Lightning Over Bennett Ranch

By Amber Daulton

Ten years ago, Melody Bennett’s parents had trampled on her teenage romance with a drifter and, on the night they planned to run away together, he disappeared without a word of goodbyes. Heartbroken, she cast aside her foolish notions of happily ever after and dedicated her life to the preservation and care of the majestic horses on her family's beloved ranch.

Max Fortaine returned with a heart guarded by secrets and a sizable bank account he refused to explain. Like a whirlwind on the Texas prairie, the cowboy disrupted Melody’s peaceful, spinster existence with stolen kisses and a promise for more. After a lifetime of running, mistakes and regrets, he vowed to claim the only woman he ever loved, despite her mettlesome but well-meaning sisters and parents who stood in his way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books to Go Now
• Release date: Jun 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311707826

Amber Daulton

Amber Daulton is the author of the romantic-suspense series Arresting Onyx and several standalone novellas. Her books are published through The Wild Rose Press, Books to Go Now, and Daulton Publishing, and are available in ebook, print on demand, audio, and foreign language formats. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and demanding cats. Feel free to visit her at her Website.

Reviews for Lightning Over Bennett Ranch

[mypennameonly · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

“Lighting Over Bennett Ranch” by Amber Daulton is the first cowboy romance I’ve read, and I found it quite an enjoyable read. The lightning in this story takes on several meanings in my opinion, with the first being, the name of Melody’s horse.Lightning, in the form of love, is also what had first come into Melody’s life at the of seventeen when she fell in love with Max[imilian] Fortaine, a drifter ranch her father had hired one summer. They had decided to run off together, however her father her naked with him under some hay in one of the paddocks on his ranch. Max disappeared without a word to Melody.Now, eleven years later, Melody is alone. With Max’s memory still in her mind, she’s set her standards high before she’ll allow another man to enter her life. The only man who succeeded had been Harvey Clausen, but with her catching him with another woman caused Melody to eliminate him as a possibility due to his being unfaithful.Unbeknownst to Melody, Max has returned. Will the lightning strike again? Will Melody be able to rekindle the relationship she once had with him? Will Max still love her as he did before? And what will her father say this time, should she and Max get together again? The answers to these questions are in the book.The shortest of this story, consisting of 51 pages, doesn’t diminish amount of the emotions being generated. Gone are all the fluff and other nonessential items contained in almost every other story dealing with similar situations; which is why I’m giving it 5 STARS. Robin Leigh Morgan is the author of “I Kissed a Ghost,” a MG/YA Paranormal romance novel.