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Book Reviews of The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5)

The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5)
The Rivals - Bitter Creek, Bk 5
Author: Joan Johnston
PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780743454407
ISBN-10: 0743454405
Publication Date: 8/2004
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 145 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 104 more book reviews
"the rivals" is the 5 th book in the bittercreek series, these are the best books i have read in a while.
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" an unforgettable love story between two strong-willed people from different worlds"

great book!
reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 33 more book reviews
I have thoroughly enjoyed all this series. I like western romance stories in a historical setting.
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Great characters who are strong-willed people from two different worlds, who find themselves in an unfogettable love story.
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Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose-because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the grandaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time. Playboy Drew DeWitt, a Blackthorne cousin, insists on taking part in the search-putting him on a collision course with Srah. Her cop instincts tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a conspiracy against the U.S. Government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own.
reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 28 more book reviews
Another great Bitter Creek read leading right into the next book in the series. A true Joan Johnston novel and well worth the time to read. Couldn't put it down!
shooky avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 138 more book reviews
good read
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i loved every minute of this book. i was sorry to see it end!
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If you get an opportunity to read the Bittercreek Saga all the way through - do so. Very fast reading books.
4Hmomnm avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 79 more book reviews
Love all of Joan Johnstons books, this one was great, couldn't put it down.
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Two missing women and now a third has vanished, only this one is the daughter of Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his bitterest enemy King Grayhawk.
ErinMc avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 373 more book reviews
Juggling single mothehood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes all hell breaks loose-because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time.
Sue avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 72 more book reviews
This book was given to me by my mother. She loved it.
ladycholla avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 2081 more book reviews
Good addition to Bitter Creek Series
reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 145 more book reviews
good book
nap76 avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 124 more book reviews
Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving ttwo cold cases of missing young women. Then a third vanishes.
reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 96 more book reviews
At the start of Johnston's swift-moving Bitter Creek romance (The Price, etc.), 17-year-old Kate Grayhawk, the out-of-wedlock daughter of Libby Grayhawk and Clay Blackthorne, skips out of her Virginia boarding school and heads for Jackson Hole, Wyo., where her mother lives. But soon after leaving a phone message for her mother, she's drugged and kidnapped at a Teton Village bar near home. Desperate to find her daughter, Libby phones Clay, the U.S. attorney general, and is surprised when he later shows up on her doorstep. Romantic tension sizzles between the estranged lovers as they recall their long-ago affair and the decades-old animosity between their families, but they put their differences aside to join Deputy Sheriff Sarah Barndollar in the hunt for Kate, which is made perilous by threats of avalanches and impending blizzards. A precipitous secondary romance between Sarah and Drew DeWitt, Clay's cousin, is complicated by the disappearance of Sarah's husband, Tom, 15 months earlier. But as the search for Kate leads Sarah and Drew to nearby Bear Island, Sarah discovers that Kate's disappearance may be linked to Tom's "abandonment." Though some elements of the protagonists' heroic search will strain readers' belief, the story's suspense and surprising conclusion nicely counterpoint the dual romances.
reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 27 more book reviews
Romance, mystery. 2 powerful Wyoming/Texas ranch families must put aside their rivalry to find their granddaughter.
reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 110 more book reviews
Just RIVETTING!! This has to be the most action packed so far in the series!

I LOVED it!!!
AVONLADY avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 329 more book reviews
Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose- because she's the illegitmate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorn and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time.
Playboy Drew Dewitt, a Blackthorne cousin, insists on taking part in the search putting him on a collision course with Sarah. Her cop instinct tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a conspiracy against the U.S. government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own.
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"Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a thrid vanishes all hell breaks loose - because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time.

"Playboy Drew DeWitt, a Blackthrone cousin, insists on taking part in the search - putting him on a collision course with Sarah. Her cop instincts tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a consipracy against the US government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own."
CraftyTJ avatar reviewed The Rivals (Bitter Creek, Bk 5) on + 381 more book reviews
At the start of Johnston's swift-moving Bitter Creek romance (The Price, etc.), 17-year-old Kate Grayhawk, the out-of-wedlock daughter of Libby Grayhawk and Clay Blackthorne, skips out of her Virginia boarding school and heads for Jackson Hole, Wyo., where her mother lives. But soon after leaving a phone message for her mother, she's drugged and kidnapped at a Teton Village bar near home. Desperate to find her daughter, Libby phones Clay, the U.S. attorney general, and is surprised when he later shows up on her doorstep. Romantic tension sizzles between the estranged lovers as they recall their long-ago affair and the decades-old animosity between their families, but they put their differences aside to join Deputy Sheriff Sarah Barndollar in the hunt for Kate, which is made perilous by threats of avalanches and impending blizzards. A precipitous secondary romance between Sarah and Drew DeWitt, Clay's cousin, is complicated by the disappearance of Sarah's husband, Tom, 15 months earlier. But as the search for Kate leads Sarah and Drew to nearby Bear Island, Sarah discovers that Kate's disappearance may be linked to Tom's "abandonment."