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Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hardworking rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy's life isn't his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Until the identical twin brother he's been estranged from for years reenters his life.

Conner struggles with identity issues as he gets to know his wilder brother. And then he meets Tricia McCall, a beautiful woman who knows a thing or two about living someone else's dreams. Together, they just might find their own dreams right here in Lonesome Bend.

A Creed in Stone Creek

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780373775804
Publisher: Harlequin
Publication date: 5/31/2011
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 62,976
Series: Montana Creeds Series
Product dimensions: 4.12 (w) x 6.64 (h) x 1.03 (d)

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Lonesome Bend, Colorado

Tricia McCall was not the type to see apparitions, but there were times—especially when lonely, tired or both—that she caught just the merest flicker of a glimpse of her dog, Rusty, out of the corner of one eye. Each time that happened, she hoped for the impossible; her heartbeat quickened with joy and excitement, and her breath rushed up into the back of her throat. But when she turned, no matter how quickly, the shepherd-Lab-setter mix was never there.

Of course, he wasn't. Rusty had died in his sleep only six months before, contented and gray-muzzled and full of years, and his absence was still an ache that throbbed in the back of Tricia's heart whenever she thought of him. Which was often.

After all, Rusty had been her best friend for nearly half her life. She was almost thirty now, and she'd been fifteen when she and her dad had found the reddish-brown pup hiding under a picnic table at the campground, nearly starved, flea-bitten and shivering.

She and Joe McCall had debugged him as best they could, fed him and taken him straight to Dr. Benchley's office for shots and a checkup. From then on, Rusty was a member of the family.

"Meow," interrupted a feline voice coming from the general vicinity of Tricia's right ankle.

Still wearing her ratty blue chenille robe and the pink fluffy slippers her best friend, Diana, had given her for Christmas many moons ago as a joke, Tricia looked down to see Winston, a black tom with a splash of white between his ears. He was a frequent visitor to her apartment, since he lived just downstairs, with his mistress, Tricia's great-grandmother, Natty. The separate residences were connected by an inside stairway, but Winston still managed to startle her on a regular basis.

"Meow," the former stray repeated, this time with more emphasis, looking earnestly up at Tricia. Translation: It's cat abuse. Natty McCall may look like a harmless old woman, but I'm being starved, I tell you. You've got to do something.

"A likely story, sardine-breath," Tricia replied, out loud. "I was there when the groceries were delivered last Friday, remember? You wouldn't go hungry if we were snowed in till spring."

Winston twitched his sleek tail in a jaunty, oh-well-I-tried sort of way and crossed the small kitchen to leap up onto Tricia's desk and curl up on a tidy stack of printer paper next to the keyboard. He watched Tricia with half-closed amber eyes as she poured herself a cup of coffee and meandered over to boot up the PC. Maybe there would be an email from Hunter; that would definitely lift her spirits.

Not that she was down, exactly. No, she felt more like someone living in suspended animation, a sort of limbo between major life events. She was marking time, marching in place. And that bothered her.

At the push of a button, the monitor flared to life and there it was: the screensaver photo of her and Hunter, beaming in front of a ski lodge in Idaho and looking like—well—a couple. Two happy and reasonably attractive people who belonged together, outfitted for a day on the slopes.

With the tip of one finger, Tricia touched Hunter's square-jawed, classically handsome face. Pixels scattered, like a miniature universe expanding after a tiny, silent big bang. She set her cup on the little bit of desk space Winston wasn't already occupying and plunked into the chair she'd dragged away from the dinette set.

She sat very still for a moment or so, the cup of coffee she'd craved from the instant she'd opened her eyes that morning cooling nearby, her gaze fixed on the cheerfully snowy scene. Big smiles. Bright eyes.

Maybe she ought to change the picture, she thought. Put the slide show of Rusty back up. Trouble was, the loss was still too fresh for that.

So she left the ski-lodge shot where it was. She and Hunter had had a good thing going, back in Seattle, in what seemed like a previous lifetime now even though it had only been a year and a half since the passion they'd been so sure they could sustain had begun to fizzle.

As soon as she sold the failing businesses she'd inherited when her dad died—the River's Bend Campground and RV Park and the decrepit Bluebird Drive-in theater at the edge of town—she could go back to her real life in the art world of Seattle. Open a little gallery in the Pike Place Market, maybe, or somewhere in Pioneer Square.

