Down From The Mountain

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Read
Review: Barbara Gale writes a book that pulls you in and doesn't allow you to put it down until you reach the end. This book has excellent character detail and insight into how much baggage a person can bring to their lives and relationships. Some of the information is simplistic, yet the characters are well written. I would recommend this book to anyone!

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Read
Review: Barbara Gale writes a book that pulls you in and doesn't allow you to put it down until you reach the end. This book has excellent character detail and insight into how much baggage a person can bring to their lives and relationships. Some of the information is simplistic, yet the characters are well written. I would recommend this book to anyone!

Rating:
Summary: A refreshing break
Review: Ellen Chandler, blinded as a result of a childhood illness, had been living a sheltered, protected life in a Montana mansion for the past several years, until her kindly benefactor died. Once the elder Mr. Hartwell passed away, her world came crashing down upon her. It didn't help matters that Mr. Hartwell's only child, forest ranger David Hartwell, came into her life like a whirlwind and upset everything in his path. Not only did he expect her to leave the isolation of the mountain she called home, but he stirred up feelings in her she had never felt before.

David Hartwell was used to women cringing once they looked at his face. Scarred in an accident as a teen, he had given up on most human interaction and generally liked to keep to himself. He was content to be a loner for most of the time, but now his father's pesky will insisted that he take care of Ellen until she had her upcoming surgery that may restore her sight. So now he had to share his life with a woman he thought had been his father's mistress...and face the feelings that she evoked in him, longings for a family and a wife that he might never have fulfilled. He was afraid to get too close to Ellen, but as she blended in with the small mountain community David now called home, he wondered if he could bear to have her leave.

This book was pretty good. Neither of the characters were perfect; David had enough emotional baggage for a dozen people, and Ellen also had her own emotional hang-ups. Sometimes they rubbed each other the wrong way - but as you read the book, you could see both Ellen and David grow in character strength and depth. This book was a refreshing break from perfect people falling perfectly in love with no major obstacles in their way. David was initially rough, Ellen was initially weak, but watching David soften and allow people into his heart, and Ellen gaining strength and independence she'd never had before...let's just say, I definitely got my money out of this book :)

There were a few rough patches, and a few parts when I thought David was a bit cruel when he dealt with Ellen...but altogether, a lovely book that not only shows the depth of human emotions, but allows you to experience them as you read this book. Definitely a keeper!

Rating:
Summary: A refreshing break
Review: Ellen Chandler, blinded as a result of a childhood illness, had been living a sheltered, protected life in a Montana mansion for the past several years, until her kindly benefactor died. Once the elder Mr. Hartwell passed away, her world came crashing down upon her. It didn't help matters that Mr. Hartwell's only child, forest ranger David Hartwell, came into her life like a whirlwind and upset everything in his path. Not only did he expect her to leave the isolation of the mountain she called home, but he stirred up feelings in her she had never felt before.

David Hartwell was used to women cringing once they looked at his face. Scarred in an accident as a teen, he had given up on most human interaction and generally liked to keep to himself. He was content to be a loner for most of the time, but now his father's pesky will insisted that he take care of Ellen until she had her upcoming surgery that may restore her sight. So now he had to share his life with a woman he thought had been his father's mistress...and face the feelings that she evoked in him, longings for a family and a wife that he might never have fulfilled. He was afraid to get too close to Ellen, but as she blended in with the small mountain community David now called home, he wondered if he could bear to have her leave.

This book was pretty good. Neither of the characters were perfect; David had enough emotional baggage for a dozen people, and Ellen also had her own emotional hang-ups. Sometimes they rubbed each other the wrong way - but as you read the book, you could see both Ellen and David grow in character strength and depth. This book was a refreshing break from perfect people falling perfectly in love with no major obstacles in their way. David was initially rough, Ellen was initially weak, but watching David soften and allow people into his heart, and Ellen gaining strength and independence she'd never had before...let's just say, I definitely got my money out of this book :)

There were a few rough patches, and a few parts when I thought David was a bit cruel when he dealt with Ellen...but altogether, a lovely book that not only shows the depth of human emotions, but allows you to experience them as you read this book. Definitely a keeper!

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Summary: Storyline from Publisher
Review: The surprise of his life awaited David Hartwell at the top of the Montana mountain: besides a sprawling mansion, he'd also inherited his late father's ward. Beautiful, enticing Ellen Candler didn't flee at the sight of his scarred face. Because she couldn't see it.

Although she was blind, Ellen had never given up hope of one day recovering her sight. But she didn't need her eyes to tell her this overpoweringly masculine forest ranger was running away from something. While he was coaxing her down from her sheltered mountain existence, Ellen was secretly waging her own campaign of seduction to turn her reluctant guardian into a loving mate...for life.