Montana Wild
Roni Hall
Contemporary Western
Eight million people in her hometown of NYC but Jamie finds true love in the Montana mountains. She is content to become a country girl till her past claims her and drags her back.
Grief and despair swallow Jamie after losing two loved ones in one week. Cocooning herself in her tiny NYC studio she feels totally alone in a city of eight million. At a loss on her next step to self-survival, her phone rings and she is unaware that her responding finger click sets life-altering events in motion.
Montana is another world, and she is unprepared by how the land, the people and even the animals touch her. After risking her life to save a child, she shares an undeniable bond and the beginning ripples of deep emotions with her co-rescuer, Kevin.
Her newfound paradise is shattered when her past follows her to Montana and threatens all that she has come to love. Jamie has no choice but to hurt Kevin to save his life.
Uncaged Review: Jamie has worked as a hospice nurse and grew close to one couple, Jacob and his wife as Jacob was dying. Talking to his nephew, Kevin, about Jacob’s health turned into a nightly ritual for the two of them. Jamie is living in NYC, and her abusive boyfriend goes too far, and she needs to get away. Between the ex-boyfriend and Jacob passing away, she’s overwhelmed. She’s convinced by Kevin to go on a rafting trip with him, where she meets a few of Kevin’s friends. The rafting trip leads to Jamie going back to Montana to stay at Kevin’s ranch for a vacation where she meets the rest of his ranch hands and starts working in the barn with the stable manager, Hector. Here she befriends Jack, a stallion that they say only Kevin can handle. After their feelings for each other deepen, Jamie’s past will come back to haunt her.
There is a good amount of fun banter between the ranch hands and her and Kevin. But there is also danger, and it will rear its ugly head near the end of the book. I felt like the ending was rushed a bit, we never really found out the outcome of the bad guy, and I never did figure out what Kevin’s ranch did to support itself and the reason for all the ranch hands. I never read about any cattle, only horses, so I’m not sure. The befriending of the stallion, Jack, was a nice touch but unrealistic. But this is a heartwarming story that I read in one day and the descriptions of Montana and the scenery were so well done, I never even had to think about how it looked. Reviewed by Cyrene
4 Stars
