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Although the Blackthornes and the Creeds have been enemies for countless generations, love has found a way to transcend their feuding in the last two entries in Johnston's Bitter Creek series (The Cowboy; The Texan). This turbulent third installment follows the romance between Summer Blackthorne, who discovers she is not a Blackthorne after all, and "Bad" Billy Coburn, who learns that his father is none other than Jackson Blackthorne, Summer's father. When Billy returns to Bitter Creek to tend to his dying mother, Jackson attempts to run him off and away from Summer by sabotaging his efforts to find employment. The young couple thwart Jackson's schemes by quickly marrying, but Billy's pride and insecurity prevent him from believing that Summer, heir to thousands of acres of prime West Texas land, could love him. Further complications arise when Jackson leaves his wife, Eve, for Ren Creed, and a jealous Eve plans her suicide to implicate Jackson as her murderer. Uniting to save family members, Summer and Billy discover the truth behind Eve's death and finally realize the strength of their own love in a satisfying, though saccharine, denouement. Johnston employs more plot twists than a soap opera, but she carefully controls each entanglement to craft a warm and charming homespun tale.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Those feuding Texans, the Creeds and Blackthornes, are at it again. Now a responsible lawman and single dad, Bad Billy Coburn returns to Bitter Creek just two weeks before Summer Blackthorne is to wed another. Blackjack, patriarch of the Blackthornes, gives Billy 24 hours to leave or lose everything he's worked so hard for. With a mother dying of cancer and a pregnant teenage sister, Billy really can't leave, plus he needs cash to pay off the mother of his child so he can retain custody. Summer breaks up with her fiance and offers Billy a solution by agreeing to marry him. Meanwhile, it looks like Blackjack will finally be able to leave his wife, the evil Eve, for his true love, Ren Creed; but Eve, who previously tried murder to keep them apart, will go to any lengths. Skillful storyteller Johnston makes what in lesser hands would be melodramatic compellingly realistic in this page-turner, the third in the Bitter Creek series. Diana Tixier Herald
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The last bk of the blackthorne-creed trilogy!,
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This review is from: The Loner (Mass Market Paperback)
The 2nd bk of this contemporary western series is "the Texan" and while it stands alone, I think it should be a pre-requisite for this book. The series is wonderful with twists and feuds and love and deception. "Bad Billy" has paid a terrible price because of the treacherous Eve Blackthorn. You keep rooting for him to finally get a break and find some happiness and recognition. Enter Summer Blackthorn, a forbidden best friend.Together they try to weave through the web of lies that have affected their lives. Summer initially is a weak, spoiled little rich girl trying to win her mother's love and her fathers respect. But she evolves and defies them by cancelling her engagement to geoffrey and eloping with Billy Creed. Her father does everything to undermine billy and summers relationship and his family is none too pleasant either! Summer takes the flack and learns to exist in a poor man's world. And she learns to sacrifice for Billy and his son. Although I loved the story line, the author had to repeat so much of the previous history (obviously for those who hadn't read "texan") that I found that redundant and annoying. Author Joan Johnston is definitely worth watching! She has a wonderful way with words and her characters are realistic, fiesty and the dialogue is witty. A great wrap up.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Okay,
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This review is from: The Loner (Mass Market Paperback)
After reading the The Cowboy and the The Texan, I could not wait for The Loner to come out. Having said that it was not a good book especially if you read the first two books in the series.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Loner (Mass Market Paperback)
I thought this was an excelent book as are the rest of the books in this series. I can't wait for the 4th book in this amazing series to be published. If you are intested in this book i'd recomend that you read "The Cowboy and The Texan" first they are just as good as this one. Joan Johnston never fails to write a book that totally captivates the reader.
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