Willa Hammer has nothing left after narrowly escaping the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her foster father except her dog, her faith, and the protection of a secretive family. She joins their wagon train heading West, never realizing she is traveling to the wilds of Bighorn Mountain, where a rundown ranch and the arms of an untamed, hardened cowboy await her.
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Willa Hammer has nothing left after narrowly escaping the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her foster father except her dog, her faith, and the protection of a secretive family. She joins their wagon train heading West, never realizing she is traveling to the wilds of Bighorn Mountain, where a rundown ranch and the arms of an untamed, hardened cowboy await her.
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The story begins with Willa Hammer barely making it out of the burning house before a mob began pelting her. It looked like the mob was ready to hang her too (her guardian had already been hanged in their yard). However, a lecherous old man saved her by helping her into his wagon.
When Willa got into the speeding wagon, she must have felt things weren't too much better; besides the old man (who expected her to sleep with him); there was a spoiled daughter (Jo Bell) and a wonderful son (Charlie), who was disliked and used by the other two.
When the old man was killed for cheating at cards, the two teens were alone. Although she wanted to get away, Willa realized it was her duty to help them get to their goal ? finding their uncle. A station master suggested that Smith Bowman accompany them, since he worked on Oliver's ranch.
At that time, Smith was on a two-day drunk and uninterested in their problem. Reluctantly, he agrees to sober up and escort them to their uncle's ranch. When they arrived, Oliver's wife Maud raged against them and told them to leave. However, she was hardly in a position to argue because she?d fallen and had broken her leg.
My problem with this story was that Willa seemed to be falling in love with Smith so she had somewhere to go. I felt she hadn't fallen for him from a position of strength (thus knowing it was love and not desperation) and that bothered me. Willa was alone and without resources (even her clothes were gifts from the old man). Through Willa's love, however, Smith turned away from drink and became a more responsible man.
The pace of the story seemed jagged; it started at a fast clip and then slowed, sped up and slowed. Perhaps it was because there were two really unpleasant characters that made time seem to drag. The saving grace of the story was when Smith explained why he had killed a man; Willa understood. She also helped him reframe the incident in a very different way from Smith's feeling.
In spite of what I've written, I found this to be a story I couldn't put aside until I?d finished it.
