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Rancher To The Rescue
When wild mustangs threaten someone's life, rancher Cade Baldwin springs into action. But he's not pleased when he sees the beautiful woman he's saved is the town's new forest ranger. Lyn Warner is determined to round up the wild horses he loves so much. But she's also the woman who makes him smile like no one else. After her husband died in a car crash, Lyn turned her back on her beliefs and focused all of her attention on her injured daughter. But Cade's strong faith and steady love might be exactly what they all need to create an unbreakable family.
- Sales Rank: #512111 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-05-01
- Released on: 2013-05-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From the Author
Dear Reader, I live in Nevada, where the majority of the wild horses in the United States run free. Every once in awhile, I hear on the evening news that the mustangs have been struck by a car along the busy freeway, or broken down the fence in someone's front yard to feed on shrubs and grass...leaving a big mess behind. I remember my forest ranger father driving me out into the Ruby Mountains to look at the beautiful wild horses roaming his ranger district. They are a beautiful, wild animal. These experiences inspired me to write "Healing the Forest Ranger." After losing her husband to a tragic car accident that also took her daughter's leg, the heroine is suffering from so much angst. And the hero has his own troubles he's trying to overcome. The wild horses are a metaphor for what the characters in this book are going through. I hope you enjoy reading this sweet book as much as I enjoyed writing it. :) Leigh Bale
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About the Author
Leigh Bale is an award-winning multi-published author who won the RWA Golden Heart in 2006. More recently, she finaled in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. A daughter of a U.S. forest ranger, she holds a BA in History with honors, loves grandkids, weeding the garden with her dog Sophie, and watching the sagebrush lizards in her rock flowerbeds. Married in 1981, Leigh and her husband have two wonderful children. Reach Leigh at P.O. Box 61381, Reno, Nevada 89506, or visit LeighBale.com.
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They didn't know she was watching. Lyndsy Warner crouched low behind a rock outcropping. Prickles of excitement dotted her arms. She held her breath, hoping the wild horses wouldn't catch her scent and bolt. At least not yet.
Overhead, a hawk spiraled through the azure sky. The late April weather had been unseasonably warm. Tufts of green grass and red paintbrush trembled as the breeze whispered past, carrying the earthy smell of dust and sage.
Letting her camera hang limp from the strap around her neck, Lyn reached up to remove the bronze shield pinned above the right front pocket of her forest ranger's shirt. A glint from the afternoon sun might give her presence away to the mustangs in the valley below.
After tucking the badge into her pants pocket, Lyn reached for the camera again. Holding it up to her eyes, she adjusted the focus and studied the herd through the lens. Five mustangs, led by a handsome buckskin stallion. The stud's black mane and tail stood out against his golden coat. The band included three mares and a black foal with a white tail and mane. Not really black, but almost, with just a bit of white on her hind left foot and on her right, under the flank and in her mane and tail. Not a true pinto, either. Very unique coloring and absolutely stunning. The filly's spindly legs looked long and strong, a foreshadowing of the beautiful mare she'd become. Wild and free.
Lyn snapped a quick series of pictures, wishing she could share this moment with Kristen, her ten-year-old daughter. Like most girls, Kristen loved horses. But these mustangs carried a deeper meaning for Lyn—a reminder of the night her husband died.
The bony rib cages of the horses seemed too lean, an indicator of sparse forage on the range. As the herds increased, there just wasn't enough for them to eat, not to mention the other wildlife roaming this area, or the beef cattle the ranchers paid the government to graze.
Lyn zoned in on the stallion she'd named Buck. This wasn't the only herd foraging in Secret Valley. Lyn had named all the stallions living among the mountains of Mc-Clellan National Forest, but not their mares and foals. She didn't want to become more attached to them than she already was. Especially if she was forced to round up some of them for removal.
A low nicker drew Lyn's attention to the plateau overhead. A smaller dun stallion stood gazing down upon the tranquil family of mustangs, his cream coloring similar to Buck's except that tiger stripes circled his front legs. A throwback from prehistoric horses. Probably a bachelor stallion, with no mares of his own. His ears pricked forward with rapt attention, and Lyn knew he wanted Buck's mares. Or at least one of them.
"Don't do it, buddy. Buck's a lot bigger, and he'll hurt you if you try to steal one of his girls." The warm breeze stole Lyn's whispered warning.
While Buck's lead mare kept watch, two of the other mares dipped their noses into the murky water of the shallow spring. No vegetation grew here, with the banks beaten down and churned to mud by too many tromping hooves. By mid-May, Lyn figured the water would be gone. Dried by the baking sun to nothing but cracked earth. The horses needed this water. Desperately. Without it, they'd have to journey across the mountains to Cherry Creek, a thin stream nine miles away. An arduous trip that would sap their energy, keep them from feeding, and weaken their foals.
