The Lookback

B. E. Baker

Apr 2024 · The Birch Creek Ranch Series Book 8 · Purple Puppy Publishing

About this ebook

Amanda Saddler has lived a long and happy life. She’s not ready to die or anything melodramatic, but she’s long since given up on finding her fairytale ending.

But when her adoptive granddaughter Emery picks up a box that was delivered to her doorstep, some new stories from the past come to light. Amanda Saddler may have spent her life pining for her neighbor, Jed Brooks, but that’s not the only man she ever knew.

Emery doggedly asks after a man from an old photo, who turns out to be the man Amanda Saddler stayed with when she left town for a few months. When that same man calls Amanda’s phone, of course Emery answers and invites him to come for a visit.

Can Amanda Saddler reconcile the wrongs in her past to set her story right in the present, or is it too late for her to find her happy ending alongside a man who has always wanted a place in her heart?

Ratings and reviews

This is the last book in the Birch Creek Ranch series and I'm really going to miss it. I've enjoyed getting to know these characters. In this final installment, we finally get Amanda Saddler's backstory, and in true B.E. Baker fashion, we find out that what we thought we knew isn't exactly how things happened. I found it refreshing to read about a romance between a couple of 80 year olds instead of the much younger couples we usually read about.

I love how the author, Bridget Baker, concludes this series in a way that unexpectedly connects the story to another one of her series, while also giving a conclusion to each characters story. Throughout the series, you may wonder about Amanda Saddlers past, and Bridget brings her story to life in this book, while continuing the story of the other main characters. Don't miss out on this wonderful story, and if you finish it, you may have the opportunity to get a surprise chapter at the end. 😉 And if you want to see how it connects to one of her fantasy series (under her pen name Bridget E. Baker), check out her horse shifter series "The Russian Witch's Curse".

What a finale to the series. I've loved the entire series. Some serious plot twists in this one. A few examples of how assumptions can change the course of our lives. I love how real the characters are, and how they've grown over time through the books. This one is mostly about Mandy, but quite a bit to add to Helen's story and wraps up some of the other storylines.

About the author

Bridget loves her husband (every day) and all five of her kids (most days).

She’s a lawyer, but does as little legal work as possible. She has six horses, and she spends too much time riding and not enough time writing. (Or too much time writing and not enough time riding, depending on your perspective!)

She has more chickens than she’ll admit to having, two lions head rabbits, a cat, two dogs (one bouncy and one yappy). She makes cookies waaaaay too often and believes they should be their own food group. In a (possibly misguided) attempt at balancing the scales, she kickboxes daily.

So if you don’t like her books, her kids, her horses, her chickens, or her cookies, maybe don’t tell her in person. 


B.E. Baker is the romance/women's fiction penname for Bridget E. Baker, who also writes fantasy, end of the world, and dystopian books that add a little magic to the world.

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