Grace be a Lady

Love & War in Johnson County, Book 1

By: Heather Blanton

Narrated by: Talmadge Ragan

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

*Banished and separated from her son, city-girl Grace has to survive in a cowboy’s world. Maybe it’s time to stop thinking like a lady…and act like a man.*

Banished to the dusty cow town of Misery for an alleged affair, Grace Hendrick wants nothing more than to get her son away from the clutches of his abusive father, Bull, who is back in Chicago. But if she dares to return home, Bull has promised Grace she'll never see their son again. She has no choice but to accept her situation - temporarily. Struggling to figure a way to survive, she refuses to consider prostitution. The hamlet of Misery, however, isn't brimming over with jobs for respectable women. Fueled by hate and desperation, she concocts a shocking plan to find work.

Thad Walker is the middle son of the oldest, most successful cattle baron in Wyoming, and he always puts the ranch first. One chance meeting with Grace Hendrick, though, batters his focus like a hail storm in July. And there couldn't be a worse time to lose his focus with an ugly range war brewing.

A true Western saga written in the the vein of Lonesome Dove and Redeeming Love, truth weaves seamlessly with fiction in Grace be a Lady to deliver a stunning tale of love blossoming in a field of violence.

©2015 Heather Blanton (P)2015 Heather Blanton

clean and engaging

A good Christian author who keeps her stories and language clean yet knows how to weave in suspense and engage you in the story. Will definitely listen to this author again.

Another good story but sorry narration.

Any additional comments?

Ms Blanton is a wonderful storyteller. Always keeping my attention with both engaging characters and wonderful storylines. Her Definace series is top notch! However, the performance for this title was awful. Just a few examples, almost every word ending with "ed" became an extra syllable. ????. The word "evening" turned into three, this was pronounced "eve-a-ing. The main male character was nothing of a rugged cowboy! Instead sounded feminine and whimpy. And to top it off the reading was so slooooow. Would have rated five stars if the reader wasn't so very bad. Time for a preformance makeover.

lovely read

easy sweet reading easy to like characters except Bull no woman should go through life with any one beating up her like the faith based roots the narrator did a good job

Narrator needs some finesse.

There’s something about this narrators technique that is annoying. She enunciates the “ed” on a word excessively and it’s distracting!

Grace be a lady

I love this story, it had everything to keep me interested . I would love to hear the rest of the series PLEASE

I love this story!

Would you listen to Grace be a Lady again? Why?

I probably would listen to it again, but the reader enunciates SO clearly that it seems to drag just a bit, at times. There were a few times when the words almost seemed difficult to understand, because of the enunciation. But she does a really great job on vocalizing the different characters -- you always know which of them is speaking, and it's easy to tell the difference between a speaking character and just narration of the storyline.

What did you like best about this story?

The duplicity Grace was forced to maintain, and the way our author created such a menacing bad-guy.

What does Talmadge Ragan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Great character-voices. Really, really great character voices.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, because it was long.

Any additional comments?

I love Blanton's books, and think that you will, too! Nice stories that end well, but there's plenty of harrowing stuff between the first-page and the last, with plenty of grit and real-life, slightly messy things going on with her characters. They're not all Pollyanna and sunshine, and I appreciate that.

sweet store.

Really enjoyed this book with its sweet store, and wish to hear more from this author.

enjoyable

It was an enjoyable listen/read and the story kept my intetest from the beginning until the end.

it was good!

love a clean romance! love the bible and Jesus! thanks for the good book!

Had to stop

The narrator made Thad (the hero) sound like a 12 year old stupid kid. Just couldn’t finish. Had to stop listening.