Providing the usual Roberts suspense is a serial killer who guts and scalps his victims-not only humans but (in the newest romance-novel manifestation of evil) calves, cats, skunks and deer.

And, finally, Tess, a sharp-dressing, wisecracking screenwriter from Hollywood who couldn't wait to get back to Rodeo Drive, stays to marry Nate, a frontier lawyer who raises horses, graduated from Yale, and loves Keats. Lily, from Virginia, is a delicate, bird-boned creature who's been battered by her husband, but is now taken under the wing of Adam Wolfchild, Willa's Indian half-brother. The youngest sister, cowgirl Willa, manager of the Mercy ranch and daughter of an Ute mother, matches wits and strong wills with Ben McKinnon, lusty part owner of the Three Rocks spread. Roberts has always been a winner at sexual tension and sexy dialogue, and so the reader gets to see not one but three couples get past the preliminaries and into the sack. During the long winter, the women bicker and bond and get entangled with three sexy, strapping fellows. According to his will, his three daughters, who've never met and whom Jack had by three different wives, must live together for a year at his big Montana ranch house in order to win their inheritance. Jack Mercy was a mean son of a bitch when he was alive, and as a corpse, buried with his Stetson and his bullwhip, he's not much better. The three sisters band together to watch for each other and the ranch while Ben, Adam and Nate try to catch the murderer and at the same time protect the women they love.Ĭlick on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Time/era of story - 1980's-1999Īction/suspense subplot? - Yes Action: - chased by/chasing kidnapper/killer - Inheritance struggle Struggling with whom? - Sister If one lover chases another.Three bridegrooms for three sisters: Roberts ( True Betrayals, 1995, etc.) stylishly moseys into Big Sky romance.

When the destruction escalates into murders however, Willa and the other women become alarmed.

But with the disturbing and unknown destruction of Willa's cattle, Ben, who has a long-standing admiration for the woman, decides to help her whether she likes it or not. Trying to keep the ranch afloat by herself, she clearly doesn't welcome her neighbor ranch owner and her father's appointed overseer, Ben McKinnon's supervision. However when she sees no way of going around the will, she concedes in letting her stepsisters stay and help out in the ranch as long as after three months the ranch will all be hers. Even in death Jack still cheats her out of her inheritance. She has been furious with the content of his will. But no matter how hard she works and makes a difference in the ranch, Jack only ignores her effort. If Willa Mercy has been a man, she could have gotten the approval and pride from her father, Jack.

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