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Will of Steel
- Sales Rank: #1775701 in Books
- Brand: Silhouette
- Published on: 2010-11-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.62" h x .93" w x 4.21" l, .39 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 384 pages
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He never liked coming here. The stupid calf followed him around, everywhere he went. He couldn't get the animal to leave him alone. Once, he'd whacked the calf with a soft fir tree branch, but that had led to repercussions. Its owner had a lot to say about animal cruelty and quoted the law to him. He didn't need her to quote the law. He was, after all, the chief of police in the small Montana town where they both lived.
Technically, of course, this wasn't town. It was about two miles outside the Medicine Ridge city limits. A small ranch in Hollister, Montana, that included two clear, cold trout streams and half a mountain. Her uncle and his uncle had owned it jointly during their lifetimes. The two of them, best friends forever, had recently died, his uncle from a heart attack and hers, about a month later, in an airplane crash en route to a cattleman's convention. The property was set to go up on the auction block, and a California real estate developer was skulking in the wings, waiting to put in the winning bid. He was going to build a rich man's resort here, banking on those pure trout streams to bring in the business.
If Hollister Police Chief Theodore Graves had his way, the man would never set foot on the property. She felt that way, too. But the wily old men had placed a clause in both their wills pertaining to ownership of the land in question. The clause in her uncle's will had been a source of shock to Graves and the girl when the amused attorney read it out to them. It had provoked a war of words every time he walked in the door.
"I'm not marrying you," Jillian Sanders told him firmly the minute he stepped on the porch. "I don't care if I have to live in the barn with Sammy."
Sammy was the calf.
He looked down at her from his far superior height with faint arrogance. "No problem. I don't think the grammar school would give you a hall pass to marry me anyway."
Her pert nose wrinkled. "Well, you'd have to get permission from the old folks' home, and I'll bet you wouldn't get it, either!"
It was a standing joke. He was thirty-one to her almost twenty-one. They were completely mismatched. She was small and blonde and blue-eyed, he was tall and dark and black-eyed. He liked guns and working on his old truck when he wasn't performing his duties as chief of police in the small Montana community where they lived. She liked making up recipes for new sweets and he couldn't stand anything sweet except pound cake. She also hated guns and noise.
"If you don't marry me, Sammy will be featured on the menu in the local cafe, and you'll have to live in the woods in a cave," he pointed out.
That didn't help her disposition. She glared at him. It wasn't her fault that she had no family left alive. Her parents had died not long after she was born of an influenza outbreak. Her uncle had taken her in and raised her, but he was not in good health and had heart problems. Jillian had taken care of him as long as he was alive, fussing over his diet and trying to concoct special dishes to make him comfortable. But he'd died not of ill health, but in a light airplane crash on his way to a cattle convention. He didn't keep many cattle anymore, but he'd loved seeing friends at the conferences, and he loved to attend them. She missed him. It was lonely on the ranch. Of course, if she had to marry Rambo, here, it would be less lonely.
She glared at him, as if everything bad in her life could be laid at his door. "I'd almost rather live in the cave. I hate guns!" she added vehemently, noting the one he wore, old-fashioned style, on his hip in a holster. "You could blow a hole through a concrete wall with that thing!"
"Probably," he agreed.
"Why can't you carry something small, like your officers do?"
"I like to make an impression," he returned, tongue-in-cheek.
It took her a minute to get the insinuation. She glared at him even more.
He sighed. "I haven't had lunch," he said, and managed to look as if he were starving.
"There's a good cafe right downtown."
"Which will be closing soon because they can't get a cook," he said with disgust. "Damnedest thing, we live in a town where every woman cooks, but nobody wants to do it for the public. I guess I'll starve. I burn water."
It was the truth. He lived on takeout from the local cafe and frozen dinners. He glowered at her. "I guess marrying you would save my life. At least you can cook."
She gave him a smug look. "Yes, I can. And the local cafe isn't closing. They hired a cook just this morning."
"They did?" he exclaimed. "Who did they get?"
She averted her eyes. "I didn't catch her name, but they say she's talented. So you won't starve, I guess."
