Song of Oestend
by:
Marie Sexton (author)
Symbols have power...Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths - mysterious creatures which come in the night and kill anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never had reason to believe the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch on the remote...
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Symbols have power...Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths - mysterious creatures which come in the night and kill anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never had reason to believe the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch on the remote Oestend prairie, he soon learns that the wraiths are real. Aren suddenly finds himself living in a supposedly haunted house and depending on wards and generators to protect him from unseen things in the night. As if that’s not enough, he has to deal with a crotchety old blind woman, face “cows” that look like nothing he’s ever seen before, and try to ignore the fact that he’s apparently the most eligible bachelor around.Aren also finds himself the one and only confidante of Deacon, the BarChi’s burly foreman. Deacon runs the BarChi with an iron fist and is obviously relieved to finally have somebody he can talk to. As their relationship grows, Aren learns there’s more to Deacon and the BarChi than he’d anticipated. Deacon seems determined to deny both his Oestend heritage and any claim he may have to the BarChi ranch, but if Aren is to survive the perils of Oestend, he’ll have to convince Deacon to stop running from the past and finally claim everything that’s his.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780857156303 (0857156306)
Publish date: August 22nd 2011
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Series: Oestend (#1)
First and foremost I enjoy Marie Sexton's writing, so I bought this just because I saw her name. I knew nothing about it in advance. If you asked me now to explain it I would tell you I have no idea how to do that. Okay, okay here is a shot. It's a fantasy, romance, western, whew. The story starts ...
3.5 for meThe story rolled a little too slow in the beginning, Aren's situation vague, the universe he lives in even more so. I still have a lot of questions about the continent and Aren's life there. Sex scenes were exhausting, maybe because I am not a big fan of those to begin with, especially thr...
3.5 for meThe story rolled a little too slow in the beginning, Aren's situation vague, the universe he lives in even more so. I still have a lot of questions about the continent and Aren's life there. Sex scenes were exhausting, maybe because I am not a big fan of those to begin with, especially thr...
3,5 starsAn enjoyable read with a slow buring romance, my favourite kind.This takes place in what looks like the old west, but with wraiths, creatures of the night who kill people. So definitely a fantasy land.We have Aren who is hired as the new bookkeeper at the BarChi ranch. He is a bit shy and u...
I really need half stars. I'd give this 2.5 stars. I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it either. It's one of those take it or leave it for me books. Just not as good for me as the other Marie Sexton books I've read. Her stories usually suck me in quickly, but I just couldn't get into this one,...