Good morning, friends.
Coming in a bit late. I took a ME day yesterday to sit in my favorite coffee shop and read The Littlest Cowboy. While I didn't have an issue with the book, I did with the marketing.
As I mentioned yesterday, Ms. Shayne has begun re-releasing her back list. Originally, this was part of the cover I purchased back in 2016:
I can't link to the box set because they are no longer published this way. BUT... here's what I saw. A Brand of Christmas - Two series starters. So in MY mind, I see a box set of Christmas stories. When you open them up in Kindle, The Littlest Cowboy comes up first, so I dove in to reading the first 'Christmas Book'. The Littlest Cowboy is NOT a Christmas story. Now, I am going to take some responsibility for not digging a little deeper but at the time, I did not know she was releasing her back list as individual books.
Meet the Brands... One set is Texas - aka The Littlest Cowboy, Book 1 in a nine book series. The other is set in Oklahoma... aka The Brands Who Came For Christmas, Book 1 in a six book series.
Here's the blurb for The Littlest Cowboy:
Baby on his Doorstep!
Sheriff Garrett Brand has raised
his entire brood of siblings single-handedly, and he’s done his best to teach
them some values, to mold them into honorable, responsible, and trustworthy
human beings. So when a baby lands on the doorstep of the Texas Brand, his
first question is which younger brother is in for a butt-kicking?
But the little fellow isn’t named
after Ben, or Wes, or Adam, or Elliot. The little guy is named after
him–Garrett Ethan Brand–according to the note his mama left behind.
He’s still racking his brain to
figure it all out, when a woman shows up at the ranch in the dead of night,
fighting mad and accusing Garrett of murdering her sister and stealing the
baby!
She’s lost too much…
Chelsea is confused, heartbroken,
and too mad to think straight, and the same trouble that found her poor sister
is right on her tail.
You can see by the new cover, this is NOT a Christmas story. I went by the cover I had in my Kindle Library. My only question is "Why was this book included in a box duo?"
I hope someday to write as deep of a point of view (POV) as this talented author. One page in and I was hooked by every nuance Ms. Shayne showed. I was Garrett, hear the noises, feeling that something wasn't right and the stealth actions he took. In those actions we were also introduced to the rest of the household without waiting for them to just show up. Beautifully done, Maggie Shayne. Well done! I'll be reading more of the Brand series' as time allows.
I can't discount the quills for my own mis-understanding. I'm giving THE LITTLEST COWBOY
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