Lone Rider

Lindsay McKenna

Mar 2018 · Wind River Valley Book 5 · Zebra Books

About this eBook

A Wyoming ranch holds the future for a combat medic and a photographer in this romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Wind River Undercover.

As a combat photographer in Afghanistan, Tara Dalton saw things she won’t ever forget, as much as she would like to. And after returning Stateside, she can’t fight her way past the PTSD that’s haunted her ever since. Desperate to make a change, she joins her old friend Shay at the Bar C Ranch, where a group of ex-military vets are putting their lives back together one step at a time—including one strong, gentle bear of a man who makes her feel safer than she has in years.
 
Harper Sutton fell farther than he ever imagined after his tour of duty as a medic was up, and he’s not proud of it. But at the Bar C, he’s doing work that means something, and he’s training to be a professional paramedic. That’s enough to concentrate on, until Tara comes to share his place at the ranch. The shadows in her eyes are darker than simply memories of war, and every moment he spends with her opens up parts of himself he’d thought long dead. But as Tara’s troubled past threatens the present, it will take trust in each other to fight for a future together…
 
Fifth in the series!
 
Praise for Wind River Wrangler
 
“Captivating sensuality.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“A tour de force of heart-stopping drama, gut-wrenching emotion, and the searing joy of two wounded souls learning to love again.”—International bestselling author Merline Lovelace

Ratings and reviews

Heart pounding, emotional, action packed romantic adventure filled with humor, dramatic twists, passion and danger. Tara Dalton and Harper Sutton are part of a group of ex-military vets is putting their lives back together one step at a time on the Bar C Ranch and are struggling with PTSD. They are so sweet and right for each other perfect paring to work at healing together. While this is the fifth book in the series I did not feel lost at all starting here... however it was so entertaining I now must go search out the first four and hope they are just as thrilling to read.

This is a fantastic book as another vet finds the much needed solace provided by everyone at the Bar C Ranch. Overall the story is very good. The characters are well developed and of course it is very well written. My only complaint is that the word/term PTSD is way overused in the writing. Tara Dalton returns to Wyoming after serving as a combat photographer in Afghanistan. She's suffering from PTSD symptoms and instead of worrying her parents she wants to find a place of her own. That's when her friend Shay tells her about the Bar C and convinces Tara to come work and live there. While there she'll be surrounded by people who understand what she's dealing with and help her find her way to a new happy life. I highly recommend this one.

About the author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lindsay McKenna is the pseudonym of award-winning author Eileen Nauman. With more than 185 titles to her credit and approximately 23 million books sold in 33 countries worldwide, Lindsay is one of the most distinguished authors in the women's fiction genre. She is the recipient of many awards, including six RT Book Reviews awards (including best military romance author) and an RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. In 1999, foreseeing the emergence of ebooks, she became the first bestselling women's fiction author to exclusively release a new title digitally. In recognition of her status as one of the originators of the military adventure/romance genre, Lindsay is affectionately known as “The Top Gun of Women's Military Fiction.” Lindsay comes by her military knowledge and interest honestly—by continuing a family tradition of serving in the U.S. Navy. Her father, who served on a destroyer in the Pacific theater during World War II, instilled a strong sense of patriotism and duty in his daughter. Visit Lindsay at www.lindsaymckenna.com.