Publisher: Penguin
Published: January 5, 2016
ISBN: 978-0425278536
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
Format: Print
Obtained via: Publisher
THREE -1/2 HEARTS
Jace Taggart may be carrying the weight of the world on his
shoulders, but somehow he makes it look easy.
He runs the family ranch and business, he cares for his younger brother,
Barry and looks out for his neighbors.
He also has a part of himself he struggles to keep hidden, tucked away
until some future time when the world isn’t quite so heavy. The last thing he needs is to become in
involved with a woman…and fall in love.
But when he comes across Bronte Cupaceck sitting in her broken down van
in front of her grandmother Annie’s house, all his good intentions seem to fall
by the wayside.
Bronte is on the run.
Having had enough of an abusive marriage with a drug addict husband she’s
packed up her two girls and headed west to her grandmother, Annie’s. Trying to hide the real reason for fleeing
her life in Boston she’s taken her daughters, Lily and Kari to some tourist spots
across the country, but now it’s time to confront her demons. Arriving at her grandmother’s she is at the
end of her rope when she discovers that her grandmother has taken a fall and is
in the hospital. Not willing to trust another man after her struggles in her marriage
she cannot help but let Jace in – just a little bit. But there is something about the man who
keeps showing up every time she needs someone to be there for her that touches
her broken heart. But like Jace, Bronte
has a full plate…too much to handle and a struggle to balance her needs and those
of her children.
How can they find a way to make peace with the roadblocks in
their lives and let their hearts have their way?
On the surface Lisa Bingham’s RENEGADE, book 2 in her Taggart
Brothers series, reads like your average sweet romance. Through twists in their lives Jace and Bronte
find each other. Their relationship
seems doomed because of Bronte’s daughters and Jace’s younger brother. As I said, that is on the surface. As you read more deeply into the story
Bingham takes on some of life’s more difficult challenges and through her
characters she meets them head on with compassion and genuine human emotion. The challenges are none that anyone would
willingly seek, and you hope you never have to confront. Bingham doesn’t toss out any easy solutions, but
step-by-step her characters realistically confront their demons and find real
resolutions. She clearly writes from the
heart.
There were a few times I felt like telling her to “get on with
it,” but those seemingly tedious moments are not all that different from the
roadblocks we have in our own lives. As
the book ended I felt like I was parting from some people I would like to know
in my own life.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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