Review: Wild Rain

Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Spring Lee, Rancher, sister of Dr. Colton Lee and sister-in-law of Regan Lee from the book Tempest. Spring is bold, fierce, and independent, not the typical woman based on societies standards. When Spring was young, her grandfather kicked her out, because she refused to marry an old coot he had arranged for her to marry. After leaving and having to fend for herself, she went to work for Mitch Ketchum, which put her in a compromising position. After a life of running wild and crazy, and she finally saved enough money to purchase her own home, Spring settled down with no intentions of marrying or having children.

Garrett McCray a reporter from D.C., came into town to do a newspaper interview with Dr. Lee, got thrown from his horse in the middle of a snowstorm. Spring found his horse and him limping in the snow. With much care, Spring took him home with her to help him warm up and heal from his wounds. Apprehensive of his presence, but once finding out who he was, she was a bit relieved, however one wrong move and she would either feed him to the pigs or shoot him. I like how Spring said, “Colt is married to my sister-in-law” Confusing the hell out of Garrett, although he was smart enough to know that remark meant that Dr. Colt was her brother.

Spring had no intentions on falling in love, but she did, and their relationship developed slowly and sweetly. After McCray gets shot for protecting her honor from the nasty villain, Matt Ketchum, she again, nurses him back to health. Knowing at some point that he would be leaving to go back home to D.C., Spring tried to put her feelings to the side and hold their time together as a pleasant memory, but her love for him had overtaken her resistance. As Beverly Jenkins calls him, the Cinnamon roll character; the one man that loved her unconditionally without any restrictions or obligations. Garrett accepted her for who she was. He showed her that she could love and be loved.

The day that Garrett leaves to head home to D.C, they both wrote each other a short letter:

“I didn’t want to say goodbye.  Thank you for loving me and showing me that I can love in return.  Have a safe trip home.”

~Spring

“Until the mountains are no more, I will love you.”

~G

These short letters said a lot about their feelings for each other, but it wasn’t until Garrett had a talk with his mother, that he realized his true desire for Spring.  He could not live without her, He never met a woman who did not want children, but his mother reminded him that, “some of whom have given birth only because of the expectations of society and husbands.”  Regardless of her standards, he got off the train and headed back to be with Spring.

This story was liberating, showing how a woman could be different then societies expectations. Independence at its finest. I loved Spring Lee’s character; she was a force to reckoned with. I believe this book is a tribute to those women who choose to be marriage and child free. I highly recommend. One of my favorites by Beverly Jenkins. I give it a 5 out of 5 stars.

My choice of Cast:

• Condola Rashad as Spring Lee 

 • Robert Christopher Riley as Garrett McCray

 

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