"Getting back on the horse was never so important."
Ride A Painted Pony
By: Kathleen Eagle
Genres: Romance Western
Posted: July 17, 2017
Perhaps an even worse scenario is that there is no way out -- no way to catch a break and maybe just walk away unbroken -- un-shattered -- in one piece. The best revenge is to beat the odds and sometimes you need a little help to do just that.
RIDE A PAINTED PONY by Kathleen Eagle starts out with a punch to the gut. RIDE A PAINTED PONY opens to a horrible scene and matters escalate from there. Somehow what appeared so harsh and scary manages to get worse. Candidly Kathleen Eagle paints a bleak picture -- dare we hope for a glimpse of sun amidst all this darkness.
The reader keeps wondering if there is any way Lauren's world could get back on an even keel. Lauren who was literally thrown away like yesterday's trash. Bruised and battered and left for dead. But Lauren couldn't die. Somehow this brave industrious mother had to find a way back into that perilous place that disposed of her so callously. Lauren left something important behind, something vital, someone who needed Lauren alive. Lauren had been thrown away but her baby Joey was still in the grips of the same man who ordered her death.
And that's when Lauren met her savior Nick Red Shield -- a big tough as leather ex-military, oil rigger -- Indian. Nick just happened to be at the right place at the right time. No that vastly underestimates the importance of Nick finding Lauren. Lauren was an absolute mess. In worse shape than most strays and Nick finds himself in a very foreign position. A place where Nick has to feel again -- something he has fought hard to avoid. But with Lauren Nick discovers that the part he has guarded fiercely is now being exposed to something he thought he would never experience. Caring and dare he say love.
Kathleen Eagle brings living on a reservation to life with her ability to make each scene rich and important. There's something almost poetic in the way Kathleen Eagle describes the land so very vital to Native Americans and basic to their rich heritage. Something as simple as the synergy of plants and animals is as beautiful to read as witness on the open range. That's Eagle's goal -- to have you appreciate this in its entirety. RIDE A PAINTED PONY is beautiful even when enmeshed in a difficult story filled with its' share of ugliness.
Book Summary
A woman on the run . . .
The terrified eyes in the middle of the highway belonged to a woman--battered, bruised, and barely conscious. Nick Red Shield swerved his pickup and empty horse trailer to avoid her, but neither he nor the mysterious Lauren Davis could avoid the collision of their lives . . . though Nick's loner instincts kick into high gear, Lauren's vulnerability tugs at him in ways he'd thought long since shut down. More comfortable with horses than people, he's drawn to the secretive runaway. But even in the safe haven of his South Dakota ranch, among the magnificent painted horses of Western legend, the danger shadowing Lauren's life will compel her to new acts of desperation to save her young son and force Nick to confront demons bent on destroying them both.
Kathleen Eagle is a mother, grandmother, teacher, chief cook and bottle washer, and best-selling writer. She has published over fifty books during the course of her long career. She lives in Minnesota with her husband of over 40 years, the Lakota cowboy who continues to inspire the stories readers treasure.
by: Kathleen Eagle
Bell Bridge Books
September 1, 2016
On Sale: September 21, 2016
Featuring:
228 pages
ISBN: B01M0M4R3N
EAN: 9781611947311
Kindle: B01M0M4R3N
e-Book (reprint)