Reviewed by Rosetta Diane Hoessli, Author
***** + Stars
I read and reviewed Ms. Kubash’s first novel in her NORTH STAR LEGACY series, CHANCE’S RETURN, and gave it 5 stars. I loved it. It was a terrific kickoff novel, but TETONS BY MORNING is where the meat in this story really begins.
Much spicier than CHANCE’S RETURN, TETONS BY MORNING took my breath away several times – and that’s not easy to do. A gripping, action-packed story, totally believable characters, and a Wyoming mountain ranch setting to die for…well, what’s not to love?
But this novel is so much more than all that. It’s actually about life. Not just life on a ranch and a marriage between two people who are so different they probably shouldn’t have even been friends, much less partners, but how they came together to complement and save one another, then build a family.
Chase McCord is a beat-up, buckle-winning rodeo cowboy who thrives on adrenalin and who’s still running from his past, even at this late date. Regardless, there’s nothing and no one he loves or wants more in his life than his wife, Casey McCord, a woman who worries even when she has nothing to worry about, and who has issues of her own. But she’s stronger than she realizes for no other reason than that she’s forced to be, and one of the things she’s forced to do is maneuver her way through a rite of passage common for all over-protective mothers: step back from her young son and allow him to grow up, free from her maternal interference.
As in Lucy Kubash’s first novel, her secondary characters in TETONS BY MORNING are nearly as interesting her main ones, but they don’t play as large a part in this novel as they did in the first. However, the way she ties them all together is fascinating – especially if you love to study people, as I do. And the dramatic, pulse-pounding scenes they find themselves in will keep you glued to the pages until you close this book!
TETONS BY MORNING, by Lucy Naylor Kubash, will be released on January 19, 2026. Two of the locations you can purchase it are:
https://www.amazon.com/Tetons-Morning.../dp/B0FY3J2ZNJ/
https://wildrosepress.com/product/tetons-by-morning/
Lucy Naylor Kubash's website is located at: https://lucynaylorkubash.com/