Showdown
by Tilly Bagshawe Publisher:
Published by Hachette Book Group USA
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Reviewed by Debra Kiefat
What does a drop-dead-gorgeous California cowboy have in common with the daughter of a highly reputable English equestrian breeding farm? A deep passion for horses.
Bobby Cameron, a callous womanizer, has an international reputation as the consummate horse whisperer and is in high demand. Bobby's sole focus is to make enough money to save the cattle ranch that he has inherited from being repossessed by the bank, and then turn it into a quarter-horse training farm.
Milly Lockwood Grove's dream is to pursue a career as a jockey, but an earlier accident has caused her parents to become overly protective, leaving her to live a boring existence and vicariously watch her brother live out her dream.
In Showdown, greed and ambition are partners in a dangerous cat and mouse game played by a ruthless manipulative developer and a spoiled rich girl. He will stop at nothing to get the highly valued oil-rich ranch Bobby has just inherited. The girl, as Milly's nemesis, will do whatever she can to take the one thing her family values away from Milly out of narcissistic jealousy: Newell's Breeding Farm
Bobby and Milly's worlds intertwine as they become embroiled in the fight of their lives and dance around their feelings for each other, neither quite ready to admit they are in love. This is a coming-of-age story of a young couple that travel across continents in search of truth, love and commitment.
Tilly Bagshawe has written a modern romance similar to the genre of Danielle Steel. The only difference is that a great deal of gratuitous cursing in the story became tiring after a while--otherwise it a good read.
Armchair Interviews says: Horse, love, money, spoiled rich girl, big developer--all make up this story. Heed the reviewer's comments about the cursing if that concerns you.