GRR Reviews Long Road Home (Crystal Springs Homecoming) by Mary Jane Morgan

Megan had to keep her family ranch going after her father's suicide. Her father had squandered all the money and assets on bad business deals before his death. Her family is also on hostile terms with their neighbor, the Dawsons. When Brett Dawson arrived at her ranch with a warning of a mountain lion nearby, They agreed to check on her mare, only to found the mare dead... and Brett performed a C-section to save the foal. Megan did not want Dawson's help, but she has no choice as she and her mother had NO IDEA how to run a ranch, much less raising an orphaned foal... // Brett knew his father had done something to cause the rift between his family and Megan's. His father is a mean drunk after death of Brett's little sister. Brett also lost his fiancee when she insisted on covering a story and was caught in a shooting. Brett needed to help Megan through her crisis, and help her get the ranch running, but the secrets kept by her mother and her little sister, as well as his father and mother, threaten to collapse the hard-earned friendship he had built between him and Megan... and when all the secrets are exposed, no one will escape unscathed...

As Brett helping Megan through each crisis, and with each secret exposed, things got a bit darker... I like the plot twists, but I think there's a bit too much trauma in this book, which is less than 250 pages! Still, admire the plotting.

Category: Contemporary / Western

Overall Rating: 4/5

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