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Texas Gold

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I so enjoy the hard working farmers and ranchers that Ms. Davidson creates. Her characters are usually ordinary country folk that have to work from season to season to survive in the harsh environment. That is how Faith Hudson (McDowell) is in TEXAS GOLD.

Three years before Faith walked away from her workaholic husband and mental abusive mother in law who lived with them, in Boston. She struggled on little or no money to scratch out an existent in Texas........why Texas, she didn't have winter clothes and thought it would be warmer.

When Max found her, she was a total different woman that the young girl he married. Before she was his trophy wife, dressed in satin and lace, never voicing her opinion, letting Max make all the decisions. He adored her before but now he has fallen in love with her and will let nothing stand in his way of making her fall in love with him again to bring her home.

This one is going on the keeper shelf.

Back Cover description: Faith Hudson was falling in love with her husband! Her marriage was a disaster.
Her husband was better off in Boston without her. It had been clear to her then, and it was even clearer now that she'd traveled west and made her home on a Texas ranch. She had no plans of ever returning.
But Max Hudson wanted her back. It had taken him three years to find her, and he wasn't going home without her. It was a matter of principle...
Until he realized he was more in love with the woman Faith had become than he ever could have imagined. And that love just might be what Faith needed all along.

The previous book, TEMPTING A TEXAN, is where we met everyone but Max. TEXAS GOLD is a good story, I just hoped for a romance between Faith and the sheriff, but it is not to be. In this book, we find out Faith left/ran away from Max 3 years ago. This story is about their growth as adults, and what they find in each other that makes their love stronger

Faith Hudson is a friend and neighbor to Nicholas Garvey and his wife, Lin [from Tempting A Texan].

Nicholas and sheriff Brace Caulfield have kept a watchful eye on Faith. Faith has moved from her squatter cabin to Nick's old house on the ranch that Nick obtained from Marshall Jonathan Cleary a couple of years back.

Faith has learned to do for herself and supplies eggs and produce from her garden for self support. She is no longer the pampered wife of Bostonian Max McDowell, no longer his trophy wife. Yet she knows that someday she will have to face Max again.

She is a bit stunned when he shows up with intentions of wooing her again, to return to Boston and their marriage. That he offers and actually does do work around her farm is another eye opening experience. Faith does need his help when her golden Palomino mare gives birth to beautiful golden filly for Nick.

Max is not sure that he likes the relationships between the sheriff and Nick, with his wife. Max does continue to show much restraint with Faith in trying to gain her trust and dependance again. But she is not having it. She continues to keep Max at arm's length. Until .........

Then Nick has to return to his Bank, some 50 miles away, and iron out some problems and he asks Max and Faith to stay at his victorian house with Lin and the children. Yup! danged if someone doesn't try to steal Nick's herd of cattle. Max gets wounded trying to protect Faith when she rides to his rescue.

What a tender, lively story! Oh boy, Max's mother [the trouble maker] shows up and insists that Max return home to Boston to take care of business. Faith still refuses to return to Boston.

Oh, you have to read the story to find out the results these two lonely, misguided lovers and how they deal with their problems. Poor Brace. [his story comes next]

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -- KEEP THE SET! Well worth the shelf space.

I was waiting to read the story of Faith the last of the books of Benning, Texas, but it was slow to the point of dragging on and on. When Faith gets together with her husband she had run away from she instantly knows she is pregnant ... right! ? Even if this were possible the way it is written is to simplistic as Faith would have had some more serious feelings about the occurance. Max, being a man, can't make the ultimate sacrifice and move to the place she has come to love, but has to return home to his business which we are told his brother is capable of running inspite of the fact that throughout the story we are lead to believe he'd be happy raising horses. And, even though he assures Faith his wicked witch of a mother will not both her every again the reader would have to be naive to believe it.

Carolyn Davidson is an excellent author. I am trying to read all of her Texas series books and found this one to be as enjoyable the all the rest. I received this item in a timely manner and have no problems with the vendor.

I loved all the books in the Texas Series ("A Marriage By Chance", "The Texan", "Tempting a Texan" and the fourth in that series was "Texas Gold"). It was such a good book. From the beginning, you are drawn into the story and it is sweet to see that although Faith guards her heart against being hurt, Max is very tender and patient. There are many things they discover about each other along their journey of the heart. I highly recommend TEXAS GOLD. It's a keeper. I have gone back to re-read it several times. Thanks Carolyn for your great work!!!!!