This story will put you in the Old West with a tale of
ambition, betrayal and murder.
The story begins in 1860 in Texas where Sara Rawlings, left
alone and destitute by her father’s death, goes to live with a cousin, Sam
Cantrell, a man her father’s age. Sam has a son, Yancy, by his first wife—a
woman of noble Spanish linage—and he has a young wife, Margaret—the woman he
stole from Yancy.
As might be suspected, Margaret is threatened by the
younger, 16-year-old Sara. And Sara is captivated by Yancy, a man Margaret was
once engaged to and now thinks to seduce. The one thing Margaret wants for her
unborn child is Casa Paloma, a thousand-acre parcel in the middle of the land
Yancy’s Spanish ancestors have owned for generations. Yancy vows he will kill
her before she can have his land. And then Margaret turns up with a Spanish
dagger in her chest.
Much of the book is taken up with the machinations of the
family and its history that has led to the distrust, if not dislike, between
its members, all of which Sara must suffer through. In the midst of it, Sara
and Yancy find love, albeit like two prickly people coming together.
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Busbee’s descriptions of Texas and the hacienda are superb. You
will feel you are in the old West. Yancy is a drool worthy hero and Sara finds
him so. Oh yes, the murder mystery remains unsolved until the end. Busbee will
keep you guessing. Very well done.
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