San Antonio Sunset by Kathleen Fuller


San Antonio Sunset
Title : San Antonio Sunset
Author :
Rating :
ISBN : 0803497679
ISBN-10 : 9780803497672
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 186
Publication : First published April 1, 2006

After trouble with his family and much debate, dejected rancher Jeremiah Jackson sets out from San Antonio to make his fortune mining gold in California. With his heart full of hope and determination burning within, he forges through the Sierra Nevada Mountains searching to stake his claim. But instead of finding a successful life independent of his family, he is robbed, beaten and left for dead. Drifter Calliope Winters and her con man friend Eli are on the run from the law. They are trying to run as far as they can but when she sees Jeremiah on the side of the road she insists they stop and rescue him. As she nurses him back to health, they both are drawn toward each other. Both have their secrets, which they are reluctant to share, but as the bond between them grows, they realize they have to learn to trust before they can ride off into their San Antonio Sunset.

San Antonio Sunset Reviews

  • Dorcas

    This story is about two family groups. One is a young man who basically "runs away" from the home he knew to prove to everyone and himself that he can make it on his own and maybe get some respect while he's at it. He fails rather miserably and is starving, robbed, beaten and left for dead when family group #2 crosses his path. Family group 2 consists of two drifers: a young, scarred woman and and an older man who has brought her up as a father since she was little. They bandage the young man's wounds and the three of them become a sort of makeshift family and thats how the story begins...

    I gave the first in the series "Santa Fe Sunrise" two stars because I felt it was unoriginal. This book, sequel "San Antonio Sunset" was much better. While it's a sequel it does also stand alone. This novel centers around the last novel's hero's brother. Got that? So its a new story with new characters.

    Both the characters and the plot in this book were more fully developed in this story and I cared what happened to the H/H so that says a lot for the author's writing. When I read a book I want to FEEL something and I did.

    Why only four stars? Well, as pleasant as the story was it felt incomplete. Perhaps there was a page limit. However, given another 50 pages we could have had a more fleshed out story. For instance, I would have loved to have seen a bit more interaction with the family he left behind once they return in San Antonio.

    Perhaps it's just me but sometimes the ending,"everyone is happy, everything is forgiven and they lived happily ever after" seems a sort of anticlimax...but I understand they have to end the story somewhere and perhaps there's a page limit.