{ The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch by Julia Brewer Daily - TLC Book Tours }

 

Publisher: Admission Press (November 1, 2022)

Paperback: 322 Pages

 

Emma Rosales is the heiress to the largest ranch in Texas-The Thorn. All of the responsibilities of managing a million acres now fall into her fifth-generation hands.

A task Emma could handle with her eyes closed… if The Thorn was any ordinary property.

The Thorn is home to many things. Clear, cloudless skies. Miles of desert scrub and craggy mountains. A quiet disrupted only by whispers of the wind. And an ancient web of secrets that won’t let Emma out alive without a fight.

The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch is a family saga as large as the state of Texas.

 

About the Author

Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.

She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.

She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.

As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well. A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.

 

MY THOUGHTS:

I so enjoyed this book.  I just have to start by saying that, because I really enjoyed it.  I always go in a bit skeptical when I pick up a book, from an author that I have never read before.

 

You just never know what you're going to get.

 

The only thing I knew, was that the story sound interesting, and it took place in my State of Texas.....oh and that the author herself, is Texan.  That caught my eye, but again that doesn't mean I'll immediately like the story.

 

I'm so glad that I did.  

 

The story takes place in a beautiful area, the Rio Grande right on the border with Mexico.  One thing I appreciated so much, was how vividly Julia described the setting.  If there's one thing I love is being able to envision perfectly what I'm reading, and feeling like I'm actually in there with the characters.

 

Throw in amazing women, a family business, and of course some very interesting old secrets, and what you have is a brilliant book that will keep you turning the pages.

 

It does involve numerous points of view, which isn't always my favorite, but I didn't mind it in this one because I felt it helped to move the storyline along and gave me the back info that I needed to know and understand, what was happening.

 

Really enjoyed my first Julia Brewer Daily book, and am hoping to read more of hers in the future.

 

 

Thank you to TLC book tours and Admission Press for providing me with a review copy.