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BETWEEN
THE LINES*
The
Wild Rose Press
Kathy
Otten
*Releasing
July 2008
When Meg Greyson steps off the
stage to meet her fiancé, her brother Tom steps off with
her-undercover of course. He's there to protect his little sister
from herself-and the man who has written her love letters and taken
a sizeable amount of her money. In fact, there are five brothers who
will soon gather to size up Brenden Kelly, Tom being the most
reasonable.
Meg's determined to have none
of it. She's fallen in love with Brenden and is convinced he is the
man of honor and integrity who she found in his letters. But when
she's forced to hunt him down at the mercantile and he denies ever
having written to her much less asked her to marry him, she's
momentarily flummoxed. Refusing to accept his denial she blocks out
anything that contradicts the image of Brenden she's conceived from
the letters he wrote to her.
Brenden is sure this is some
trick, devised by his nemeses Charlie McFarland, nephew of the
rancher Brenden is helping. And Charlie has reasons since his uncle
has disinherited him and made Brenden the inheritor of the farm when
the time comes. He's unprepared, though, for Meg's steadfast loyalty
and open-hearted trust-or the fact she's a beautiful woman.
Brenden Kelly is feared by
most folks because of his overpowering size and the fact that he's
done time in prison for murder. Meg's innocent adoration and love,
her inability to be intimidated by his size or his bluster, are both
intoxicating and alluring to Brenden who is hungry for love and
acceptance and for someone, anyone, to see the man he could be. But
the plain fact is Meg has fallen in love with some other Kelly, some
other man who wrote those letters, not him. How long can Brenden go
on pretending he is really worthy of this woman's love and what will
happen when she finds out the truth?
This western variation on the
tale of beauty and the beast has a heroine whose stubbornness in the
face of all evidence is only exceeded by her determination to find
the good in Brenden Kelly that justifies her love. Meg Greyson is a
heroine whose confidence and independent spirit despite the
interference of five brothers and the overbearing attitude of her
intended is inspiring. In Brenden, Ms. Otten has given readers a
tortured soul who has tried, however ineffectually, to protect that
small spark of goodness inside of him from the many who have sought
over the years to extinguish it. With good battling evil and truth
battling lies, Ms. Otten takes the reader on an insightful journey
where love takes on all comers.
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