"Yes, but that doesn't help our situation here," he pointed out. His sensual lips made a thin line. "I don't want to get married."
"Neither do I," she shot back. "I've hardly even dated anybody!"
His eyebrows went up. "You're twenty years old. Almost twenty-one."
"Yes, and my uncle was suspicious of every man who came near me," she returned. "He made it impossible for me to leave the house."
His black eyes twinkled. "As I recall, you did escape once."
She turned scarlet. Yes, she had, with an auditor who'd come to do the books for a local lawyer's office. The man, much older than her and more sophisticated, had charmed her. She'd trusted him, just as she'd trusted another man two years earlier. The auditor had taken her back to his motel room to get something he forgot. Or so he'd told her. Actually he'd locked the door and proceeded to try to remove her clothes. He was very nice about it, he was just insistent.
But he didn't know that Jillian had emotional scars already from a man trying to force her. She'd been so afraid. She'd really liked the man, trusted him. Uncle John hadn't. He always felt guilty about what she'd been through because of his hired man. She was underage, and he told her to stay away from the man.
But she'd had stars in her eyes because the man had flirted with her when she'd gone with Uncle John to see his attorney about a land deal. She'd thought he was different, nothing like Uncle John's hired man who had turned nasty.
He'd talked to her on the phone several times and persuaded her to go out with him. Infatuated, she sneaked out when Uncle John went to bed. But she landed herself in very hot water when the man got overly amorous. She'd managed to get her cell phone out and punched in 911. The result had been…unforgettable.
"They did get the door fixed, I believe…?" she said, letting her voice trail off.
He glared at her. "It was locked."
"There's such a thing as keys," she pointed out.
"While I was finding one, you'd have been."
She flushed again. She moved uncomfortably. "Yes, well, I did thank you. At the time."
"And a traveling mathematician learned the dangers of trying to seduce teenagers in my town."
She couldn't really argue. She'd been sixteen at the time, and Theodore's quick reaction had saved her honor. The auditor hadn't known her real age. She knew he'd never have asked her out if he had any idea she was under legal age. He'd been the only man she had a real interest in, for her whole life. He'd quit the firm he worked for, so he never had to come back to Hollister.
She felt bad about it. The whole fiasco was her own fault.
The sad thing was that it wasn't her first scary episode with an older man. The first, at fifteen, had scarred her. She'd thought that she could trust a man again because she was crazy about the auditor. But the auditor became the icing on the cake of her withdrawal from the world of dating for good. She'd really liked him, trusted him, had been infatuated with him. He wasn't even a bad man, not like that other one.
"The judge did let him go with a severe reprimand about making sure of a girl's age and not trying to persuade her into an illegal act. But he could have gone to prison, and it would have been my fault," she recalled. She didn't mention the man who had gone to prison for assaulting her. Ted didn't know about that and she wasn't going to tell him.
"Don't look to me to have any sympathy for him," he said tersely. "Even if you'd been of legal age, he had no right to try to coerce you."
"Point taken."
"Your uncle should have let you get out more," he said reluctantly.
"I never understood why he kept me so close to home," she replied thoughtfully. She knew it wasn't all because of her bad experience.
His black eyes twinkled. "Oh, that's easy. He was saving you for me."
She gaped at him.
He chuckled. "He didn't actually say so, but you must have realized from his will that he'd planned a future for us for some time."
A lot of things were just becoming clear. She was speechless, for once.
He grinned. "He grew you in a hothouse just for me, little orchid," he teased.
"Obviously your uncle never did the same for me," she said scathingly.
He shrugged, and his eyes twinkled even more. "One of us has to know what to do when the time comes," he pointed out.
She flushed. "I think we could work it out without diagrams."
He leaned closer. "Want me to look it up and see if I can find some for you?"
"I'm not marrying you!" she yelled.
He shrugged. "Suit yourself. Maybe you can put up some curtains and lay a few rugs and the cave will be more comfortable." He glanced out the window. "Poor Sammy," he added sadly. "His future is less, shall we say, palatable."
"For the last time, Sammy is not a bull, he's a cow. She's a cow," she faltered.
"Sammy is a bull's name."
