REVIEW: The Rancher by Kate Pearce

The Rancher (Morgan Ranch #6) by Kate Pearce:  Cuay Lymond has just returned to Lymond Ranch after almost fourteen years having left it at the age of sixteen. Now his father has died and left the ranch to him. The house, the barn and the other structures are in terrible condition; the livestock all gone.

The following day Cuay decides to check the perimeter fence hoping it is in better condition than the rest of the ranch. Rachel Morgan, recent graduate from engineering school is visiting her family on the Morgan Ranch and wants to pitch in and help out while she is there. She decides to saddle up and check the perimeter fence around the closed up silver mine on Morgan Ranch property. It also happens to sit right next to the Lymond Ranch. The Morgan Ranch manager thought someone had been tampering with the fence around the mine. Rachel was anxious to get a close look at the old mine. She found the door to the mine still securely padlocked but as she checked around the side of the building she noticed a crack in the ground, two feet across at its widest which stayed that way as far as she could see. She started to follow the crack through some downed fence and that’s when it happened – the first meeting between Rachel and Cuay.

Their first meeting didn’t go well.

Cuay accuses Rachel of trespassing on his land. Unfriendly words follow. Rachel is very annoyed at the grumpy neighbor. Later Cuay realized that he hadn’t been very nice but the appearance of Rachel had surprised him. This relationship has nowhere to go but up. But will it?

The Rancher by Kate Pearce is the sixth book in her Morgan Ranch series. She has written a poignant story of two people who have had unhappy childhoods and some less than happy past life experiences as adults too and how their pasts affect them and their relationship to each other. Both Rachel and Cuay need to learn to trust in love and each other. Theirs is not an easy coming together but it is a very interesting story to read. I really enjoyed it. This book has convinced me that I missed some good stories in the previous books in the series so I need to go back and start from the beginning.
 

Book Info:

Publication: November 27th 2018 | Zebra | Morgan Ranch #6

On the legendary ranch she can now call home, one woman searches for her place in her birth family—and finds so much more . . .

Now that she’s completed her engineering degree, Rachel Ford Morgan is trying to find her footing around her birth father and her four brothers. She gets a chance to prove herself when she discovers worrisome fault lines around an abandoned silver mine. But they’re nothing compared to the cowboy who seems determined to shake up her world . . .

Cauy Lymond doesn’t take kindly to the woman nosing around his property—especially since she’s a Morgan. He came home just to keep his father’s failing ranch out of their super-wealthy hands. But he soon realizes that Rachel’s skill—and admirable courage—may be the only things that can shore up the old mine that threatens both their futures. Still, it will take pouring all of their blood, sweat, and secrets into saving the land—and ultimately, themselves—to bring their true feelings for each other to the surface . . .