Beside her, Winston unfurled his tail so the end of it brushed the back of Tricia's hand, rolled it back up again and then repeated the whole process. Gently jolted out of her reverie, she watched as wisps of black fur drifted across her line of vision and then settled, with exquisite accuracy, onto the surface of her coffee.

Tricia shoved back her chair, the legs of it making a loud, screeching sound on the scuffed linoleum floor, and she winced before remembering that Natty was out of town this week, visiting her eighty-nine-year-old sister in Denver, and therefore could not have been disturbed by the noise.

Muttering good-naturedly, she crossed to the old-fashioned sink under the narrow window that looked out over the outside landing, dumped the coffee, rinsed the cup out thoroughly and poured herself a refill.

Winston jumped down from the desktop, making a solid thump when he landed, as he was a somewhat rotund fellow.

Leaning back against the counter, Tricia fortified herself with a couple of sips of the hot, strong coffee she knew—even without Natty's subtle reminders—she drank too often, and in excessive quantities.

Winston had been right to put in his order for breakfast, she reflected; it was her job to feed him and empty his litter box while her great-grandmother was away.

"Come on," she said, coffee in hand, heading toward the doorway that led down the dark, narrow stairs to Natty's part of the house. "I wouldn't want you keeling over from hunger."

You're not even thirty, commented a voice in her head, and you're talking to cats. You seriously need a life.

With a sigh, Tricia flipped on the single light in the sloping ceiling above the stairs and started down, careful because of Winston's tendency to wind himself around her ankles and the bulky slippers, which were a tripping hazard even on a flat surface.

Natty's rooms smelled pleasantly of recent wood fires blazing on the stone hearth, some lushly scented mix of potpourri and the lavender talcum powder so many old ladies seemed to favor.

Crossing the living room, which was stuffed with well-crafted antique furniture, every surface sporting at least one intricately crocheted doily and most of them adorned with a small army of ornately framed photographs as well, Tricia smiled. At ninety-one, Natty was still busy, with friends of all ages, and she was pretty active in the community, too. Until the year before, she'd been in charge of the annual rummage sale and chili feed, a popular event held the last weekend of October. Members of the Ladies' Auxiliary—the organization they'd been auxiliary to was long defunct—donated the money they raised to the local school system, to be used for extras like art supplies, musical instruments and uniforms for the marching band. And while Natty had stepped down as the group's chairperson, she attended every meeting.

Natty's kitchen was as delightfully old-fashioned as the rest of the house—although there was an electric stove, the original wood-burning contraption still dominated one corner of the long, narrow room. And Natty still used it, when the spirit moved her to bake.

Without the usual fire crackling away, the kitchen seemed a little on the chilly side, and Tricia shivered once as she headed toward the pantry, setting her coffee mug aside on the counter. She took a can of Winston's regular food—he was only allowed sardines on Sundays, as a special treat—from one of the shelves in the pantry, popped the top and dumped the contents into one of several chipped but still beautiful soup bowls reserved for his use.

Frosty-cold air seemed to emanate from the floor as she bent to put the bowl in front of him. Tricia felt it even through the soles of those ridiculous slippers.

While Winston chowed down, she ran some fresh drinking water and placed the bowl within easy reach. Then, hugging herself against the cold, she glanced at the bay windows surrounding Natty's heirloom oak table, half expecting to see snowflakes drifting past the glass.

A storm certainly wouldn't be unusual in that part of Colorado, even though it was only mid-October, but Tricia was holding out for good weather just the same. The summer and early fall had been unusually slow over at the campground and RV park, but folks came from all over that part of the state to attend the rummage sale/ chili feed, and a lot of them brought tents and travel trailers, and set up for one last stay along the banks of the river. The modest fees Tricia charged for camping spots and the use of electrical hookups, as well as her cut of the profits from the vending machines, would carry her through a couple of months.

Some benevolent soul could still happen along and buy the properties Joe had left her, but so far all the For Sale signs hadn't produced so much as a nibble.

Tricia sighed, watched Winston eat for a few moments, then started for the stairs. Yes, it was early, but she had a full workday ahead over at River's Bend. She'd already let the seasonal crew go, which meant she manned the registration desk by herself, answering the phone on the rare occasions when it rang and slipping away for short intervals to clean the public showers and the restrooms. After the big weekend at the end of the month, she would shut everything down for the winter.

