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Book Review of The Saddlemaker's Wife (Ruby McGavin, Bk 1)

The Saddlemaker's Wife (Ruby McGavin, Bk 1)
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This is a stand-alone novel from the author of the Bennie Harper cozy mystery series. In THE SADDLEMAKER'S WIFE Fowler shows the same knowledge of people and insight into their motives that is so evident in that series.
Ruby--a woman who's just lost her husband-- discovers that he wasn't alone in the world as he'd told her. He had a large and complicated family. Why did he lie? She is determined to solve the mystery.

From back cover: After the death of her husband Cole, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in Tokopah County, California. But she's even more surprised to find out that the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. -- Ruby arrives in town intent on simply selling her part of the ranch to the McGavins. But as she comes to know them-in particular the handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin-Ruby learns family secrets about her departed husband and his family that make her wonder if she ever really knew Cole.Driven to uncover the whole story, Ruby discovers a legacy of pain and denial.