Helpful Score: 2
Love this book - and the characters are memorable and tender. I read this book quite some time ago and Chloe still hangs around in my heart. Mapson is not an extremely well-known author but I think she likes it that way. I enjoy her books and think she's one of the most grounded authors I've ever read. Just plain, simple and tender.
Helpful Score: 2
Modern era, blue collar love story, with a German Shepherd in the plot. I love German Shepherds, did not really care for the book.
This is a fun story with love and sunshine and animals to care about. Trials to overcome and female power. Great poolside or airplane book.
I enjoyed this book way more than I thought I would. It is labeled as romance and normally I do not like romance novels. There is a good plot in the story and sort of an open ended ending as there is a sequel, Loving Chloe. There are some adult scenes that may be offensive to some but the writing is very good and there is humor thrown in to boot. It is also a tale about horses which are my love of all loves so that was an extra plus.
Hank and Chloe are as star-crossed as Romeo an Juliet -- but sexier and more fun. This is a love story with a salsa bite and a winning heart. This book is hard to put down.
Really enjoy reading hre books
Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirk in the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor of folklore at the local college, who, like Chloe, has his reasons for holding back. But once Hank steps inside Chloe's makeshift cabin in the hills, Chloe realizes she must come to terms with her losses and decide between the life of solitude she had always thought was her fate and the love of a man who seems--at first--all wrong.
As a some-time visitor to the "dwindling canyonlands" of Southern California, I would point out that they don't look anything like the cover.