A lump of sadness formed in Tricia's throat as she climbed the stairs, leaving the door at the bottom open for Winston as she would the one at the top. As a child, she'd loved coming to River's Bend for the summers, "helping" her dad run the outdoor theater and the campground, the two of them boarding with Natty and a series of pampered cats named for historical and/or political figures the older woman admired.

One had been Abraham; another, General Washington. Next came a redoubtable tabby, Laurel Roosevelt, and now there was Winston, for the cigar-smoking prime minister who had shepherded England through the darkest hours of World War II.

Tricia was smiling again by the time she reached her own kitchen, which was warmer. She was about to sit down at the computer again to check her email, as she'd intended to do earlier, when she heard the pounding at the back door downstairs.

Startled, Winston yowled and shot through the inside doorway like a black, furry bullet, his trajectory indicating that he intended to hide out in Tricia's bedroom, under the four-poster, maybe, or on the high shelf in her closet.

Once, when something scared him, he'd climbed straight up her living room draperies, and it had taken both her and Natty to coax him down again.

The pounding came again, louder this time.

"Oh, for pity's sake," Tricia grumbled, employing a phrase she'd picked up from Natty, tightening the belt of her bathrobe and moving, once more, in the direction of the stairs. She followed the first cliche up with a second, also one of Natty's favorites. "Hold your horses!"

Again, the impatient visitor knocked. Hard enough, in fact, to rattle every window on the first floor of the house.

A too-brief silence fell.

Tricia was halfway down the stairs, steam-powered by early-morning annoyance, when the sound shifted. Now whoever it was had moved to her door, the one that opened onto the outside landing.

Murmuring a word she definitely hadn't picked up from her great-grandmother, Tricia turned and huffed her way back up to her own quarters.

Winston yowled again, the sound muffled.

"I'm coming!" she yelled, spotting a vaguely familiar and distinctly masculine form through the frosted glass oval in her door. Lonesome Bend was a town of less than five thousand people, most of whom had lived there all their lives, as had their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, so Tricia had long since gotten out of the habit of looking to see who was there before opening the door.

Conner Creed stood in front of her, one fist raised to knock again, a sheepish smile curving his lips. His blond hair, though a little long, was neatly trimmed, and he wore a blue denim jacket over a white shirt, along with jeans and boots that had seen a lot of hard use.

"Sorry," he said, with a shrug of his broad shoulders, when he came face-to-face with Tricia.

"Do you know what time it is?" Tricia demanded.

His blue eyes moved over her hair, which was probably sticking out in all directions since she hadn't yet brushed and then tamed it into a customary long, dark braid, her coiffure of choice, then the rag-bag bathrobe and comical slippers. That he could take a liberty like that without coming off as rude struck Tricia as— well—it just struck her, that's all.

"Seven-thirty," he answered, after checking his watch. "I brought Miss Natty a load of firewood, as she wanted, but she didn't answer her door. And that worried me. Is she all right?"

"She's in Denver," Tricia said stiffly.

His smile practically knocked her back on her heels. "Well, then, that explains why she didn't come to the door. I was afraid she might have fallen or something." A pause. "Is the coffee on?"

Though Tricia was acquainted with Conner, as she was with virtually everybody else in town, she didn't know him well—they didn't move in the same social circles. She was an outsider raised in Seattle, except for those golden summers with her dad, while the Creeds had been ranching in the area since the town was settled, way back in the late 1800s. Being ninety-nine percent certain that the man wasn't a homicidal maniac or a serial rapist—Natty was very fond of him, after all, which said something about his character—she stepped back, blushing, and said, "Yes. There's coffee—help yourself."

"Thanks," he said, in a cowboy drawl, ambling past her in the loose-limbed way of a man who was at ease wherever he happened to find himself, whether on the back of a bucking bronco or with both feet planted firmly on the ground. The scent of fresh country air clung to him, along with a woodsy aftershave, hay and something minty—probably toothpaste or mouthwash.

Tricia pushed the door shut and then stood with her back to it, watching as Conner opened one cupboard, then another, found a cup and helped himself at the coffeemaker.

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RtBBlog

Posted May 10, 2011

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Another solid book by Miller

Reviewed by Jen
Source: ebook provided by Harlequin via NetGalley

Blurb: Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hardworking rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy's life isn't his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Until the identical twin brother he's been estranged from for years reenters his life.

