Good story! ( )

Lovely story except for the hokey horse parts. I'll come back to that. So here is a really bad guy who meets a nice woman and changes for the better. There were some lovely parts especially at the end where he begs her not to abort his baby. Not that she was going to but he didn't know that. I loved that the guys back in Rapid City got to see that Jack had changed for the better. The romance was great.

There were a couple of problems though. First I don't think the fact that she killed a man affected her as much as it should have.

And second no book is going to get 5 stars from me when the horse errors are so many and so vast. Here's my rant and if you regularly read my reviews you've probably heard it before. Although every author messes it up in a different way. First all stallions are not unmanageable and if this stallion was a champion roping horse then he was well trained and would not have been particularly scary or unmanageable for a knowledgeable person. Second as I said in my update, stallions have zero interest in fighting with mares. If the mare is in season, he will breed her. If she is not he will just take charge of her and maybe boss her around a bit. This is not fighting. Third, large animal vets make house calls. That's what they do. Except in rare cases you don't take your horse to the vet, they come to you. They have portable x-ray equipment for legs even. They don't expect you to bring your animal to them, especially for a check up. Fourth that mare Bee is stated as being 4 years old. She couldn't have been injured, rehabilitated and then been on the barrel racing circuit long enough to earn money to buy a ranch by the time she was 4. Not happening. Fifth and just a little pet peeve, you shouldn't feed a horse a whole apple. It can get stuck in their throats. Again knowledgeable horse people cut it into fourths. It's safer. Most horse people and barns have knives about. It's just about ease and function. You got something to cut an apple or the strings off a bale of hay. Faster and simpler than pulling the strings off. Useful for many other things as well. Lastly if the horses had been left a day without feed and water there was zero likelihood that there was any hay left at all in their racks. So many little errors add up. Gosh darn it. just research. And make sure you ask a couple of people in the business just in case the first person is not as knowledgeable as they assume.

I'm sorry to rant so much but lack of research irks me. Not just about horses but about any topic. If it's worth writing about, it's worth researching so you don't annoy readers. I'm sure that everyone feels the same about the things they are knowledgeable about. I don't mind a few errors but... ( )

DESCRIPTION: Jack "Preacher" Prior is at a crossroads -- literally. Left for dead in the Badlands, he's managed to survive. He's stolen a truck, but where can he go? Body broken, mind reeling from betrayal from his own MC brothers, he knows he won't last a day back in Rapid City in his current condition.

Two roads stretch out in front of him. One leads to the city and one deep into the black hills where no one knows him as the former President of the Badlands Buzzards. Revenge is not a question; it's an absolute. Preacher will get his due soon enough or die trying.

Erin Walker is at a crossroads of her own. Dealt a bad hand by being the daughter of Buck Walker, ex-Rodeo Champ, she's made her own way in the world without his help. She owns Thunder Ridge Ranch outright, and she's carved out a piece of paradise for herself with her own two hands. She's not giving it up without a fight, but she's alone in the world with no one to trust.

In Erin, Preacher finds something that doesn't exist in his own world: a smart, fierce independent woman who sets his blood on fire. For Erin, the mysterious man who threatens her life might very well be the only one who can save it.

Can Preacher put aside his desire for revenge against his old MC and accept what's in front of him: a woman who needs him and a future worth having? Erin knows in her heart that Preacher is a bad, dangerous man, but can she trust him anyway?

Not every choice is theirs to make, though, and in Rapid City the past never stays buried. ( )