Courting Abby

Title: Courting Abby
Author: Rita Hestand
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publication date: 2003
ISBN:  1-920741-44-5
Page Count:  100

Rating:
Reviewer: Christine Ventura

Clint Travers was a rodeo cowboy. One of the Travers men, he had loved being a rodeo cowboy until he was injured and finally realized that there was more to life than the thrill of the rodeo circuit. He knew that he had to begin putting his roots down. And he did. Living as a rodeo cowboy taught him that there shouldn’t be any regrets in life. Live for the moment. That was a motto that he believed in. But there is one thing he still regrets, he regrets letting go of the woman he loved: Abby Martin.

Abby Martin had been in love with Clint Travers since she was young. They had become best friends and Clint always came to her for advice. But one night, nursing a broken heart, Clint came to her and they had made love. The day after things went terrible wrong. She never saw Clint again. And her father sent her away because she'd found out she was pregnant.

Now Abby is back in town. Her father had recently died and she had to be there for her mother. Already engaged, she knows that Clint Travers can no longer touch her heart or hurt her ever again. But Clint Travers has never been known to give up easily and now that the one woman he has loved had come back, he has also decided to begin Courting Abby.

A very nice and heart-warming story, Clint Travers and the other Travers brothers shine in their signature style as a set of brothers who will always be there for each other through thick and thin, whose blood run with the loyalty and love that only family can ever evoke. Abby Martin is an interesting heroine. A woman who has grown up and been hurt, she is both strong and delicate at the same time. She is slightly cynical and hardhearted on the outside, but soft and truly warm-hearted on the inside. I recommend this book for those of you who are looking for a great read. With a cup of hot chocolate, the air conditioner turned on high and snuggled in your bed, this book is as fuzzy and warm as it can get.