The Once and Future Wife

Montana Mavericks: Return to Big Sky Country #4

by Laurie Paige

Only duty could bring FBI agent Tracy Roper back to Montana, where her once-blissful marriage had been shattered. Sheriff Judd Hensley had given her almost everything a wife could want - except what she'd needed most. Now his passionate embrace promised to repair their broken dreams...but would it mean love for better, or for worse?

Genres: Romance, Westerns, Contemporary Romance

248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1994

About the author

Laurie Paige grew up on a farm in Kentucky, four miles from the Tennessee border, with four older brothers and two older sisters.
Before she started school her family moved to town. That is when she discovered the library. She met her husband, Bob, in the Sweet Shop. She has a degree in mathematics and works as a computer engineer.

Reviews

[Bea Tea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well this was fucking miserable. Mis-er-able!

The main couple in this one have been 7 year divorced after the tragic death of their 8ish year old son tore their marriage apart. The discovery of the bones in the last book brings our heroine back to town in an official FBI capacity to work with her ex-husband, the sheriff.

Here is the problem - they are both of them completely and utterly *fucked* with grief and unresolved issues from their past. I'm talking yawing holes of black despair, a numb black void instead of a soul, shuddering with unwept tears and a near suicidal disregard for any future type of grief that had incapacitated all human feeling. It's incredibly depressing, to the point of being genuinely upsetting.

Now - amidst all this crushing grief we have (lord babby jesus save me) the unstoppable lust. I'm not exaggerating when I saw he is literally walking about the office with a hard-on and she's freaking out over her wet panties every time they look at each other. We have chapter after chapter of throbbing cores, internal moaning, and sexual fantasies - some of which are literally being played out over literal human remains. It's just all a bit... well... fucking disgusting if you ask me, and jarring in the extreme when dear reader has only moments before been treated to paragraphs of grief. It's the grief over a dead child juxtaposed with raging erections that really kills it for me. NO THANK YOU.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Judd Hensley and Tracy Roper had been married but they couldn't hold their marriage together after the death of their son,Thadd. She is back in town working for the FBI as a forensic anthropologist to help identify the bones found on the Laughing Horse Reservation. The hurt feelings on both sides was a big obstacle for them to get by. They work together and they talk to each other and try to move on.
There is a murder to solve and so many things going on. More attempted murders. Exciting read.

[Nadine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was on a reading streak during a week at our cabin. I’d packed three books and had already finished two, and was thinking I was going to run out of books before our week at the cabin was up! I decided to grab one of these old romance novels on the cabin shelf, totally expecting a Harlequin type romance and that it would be a quick and steamy read.

I was incredibly surprised at how wrong I was. There was actually a really great story line with romance and mystery all rolled into one. I did not expect it to be a page turner, but I was hooked!

[Boo Boo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book wasn't bad if you were looking for a quick read. I wish I had known going into though that you had to read another book just to get the ending to this one. I did not like that at all. I understand that some books in a series should be read together but to have the book require you to read another just for any sort of ending is something I deeply hate. Other than that the book was alright. It contained the emotional tug and pull that you would expect from a book of this type.

[*CJ* · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh this was so GOOD! I'm a sucker for angst- Tracy and Judd *sigh*
So much pain and heartbreak but definitely worth the time(and tears) ❤️