Miller paints her characters with a brush laden with sterotypes. The book’s label as a contemporary romance hides a plot that feels transplanted from the 1970’s (except Melissa would have been a secretary instead of a lawyer). Unfortunately I found Miller’s story to be naive and, despite the contemporary setting and a few intimate scenes, rather old fashioned. There was a time when I would have swooned at the idea of a millionaire cowboy hero with a heart of gold, riding into town and saving the lonely spinster from a life without love and babies, however it has been sometime since I have found this plot very satisfying. Status: Read from February 18 to 19, 2011 - I own a copy It’ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man’s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he’s truly found home But when Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counsel-beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O’Ballivan. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. Sypnosis: When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona.
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