Always on the lookout, Buck noticed the bachelor stallion and snorted. He skirted the edge of his band, tossing his proud head and pawing the dirt with one hoof. With his long tail flying high like a flag, he raced toward the plateau, placing himself between the watering hole and the bachelor. Buck wouldn't give up his mares. Not without a fight.
The dun neighed in challenge, then picked his way down the steep grade. As he reached the valley floor, he lifted his elegant head and arched his muscular neck. A dark dorsal stripe ran down the middle of his back, and Lyn decided to name him Stripe.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Buck didn't think so. He let out a shrill squeal. Ears flat against his head, he raced toward the dun. At first, the two stallions circled one another, snorting and sizing each other up.
Stripe ducked away from Buck and chased after a plump dapple-gray mare that looked ready to foal soon. Stripe nudged her rump, urging her forward, trying to whisk her away. Buck intercepted, biting Stripe's hindquarters. The mare knew who she belonged to and lashed out at Stripe with her hind legs. Buck bared his teeth, the whites of his eyes showing. His black mane whipped across his strong neck like billows of smoke.
Stripe circled back, chasing after the mare, desperate for a mate. Buck followed, neighing his disapproval. The bachelor stallion was lean and tough, but no match for the more experienced buckskin. And the battle began.
Both stallions reared. Screaming, biting, slashing each other with their razor-sharp hooves. Again and again, their hooves thudded against each other like iron clubs. Lyn cringed at the horrific noise they made. Survival of the fittest. Their ferocity frightened her on a primitive level. She lowered her camera and stared in shock.
The mares galloped out of the fray, the black foal scurrying to join the safety of her mother. Stripe followed, still trying to separate the dapple-gray from the rest of the herd.
Buck intervened with a roar of rage. He kicked—once, twice, bludgeoning Stripe in the head and shoulder. The bachelor stallion staggered and dropped to his front knees. Buck offered no mercy. Rearing, he came down hard on top of Stripe's head.
Lyn gasped, remembered her camera and started clicking again. Later on, the unique photos would serve as an amazing record of wild-horse behavior.
Stripe screeched in pain. Buck gave the younger stallion just a moment to recover his feet. With a loud grunt, the beaten horse sprinted toward the safety of the mountains. He'd been whipped and gave up the fight for now, but Lyn knew he'd return later for another try. The urge to have a family was as old as time, something instilled in the majority of God's creatures. And one day Stripe, or another stronger stallion, would defeat Buck. But for now, the older stallion had kept his harem intact. In this small corner of the world, he reigned supreme.
Buck trotted around the perimeter of the watering hole, head up and nostrils flared as he watched for the return of the dun. Still wound up. Still angry. Unwilling to accept any nonsense right now.
And that's when Lyn saw the blood running down Buck's right front leg. She focused the camera, trying to see the wound more clearly, but no good. She had to get closer.
Moving silently down the hill, she skimmed through snags of PJ's, short for pinon-junipers. She stayed upwind, hoping to go undetected by the band of horses. As she inhaled the dry desert air, her booted feet sank deep into the sunbaked sand. And that was her first mistake.
She stumbled, twisting her ankle. She stifled the cry rushing up her throat, but her silence made no difference. The agitated stallion lifted his head and looked her way. Still territorial and furious. Still ready to fight.
With a scream of fury, Buck charged.
Lyn's breath froze in her throat. A bristle of panic raced down her spine. She glanced over her shoulder. No use trying to reach her truck. There wasn't time.
Instead, she ducked under a thicket of PJ's and pressed her body back into the prickly trees. Sharp needles scratched her hands and face. Her fear overshadowed the pain. The stallion screamed again, thrashing toward her, ferocious and enraged.
Lyn's flesh burned with alarm. Her heart beat madly in her chest. She was no match against the horse's battering hooves. He'd kill her if he could.
Buck reared, hooves waving dangerously near Lyn's head. She scrunched farther back into the crowded trees. The hair of her long ponytail ripped against the pointed branches.
One thought pounded in her brain. Kristen. All alone in the world. If Lyn were killed, her little daughter would have no one to love and care for her. No one to keep her safe.
The rearing mustang beat the PJ's to splinters, fiercely determined to reach her.
Lyn screamed in helpless anguish. How had this happened? A calm afternoon of checking the watering hole had turned into a life-threatening situation.
Lyn glanced left and right, desperate for a safer place to hide until the stallion gave up and left. A thick outcropping of sage and PJ's jutted from the rocks just to her right. To reach it, she'd have to leave her fragile sanctuary and run for her life. With a crazed beast hot on her tail.
Bracing her hands beneath her in the dirt, Lyn bent down like a track star, knowing there was absolutely no way she could outrun this horse. Knowing she might be killed.
Taking a deep breath, she sprinted toward the rocks.
