Montana Creeds: Tyler

April 15, 2009
Winding up a delightful, feel-good trilogy about the estranged, hell-raising Creed half-brothers, who hail from Stillwater Springs, MT, this volume brings bronc-riding star Tyler, the youngest and most prickly of the trio, home from the rodeo circuit to rethink his life and sort out his future. When Ty discovers an abused teenage boy who could be his son hiding out in his cabin, his future, including his tentative, renewed relationship with childhood sweetheart Lily, swerves in a whole new direction. This warm, sometimes rowdy, gently humorous romance ties up a number of nagging loose ends, heals old wounds, and brings the Creeds together as a family, once again.

Although each story stands on its own, it makes sense to read them in order. "Montana Creeds: Logan" (Feb. ISBN 978-0-373-77353-4. pap. $7.99) features lawyer, entrepreneur, former rodeo star, and eldest brother Logan, who returns to reclaim the long-neglected family ranch and try to mend the rift with his two far-flung brothers. Gambler and former bull-rider Dylan ("Montana Creeds: Dylan". Mar. ISBN 978-0-373-77358-9. pap. $7.99) heads home with his two-year-old daughter and finds himself falling for librarian Kristy Madison, the girl he'd loved years earlier. All three titles should appeal to readers who like their contemporary romances Western, slightly dangerous, and graced with enlightened (more or less) bad-boy heroes. Miller lives in the Spokane area.

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March 1, 2009
Tyler Creed, youngest of the three hell-raising half brothers born and raised in Stillwater Springs by an abusive drunk, is drawn home by an inchoate longing and almost immediately finds himself sheltering young Davie McCullough, a goth-attired, tattooed, and pierced troubled teen with a home life uncomfortably similar to Tylers own past. Complicating matters, Tylers first love, Lily Ryder, has also returned, and they soon discover their attraction is as strong as ever. Readers may find passing inaccuracies jarring, but the conclusion to Millers contemporary Montana Creeds trilogy contains her signature elements: a western setting, brawling siblings who gradually draw closer as they marry and start their own families, and external threats to their property and happiness. Fans ofLoganandDylan (both 2009)will be eager for Tylers story.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)