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usually love Garlock's western oldies, but this one was too sickly sweet, Too much oooing and aaahing and being upstanding, all very irritating, Too much drama over the bastardy there were many ways out of that one, The overall story is OK, and the preacher angle is a good one, Really liked the grandfather character, the bootleg drama and the scene when Mike finds her again is especially strong, though her reaction is a bit extreme.
good trashy romance if you are interested in that Ribbon in the Sky tells of a love that time could not diminish, . .

Spritely, auburnhaired Letty Pringle had been forbidden by her hellandbrimstone preacher pa to see Mike Dolan, but the young sweethearts had whispered their vow to someday be man and wife.
Then a cruel betrayal tore them apart and left Letty on a windswept Midwestern farm to raise their son alone, Struggling to build a future over the years, she learned to harden her heart to desire, . . until big, darkhaired Mike marched into town, looking for his woman and his dreamand ready to fight the world to have her in his arms again.
A little too sappy and not much of a conflict for the protagonists to overcome in order to be together, Maybe I'm too jaded for books like this anymore,.out ofI actually give this story a,. Although I enjoyed the plot for the most part, I found the dialogue between our H and h nauseatingly loveydovey a lot of the time.


Letty and Mike were young lovers, Mike went off to make money not knowing Letty, at, was pregnant, Her fanatically religious family threw her out of the house, She made her way to her grandparents where she was loved and accepted,

When Mike comes back, her family, who hate Catholics, tells Mike and the rest of the town that Letty is dead it was really Letty's grandmother that died.
Distraught, Mike enlists in the army, When he comes back he decides to find Letty's grave to get closure, Instead he finds Letty and ayr old son,

Letty thought Mike abandoned her, She won't believe that he thought her dead, which becomes a bit ridiculous since it's quite obvious and Mike is every woman's dream, Eventually she comes around.

Throw in a foster child who was sexually abused, her horrid father, a wonderful grandfather, an evil deputy, and another unpleasant resident who eventually turns himself around and you've got a plot that could have beenstars.
Sweet, Hallmark channel romance. Love her books. Great romance, easy reading. I like her characters Forced out of her parents home atbecause she was pregnant and not married, Letty Pringle found a home with her grandma and grandpa Fletcher while waiting for her beloved Mike to return to her from working at the camp to save enough money to provide for a future for Letty and him.
Fast forward to five years later and Letty is raising her son as a single mom with the help of her grandfather, Believed to have been abandoned by Mike, Letty refuses to open herself to love again, Until one day out of the blue Mike Dolan shows up at her door only he isn't looking for Letty, he's looking for Lexi's grave!!

Mike having come home five years ago from working and saving money is told that his beloved Letty has died.
When Mike sees Letty it's as if the heavens answered his pleas but Letty thinking that Mike abandon her just wants Mike to leave and never come back.
Mike makes it his mission to reunite with Letty and to get to know his son, A son he never knew about, Then the real story begins,

I love Mike and Letty's story, Dorothy Garlock had the right balance of angst, love, mystery, and comedy, I fell in love with little Patrick and Grandpa Fletcher the most, Ribbon in the sky is a must read if you are a Dorothy Garlock fan, ReadI've hadbooks from this series on my toberead shelf for a couple of years now, With the quarantine I'm trying to clear some off, I found the first one, Ribbon in the Sky, through my library ebooks app, Therd one I've had to order off of ebay, I hope it shows up! :

This was a good, quick, fun read.
I'm looking forward to the next books in the series, but I think they are about other characters not the ones in this book, which I am a little disappointed.
I was hoping to see what happened to Helen and Patrick, Maybe they will be mentioned in the other books! Really good read, Haven't read her writing before but will continue now, I couldn't quite give this one star, though it may have deserved it, because it was going ok until I hit a putdown moment, and I just couldn't keep reading.
Maybe I'm being hard on it, especially since the moment came pretty early in the book, but sheesh, . .

So, the daughter of a fire and brimestone preacher gets pregnant by a Catholic gasp! and he tosses her out of the house.
She leaves, sends exactly one letter to his mom to try to get in touch with him, goes off to live with her grandparents, and has a baby.
Five years later, he returns, having been told by dear daddy that the girl died, He actually goes to the town to finally visit her grave and say his last goodbyes before moving on with his life, Instead, he finds her alive, and she throws an absolute fit, refusing to believe him,

It didn't work for me even a little bit, There was no reason in the world to think he was a liar, It's not like she bothered to send more than the one letter, and in it, she didn't even mention the kid, And as her selfrighteous temper tantrum is the only thing getting in the way of these two having a happily ever after, I'm afraid I'm not even slightly interseted.
Dorothy Garlock was a best selling American author of overhistorical romance novels, most of them set in the American West, More thanmillion copies of her books are in print, inlanguages, Her books have been on the New York Times best seller list seven times, She was named one of themost popular writers of womens fiction four years in a row, from, In, she was awarded the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, Garlock is also a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame, Garlock worked as an editor, agent and publicist for most of her writing career, She was a native of Texas who grew up in Oklahoma then married and moved to Iowa, Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the Dorothy Garlock was a best selling American author of overhistorical romance novels, most of them set in the American West.
More thanmillion copies of her books are in print, inlanguages, Her books have been on the New York Times best seller list seven times, She was named one of themost popular writers of women's fiction four years in a row, from, In, she was awarded the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, Garlock is also a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame, Garlock worked as an editor, agent and publicist for most of her writing career, She was a native of Texas who grew up in Oklahoma then married and moved to Iowa, Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the University of Iowa libraries, Pen names include: sitelink Johanna Phillips sitelink Dorothy Phillips sitelink Dorothy Glenn sitelink,