Shiloh knows that there's someone watching her but she can't convince anyone one else of it. So she goes to visit a friend of her mother's on her ranch. Roan is a former miliarty man and when he meets Shiloh he can tell that something has her spooked. Its not long before things heat up between them and Roan learns of her problem. When they figure out who is behind everything it sends Shiloh in a tailspin of bad memories. Will they be able to end the stalking safely? Will her and Roan be able to have something serious?

This is an amazing story that once I started it I couldn't put it down. This is a well wrtten and very entertaining story. I would recommend this book to any book lover.

Just Okay

I liked the premise of the book., the suspense and romance. However, I thought it was just okay. Maybe it is the fact that Shiloh is a novel writer, but her drawn out thinking bouts got to be a bit much for me. It also made the story feel longer and more drawn out. Instead of adding to the story, those moments made the story too drawn out. and I found myself skimming.
For me, this was a deterrent that made it difficult for me to enjoy the story. That's just my humble opinion.

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It was ok. It is a different twist with the hero being the one pushing for a commitment before they sleep together. The hero is a little confusing, he left the military (why?) and his family has a ranch that I imagine he will takeover eventually(why isn't he there). The heroine's big issue is feeling that people will leave her. I imagine she would have had therapy after her childhood so shouldn't she have not had this big of a problem.

Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. “You wanted to kiss me.”
“I still do.”

Wind River Wrangler by Lindsay McKenna is a slow-building western romance set against a treacherous game of cat and mouse. It’s the first book I’ve ever read by Lindsay McKenna, but it won't be the last! This is the story of cowboy Roan Taggart and author Shiloh Gallagher.

Shiloh feels that someone is out to get her in New York City. No one believes her, except for her mother’s old friend, who offers her refuge at Wind River Ranch in Wyoming.

This story starts off well with Roan picking up Shiloh at the airport as she’s fled New York. Roan is a ranch hand at the ranch, but he was previously Special Forces in the military. He picks up immediately that Shiloh is spooked and vulnerable - which triggers his protective instincts. The ranch is secluded and no one knows where Shiloh is, or do they? When the very real threat follows Shiloh to Wyoming, the suspense and danger ramp up exponentially.

The relationship between these two characters tugged at my heart. Shiloh was basically a broken shell when she arrived in Wyoming. Her stalker had made her appear demented and she’d even started questioning herself. Their chemistry was immediate, but Shiloh was unable to accept it. I loved how Roan slowly brought out the real Shiloh, challenging her, and how he gave her the strength to love and to fight her villain knowing Roan was on her side.

Following please find a few of my favorite quotes from Wind River Wrangler:

She could literally feel the heat of his body; they were inches apart. She inhaled deeply, his masculine scent mixed with dust and sweat. Heat tore down through her and she gazed up into those gray eyes that studied her in the building silence. He wanted her. The thought was shocking. What was more shocking and disconcerting to Shiloh was she wanted him!
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She looked over at him, her eyes warm. “Your face has a story to tell.”
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, “It’s a top-secret face, Darlin’.”
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The lush greenness of the pastures infused Shiloh. Overhead, she saw a red-tailed hawk flying in higher and higher circles in the sky. There were bluebirds everywhere, many of them sitting on fence posts. When they took off, that flash of brilliant blue always made her gasp with delight; it was almost an unearthly gorgeous color.

Wind River Wrangler is well-written with vivid imagery that made me feel that I was right there in picturesque Wyoming. Except for the middle of the book which dragged a bit, the story held my attention. The last fourth of the book was riveting; fast-paced and action-packed making me so glad that I hadn’t stopped. If you enjoy sweet and hot tales of sexy cowboys determined to protect those they love no matter what, you won’t want to miss Wind River Wrangler.

DNF - Unfortunately, I didn't care for this. I stopped reading during chapter 2.

I didn't find this novel as slow as some of the other reviews make it out to be. However, it seemed as if there was a lot of repetition in it and there were sections that were very bland or unneeded. What I did enjoy about it was Shiloh. I loved her energy, her way of thinking, the way she converses with Roan. She's the best written aspect of the novel. It seems as if there had been a character study written of her, and then the rest of the characters fell a little flat as a result.

Perhaps a closer editing would have helped... or a shorter novel.

I love easy love stories that you can see yourself reflected in the characters. The characters were not only likable but the plot was enjoyable too. Happy to recommend this to my romance customers. Thanks for sharing!