Conner struggles with identity issues as he gets to know his wilder brother. And then he meets Tricia McCall, a beautiful woman who knows a thing or two about living someone else's dreams. Together, they just might find their own dreams right here in Lonesome Bend..

Review: The blurb for this book is a little misleading. It focuses all on Conner, and while the series is about the Creed men, this book spends a LOT of time on Tricia, so it's unfortunate that she's just mentioned in brief in the blurb. So, here's a little more about your heroine of the story... Tricia is a big-city girl who ends up in Lonesome Bend to tie up some loose ends after her father passes away. She spent summers in the small town while growing up, but finds herself living their full time as she tries to unload some property that was left to her... and deal with the memories the town invokes. What she doesn't plan on is meeting and ultimately falling for Conner (I'm not spoiling anything, it's a Harlequin romance after all).

I am a huge fan of Linda Lael Miller and have met her at a couple book signings (heck, she lives in the same town as me) so I was excited to get my hands on her upcoming book. Again, Linda has delivered a solid book, delving into family relationships as well as a blooming romance. The only thing that prevented me from giving this book the highest rating was the romance. To me, it seemed a little shallow. Conner and Tricia seem to circle around each other and then magically are announcing "I love you" to each other. More time was spent on Conner's strained relationship with his brother and Tricia's with her great-grandmother and goddaughter than with each other.

This minor slight is the only flaw in an otherwise engaging book. I found myself glued to the story until the last page and am looking forward to the next book in the series, The Creed Legacy, which is about Conner's twin brother, Brody.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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harstan

Posted May 13, 2011

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an entertaining tale

Tricia McCall left Seattle to settle her late father's affairs in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. While working on selling her dad's financially failed campgrounds for RVs, she stays with her great-grandmother Natty and a sardine smelling cat.

Conner Creed works hard paying homage to his beloved uncle who raised him by insuring his late relative's ranch remains a success. His wild estranged twin brother Brody returns to town accompanied by Connor's former girlfriend Joleen. As Connor and Tricia fall in love, he tries to ignore his feelings for the Washingtonian as she is big city technology and he is ranch soil dirtolgy. However he will learn he does not have a chance to avoid his heart since Natty, a tweener, a dog, a cat and a twin refuse to accept anything short of marriage for this pair in love.

The second Creed Cowboys romance (see A Creed in Stone Creek) is an entertaining tale starring a warm lead couple and a powerful support cast. Ironically the focus of the story line is relationships with family members as the twins struggle to mend fences and the heroine wants to know her Natty better and her goddaughter as well; the lead couple's love angle stays somewhat in the back until the rest of the gang give it CPR. Fans of the ever expanding saga will enjoy stopping in Colorado as Connor finds his groove in Tricia.

Harriet Klausner

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jbarr5

Posted February 29, 2012

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Creed's Honor by Linda Lael Miller
Tricia had to goto Colorado to deal with her fathers land and camp grounds.
While there she had several offers on the old outdoor movie theater and
land. The offers came from each of the twin boys.
Her great grandmother has an offer of a place to stay with a friend who is nearer
to her age with same interests.
When she returned to Seattle she went to see the guy she had had a few dates
with and he was with a female already. She was there to turn down his offer
to go on a cruise and open a gallery together.
She was now free to pursue her interest with one of the twins she had a
crush on in Colorado.
Connor helped the neighbors who needed his help, wrapping water pipes, fixing
things in their houses, helping bring boxes of goods to sell at the local
chili dinner/yard sale for the new uniforms for the band.
Brody was the wild twin and didn't stay in one place for very long.
Tricia stays at Connor's family house and Brody finds out exploding it all out
of proportion.
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ninamcginn

Posted January 13, 2012

highly recomended

If you like love stories as I do this is a good series. The auther is one of my favoriets, you could start with one of the book in the middle of the series and still know whats going on. Love this searies......
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Alison818

Posted October 8, 2011

Good Series but this one was the weaker of the three.

I liked this trilogy about a cousin and two twin brothers that grew up together. This book was not as exciting or emotionally driven as the other 2 books, but Connor Creed is a great guy. You definately rooted for him because he was so solid and dependable.
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Anonymous

Posted October 8, 2011

EXCELLANT BOOK

I love all of her books and can't wait for them to come out. I always buy her books, I enjoy the stories she writes about.
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Anonymous

Posted October 7, 2011

I Also Recommend:

Good!

