Rough Creek, by Kaki Warner

REVIEW

Warner serves up cowboy romance family style, with lots of heart and humor. This first novel in her Brides of Rough Creek Texas series introduces the Whitcomb Four Star Ranch, so named for the four daughters of Coralee Whitcomb: Lennox (the stay-at-home mom, and oldest of the four sisters), Raney (the workaholic ranch manager), Josslyn (the flighty musician), and Katherine Dianne (KD for short, the West Point graduate). True to form, this one’s got it all, hat and cattle.

If you like Rough Creek and want more, try Warner’s other trilogies, which include the Blood Rose Trilogy, Runaway Brides, and Heroes of Heartbreak Creek.

SYNOPSIS

With three of the Whitcomb sisters off pursuing their own careers, the responsibility of running the family ranch falls on Raney Whitcomb, who is more than up to the challenge. Four Star Ranch is already known for its prize-winning Angus cattle, but now it is expanding to include cutting horses, and could use some expertise to help with the training. To fill this position, matriarch Coralee hires Dalton Cardwell, a Rough Creek rancher who is newly released from an 18-month prison term for a crime he didn’t commit. Raney questions her mother’s choice in hiring ex-con Dalton, but he just might be the best decision she’s ever made.