reader copy of this book from NetGalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.
Paradise Peak is the latest offering by prolific author Janet Dailey. This beautifully written story tells of redemption and second chances. Neil Travis Aldin made bad choices and did reckless things as a teenager and paid for his transgressions with 20 years of his life. But he isn’t bitter, he is sorrowful and wants to make amends to the lady whose daughter’s life his drunkenness cost.
Red Bartlett has loved from afar for decades. And now his love is his partner and shares his lodge, but that is where the boundary ends. However, coming forward with his feelings just might cost him the relationship he has.
Hannah Newsome, Red’s niece, has returned to his resort and works tirelessly. Having finally escaped an abusive marriage, Hannah is now at peace as she helps Red and tends the horses, all rescues. But Hannah has closed off her heart to protect from any future pain.
This group comes to rely on each other, surviving a major fire that takes a friend’s life and helping survivors rebuild. They have become as close as any family until Travis’s ugly secret comes to light. Then forgiveness becomes paramount, but can all who were subjected to his lies forgive and move on, forging permanent relationships?
This is a beautiful story that will bring a few tears but, ultimately much joy. I very much enjoyed this book and I do recommend it!
This is an emotionally intense and impressive plot about redemption and forgiveness. The characters, each in their own way, are flawed but you can’t help but love them. Such a great story. This author truly has a gift for drawing you into the story.
Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for this advanced review copy. In return, I am submitting my unbiased and voluntary review. All opinions and thoughts are my own.
Hannah and Travis share a broken soul. After five year has passed from her divorce of her abusive husband, Hannah’s trust in men is very little. After twenty years in prison for a fatal car accident when he was eighteen, Travis needs to apologise for his sin. Paradise Peak Ranch is a beautiful and peaceful place. Will it be enough to restore Hannah’s faith and for Travis to find forgiveness? An amazing love and life story about forgiveness, second chances and what’s worth living for.
I received an ARC from Kensington Books through NetGalley for an honest review.
Neil Travis Alden is getting out of prison after 20 years for killing a person when he was young and drunk. He is heading to Paradise Peak to try to find the mother of the girl he killed, Margaret Owens, to seek forgiveness and maybe be able to forgive himself. He walks from the prison to the Smokey Mountains and meets Red, who offers him a bed for the night if he will help him lug the bucket of fish he caught to the truck and help him clean them, filet them and put them on ice. He said he would so he went to Red’s house. While he is cleaning the fish 2 women come out and one is Hannah and the other one is Margaret Owens. He doesn’t tell her who he is but there is a lot of repairs needed on the ranch so he agrees to stay on. He tells them his name is Travis Miller.
They all stay on the ranch together and become friends. There is many things that happen and he starts to fall in love with Hannah. The day does come that he has to tell them the truth. It made me cry when he told them the truth. Janet Dailey did a really nice job telling this story. When Hannah said he wasn’t Neil Travis Alden any more, he was Travis Miller, that was a surprise. You will have to read the book to find out if Margaret, Red, and Hannah can accept who he is or accept that he isn’t the boy who killed Margaret’s daughter.
There is many things we learn about Hannah, Red, Margaret, and Travis. It helps to realize it is the life they lived that made them who they are today. But it is also about choices and the choices they each made.