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Scarlet revealed in Episode 16 that Mary was a bully and that she kind of hated her. So who knows with this crazy lovebirds? Remember the car flip that released Ronald? Instead of shooting Cassie he shot Jenny in the chest. Want to know something even more depressing? Before Jenny was shot she swore to spend more time with her son.

You know, the son she saw so infrequently that you forgot he existed. Since Ronald is a relentless creep, he accomplished that goal by baiting Mark into playing him music and taunting them with stories of his various crimes.

Kelli fell into the latter category. That house turned out to essentially be a giant wooden box. Ronald denied killing her, claiming that he just stopped coming. But who was this woman? Whatever the message may be, the three sisters band together, vowing to see things through. The three men in their lives stand with them, making for a stronger team. Willa struggles with her attraction to Ben McKinnon, a neighboring rancher who her father had wanted her to marry simply to join the properties.

Lily and Adam are clearly falling in love and Tess has a passionate affair with Nate, a friend and Willa's lawyer. Together the three men, friends for years, vow to watch out for the women they care for. Lily's ex-husband appears on scene, working on the neighboring ranch and keeping an eye on his ex. Jesse Cooke is angry that Lily would try and leave him and vows to get back what is his. When Jesse discovers the inheritance that Lily will receive he decides to wait to reclaim her.

This changes when Jesse discovers that Lily and Adam are planning to be married. Jesse's anger and the killings that are taking place lead the reader to believe that Cooke is responsible for the destruction around Mercy. This changes when Jesse is found dead after kidnapping Lily, killed in the same manner as the ranch hand and the hitchhiker that were found dead; stabbed and scalped, on Mercy land.

Willa struggles to keep her sisters safe and run the ranch, sometimes angering those she cares for. After an argument with Ham, the foreman who more or less raised her, Willa discovers Ham injured and Jim Brewster, another man who has worked the ranch forever, standing over the body.

Jim stuns Willa by telling her that he is her brother, the illegitimate son of Jack Mercy. Brewster takes Willa into the mountains so that he can explain why he has been killing, first animals, and then people.

Jim's anger at never being acknowledged by their father, and then left out of the will has caused him to snap. And I did love picturing all those rippling muscles on the big, strong men! But that serial killer subplot! Totally unnecessary and drove me crazy. Still, I did enjoy this schlocky cowboy romance, even if some of the sex scenes prompted giggles. Erika Leigh does a fine job narrating the audiobook. I loved this book! Definitely would recommend this to anyone who is looking to read a quintessential Nora Roberts book.

Love, romance, family, betrayal, suspense, murder, and laugh out loud dialogue. The book is less than pages, how in the world could NR manage to have three couple story lines, plus all the other details and scenes with other characters?

I was definitely wo I loved this book! I was definitely worrying over nothing. I was convinced it would be better as a trilogy I have been putting this book off a while because I'm an idiot.

It was fantastic and I enjoyed the Montana ranch setting. Loved Ben and Willa together. They were funny and charming together and I laughed several times. Willa is so strong and stubborn and Ben is so patient and knows exactly how to handle her. Adam and Lily are about the sweetest couple ever.

Absolutely adorable and I really liked the underlying strength she doesn't know she has. Tess and Nate were also cute together. They just clicked and made for some very hot and heavy scenes together. I was pulled in once the book started describing scenes with the newcomer, "JC", especially when we learn that Lily's ex is Jesse Cook. I kept expecting someone to have a picture of him at some point, especially Nate.

How could he keep forgetting to bring by the picture? And then everyone would realize who he was, but it would be too late as he was already taking Lily. That's how I pictured it anyway. But then he came to her house way too soon in the book and I further believed that there must be another bad guy. I wasn't disappointed. I kept debating Jim as the bad guy.

Mean old Montana rancher Jack Mercy dies and leaves the ranch to his three daughters, born of three different mothers, none of whom have ever met before. The catch is that in order to inherit their third of the multi-million ranch, they all have to live on the ranch for one year with no more than one week away. Californian screen writer Tess is mad, fleeing abused wife Lily is grateful but scared, and rancher Willa is furious. And not only do they have to adjust to each other and their changed li Mean old Montana rancher Jack Mercy dies and leaves the ranch to his three daughters, born of three different mothers, none of whom have ever met before.

And not only do they have to adjust to each other and their changed lives, but sinister things start happening as well. This was not one of Nora Roberts' better efforts. Very cliched and with the usual woman-hating male villain which is actually starting to get a bit boring.

