A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

MONTANA DAWN

Author: Caroline Fyffe ISBN: 9780843964271 8/2010 HISTORICAL Publisher: DORCHESTER
Time Period: Western, 1883

Montana Dawn by Caroline Fyffe
Luke McCutcheon found Faith Brown unprotected and about to give birth, crouched in the corner of her dilapidated wagon. Though his family’s cattle drive was no place for a widow and a newborn, neither was the open trail. Honor demanded he bring them along.

Delivering her child was only Luke’s first kind act. Honest and wholesome, handsome and strong, the cowboy seemed a knight from some long-ago tale. Faith could tell they longed for the same things. But, fleeing the past, trust was a luxury she could little afford. It lay at the end of the road like a warm hearth and home, like a loving family, like a bright Montana dawn.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS: Top Pick

Luke McCutcheon is the youngest son of Montana rancher Flood McCutcheon, and he’s in charge of his first cattle drive. While scouting, he gets caught in a fierce rain storm and comes upon a woman and her eight-year-old son, stranded all alone in a wagon with no horses.

Faith Brown is one very young and determined woman. She had only one goal in mind when she took her son, after her husband’s death, and left behind all that was familiar to her. Now, far way from home and with no one but an eight-year-old boy for support, she’s helpless while stranded in a storm with her baby about to be born.

You need not be a lover of western romance to enjoy this well-written, well-paced and very entertaining love story.

The author had put forth quite an interesting plot that kept me reading and wanting to know the reasons behind Faith’s journey and Luke’s parentage. She also did a remarkable job of balancing action and romance with witty dialogue.

I just couldn’t help but like all of the secondary characters, like Luke’s sister Charity; his brothers Mathew and Mark, with their wives Rachel and Amy; and then all of those young and old ranch hands like Roady and Smoky, and her little man Colton. It was a pleasure to watch this young boy grow from surly to loving with the love and understanding Luke gave him.

MONTANA DAWN is a sweet and romantic tale, with not one explicit sex scene; however, it lacked not one thing in the romance department.

If Westerns aren't your cup of tea, but romance is, give this book a try. I highly recommend it, and I can’t wait to find out whose story will be next in this series.

Melanie Friedman

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