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A Brother's Love

by Sandy Wolters (Goodreads Author)

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FBI Special Agent Pilar Campos lives and works in a man’s world. She loves her job because the only interaction she has with people is pointing her gun at them and arresting them. She’s a smart ass with a temper and is not above breaking bones if someone disagrees with her. Needless to say, she doesn’t have many friends. She enjoys the fact that she inspires fear in her co...more FBI Special Agent Pilar Campos lives and works in a man’s world. She loves her job because the only interaction she has with people is pointing her gun at them and arresting them. She’s a smart ass with a temper and is not above breaking bones if someone disagrees with her. Needless to say, she doesn’t have many friends. She enjoys the fact that she inspires fear in her coworkers.

Pilar and her partner, Rick, have been executing surveillance on the Snowflake Militia Group for two years. Everything was going just fine with the twenty-seven million dollar operation until she was forced to shoot and kill Thorne Baker, the brother of Boone Baker, the self proclaimed leader of the militia group. Her life would never be the same.

Boone Baker initiated a one million dollar contract on Pilar’s life and would go to any length to avenge his brother’s death. Deputy Director Greg Olsen knows that he has to get his best agent into protective custody, but he also knows that she won’t go even if he orders her to. She’ll stay and fight to the end. The only reasonable action he can take is to hatch a plan to have her tucked away at a ranch in Northern Arizona owned by Amos Thomas, a man that dislikes people with as much if not more fervor than Pilar.

Away from the city, Pilar’s life is transformed. She finds peace at the ranch that she had never felt before. She has a special bond with the animals that transfixes even the most seasoned ranch hands. She learns to open herself to the people at the ranch and develops close bonds with them. She falls in love with Amos, who wants no part of a relationship. Unfortunately for Amos, Pilar knows how he thinks. He is, after all, just like her and that makes his actions predictable. Pilar knows just how to handle him.

Unable to locate the woman that killed his brother, Boone Baker goes to extreme measures to draw her out in the open. In one fell swoop, he will destroy her life as she knows it. Will she be strong enough to continue on, or will he get his wish and kill her?(less)

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Published (first published July 11th 2011)

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Feb 20, 2013 Nancy Silk rated it 5 of 5 stars

"How To Tame A Raging Bull"
The women that Author Sandy Wolters writes into her stories are powerful, fearful, but also tender and loving. The characters are all well defined and one becomes as if one is standing a midst them as one reads the story. Agent Pilar Campos and her FBI partner are tasked to monitor the Snowflake Militia group that tries to rob a bank. In the chaos that develops a security guard is killed, and Pilar shoots and kills the brother of the militant group leader. The FBI real...more

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Apr 01, 2012 Jeff Dawson rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Gals who like strong female characters

This is the third book I have read by Sandy and I'm here to tell ya it's just as good as the first two. Without going into the details of the book I'm going to address her style.

Sandy has an excellent way of developing her characters to the point the reader is thrust into the scenes becoming completely immersed. Her trait of inventing short, petite, firebrand females is amazing. All of her gals are true "show stoppers," but men, beware. There bite is definitely worse then their bark. Men are con...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Cathy Speight rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book had a promising start. A bank robber is shot dead by FBI Special Agent, Pilar Campos. The dead man's brother, Boone, vows the ultimate revenge – her death: a life for a life. She is then forced into hiding until such time her safety can be guaranteed. Her boss decides that the ranch belonging to her working partner's brother, Amos, would be the perfect hideout, but Pilar is, independent, argumentative, feisty and not always compliant and somewhat irregular methods have to be adopted in...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Dannye rated it 5 of 5 stars

When Special Agent Rick Thomas is cornered into keeping his partner Pilar in the dark about a contract on her life by FBI Deputy Director Greg Olsen and Pilar’s brother, Special Agent Matthew Campos, he knows that all hell will eventually break loose. It doesn’t matter that Pilar is the target of the Snowflake Militia Group’s leader, Thorne Baker; Rick’s pretty sure that either his brother Amos, who he discovers has inexplicably agreed to let Pilar stay at his ranch undercover, or Pilar will kil...more When Special Agent Rick Thomas is cornered into keeping his partner Pilar in the dark about a contract on her life by FBI Deputy Director Greg Olsen and Pilar’s brother, Special Agent Matthew Campos, he knows that all hell will eventually break loose. It doesn’t matter that Pilar is the target of the Snowflake Militia Group’s leader, Thorne Baker; Rick’s pretty sure that either his brother Amos, who he discovers has inexplicably agreed to let Pilar stay at his ranch undercover, or Pilar will kill each other or him. “No offense here, Matt, but my brother’s people skills make your sister look like the Queen of England. … They will kill each other within an hour. There has to be another way.”

When reading it, one might at first be caught up in the contract on Pilar’s life and the expectation of a gunfight at the O.K. corral, but this book is not really about that. It is about the strengths and weaknesses of the characters when confronted with events outside the normal boundaries of their chosen lives.

Pilar is a strong-willed, urban woman, not prone to being ordered around by men or anyone for that matter. Being the best at what she does as an FBI agent means being on the front lines. Hiding away at a ranch is definitely not her cup of tea. Amos Thomas is the male reflection of Pilar except that he is dedicated to the land, not the city lights. He has little use for the female of the species because of their manipulative nature, especially when it comes to roping a man. Both are so dead set on calling their own shots that they are afraid to let the other move past the walls they’ve constructed. Their resistance to accept what lies outside the norm for them, despite their emotional stirrings, is tearing them apart.

When Pilar’s brother Matthew and his son, the two people in Pilar’s life who had resided behind her emotional wall, are killed by Thorne Baker, Pilar’s only emotional support is ripped away from her and she withdraws into herself.. The strength of her connection to the two of them opens a channel of communication with their spirits. Her dialogue with Matthew gives her a new vantage point from which to view her life and gives her the strength to do what is crucial, not only regarding Thorne Baker, but also Amos.

Ms Wolters is a writer who emotionally bonds with her characters. She rarely treats a character lightly as you will find when you meet Mabel Forrest and Rick Thomas and even the interloper Elizabeth.
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Jul 14, 2011 Sandy Wolters rated it 5 of 5 stars · (Review from the author)

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Aug 05, 2011 Helen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Funny, romantic and suspenseful!. I really loved it! A Brother's Love had everything that I liked about reading in it. The fly swatter was classic.

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May 15, 2012 Eric Thomasma rated it 3 of 5 stars

Good story. I found Pilar's talent with the animals to be a little over the top, but not so much that it took away from enjoying the story. If you like cowboys and romance, this is one you won't want to pass up.

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I’ve been an avid reader for years. To my husband’s dismay, I have bookshelves full of books, rooms full of books, boxes full of books. My cars have books in them. I just can’t seem to get rid of them after I read them. You just never know when you will want to read it again, right?

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