Under the Desert Sky
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Sara Luck is known for her “well-developed characters, accurate historical settings, and hot naked men” (RT Book Reviews), and Under the Desert Sky does not disappoint! Fans will love this story of a widowed frontierswoman and the ranch hand who might be all that stands between her and ruin.
Phoebe Sloan isn’t afraid of hard work—she couldn’t have survived on the Arizona frontier if she were. But ever since her husband was killed in a ranch accident, she’s struggled to make ends meet and preserve her young son’s birthright. Her last gamble was to start raising ostriches—the plumes are prized by fashionable city ladies—and it could work, but someone’s determined to sabotage her efforts.
Enter Christian de Wet, a South African importer who finds himself drawn to the fragile but determined Phoebe. He begins helping her around the ranch as a kindness, but the two quickly find that the heat rising between them has nothing to do with the Arizona desert! When the saboteur finds a way to endanger not just the ranch, but Phoebe’s family, will she have to forsake her happiness to save her son?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Luck's turn-of-the-20th-century romance about an Afrikaaner and an Arizona ostrich farmer is a tender aw-shucks tale. Widow and mother Phoebe Sloan is struggling to make ends meet on the ostrich farm that she talked her husband into buying. He's gone, her in-laws hold her responsible for the farm's failure, and her brother-in-law, Frank, is doing his best to subvert her efforts. When single, handsome Christian De Wet escorts some birds from Cape Town to a neighboring Maricopa County farmer, he meets Phoebe and is immediately smitten. It doesn't hurt that Will, Phoebe's four-year-old son, latches on to "Wet" as a substitute father. Ostriches are mean cusses, but Christian pitches in to help, and before long he finds his way to Phoebe's heart. Luck's story comes alive with likable characters playing against a backdrop of colorful Arizona Territory panoramas and topical political references.
