Cattleman's Promise

Heartbreak Canyon #1

by Marilyn Pappano

Cattleman's Promise by Marilyn Pappano released on Mar 25, 1999 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance, Category Romance

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

Award-winning and bestselling author, international traveler, feted at a Hollywood premiere . . .

All true . . . but my regular life is a whole lot more routine. Deal with the five big puppers who share our house, babysit our grandson, battle the jungle that is our yard, pray for summer in winter and dream of winter in summer, and hunker down at the computer -- that's my real life.

I grew up in Oklahoma and had the fun of living in Georgia, Alabama, California and the Carolinas, thanks to my husband's Navy career. When he retired, we came home to Oklahoma and have lived in the same house for seventeen years. That's a real "Wow!" for someone used to the nomadic military life.

Writing was the perfect career for all that moving. Have computer, will travel. I've set books, or part of them, in every state we've lived in and been inspired by every place I've ever been. I've now written somewhere around 80 books, and I think I've got only about 8,000 stories left to tell.

My biggest hobby is starting new projects -- starting. Not completing. I'm still not done with the cross-stitched Army seal I started when our son joined out of high school. He did tours in Georgia, Colorado, Korea, Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan and Louisiana, and has been out for a few years. So I'm a little slow.

I like to think about getting organized, painting my living room in cool beachy colors, and turning my entire five-acre yard into a garden. I also dream about having every room in my house clean at exactly the same time, but I live by the motto of the woman who taught me to quilt: A clean house is the sign of a bored woman.

And I've never been bored.

Reviews

[Cheesecake · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sweet story about a southern bell, Olivia and her twin daughters, Ellie and Emma, down on their luck and the man who gives them a place to stay. She has papers saying her dead husband bought Guthrie's ranch from Guthrie's ne'er-do-well brother, Ethan. But Ethan only owned half the ranch.
But Guthrie knows she has nowhere else to go, so he doesn't contest the paperwork and lets her and the girls live in the mother-in-law cottage near the main house.

I liked Guthrie and Olivia. They both have their hang ups and it takes time for them to get to know each other. The girls are wonderful characters and pretty much steal the stage.

It's a sweet story but a little slow now and then. It picks up more in the second half.
I also don't like Shay's character.
She and Guthrie were about to be married back in their early twenties, but Shay runs off with his best friend instead. Now 14 years later and he's still sore about it. Olivia helps him forgive.
But Shay just bugs me. This is the second book I've read in this series, and it's the second book where the H was with Shay before the heroine. Call me petty but it kinda sticks in my craw. I'm gonna have to be careful which book I read next, cause I've had enough of beautiful, sexy, smart mouthed Shay...
There's breadcrumbs throughout the last third for the next book about Shay and Easy... will I read it? Nope.

Safety is fine. no details about Guthrie after Shay left him. He isn't in love with Shay anymore and most of his anger is with his ex-bff, Easy. Olivia hasn't been with anyone since several years before her husband died. They were in the process of a divorce and had been separated for 2 years. He was a cheating gambling fool.

[Sheri · Rating 4 out of 5]

My grade: B+. I read this out of order, reading it after I read The Horseman's Bride. I liked this one even better. I liked Guthrie and Olivia and loved her twins. They were absolutely charming and added so much. Now I can't wait to read the third in the series, to learn more about their family and new baby. Guthrie is one of those rock-solid cowboy types, and was an admirable hero.

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

1st in the heartbreak canyon series. widow with twin girls finds herself destitute and goes to the only place she thinks she owns, which turns out to be hero's ranch. hero's younger wastrel brother sold it illegally to heroine's late husband, who gambled away everything else he owned. cute story of how city girl and cowboy make a life together

[Pam Brubaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guthrie and Olivia's Story

Sweet love story. Definitely worth the read. I love that the love Guthrie had for Olivia made him realize that he didn't love the woman who jilted him 14years earlier .

[Maryann Sulic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this slow burn romance and reading it again after many years. The 5 yr old twins were fun part of the story. Silhouette Intimate Moments had many wonderful authors including Marilyn Pappano, Kristen James letc.

[Mum · Rating 4 out of 5]

An enjoyable HEA, after many impossible struggles.