Jillian Hart is usually one of my favorite western author but THE HORSEMAN fell flat for me.  I enjoy her more alpha heroes.

Katelyn is back living with her mother and step father after she has been beaten, miscarried her daughter, and then set aside by her husband because she is now barren.  Her step father plans to rid himself of her as fast as possible and offers her to The Horseman, Dillon as payment for breaking some of his horses.

Dillon saw Katelyn through the window, she is beautiful, like golden angel and he is in love.  Dillon can talk to horses but has never been able to court a woman.  With Katelyn he gentles her like a wounded horse.  He gets her away from her step father taking her to a hotel where she can see a doctor and start to heal.  Then he gives her the choice of a train ticket or marriage and his love.  When Katelyn chooses Dillon they move to his home and she falls in love with her husband, but he doesn't know she can't have anymore children.

For beta hero lovers this is a great book, for the more alpha lovers it tended to drag.

THE HORSEMAN              Rated C+
Jillian Hart        
8/2004 
Rom/H
Dillon Hennessey was a man like no other.  Strong yet caring, determined yet kind. But he was still a man, Katelyn Green reminded herself, and therefore not to be trusted. Hadn't her own husband abandoned her in her hour of need? And yet the whispers in her soul promised happiness with this man who'd gentled horses and her heart!

Katelyn Green had lost a child, and Dillon knew it ate away at her very core. He would help her if he could, if he had the words and ways. But would his tenderness be enough to win a woman who'd been robbed of her faith in love?