Montana Gold

This book Montana Gold is a great book. Its a romance but also a western theme. Chase is a rough stock rider who also is very attractive. Elle is the rodeo clown who gets the riders out of a pinch with the bulls. These two have some serious connection but have there own ways of doing things. Will love over come this relationship? Read and find out.

We met Chase Lomax in Montana Blue - now he has a story of his own which includes his "claimed" son, Shane. Poor old Chase is 38 years old - which apparently is getting on in years for a bull-rider, bronc-rider, rough-stock rider. He wants just 3 more championships before he retires. We have already learned of his "love" or attachment to Andie Lee Hart and her son Shane. Andie is marrying Blue and that sets Shane off. He takes off to live with Chase. Shane, 16, tries to put the make on Elle until Chase steps in. What the devil is Chase going to do with a kid when he is on the road? Chase is getting lonesome so he stops at Larry's Steak House where he runs into his buddy Robby, a Brazilian and Robby intoduces Chase to Elle Hawthorne, the bullfighter. Elle Hawthorne is 24 and determined to gain a championship in bullfighting on the rodeo circuit. She is also trying to bolster up her nerve after getting a divorce from her husband, Elle is hanging out and traveling with her very good friend, Missy Jo. Missy Jo would like to promote a romance with Elle and someone. Romance shows up unannounced and takes a bit of time to come out of hiding. In steps "Fate" and brings about a nasty wreck that lands Chase in the hospital with serious wounds. Spin Master, the bull that wrecked Chase also practically threw Elle out of the arena. That treatment shattered her nerve. After Chase gets out of the hospital he starts to worry about how slow he is healing and if he will still have a career left. He retired to his ranch, the Great Divide, with Shane who wanted to wait on him hand and foot. Chase comes to the decision to raise rough stock and thinks about making a deal for a bucking bull for his herd. His right hand man Tucker helps keep the building and ranching going for Chase and helps handle the bulls when Shane wants to try to ride them. Elle still hasn't gotten over Lon Tyler and leaves fast when Chase tells her to try the arena again. She runs scared and then heads for her brother, Jake's place. Jake loves his sister and tells her to stay as long as she wants. Elle finally heads back to Chase's ranch [because of Shane] and Chase finds a way to help her get back her nerve and into the arena. This certainly is a hard to put down book - the story keeps the interest ever active - the characters and their fears keep a fast pace - This is another keeper - and turning out to be an excellent trilogy. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED --m -- save for another rainy day and read again.

I Love Plots which flow from one book to another. This is one Such. Good story line- although there are very few rich rodeo hands. Nice follow up from Montana Blue with regards to the teenager. Really like her style of writing.

Montana Gold by Genell Dellin is pure gold. Ripped from this horse-loving girl's dreams, Chase Lomax is a hard-riding, sexy rough-stock rider working towards more of those championship buckles to which the buckle bunnies on the pro rodeo circuit seem to be drawn. Ellie Hawthorne is a young, tough bullfighter, and it's her job to keep cowboys like Chase safe. But when a bull gets the best of them both, and Chase has to take a long look at his career as a rodeo cowboy, and Ellie has to face her demons, these two characters are thrown together in a drama far more exciting than a night at the rodeo. With vivid characters, descriptions that place the reader in the heart of the action, and a depth of emotion that is staggering, Ms. Dellin's story tugs at the heart strings. Add in a down-on-his-luck dog named Kodiak, and a teenage boy trying to live up to his image of his hero father, and you have a story that's worthy of the big screen. Reading this book was pure pleasure. I found myself rooting for the characters and falling in love with Chase as he came to his own realizations. Ellie's past, including a visit from her brother Jake, whom I hope we read about, make her a heroine with whom this reader could sympathize. It's rare for me to be swept off my feet by a book, but swept I was, and I will certainly be looking for this author's other stories as soon as possible. Thank you, Ms. Dellin, for one heck of a read!

This book was highly entertaining and I could not put it down. The characters are wonderful and endearing. I wonder who will be the next hero in the series, Shane or Jake? Linda R. Smith