"She looked like a Sammy," she said stubbornly. "When she's grown, she'll give milk."
"Only when she's calving."
"Like you know," she shot back.
"I belong to the cattleman's association," ...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Better than her Recent Ones
By P. Romance
3.5 stars
After so many disappointments with her recent books, I was hesitant to buy the latest Diana Palmer book. But to my surprise, I actually enjoyed this latest installment.
Quick Summary: According to their uncles' will, Chief Theodore Graves and Jillian Sanders have to get married if they wanted to inherit the land they live on. If not, there were hungry land developers waiting to fly in. Graves was all for it, but Jillian just can't imagine being married and refuse. Graves made it his mission to change her mind and protect her from the unexpected threat coming after her.
First, I like to say, this isn't a Silhouette Desire kind of story. This should have been put under the Harlequin Romance line. So, if anyone expects a lot of passion in this one, think again. That aside, if you are familiar with her writing, it still carries some of the same themes. The heroine is still ridiculously young in comparison to the hero, not really educated and innocent. There are nonsensical banters between characters and the much loved visits from characters from her other stories.
What's different? The huge one for me is the hero. Theodore Graves is 360 to her recent heroes. He's kind, not overly wealthy. When he hears gossip about the heroine, he never thinks badly of her and wasn't quick to jump to conclusions. Another thing was the heroine has some personal issues. So when Graves tries to kiss her, she freezes up. But he doesn't call her a tease. He instinctively know that something scarred her and vowed to be gentle with her. I totally love this guy. The heroine, Jilly, was okay. Nothing special about her. Sorry. I found her to be a little weak and without the support system of the side characters, she would be a mess. There were visits from her other characters, but this time luckily, not enough to overwhelm and distract from the plot.
Her writing is similar to her older works which is a big plus. What I didn't like recently in her books was the banter between characters. They were humorous but frivolous. In this story, there was banter but it was limited. It became Graves and Jilly's way to get to know each other. The plot was pretty good and simple. However, I felt like I was reading 2 stories. The first half of the book was spent with Graves trying to woo Jillian. The second part was when an old enemy of Jillian's shows up. I felt the second part came out of nowhere. That's why I couldn't give it a complete 4 star rating. This story had great potential. Unfortunately, the page limit kind of ruined it. The ending was anti-climatic considering how well Palmer built up the bad guy here. I would've love to see more information about him. I think Mrs. Palmer could have expanded more on this.
All in all, this was a good story and wasn't a waste of time and money. If you are a Diana Palmer fan, then don't hesitate to pick this one up. If you are looking for a gentle, sweet romance, this is perfect for you as well. But if you're expecting something different from her recent writings, please skip this. You're not missing much. This also comes with a reprint of "Reluctant Father". This story is the total opposite of "Will of Steel" so I didn't like it as much.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
bored, bored, bored
By little of this...little of that
I am not a picky reader. Out of hundreds of contemporary series romances I've read in the last decade, I've finished all but five or so. This was one. After seeing these mostly positive reviews I gave it another shot, but gave up at about the halfway point. Basically, I was bored out of my skull by the dialogue: stilted and slow. Imagine eavesdropping on a couple on a first date as they slowly discover every little interest they share, interspersed with bits of "Writing 101" dialogue clearly meant to fill the reader in on backstory (much of which seems irrelevant). I've read books that contain as much dialogue, but it's snappy, revealing, completely engaging. There is no spark here, and little sensuality so far. This was, surprisingly, my first Diana Palmer novel, and had it not included the somewhat dated but vastly more engaging "Reluctant Father", it would have been my last.
I grant that the book may improve in the second half, but before buying it be sure to look up the mostly 1-star reviews of it under the e-book version.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Will of Steel
By Ms.Harriet M.
What can I say I love Diana Palmer books. The heroines are a little naive and this describes Jillian Sanders to a tee. She was raised by a overprotective uncle and has not seen much of the world.
Chief of police Theodore Graves is really a good match for her if she can overcome a trauma that happened when she was fifteen.
It was a nice read with wonderfully described secondary characters and besides Graves only acted stupid for a brief time in the story.
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