The wild horses were fighting. Caden Baldwin recognized their screams echoing through the canyon, reaching his ranch a mere six miles outside the town of Stokely, Nevada. Riding Flash, his bay gelding, Cade galloped toward Secret Valley. Maybe he'd get to see his beloved mustangs today. He couldn't remember a single summer in his childhood when he hadn't watched the wild horses with his grandfather. It'd been several weeks since they'd crossed Cade's pasture land and—
A woman's scream echoed off the rock walls of the ravine like a gunshot. What on earth?
Cade tapped his heels against his horse's sides. Flash tore off at a fast run. Someone was in trouble. Someone needed help.
And then the panic set in. So unexpected that it left Cade breathless and choking. He clung to the saddle, overwhelmed by a flashback to the war in Afghanistan. The drumming of the horse's hooves became the pounding of gunfire and shells exploding all around Cade, hammering his body with bits of rock, dirt and mortar. The memory of pain and the metallic taste of blood in hi...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great Read!
By Glenda Parker
I'm not sure if I have ever read any of Leigh's books before, but I did enjoy this book. I loved all the facts about the wild horses. It's great read.
Widow Lyn Warner has taken a new job in a new town. The death of her husband and the loss of her daughter's leg has left a huge hole in her life, moving seems to be the best way to heal. She has been told that the doctor in this small town is one of the best for amputees and he will be able to help her ten year old daughter. Since her husband's death she has tried to control her daughter and has become very over protective.
Doctor Cade Baldwin is out riding when he hears the wild horses he loves. A woman screams and he rides to the rescue and saves the day only to find out the woman he saved is his enemy, a forest ranger.
Then he finds out that this beautiful woman is the mother of his new patient. In an effort to keep tabs on what this woman is doing to his beloved wild horses, he makes arrangements to go with her on her trips to check out the horses. She opens his eyes to the plight of his horses.
A book about not judging others before you know all the facts for him, but for her it is about returning to her faith and letting go and trusting God. It is so easy to blame God when things go wrong. to lose your faith when you really need it the most. God doesn't go around killing people, that's the devil. Evil men cause evil things to take place in the world, that when we need to lean on God and let Him work through the trying times. We all go through those trials but we need to believe that He will finish to work He started in our lives and it will be good.Healing the Forest Ranger (Love Inspired)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Healing the Forest Ranger
By Kknorr
The only reason I gave this book a four star rating was the use of the phrase, "the girl". It seemed odd and unfamiliar. Other then that, this reading was a good way to open up a subject most people don't want to discuss. It's a fact that we are losing and have lost so much of our wildlife, insects, reptiles, etc. This book was not only a great love story but teaches us so much. From loss of Religion, habitat, wildlife, loss of life and limbs, to what people endure in these very difficult times. Keeping your faith and trust (in your God of your understanding) is also a great lesson learned.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Healing the Forest Ranger
By Clare O'Beara
Mustang herds and shrinking grazing for cattle mean that the new Forest Ranger has to monitor the situation on government land, but a wild stallion sees Lyn as a threat and has to be chased off by Cade, a rancher. Cade is the wild-horse spokesman for the Toyakoi Shoshone Tribe. Lyn also loves the mustangs but she calculates that the poor grazing can support 150 horses instead of the 450 presently grazing. Bighorn sheep and mule deer also need forage and water in this area. Cade doesn't bother making friends.
Lyn has a ten-year-old daughter, Kirsten, who lost a leg when a drunk driver hit her and Lyn is somewhat overprotective. Lyn's husband was also killed in the crash. HEALING THE FOREST RANGER will take time. The last person they expect to find as the specialist prosthetic doctor, however is Cade, himself a war veteran. Spring loaded feet, upsizing as a child grows, a way to walk surely and J-shaped flexible carbon-fibre running feet are all described well. Leigh Bale writes with sensitivity, showing compassion for the vulnerable characters while encouraging them to do all they can do. Feeding an orphaned foal turns out to be a start.
Also author of 'Falling for The Forest Ranger', Bale demonstrates knowledge of and regard for the environment in the McClellan mountains. Overgrazing and horses hogging access to creeks cause a problem to other wildlife, and with willows eaten down, the water gets too hot for fish. Sage grouse can't find seeds and insects while the cheatgrass that horses don't eat is more likely to fuel brush fires. The only real predator is the endangered mountain lion. A roundup is described showing greater care for mustangs than the usual. The Native people are not all friendly to the authorities. Cade knows that someone could get hurt....
HEALING THE FOREST RANGER is an inspirational tale, and Lyn tells us 'I don't need a church to feel spiritual'. With a relationship kindling between two lovers of the outdoors, I am sure many readers will agree. I can recommend Leigh Bale's work as a good, absorbing read and a fine romance.
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