GRR Reviews Saving Grace (Safe Havens Book 1) by Sandy James

Saving Grace is a historical Western Romantic Suspense with a good case of characters and a crazy rich man with an obsession for decades. My only problem is the cast is pretty large to have two pairs of romances plus various ancillary characters and the end is back to "kidnapping and rescue" trope.

To recap, Grace Riley had to find her... brother that she gave up for adoption almost twenty years ago. She had been on the run for that long, trying to get away from a madman obsessed about owning her body. She had been on cattle drives moving from city to city, never in a place for long. However, when she finally heard that the brother's adoptive parents had been murdered, she had to find him... that's how she arrived at Twin Springs ranch... soaked to the bone, running a fever... in the middle of a downpour... and collapsed into the Adam Morgan's arms. Adam Morgan is a widower and owner of the ranch. While he can't complain about his life with his grown tomboy daughter Victoria and their housekeeper, he was really proud of the two kids he found on the streets and adopted as his own, one of them was Grace's "brother". When a woman out of nowhere was asking about one of his adopted sons, he had to learn more. As he nursed her back to health, Grace was grateful, and the idea of settling here was tempting, but she's not ready to reveal her secrets just yet. But whoever was after Grace was not yet ready to give up... even after twenty years...

The resolution, despite being trope, was actually reasonable, and the second pairing (Grace's real brother Matthew and Adam's daughter, Victoria) was successful as well. All in all, enjoyable Western adventure / romance.

Category: Historical Romance / Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: Woman on the run for 20 years from an obssessed man falls for a ranch owner widower and adopted father of her... "brother"

Tropes: woman in peril, protector, kidnapping, famiilys ecrets, widower, single parent

Overall Rating:  4/5