McKettrick's Heart
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Harlequin Books (April 1, 2007)

My Rating: 2.5 out of 5

Summary:
This book is the final book in the Mekettrick Men series, and it's one that took a bit getting into.

Keegan has no reason to trust women, other than his young daughter that is. After a bitter divorce with a woman who he realizes he really didn't care about in the first place, Keegan has sworn off of women in general.

Molly comes to Indian Rock on a Greyhound bus, to meet her ex-boyfriends wife, and the now mother of Molly's child. Yeah, you read that right. Molly was the other woman in a relationship, that resulted in a child being born. I'm not sure why Molly gave up the rights to her child, with the ex being such a shady person anyway but she did.

I had a really hard time liking Molly, not for the whole other woman thing, but just because she seemed so wishy washy and a very puzzling person. She was a successful business person in LA, but yet she took the Greyhound to Indian Rock. She also just seemed to lack the skill that would be needed to run her own business.

I also had a hard time liking Keegan. I understand that he didn't want to trust a woman, much less the woman who had been his friends husbands mistress, but the way he treated her was down right cold. I personally wouldn't have gone out with him had I been Molly.

Over all this book was enjoyable after I got into it, but I would not read it again. I would recommend it to anyone who wanted to finish out this series, and who enjoys men who are way to harsh and women who are just confusing.

McKettrick's Pride
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Harlequin Books (March 1, 2007)

My Rating: 3 out of 5

My Summary:
Rance was broken, not in body but in spirit. His wife had died some odd years earlier, leaving him to raise his two little girls. However, he left most of that to his Mother In Law, and instead preferred to be a jetsetting business man.

Echo had been stranded at the alter, and decided that enough was enough. She packed up her pink bug, her bookstore and her online business and moved out to Indian Rock. A stray dog finds her while at a rest stop and becomes her best friend throughout her whole journey. When she meets Rance out in front of her shop, she dislikes him and his huge SUV. But she softens a bit when she meets his Mother In Law and daughters.

I think that Echo really started to fall for Rance when he helped her with a guy who was trying to say that the dog she found was his. I know that for me, that is when I really started to fall for Rance. A guy who is willing to go that extra mile for a stray dog ... yes please.

The start of Rance and Echo's relationship is so turbulent. She is mad at him, and he's mad at her but neither can deny the sparks that seem to shoot out every time they are near one another. Throw in a couple of kids and a dog, and you've got the makings for an awesome story.

The beginning of the book was amazing, you spend a lot of time learning things from Echo's perspective, and you feel her heartbreak and confusion. The ending was a bit rushed in my opinion, but such is to be expected from the middle book of a series.

I would recommend this book to other readers, especially if you like heart tugging cowboys.

McKettrick's Luck
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Harlequin Books (February 1, 2007)

My Rating: 3 out of 5

Summary:
Cheyenne has come a long way from the girl sent to fetch her father home from the local bar. She's now successful, grown up and over her teenage crush on Jesse. That is until she winds back up in her home town of Indian Rock, Arizona with her disabled brother and her mother.

Cheyenne needs to make a deal with the devil, the devil being Jesse McKettrick. She needs to convince him to sell her his land, so that the company she works for can build a set of condos on it. The situation gets sticky, when some accusations are thrown, and of course things get hot. Sparks are flying and eventually Cheyenne realizes that you can't out run your past. You can only embrace it.

After reading Lily and the Major, I wasn't sure if I would ever pick up another Linda Lael Miller book, but boy howdy am I glad I did. This book had a wonderful cast of characters. All of them felt realistic, and very much so alive. The setting was breathtaking, and the description of the scenery made me wish I could be there as well.

I would happily recommend this book to anyone who likes Western settings.