Kelly Dawson

Kelly Dawson has put together an excellent DD/lg story for us. There is a lot of love, but there is also bumpy roads. While not everyone wants to read the bumpy parts, without them, you can't get to the happiness in the book. You will see that in this book.

Bianca has Tourette's Syndrome. She's found that the best way she can handle it is to work with horses. She's an apprentice jockey and has a great touch with horses. When she gets a job working at a prestigious trainer's stables, she is really excited. She doesn't tell them about her Tourette's though. When Clay, the owner's son, finds out, she begs him not to fire her, and tells him that she doesn't have a lot of symptoms.

Clay isn't sure about the newest hire until he sees her with an abused and neglected horse. She's the only person who can get near the horse, and Bianca is able to help bring the horse back. But when all her work starts to pile up on her and cause problems, Clay decides that she needs a Daddy and he is just the man for the job.

I really enjoyed this one for so many reasons. One is that it's a positive representation of a person with Tourette's, which isn't always shown, so I really liked that. I really liked the support that Bianca was given, overall. I did kind of what to smack Clay around a little bit at times, but he was able to pull his head out of where it was stuck. Overall, a truly enjoyable, light read and a great story.… (meer)

Loki Renard and Kelly Dawson are a pair of New Zealand authors who have teamed up to write a story about love, hope, a new life, and what it takes to get there.

After a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, Marnie's home is destroyed. Her grandmother is dead. Her stability is no longer all that stable. Marnie decides that she needs to leave Christchurch so that she can get a new start on her new life. So, she packs up everything she still owns in a duffel bag, gets on the bus, and goes where her aunt told her to.

Sam runs a trek company in the country. His aunt has hired in someone from the city. When he goes to pick her up from the bus stop, he discovers Marnie, who's wearing the wrong shoes, the wrong clothes, and the wrong attitude. She doesn't like how dirty and dusty everything is, she doesn't like where she is, and she's quite ready to go back. Her attitude earns her her first spanking rather quickly.

I went back and forth as to whether or not I liked Sam. I thought that there were times that he came on much stronger than necessary. I think that if he had listened to Marnie a little more sometimes so that the could find out more about why she was acting the way that she was, it might've gone easier for all involved. I mean, she was really kinda traumatized. But then he'd do something that was really sweet or really nice and I'd like him again. Marnie did jump on my last nerve from time to time, she was a bit of a brat sometimes, but I could totally get why.

Overall, I liked the book and the times when I didn't always like the characters balanced out with the times that I did.… (meer)