Shiloh stood with her hands against her chest.It was her stalker. Shiloh felt almost faint with fear in her NYC apartment and the police didn’t believe her, they said it was all in her head. Shiloh was a New York Times best selling author. Someone was at her door trying the doorknob. This happened nearly every day of the week for the past two weeks. First faxes came over her machine saying” I am going to get you” and then her home phone had a message with a man breathing heavy. The police said because she was a romance author one of her crazed fans was behind the fax and message and it was harmless. She now lived like a terrorized animal, afraid to go out, afraid to walk the hall anymore. She stopped having lunch with her editor Molly. Every time Shiloh went out she felt like she was being watched. She instinctively knew this man wanted to kill her. Shiloh had never hurt anyone in her life. She tried to be generous and kind to everyone. She had seen the world’s ugliness at ten years of age when her stepfather Anton had stabbed and killed her mother Isabella in a fit of rage. Isabella had been a successful artist. Anton had been abusive to both Isabella and Shiloh.It had been nineteen years ago her mother had died. Her father had died very young two years earlier from a heart attack and at ten Shiloh’s parents were both dead. Shiloh couldn’t go on like this and she had another book due in six months. Maud was one of her mother's friends but more like a grandmother to Shiloh . Shiloh stayed in contact with Maud And Maud kept asking Shiloh to come out to her ranch in Wyoming but Shiloh had never traveled and had lived in NYC all her life could she write at the ranch? Maud called to Roan and said she wanted to talk to him - he had worked at Maud’s ranch for two years now. She asked Roan to help her because he used to be Army Special Forces. Shiloh had asked to stay with Maud for two months . But Roan would be sharing a house with Shiloh. Shiloh is terrified of the stalker and suffering because of him with writer’s block.Roan was immediately attracted to Shiloh but reminded himself she was Maud’s guest. Shiloh was also attracted to Roan.
I had conflicting feelings on this story. At times it was predictable but there were some twists. Then in some cases things were over described. The beginning was really good but after the first couple chapters it dragged at times. I did like the suspense and action. For being a romance it took a long time for Shiloh and Roan to come together. But the plot itself was good and the ending. So some things I liked and others not so much. However I did like the characters a lot.

This is a very hard book for me to rate, as I've been reading Ms. McKenna's novels for decades, and her ability to create a scene so vivid you feel as though you're standing in it is remarkable. While I loved her descriptions of Wyoming and the Wind River Ranch, and at first enjoyed the slow pacing of the novel, the redundancy of the descriptions of the ranch, the inner dialogue of both main characters and the lack of forward movement of the plot led to me only giving this novel 3 stars.

Shiloh Gallagher is a best-selling romance novelist and she has a major problem--she's being stalked and for the past 6 months has been a virtual prisoner in her NYC apartment. Her fear has led to writer's block. With the deadline for her next book approaching, she finds the solution, or it finds her. Her mother, a well-regarded artist, whose murder at the hands of her second husband, Anton Leath, was witnessed by 10-year-old Shiloh, was a dear friend of Maud Whitcomb, who, along with her husband, Steve, owns and operates the Wind River Ranch, a working ranch and tourist destination in Wyoming. When Maud learns of Shiloh's stalker, she convinces her to spend a couple of months at the ranch, far from her NYC stalker, where she can rest, relax and perhaps again be able to work on her novel.

Enter the hero, tall, dark and handsome, Roan Taggert, formerly Army Special Forces and for the past two years, a wrangler at the Wind River Ranch. Maud seeks him out to be Shiloh's protector during her stay, trusting his skills to keep her safe and she fills him in on the ugly details of Shiloh's life and shows him her photo, asking him to pick her up at the airport when she arrives. He's attracted to her photo, a born protector, and his attraction grows as soon as he meets her at the airport and as he drives her back to the ranch.

The ranch is beautifully described, and as Maud welcomes her and sets her up with a room across the hall from Roan's in employee housing, Shiloh's character became confusing. She's been traumatized by the events in her life, especially by her father's sudden and unexpected death and by watching her mother completely fall apart afterwards, and her mother's subsequent marriage to Anton Leath, a controlling and creepy man who also happened to be a child predator. We're told that Shiloh writes "hot" romance novels with HEA endings, yet, at 29 years of age, she admits to never having been in love, having had several short-term non-committed relationships, and to being commitment-phobic. Her attraction to Roan and his to her, and the aforementioned internal dialogue of both characters easily takes up more than half the novel and slows any forward momentum to a standstill until the last quarter of the book, when Shiloh's stalker discovers her location because Shiloh was clueless enough to send her publicist photos of her location, and her publicist posts them on her Facebook page, which I found totally unbelievable.

Roan was another mystery. We're never told why he left the military, or why he's working as a simple wrangler on a ranch he doesn't own. He has to be the most patient, understanding, and kind man ever, and in a complete turnabout, he's the one wanting a commitment from Shiloh, while Shiloh waffles back and forth because if she allows herself to fall in love and the object of that love dies, it will utterly destroy her. I have no idea why, after the traumatic events of her childhood, she's never worked out any of these issues with a therapist. If that was her fear, why couldn't she see that a year or two later her mother remarried. Granted, she picked a creep for a second husband, but she was moving on with her life.

Again, the pace of this novel was far too slow, and by the time we reach the climax of the novel, it too seemed far too long and drawn out, and the very fact that even knowing that Shiloh's stalker has already been on the ranch and that she should never have been left alone and unprotected at all, that's exactly what happens. Yes, there's an HEA ending, but by the time I reached it, I had to wonder if Shiloh's attraction and willingness to commit to a relationship with Roan is because of who he is as a man or simply because of how protective of her and how patient he's been with her all along. Finally, the identity of Shiloh's stalker was so obvious from the very beginning, that it struck me as utterly unbelievable that she was unable to figure it out long before his identity was actually revealed.

All in all, this was a good idea for a novel that suffered from too much inner dialogue, too much description, too much waffling and not enough action, suspense or romance.