After twenty-year-old orphan MacKenzie is caught stealing a wallet from Jed Whistler while he’s visiting Five Points, Manhattan in 1888, she is shocked by his reaction. Rather than get the law involved, the handsome Texan takes her over his knee for painful, embarrassing bare-bottom spanking. More surprising still, after the stern chastisement he offers her a job on his ranch.During the long … the long train ride to Texas, MacKenzie learns the hard way that Jed is more than ready to punish her as thoroughly and as often as necessary to teach her honesty and respect. But though she spends much of the trip sitting quite uncomfortably, she cannot help being drawn to Jed’s firm-handed dominance, and she soon finds herself imagining a future as his wife.
Upon arriving at Jed’s ranch, however, MacKenzie quickly realizes that she will need a new set of skills if she is to make herself useful. With the aid of a finishing school run by a particularly strict headmistress, over the coming months MacKenzie learns to behave like a proper, obedient young lady, and before long she has fallen deeply in love with Jed. But is he merely doing a good deed by helping out a girl like her, or is there truly a place in his heart for MacKenzie?
Publisher’s Note: Tamed by the Rancher includes sexual scenes and spankings. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
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DEVOTION—OBEDIENCE—SELF-DENIAL
I enjoyed this captivating mystery suspense story that takes the reader from Five Points area in New York to Texas. There is a great cast of characters, plenty of angst, secrets, mysteries, life and death situations, and new beginnings. The plot twists will keep the pages turning.
McKenzie, twenty-years-old, orphaned and surviving on the streets in the rough Five Points area, gets by as a pick-pocket. She has managed to protect her virginity, but each day brings a new challenge. When she is accidentally bumped into by a tall Texan, it proves profitable when she lifts his wallet.
Jed Whistler will travel from Texas to New York by train to purchase a special black powder that his sister Valerie uses. After an accident left her crippled, he hates to see her suffer and will do what he can, even traversing to a dangerous part of New York. After bumping into a street urchin, it will be when he starts to pay apothecary that he realizes his wallet is missing and who the culprit is.
The plot will bring Jed and McKenzie in contact when she first lifts his wallet, and then when he tracks her down. What a shock when he shows up at her room and spanks her until he gets his money back, then her landlord takes the rest and kicks her out. Why Jed decides to offer her to come back to Texas and go to school is even a mystery to him, but he will honor his commitment, and she will become his ward.
Homecoming at the ranch comes with sneers from the staff towards McKenzie, disdain from Alice and a blasé attitude from Valerie. Plans for McKenzie to attend a special and unique school called Sugarcane Academy run by Mrs. Prattsbottom will bring more confusion to McKenzie. Has she made a mistake coming here?
Learning that Alice has eloped with the widowed neighbor has Jed concerned when he can never find her home, gets nothing but excuses and a run-around from her new husband. Something just isn’t right, and he is determined to find out more. An attempt on Valerie’s life has the entire ranch in an uproar.
The story will have Jed and McKenzie dancing around a relationship. She is an innocent with street-wise knowledge and has never felt the sexual chemistry as she does when around Jed. Attending Sugarcane leaves her questioning if she will be good enough for him. Will these two find their happily ever after with each other? “I will do anything you ask if it makes you happy.” What is going on at the neighboring property and where is Alice? The story has many spanking scenes, exhibition, voyeurism, and explicit sex scenes.
Loved it, great read. I would definitely recommend it.
Love MacKenzie and Jed’s story. From the streets of New York to a ranch in Texas this story will pull you in and not let you go. Such an amazing story!!