Rebel Heart
Jannine Corti Petska
Highland Press
ISBN: 0-9746249-8-3
Fiction, Historical Romance
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Father knows best! Courtney Danning’s father told her that her fiancé Stanley Burgess was nothing but trouble- lowlife scum and a chronic womanizer. But Courtney was so sure that Stanley was “the one” that she left her life in New York and went to Santa Fe to become Stanley’s wife.

Her euphoria ended almost immediately. The frontier town wasn’t exactly what Courtney had imagined. Things only got worse from there. After flirty with some tart at the wedding dance, Stanley got into a tussle with some gamblers he tried to cheat. Courtney was a widow before the wedding night even began.

Then, the real trouble began. Courtney immediately decided to take on the responsibilities of running her husband’s sheep farm. The spoiled city girl knew nothing about sheep and even less about running a business in Santa Fe. There was also the added anxiety that her husband had large debts with nearly everyone in town. All seemed pretty hopeless but in walks Beau Hamilton. A crass savage that Courtney just can’t seem to shake. Just wait until she finds out that her father paid Beau to watch out for her. Fiery and passionate.