I liked this new series from Linda Lael Miller.

I was up for jury duty and they said to bring a book so I purchased Steven and Conner's books -- my first Harlequin books and I was hooked.

I'm not into the explicit scenes but there seems to be only about one per book which can easily be skipped and she does use the Lord's name in vain -- if you can skip over like I did the stories are solid and the characters are fleshed out well.

Light, fast, and entertaining reads.
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Honeysweet

Posted July 30, 2011

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Great second in the series

This book was very good just like the first. I did however find the story somewhat lacking. The first in the series with Steven for me was better. I thought this book had a really good beginning, and then it kinda just jumped to the end. I felt that that could have been a little more to the relationship part of the story. All in all though the book was good, and I plan on finishing the series with Brody.
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8757537

Posted July 18, 2011

Loved it

Great series
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Kentucky_Rose

Posted July 1, 2011

Disappointed

I found this story to be somewhat boring. Stevens (Boston) story was really good and I looked forward to this one; however, to quote Tricia in the book.....bor-ing... The interaction between Brody and Conner was more dynamic than Conners and Tricias. I hope Brody's story is better.
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9179419

Posted June 25, 2011

Great weekend book to read

Characters are easy to get absorbed into. You feel like you are part of the town.
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Hallsey

Posted June 23, 2011

:( dissappointed

I really hate to say this as I am a huge Linda Lael Miller fan but this one really let me down. Conners story was more of a sub story than the "main event".. there was hardly any interaction between the supposed two main characters... It was more about others. I do like reading about the relationship between the brothers but even that was lacking... I also think too much time was spent on Tricias issues, which i feel didn't really flow with the rest of the story line. .. there was just not enough between the two main characters to make it believable...
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BookHounds

Posted June 18, 2011

BookHounds

Connor Creed has given up his dreams to follow in his uncle's footsteps and become a rancher in Lonesome Bend, CO. The name of the town is more than appropriate for Connor and when his wild twin brother, Brody, reenters his life, he finds himself longing for the rodeo dreams he put aside. Brody stole the love of his life, which for Connor is difficult and he has a hard time reconciling his emotions. Tricia McCall ends up in Lonesome Bend after her father dies and she takes over his trailer park. She intends to stay long enough to sell the property and move to Seattle. Her grandmother is moving behind the scenes to bring Tricia together with Connor. Things move slowly but surely and when a stray dog (Valentino) comes into Tricia's life along with a goddaughter named Sasha.

Of course, I love a story where a dog and girl are the catalyst for a romance! I really enjoyed this one and look forward to the next book in this series. The book is pure and simple romance with a bit of angst and drama thrown in. There are some really wonderful dialogues in this book and the conversations are so natural and real that made the book very enjoyable. The minor character really added a much needed spice to the romance between Connor and Tricia.
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5757506

Posted June 15, 2011

It's okay.

The story is okay. The problem with it is that it seems almost like every other Creed book. Ms. Miller is getting repetitive
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LoveWesternRomances.com

Posted June 13, 2011

A Keeper!

Connor Creed doesn't quite know how it happened that he's spending his life alone on the ranch left to him and his twin brother. No brother, no wife, no family. Maybe some of it has to do with his twin stealing his girl way back when-the woman he thought he loved and the brother he thought he could trust-implicitly. Shows just how wrong a body can be.Tricia McCall can't wait to get back to her "real" life in Seattle after settling her father's estate, such as it is, by selling the rundown camp and abandoned drive-in. Not that it didn't fill her summers with a lot of fun when she was a child, but that was then and this is now. But, as she starts to live in the small town of Lonesome Bend, she can't help but wonder if the man who has been stringing her along in Seattle is the "man of her dreams" or just someone she can "pretend" she's involved with to avoid being involved at all.When handsome Conner Creed starts turning up at Tricia's great-grandmother's house and the town social she's helping out with and invites her and her friend's daughter out to the ranch for a trail ride, Tricia can't help but be intrigued, if cautious. After all, she's got a life in Seattle to return to-a big city life, the kind of life she's always lived (except for summers with her father after her parent's divorce.) Conner is well aware that anything with Tricia McCall is temporary. But loneliness and a bright and beautiful woman is too tempting a combination. He's throwing caution to the wind-that is until his twin brother shows up after years of being away and throws a monkey wrench into everything. Linda Lael Miller knows how to create strong yet vulnerable cowboy heroes that tug at your heart and your heart strings and Conner Creed is a prime example. And Tricia McCall is a good match for him-coming as she does with her own blind spots, especially when it comes to the men in her life. A book that will draw you in, hug you with its warmth and leave you with a smile on your face. What could be better?
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SaraBetty

