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Title: A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers)
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| A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers) by Berkley Different Opinion | I'm surprised no one had anything bad to say about the character of Dulcie. This woman treated Rye as though he was less than human. Here she has a man busting his back to get her farm into shape, who works from early morning to dusk, who treats her and her daughter with nothing but kindness and she won't let him in the house. He's forced to eat on the porch by himself. She acts as though he's going to rape or kill both her and her 4 year old daughter. She barely talks to him and doesn't want her daughter interacting with him. She's suspicious of why he's doing all this back breaking work for just room and board. She's certain he wants only one thing from her which is sex. Of course, what man wouldn't choose hand cutting 50 acres of wheat to get a woman in the mood for sex rather than trying charm or other methods. She wants him as well and tries several times to entice him, but he feels it isn't right to be with her when he's going to be leaving. Plus, he feels responsible for the death of her husband. She's down on herself because she loves sex. Even when she was forced to pay for her travel back to her town by having sex with a man she disliked she still loved the sex.
Finally, after several months, Rye gives in because he wants her so badly, despite his guilt. The next day she tells him it can't happen again. Given her nature, it will happen again since she was the sexual agressor initiating sex, not Rye. Soon after this, she finds out that Rye knew her husband and that he's been labeled a deserter. She's nasty in what she says to him and throws him off her land telling him she never wants to see his low life self again. She's been vindicated. He was only there to have sex with her and gloat over it. She doesn't question him or give him a chance to say anything about what happened in the past.
The mans been nothing but a saint, helping her in the house with work, doing her chores when she over sleeps (she often drinks whiskey in the evenings and gets a hangover), helping her when her daughter gets sick, working constantly and not taking any time off and on and on. On top of that, he's trying to find out who was responsible for her father's death. Yet she is rarely kind to him, remains suspicious. She resents him because she's sure he wants only one thing, which a part of her wants to give, but the other part doesn't want to want it.
After she is so cruel to him and threw him off her land I just couldn't read anymore. I have no idea what he saw in this woman. On top of that, she wasn't very bright if she planted 50 acres of wheat and thought she was going to be able to cut it herself. | | A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers) by Berkley Very Enjoyable! |
America 1800's post Civil War
A REASON TO BELIEVE is a great tale of finally finding love when one never had a prayer of a decent life. The two main characters have troubled pasts, but together they become a loving family with every reason to believe in themselves. Be sure to first read A REASON TO LIVE and follow up with A REASON TO BELIEVE and the soon to be released A REASON TO SIN. The trilogy is about the loves of the rough and rugged but sensual Forrester brothers.
Very enjoyable!
| | A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers) by Berkley Fabulous - Endearing - Emotional | Dulcie McDaniels couldn't wait to leave Locust and her abusive father, so she picked out a good looking soldier, got pregnant, married and left town. Five years later, after losing her husband in a senseless accident, she's returned home struggling to make a life for herself and beloved four year old daughter on the run down farm she'd grown up on.
Shunned by the townfolk who had hung her father for a murder Dulcie knew he did not commit, she kept to herself. When Rye Forrester, a drifter, offered to help her out on her farm for just room and board, she remained skeptical, but needed the help so badly she agreed. Eventually Rye would gain her trust, but secrets he held of his tragic past would be revealed threatening to shred the fragile bonds of love and trust they'd managed to find.
*** If one is looking for emotional historical westerns that will grab you with real-life characters who race straight into your heart than you should definitely look up author Maureen McKade's novels. As in most of the novels I've read by this author she writes of people who have had their share of hard luck, and through strength of purpose are able to find their way out of misery to find hope and love at the end of their personal journeys.
In A REASON TO BELIEVE the author introduces Dulcie and Rye who have both made life changing mistakes. Although for the wrong reasons, Dulcie purposely got pregnant but wouldn't begrudge and thanked God for the gift of her daughter Madeline who basically gave her the strength to become a better person. Likewise, Rye who had once turned to whiskey after the loss of wife and child also made a horrendous mistake that took the life of a man he once considered a friend. In trying to make up for being the cause of a man's death, Rye vowed to help Dulcie to succeed with her farm, in spite of her bad reputation and ill feelings of the town folk towards her.
With the inclusion of Dulcie's darling four year old daughter Madeline, and the young spunky orphan boy Collier, the author wrings both smiles and tears with depictions of the young innocence of youth bringing two emotionally starved and wounded adults to reevaluate their lives and carry each other through the pain of their torment. One note of warning must be given, before you start this, have a full box of tissues nearby! This is one fabulous story and a tear jerker.
Marilyn Rondeau, RIO - Reviewers International Organization, for www.ck2skwipsandkritiques.com
| | A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers) by Berkley A REASON TO BELIEVE | I THINK A REASON TO BELIEVE WAS WELL WRITTEN AND HELD MY INTEREST TO THE END. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET A REASON TO SIN.
| | A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers) by Berkley This is a terrific Forester Brother Reconstruction Era romance | When her husband died, Dulcie McDaniel and their four years old daughter Madeline returned to her Texas family home, a place she fled a few years ago to escape her bitter widower father. Now her alcoholic dad Frank Pollard has been lynched by a mob who needed an unpopular fall guy. Although she does not believe her father committed the crime, Dulcie has no time to care; instead she has the farm to run by herself as no one will help her or work for her since she left town single and pregnant while her father was scorned. Dulcie will do anything to insure Madeline has a nice home.
Rye Forrester has traveled from Kansas to tell Dulcie the truth about her husband's death; the hard part will be explaining his role. When he arrives at harvest time, he helps her with the crop, delaying the inevitable. As they fall in love and he serves as a kind gentle male role model to her daughter, he fears she will kick him off the her farm once he confesses why he came.
This is a terrific Forester Brother Reconstruction Era romance (see A REASON TO LIVE) starring two nice people who deserve much better than what has happened in their past. Although the theme has been used before, but Maureen McKade keeps it fresh as sub-genre readers anticipate the poignant High Noon showdown once Rye tells his beloved the truth.
Harriet Klausner
| | A Reason to Believe (Forrester Brothers) by Berkley Product Description | | Lonely and filled with regrets, Dulcie McDaniels struggles to provide a decent life for her daughter. Usually shunned by proper folks, she's suspicious of Rye Forrester, a drifter offering to work for his keep. But after he helps harvest the crop, her feelings toward the handsome stranger turn into a consuming passion. But Rye has his own secrets. When their tragic pasts catch up with them, these two wounded souls must fight for the love that will keep them together for a lifetime. |
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