ABOUT THE BOOK
Some people would call this a midlife crisis, but I know better. I’m too old for that.
Pulling up my shallow roots, I decide on a whim to move from Texas to Montana, leaving what I’ve known for the past three decades.
The woman I cross paths with at the county fair is one I’ve known from a distance for twenty years, someone to whom I’ve grown close: My best friend’s widow, Genesis Dawson, who’s running the family ranch after her husband’s tragic death.
Startled by her unexpected appearance, I muddy the waters, creating a situation I can’t seem to fix. But a bigger problem is that her ranch is under threat and she stands to lose the investment of four generations.
Can I mend what I’ve broken and convince her not to make the biggest mistake of her life?
MY REVIEW
I love Erin FitzGerald’s Wolf Mountain Ranchers Series! The fourth installment features Will and Genesis with a story of friendship, loss, and a dangerous force keeping them apart.
Life does not make mistakes, people do. When life brings us to a fork in the road, so many of us ignore the gentle nudge of what we know to be right, and we choose the wrong path.
Will frustrated me with his misguided honor to stay away from his best friend’s wife when she needed him the most. I just wanted him to come clean earlier and accept the consequences his screw-up caused. When he did man up, there was no stopping the hot alpha, who finally took charge by fighting for the woman he loved. Genesis’s independence, sass, and strength are incredible, as she owns and manages one of the best ranches around while raising two children. She exemplifies the epitome of a modern heroine, a force to be reckoned with, challenging the conventional norms with her unyielding spirit.
Ms. FitzGerald writes about real, honest-to-god normal people living normal lives. They’re about the beautiful moments in time. The quiet moments. The broken moments. She writes stories that people can relate to.
The beginning of Something Sacrificed was slow for me, and it wasn’t my favorite trope in the series, but all the characters are solid, the loveable dogs are sweet, and the happy ending is heartwarming. I can’t wait to see what the author brings next.
Wolf Mountain Ranchers Series
- Something Lost (2023) – My review
- Something Broken (2024) – My review
- Something Gained (2024) – My review
- Something Sacrificed (2024)
- Something Saved (2024)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Erin was born in the Midwest to very patient parents, and grew up with one slightly less tolerant brother. She learned the value of hard work growing up on a dairy farm and has loved tractors, animals, pastoral scenes and obnoxiously loud trucks ever since.
She valiantly resisted learning to read until the second grade, much to her mother’s consternation. When the switch flipped she began devouring everything she could get her hands on, and the greatest source of punishment was to confiscate her books.
After a tertiary education and marriage, Erin and her husband moved to NYC, where they lived for ten years. There they had children and in addition to gaining “work experience,” began collecting an assortment of accidental and on-purpose pets.
Packing up the kids, the house and the pets, they relocated to central Florida for her husband’s work. There they bought a ramshackle foreclosure the family spent five years fixing up, with the running joke “We’ll finish the master bathroom and the house will be perfect–glorious! And then we’ll move.”
Two weeks after finishing the final project, the gut renovation of the master bathroom, her family did indeed pick up and move again. (Some would call that ironic, but Erin calls it prophetic and has learned to keep her mouth shut.)
Now living in the Metro D.C. area, Erin is a huge fan of grocery delivery services, the National Gallery of Art, every library and bookstore she’s ever seen, and she adores nothing more than a happy ending.
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