Makes you wonder about Nora Roberts' own background. It did have a twist towards the end that I completely failed to spot, but twists such as this only work well as plot devices if they occur right at the very end of a book.

This twist happened about pages before the end of the book, and it took most of that pages to resolve the twist, by which time I was getting a bit bored. As far as brain candy goes, this was pure candy floss - insubstantial, sickly and bad for your teeth Jack Mercy had been a bastard in life.

Yet he never treated Willa Mercy like a daughter, but more of a nuisance, never showing her the ropes, slapping her both figuratively and literally. The ranch that is her home, where she grew up, that she considers her own, could easily be taken from her. Failure to do that results in the land being forfeited.

Two neighboring ranchers, his lawyer and the owner of the second largest ranch in the county, Ben McKinnon, the bane of Willa existence. But as soon as the three women start living under the same roof and Willa just might tolerate Ben McKinnon enough not to punch him, something dark and twisted is stirring on the land, bringing with it heartbreak and death.

Just wow. I loved the characters. The three sisters, so different, yet somehow so similar. I loved how their relationship progressed and grew throughout the year they spent together on the ranch, how they got to know each other, admire each other, respect and love each other. And I loved how each of them changed during that year, throughout the seasons. Some mellowed, some grew a backbone, but inexorably each of them ended up where she was supposed to end up.

I loved these three guys. Steady, resilient, protective, they were the metaphorical rocks sheltering the girls from the storm, offering support, offering friendship, and offering their love. Adam helped Lily in overcoming her insecurities and her fears, Nate helped Tess smooth out some of the rough edges, and Ben and Willa, well, everything. I know this was supposed to be the story of three sisters finding their way together, finding love in the heart of Montana, but for me, this was the story of Willa.

She was Mercy ranch, she was the one who brought it all together, she was the one who held it all together, and she was the one who ended the nightmare. They circled each other, wary of traps, determined to keep it light, keep it friendly, but you know what they say about the best-laid plans. And what a wonderful romance this was. Fun and light in the beginning, slowly morphing into a hot affair, and finally into a reluctant acceptance of their deeper feelings. To me, theirs were the sexiest, hottest love scenes so far.

Slow and sexy, or fast, hard and sweaty, there was just the right vibe, just the right feel They were just right, and they never put either of them out of character. It was always Willa and Ben. Either dressed or burning up the sheets, they threw off the same amount of spark.

No mushiness, no sappiness, even in that last scene, their characters, their nature shone through. The suspense provided a nice balance to the romance. Dark and light, good and evil, love and hate. Yin and yang. The suspense aspect was incredibly well-written, twist-y and turn-y, offering scarcely and clues as to the identity of the knife-happy villain. The intensity was slowly rising from the first incidents, climbing to a fever pitch in the last confrontation, the feel of lurking danger was ever-present with the added benefit of a possible second villain, the motive was as elusive as the identity And although it all happened rather quickly in the end, I never got the feeling it was rushed or easy, since the pacing of it all was rather frenzied at that point.

Suspense of the highest order indeed. What I also loved about this story, what Ms Roberts is master of, were the vivid descriptions of the ranch, life on it, and its surroundings. I could see the Montana as it was described, the fields, the pastures, the forests, and high country. I could see men running wire, herding cattle, training horses It was like I was there.

Picturesque, vivid, and peaceful. And then evil trickled in, and that peace was shattered, and the storm brew anew. Wonderful writing and characters, spot-on pacing, intense suspense Loved it. Jul 26, Jennifer rated it did not like it.

Disappointed in this book. Plot was predictable. Author spent time developing supposedly strong female characters but then contradicted that by having them all rely on the men in the story. Entertaining as far keeping you occupied but not a great story. Two-haiku review: Three half sisters must Live on ranch to inherit Three hot guys want them Typical Nora Romance plus evil bad guy Three-and-a-half stars.

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. So I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

In this one, the book starts out at a funeral. He ha three daughters. Only one of them, the yougest Willa, actually grew up with him on his ranch because her mother died when she was a baby. The first daughter, Tess, lives in LA California writing screenplays.

The second, Lilly, is from Virginia, but has been moving around a lot hiding and running from her abusive ex husband. She arrives at the funeral So I thoroughly enjoyed this one. She arrives at the funeral with fresh bruises from his latest attack. She took three different planes to throw him off track to come to her father, whom she never knew, funeral.

Willa grew up on the ranch working it and putting in her blood sweat and tears. Her father leaves the ranch to all three daughters, with a very big stipulation. They have to live together on the ranch for a year.

