Review The Sheriff’s Daughter by Kay Stockham
Deputy Liam McKenna is dreading the next two weeks. His assignment: watching over the sheriff’s daughter, Carly Taggert. Liam has known Carly—and her knack for getting into trouble—since high school. With her kind heart and optimistic nature, she never intends that trouble, but it sure is attracted to her. He expects to be kept on his toes.
What he doesn’t expect is protecting her from himself.
No one is more surprised by the intense passion between them than Liam. Still, nothing can ever happen. She’s the boss’s daughter and Liam’s responsibility. He needs to be professional. At all times. Too bad Carly isn’t about to make it easy for him.
The Sheriff’s Daughter is about love, but not the love that you would imagine. Its about the love between parent and child, its about how that relationship, that love shapes and forms us, as well as making us the people that we are today, and how those relationships cause the problems that we have in our own relationships.
The Sheriffs Daughter was first about the relationship between Carly and her father, how she was trying to overcome how her father saw her, how his men viewed her, and how she viewed herself, as both a woman, and a potential mother. It was about Liam’s parent’s abuse, how his view about his ability to be a productive member of society and a father, were shaped by his mother’s abuse and neglect.
But the Sheriffs daughter was chiefly about Carly and her boundless endless love for children, and her path to becoming an effective foster mother, the heart ache, the trials and tribulations in being the first stop for abused and neglected children and how she continually poured her heart into these kids, only to have to give them up when their “real” relatives came a calling and came available. There were some moments in this book that I simply couldn’t finish, i was too choked up, I had to put the book down and wipe away tears, because I some of the descriptions of the children she was fostering, the way Carly felt about them, the heart ache and heart break she went through, and how much she wanted, desperately wanted Liam to want to be a part of a family with her and seeing her accept that she couldn’t make him, that he had to make the decision to become a part of the family she was creating. It was just so emotional and stirring.
The Sheriffs Daughter was a short emotionally packed little novella that was about changing the way you relate to your partner because of how their family raised them, but also how they were able to overcome and change their paths if the love they had for their partner, their new family was strong enough.
A heartbreaking novel that really lead me to a satisfying ending that made me smile, while I cried.
Overall Rating: B
