Lone Star Book Blog Tour: A Tender Hope by Amanda Cabot (Review)

A Tender Hope, the third in the Cimarron Creek trilogy, offers a sweet romance, but the overall story touches on the serious topic of family, especially children.

Some characters overlap, and all three books are a complete delight. In A Tender Hope, Thea and Jackson offer another dynamic romance that builds and blossoms with every page. As the town’s new midwife, Thea is a strong, independent widow, but her late husband left her with doubts of his love for her and left her doubting her own ability to trust and love again. Jackson, a Texas Ranger, is on the trail of the Gang of Four, which is actually a gang of three now that Thea’s husband is dead. When Jackson finds an abandoned baby just outside of Cimarron Creek, the mystery of who and why takes off and doesn’t let go until the harrowing climax. Did Thea know about her husband’s thieving ways? Will the gang come after her thinking she knows where her husband hid the gold? Why was a young mother tortured and killed and her baby abandoned? Can Jackson resist Thea’s charms? You’ll find the answers and whole lot more in this third enjoyable book.

Amanda Cabot’s writing is as sweet as the budding romances in A Tender Hope, but not everything is as candy coated as the confectioneries coming out of the town’s sweet shop. As Jackson dives deeper into the mystery and draws closer to capturing the gang, the tension and danger escalate and intensify.

Some tender moments are sprinkled throughout as three men in the story struggle to figure out how to woo the women they love. The men’s bumbling efforts add some comedic relief to the seriousness of the overall chilling action.