HIS UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS SURPRISE... A baby's cry was the last thing former SEAL Gideon Snow expected to hear on an Arizona mountain trail. Nor was he prepared for the sight of the young mother suffering from memory loss. Gideon has plenty of reasons for avoiding people--and his painful past--but two fragile people now depend on him to survive. Can he just fall for the lovely Jane Doe?
Jane doesn't deny the pull of the gruff-yet-sweet cowboy who saved her and her baby. He's more than a cowboy hero--Gideon's given them a chance at a new life and love. But Jane knows that any day, her memory might come back. And the woman Gideon is falling in love with might disappear forever...
MY REVIEW:
This
was an interesting story. Had a lot more meat than I was
expecting. Gideon Snow is a man disturbed yes by the injury he
suffered while serving his country anyone would be. It was a career
ender. But he still had it better he thought that some of the guys
he served with and he knew it. That in itself made him grateful.
But it was his
wife’s lack of support that blew him out of the
water. Yeah! Coming home she posed for all the pictures,
said all the right things in front of the cameras, and in all the interviews
and to all the welcome homers. But in those wee hours of the night
when it was couples only time, she said he was not the same
man. That his leg repulsed her and she couldn’t be with
him. In the middle of sex, she gets up and leaves. For
good.
Once their divorce was
final he thought he could move on but he couldn’t. The anger was eating
him up alive. His buddy since boot camp, West, told him about this fixer-upper
ranch where he lived. He went for it. It’s far out in the country
so the only one he would have to talk to is his animals. Oh yeah! And the
crazy lady Mrs. Gentry. She likes to invade his space by feeding his
animals, baking sweets, and cooking things to bring it to him. Since he
doesn’t have a mom and her kids moved away he kind of figures they play that
role for each other. But it still annoys him she invades his mad.
Gideon became known
as a horse whisper of sorts. He did better with ill-mannered horses
than people. Taking Jelly Bean out for her final test before she
passed the test to be returned to the owner. She had to pass the
test of being on a ride in the snow and there being a campfire. As
they were riding deep in the woods they hear a baby crying. The
horse is spooked and so is Gideon thinks and hoping it is a fox sending out its
mating call. But after several more burst of the cries, he goes to
investigate and finds a have dead woman covered in blood and still attached by
the umbilical cord and the baby have wrapped and mad. His first
thought is to get the baby wrapped and warm. His next thing is to
check to see if the woman is alive. He realizes she has given birth
all alone. She, responses to his touch and wakes to look for her
baby.
It goes against
everything he knows because he and people don’t mix so helping could backfire
but this woman and the baby needed his help. Just ask his ex he was
not good for anything or anyone. Ex-Navy SEAL or not.
Missy would tell
you he is too mean and awful for a beast, man, or children. That he
needs to be all alone with his anger. He liked his alone time.
When he finally
gets the woman talking she has no idea who she is. She gets small
glimpses about her likes and dislikes but nothing as to who or why she
knows. But while he is in the tent helping her the skittish horse
gets away. Meaning he will have to walk this Jane Doe and her baby
out in the unbearable weather.
See how these two
starts to let down their guards in order to figure out how to help one
another. Although Gideon is always fast to remind her, they are not
even close to being friends causing Jane to feel like she’s been
slapped. Because innately she feels it in her bones that she has no
family. Gideon is feeling like family to her.
They both have
secrets that need to be revealed if they want to make a relationship
work. I give this: 5 stars. Provided by
netgalley.com.
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