If any one of them refuses to adhere to the stipulation they forfit their piece of the pie and ultimately everyone elses. If they don't all follow through with the requirements then the land is to be donated to a wild life preserve organization.

During that year, Willa is to be in charge of the ranch with the supervision of Nate family lawyer and friend and neighbor Ben McKinnon. Ben McKinnon runs the ranch next door with his father and brother. Tess agrees to staying the year because she wants her cut of the ranch the ranch is worth million Lilly jumps at staying because she finds it peaceful and wants to hide out there.

Tess ends up going after Nate to help pass the time. Meanwhile, Willa's older half brother, Adam, is spending his time working with Lilly to open up, trust and she learns the horses with him. They end up falling in love. Willa and Ben hook up. During all this, animals have been ending up dead. One cat, couple cows, and 8 calfs the night after they were born. All of wich were cut up and gutted. Two people were killed as well in the midst of all this.

One of the men who work and live on the ranch, and some 16 year old run away that no one knew. Through all this you also as the reader know that Jesse Cook, Lilly's ex husband, has been working for Ben all this time and nobody knows who he is. This leads you to believe that he is the murderer.

He ends up prematurely he was waiting out the year so Lilly would get the inheritance first kidnapped Lilly because her and Adam decided to get married and the wedding day was fast approaching. He ends up taking her up into the mountains and hides out in a cave. There are certain devious screenwriter tricks to perhaps get a little bit of your sympathy for Ronald. That's my job — to try to do the undoable. How many more secrets might both of them be keeping from each other and how might that impact their relationship?

A lot. This show has the ability to jump around in time to fill in gaps and to add more mythology to the characters. One of the things when I took over the show that David had left unanswered was the whole idea of the syndicate. What were they doing with these girls? What was Legarski and Ronald's plan with them? We never learned that. All we knew was that Jerrie and the other two girls were going to be taken somewhere and given over to the syndicate.

So that's huge open territory for storytelling. Now that Scarlet has activated the "syndicate" to save Ronald, what use does the syndicate have for Ronald? There's a lot of open storytelling, there's a lot of fun unexplored story nooks and crannies we have left for season 2.

If Jenny survives, how might her partnership with Cassie continue to grow and evolve? Tubbs is pretty intent on getting her to become a sheriff, but would Jenny seriously consider that? Jenny has this nebulous law enforcement background, and one of the ways that the show works really well is a push-pull between Cassie and Jenny about the proper way to do something, or how much risk they're both getting themselves into.

But Cassie was nearly strangled to death by Ronald in the car, and she escaped. Now we have Jenny shot. It's going to cause both women to reassess where they're at with their lives and where they're at with their careers. One of the things that really makes the show work for me is these women processing this stuff emotionally. There's a couple of scenes in the hotel room after the really bad stuff happens with the Kleinsassers where it's just the two of them talking and you can feel the exhaustion and the emotion about the risk they've taken.

If you look at the last half of the season, they've been on a roller coaster ride. They've had no time to breathe with Jenny almost being killed by the Kleinsassers, to being rescued, to getting a phone call that Ronald's been captured, to finally catching this monster they've been chasing, and then Ronald escaping, and in the process, having Jenny shot and Cassie almost strangled.

As the show moves forward in the second season, I promise you we will take a breath and process what that means, and they'll process what that means for their relationship together going forward.

That's the heart of the show. What would it mean for Cassie if Jenny doesn't make it? She's already suffered two really huge losses in her life. When I took over the back half of the season, one of the things I tried to get at with this show was I wanted the women to process the loss in their life.

There's that conversation in the hotel where Cassie tells Jenny about what it was like to lose her husband. She tells Lindor what it was like to lose her husband. You get the real sense that Jenny did have some affection for Blake Kleinsasser Michael Raymond James , and she feels like his death is on her, and she feels that Angela's Rachel Colwell death — the woman who worked at the sheriff's office — is on her.

Trying to get that stuff to weigh emotionally with these characters is something we're going to do more of in the second season.

As cool as it is to see Cassie with a machine gun getting in a car and going after a serial killer, at some point, you've got to decompress and dig into the emotional weight of what's just happened. Why choose that Johnny Mathis song for Ronald's obsession? Were there others in the mix? There's something creepy and weird about that song. If you look at the lyrics, the lyrics are also creepy and weird.

We thought about getting the song covered, but there's something about the Johnny Mathis [version] — it's both beautiful and weird at the same time. Going back to the Ronald and Scarlet of it all, the love story makes you feel the way that song makes you feel, both creepy and entranced.

You can't keep your eyes off of them, so it really fit with the tone of their relationship.