"An Enjoyable Read for a Cold Winter Evening." DiAne Gates, author of Roped

5.0 out of 5 starsAn Enjoyable Read for a Cold Winter Evening

ByDiAne N. Gates 

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Ms. Hopper has an incredible way of drawing you into her stories by weaving her character’s attitudes, and actions into a tangled web of intrigue.

I was immersed in guessing what was so horrible that sent Trucker out of a town, away from the woman he obviously loved. Ms. Hopper pays particular attention to each individual in the story…even the horse, Promise. Her descriptions rooted me into each scene. I laughed at the antics of Promise and wondered what previous circumstances brought about the horse’s strange reactions.

Ms. Hopper wove the past love story between Trucker and Emersyn into a story of hopeful, yet unsettled emotions and unusual endings. Great story, great writing, five stars!

Christmas Eve of 1895 will be the loneliest one yet for Trucker, a nomadic cowboy.

Raised without a father’s guiding hand, Trucker had been run out of Pine Valley when he’d stood up for what he’d deemed to be the right thing to do.

While traveling around the country and winning races with horses he’d trained to become champions, he laments the girl he’d left behind in Pine Valley and the life they could have had together—until the girl and her father show up unexpectedly and ask him to work with a horse intended for her betrothed.