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"A refreshing story of young love."
Reviewed by Janice Bennett
Posted May 9, 2002
Texas, 1866
When sixteen-year-old Samantha Reynolds sees a notice tacked
on a wall advertising for boys fourteen and older to work as
cowboys driving a herd of cattle to Missouri, a job that
pays $100 at the end of the drive, she is upset at how
unfair it is that she isn't a boy. After Read more...
"Enjoyable adventure/romance for young adults"
Reviewed by Doris Losey
Posted May 27, 2002
Because her family desperately needs money,
Samantha 'Sam' Reynolds, 16, signs on as a cowboy
on a cattle drive to earn $100, a fortune in 1866.
Forced to keep her gender a secret, Sam tries to avoid
making friends with the other wranglers but Jake
Vaughn, the trail Read more...
SummaryWhen she manages to get herself hired for the cattle drive,
Samantha
believes all her prayers have been answered. The money
she'll earn will help
her family with their struggling farm. But keeping the
cowhands convinced
she's a boy becomes harder than she'd expected where one
particular cowboy
is concerned.
Matthew Hart wants to forget the tragedies he witnessed
during the War and
reclaim his cowboy life. The last thing he wants is the
responsibility of a
tagalong youngster on this cattle drive. His hardened heart
is best left
unexplored until a fateful moment turns his world upside
down. When he
discovers what and who "Sam" really is, he's furious. But
soon a stronger
emotion takes hold, and bound by Samantha's secret, Matt is
torn between
revealing her identity and his own sudden, frightening love
for her.
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