Dana Cardwell and Hudson Savage were engaged five years ago. They were madly in love, until Dana got Hudson in bed with her sister.

Needless to say, the engagement was called off, and they haven't seen each other since. Until a body turns up in a disused well on the Cardwell Ranch, and the new temporary marshall turns out to be none other than Hudson Savage.

The crime seems to be tied to every member of Dana's family who, coincidentally, are urging Dana to sell the farm quickly.

The characters are flat and one-dimensional. They don't live up to their descriptions at all. Dana is suppose to be tough-as-old-boots, but lets the plot and characters walk all over her. Hudson is supposed to hate his father, until suddenly, he doesn't anymore.

The murder mystery aspect of the book is actually quite good, and certainly far better than I was expecting from a romance novel, though in the context of the overall plot, it seemed just an excuse to bring the two characters together. It was also quite easy to work out who the murderer was, so this subplot didn't keep me interested.

The romance aspect was disappointing.Dana and Hudson's romance is not intriguing in any way. It's fairly obvious right from the beginning what's going to happen, the storyline is very cliched.

Everything is very in-your-face and overt in this book, there's no "show, don't tell," going on here.

Overall, pretty disappointing, but it was free, so I can't complain.