Posted June 12, 2011

Not So Good This Time

I have 44 titles of Ms. Millers books in my permanent library and she is one of my favorite authors. And, I do understand her involvement and devotion to the Animal Welfare programs. But I think the dog involvement in this book was a little overdone. Twice I read about taking the dog for a walk with a plastic bag to carry home the "doggie doo"... She had a great story and great characters and I loved Steven's Story (first in the trilogy) and I will definitely read the third book (Brody's story due out in July) but a sincerely hope we can get back to the way of the McKettrick's, the Montana Creeds and the Stone Creek books were written. Real Colorado ranchers don't walk around with a tiny Yorkie in the pockets of their coats. Especially with pink bows on top of their heads. Too cute for her normal writing style. Sorry I can't rate this book higher but it was kinda disappointing in that respect.
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Anonymous

Posted June 12, 2011

Creed Series

Great series.You should check it out.
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250755

Posted June 3, 2011

Another great story

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LASR_Reviews

Posted May 30, 2011

Fantastic Read

Connor Creed discards his dream in order to stay at the family ranch while twin Brody joins the rodeo circuit. Resentment plays a huge part in his upbringing, coloring much of who he is and what he does, so meeting Tricia McCall, who runs her deceased father's RV park part time and lives in Seattle the rest of the year puts her off limits for a romantic relationship. Or does it?

Orphaned at an early age, Connor and his identical twin brother Brody, along with their cousin Stephen (the Stone Creek Creed) are raised by an aunt and uncle. The twins jointly inherit their father's ranch, but Connor stays and Brody goes off on the rodeo circuit. Connor harbors a deep resentment of Brody for shirking his duty, but also for stealing the girl he'd planned to marry. When Brody returns, intent on settling on his half of the ranch, Connor cannot hide his resentment, and he struggles with identity issues.

Tricia McCall spends part of her time in Seattle, the other part at her late father's upstairs apartment in the home of her elderly Great-Grandmother Nettie. She's managing the RV park and dilapidated outdoor drive-in her late father left her but she's hoping to sell so she can return to Seattle and open an art gallery. So far, in two years there hasn't been a buyer for the property and Tricia is concerned about finances. She has a relationship of sorts with a yuppie type in Seattle but seems uncommitted and wonders if she is more interested in the concept of love that the real thing. When Connor comes on the scene, she finds herself attracted to the solemn rancher. The romance moves slowly and cautiously, mostly because Connor is unwilling to allow a relationship to develop with a woman whose time in Lonesome Bend is temporary.

Tricia's plans go awry when she inherits a stray dog and a temporary house guest in the form of her pubescent goddaughter, a ten-year-old wise beyond her years. Ms. Miller's story includes a lot of information about the townspeople, the scene-stealing dog, her delightful great-grandmother and getting ready for an annual rummage sale and chili cook-off. Tricia's concern for and interaction with Nettie and her goddaughter who comes for a two-week visit while her best friend and husband fly to France to house hunt, shows great insight into the human psyche.

Ms. Miller is wonderful with the small details that draw the reader into the story, and I was hooked from the first page. Readers wanting a good sensual scene won't be disappointed either. The sex is hot, but appropriate, and the reader will cheer for Connor and Tricia to forget old hangups and give love a chance.

Wonderful writing and great dialogue. This series shows why Miller is at the top of her class in penning the modern Western romance. Highly recommended.

Originally posted at The Long and Short of It Romance Reviews.
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Posted May 23, 2011

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Great Book

I have been reading Linda Lael Miller for close to twenty years and this book did not disappoint. She takes you into the lives of her characters with such descriptions that if they were to walk up to you, you would recognize them. Her depiction of the town and ranches paint a picture in your mind and as the story unfolds, you find yourself living a life right alongside them.
Who wouldn't like a cowboy with eyes of blue and a heart of gold? Who wouldn't want to be the stubborn girl that this cowboy is fixated on? I love a book with family history and love and intrigue and romance. Creed's Honor does not disappoint.
Linda Lael Miller has once again hit her mark with this series.
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