The Rustler (Stone Creek)

I thought this to be a great book. I have read most all LLM books and this one fits right in with the others. If you like LLM you will like this book. I love the way she makes you fall in love with not only the characters but the critters too:) There is usually a dog to love and you feel their love for the horses as well. A typical LLM book.

You will love every minute you spend with this book. Linda Lael Miller never lets you down. As usual, you will try very hard to read slowly to make it last but alas, it's hard to put down.

This series just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait for the next one!

I don't know what everyone else read but I found this book slow and almost boring. I read all of LLM's book and this was far from her best effort. I read the first two editions and loved them; I was really looking forward to the third edition but I was very disappointed.

In 1907 Southern Arizona Territory, Wyatt Yarbro envies his younger brother Rowdy, an outlaw like him, who somehow has become the marshal of Stone Creek and married to the schoolmarm (see A WANTED MAN). Wyatt has just spent two hard years in a Texas prison and his current cattle rustling stint is a failure. Seeing the light he decides to start over in the town that reformed his sibling by making him the law.

In Stone Creek, Rowdy welcomes Wyatt; to his amazement his sister-in-law Lark does too. Wyatt decides that prim and proper Sarah Tamlin is his redemption as the woman to keep him straight. He initially is unaware of her darkest secret and obsession; to raise her son taken from her when she was an unmarried sixteen years old. While he helps her try to retrieve Owen from his wealthy influential father, his recent rustling past comes to Stone Creek.

The latest Stone Creek early twentieth century western romance is a terrific thriller as another Yarbro outlaw turns hero due to the love of a good woman. Readers will feel they have been transported to 1907 southwest as Linda Lael Miller provides vivid details on life in Stone Creek. THE RUSTLER is a delightful historical starring two wonderful lead characters and the return of key Stone Creek players.

Harriet Klausner