"Another charmer from Castell"
A delightfully charming read from a talented writer
Castell, a writer whose voice is strong on imagery, is set
in Kentucky. Tanner Davenport was the son of a rich father.
The second son, he could never seem to please his father,
never shared his father's passion for raising racehorses.
His brother Nathan was the perfect son, but Tanner grew up
loving him, not hating him as some brothers did. But he
could never seem to work out things with his father - too
much a like and unable to see it. So, with bitter words
between father and son, Tanner left and moved to Alaska and
started his on bush-pilot business. Now the bad boy has come home, but Charity McKay, instantly
sees the boy is now a hunk of a man. From the moment he
sets his small plane down in the middle of her horse
pasture, Tanner is causing problems for Charity. Charity
remembered him as the boy who hung around her younger
sister. Three years older, she is jarred to see those three
years don't seem to matter now ten years later. Doesn't
seem to matter to Tanner either. Only, Tanner has not just come home for the wedding, he's
come to stop it. His hero older bother and Charity's life-
of-the-party sister is a bad match in Tanner's mind, and he
plans to do anything he can to stop it. Like Charity, he is
still seeing people as they were ten years ago. Charity sets out to distract Tanner, knowing the match
between her little sister and Nathan is a good one, that
they are very much in love. However, she did not count on
Tanner being such a temptation. She is in danger of losing
her heart to a flyboy who plans on flying out of her life
at the end of two weeks. Tanner feels he cannot stay
because of the past; Charity knows she cannot leave the
McKay farm, her mother and Patience, another sister. So
there seems no future for them. Add in a mysterious affliction hitting all the horses on
all the horse farms, you have a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Castell paints word pictures, bringing the characters, even
secondary ones to life.
Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted August 16, 2004
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