Rawhide Man
1984
- christian romance
- theft
- man-woman relationships
- stocks
- fiction
- oil industries
- fiction, romance, contemporary
- fiction, small town & rural
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, romance, western
The story
Ebook is actually Stealing Hearts by Amber Stockton. Bess had always thought of Jude as the Rawhide Manlean and rough. But then she discovered he could also be unexpectedly gentle, and it devastated her. For as much as she fought it, Jude had captured her heart. Yet how could she stay in a marriage that was so much less than such a union should be?
What it’s like
Warm, slow-burning small-town romance with a western streak, set in rural country where ranch land, oil money and local gossip shape everyday life. The mood is tender and a little melancholy, with the tension running through quiet domestic scenes and long stretches of simmering feeling rather than action. Expect a hard-edged, taciturn hero who gradually reveals a softer side, and a heroine caught between pride and longing inside a marriage that has gone cool. The emotional register stays earnest and faith-tinged, with a steady focus on what the couple says and fails to say to each other. Some thefts and business dealings add a low thread of trouble, but the intensity is mild: emotional strain and romantic tension rather than violence or graphic content. It suits a rainy afternoon, an unhurried evening with a cup of tea, or a reader who wants a comforting, clean-hearted romance with a Christian outlook and a cowboy-style setting. It is for people who enjoy the slow thaw of a difficult marriage and the satisfaction of two stubborn people finally admitting what they feel.
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