Humble Pie is the first of Deborah's books written under her pseudonym, Deborah Lawrence, and is one of three launch books for Joves new Our Town line - historical romances set in small towns with the same warmth as the Homespun books.
By the time Katherine Turner was fourteen her fathers reputation as an outlaw had become a burden she desperately wanted to escape, and by the age of twenty-three she vowed to put him behind her. She and her mother moved to a little town in the Montana Territory and went by the name of Kate Miller to avoid any connection with her outlaw father, Hank Turner.
After witnessing his fathers death during a bank robbery, Parker Smith swore to settle the score with Hank Turner, but he hadn't bargained for Turners fiery tempered daughter, Kate. She loather being an outlaws daughter and denied it when Parker Smith came to town in search of the bank robber who killed his father. When Parkers appointed sheriff and insinuates himself into her life, she struggles to keep him at rifle length.
As Parkers interest in Kate grew, he knew there was no chance that she might care for him once his business was finished. After all, how could a woman love the man who killed her father?
| Humble Pie - Deborah Lawrence (Deborah Wood) Jove, July Setting: 1873 Moose Gulch, Montana Launch title: Our Town Series Four years of trailin' Hank Turner was about to end . Sheriff Parker Smith could sense it. Keepin' behind the woman he took to be Hank's daughter led him to the forlorn mining town of Moose Gulch and face to face with Kate Miller. He knew she was Katherine Turner, but she was a canny one, not so her Mama, Mary Louise, for all her years she was still a genteel southern belle. Kate worked hard serving meals in the hotel restaurant and cleaning rooms to keep her mama and herself housed and fed with nary a sign of Hank. For ten years since she was twelve Kate had been caring for her mama, ever since her father had left them. When Parker foiled a holdup (and perhaps a murder) he was urged to take the job of sheriff, more to stay in town than anything he didn't believe the wait would be long for Hank to show up. Parker could tell that Mary Louise longed for her husband's return, but he wasn't sure of the welcome his daughter would give. Parker only knew that he didn't want to kill the man in their presence. No one could have been more surprised than he when after admitting his purpose for being in town Kate offered to assist him in locating the man she held in such contempt, her own father. When their tracking finally found him even Parker was shocked at Kate's bitterness to find Mary Louise there before them. Only his quick action kept Kate from using her gun. When explanations were over Parker was glad the past was put to rest for he had plans of the rest of his life with Kate. Homespuns have been a favorite of this reviewer since their inception now this exemplary new series is very much in keeping with Jove's high standards of excellence. Plaudits to their creator. BW Heartland Critiques © |
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