Beneath a Camperdown Elm by Janet Chester Bly … Contemporary Western Romance with a Zing of Mystery

Trails of Reba Cahill Series, Book 3, Beneath a Camperdown Elm by Janet Chester Bly, AWSA Golden Scroll Award, 2020 Best Western Novel, First Place Winner

In this final Trails of Reba Cahill Series novel, three generations of women travel separate journeys of the heart.

It’s August 1991. Reba Mae Cahill brims with joy. Her life’s perfect. She’s finally bringing her prodigal mother, Hanna Jo, home to Road’s End from a Reno mental institute. With them is Jace McKane, her fiancé, who promises to help fight the unjust lawsuit that threatens the family ranch. He wants a new start, away from his unscrupulous father and all his drama. Just as Reba’s getting Jace trained to become her rancher husband, she discovers Grandma Pearl betrayed her once again, in a way that also harms her mother.

In a Reba Cahill series of circumstances beyond her control, she believes she’s lost everything. Gone is her career, her identity, her lifelong pursuit, and her main reason for marrying Jace.

All Is Not Quiet On The Western Frontier

When Jace returns to California to bail out his father and pursue Quigley, a psychotic killer, who escaped from prison, she wonders if he’ll ever return to Road’s End? Then Hanna Jo claims she sees wild horses in the mountain valleys. And she learns her son and ex-husband’s fishing boat sank in an Alaskan sea. Can Reba keep her from flipping out for good? As Grandma Pearl struggles with guilt, health issues, and finding purpose for the rest of her life, will the new church building project provide an answer?

Meanwhile, twenty-one-year-old Scottish twin tourists, Archie and Wynda MacKenzie, mesmerize the town with their trick biking skills and charming accents. Reba’s not sure they’re all they claim to be. And someone harasses Reba with letters and phone calls. What are they really after?

Will any of the answers be found beneath the Camperdown Elm?

A Trails of Reba Cahill Series, Book 3 Excerpt:

Don Runcie might as well have beaten Reba with a tire iron and left her for dead. The effect wrenched the same. Her joy wadded up in a bloody rag at her feet.

“Reba Mae,” Jace began and stopped.

A gust of wind dashed over them, whipping Reba’s hair and spinning ground debris like devil dust. She swiveled her shoulder into it as a loud crack and crash thundered directly overhead and zigzags of light splayed.

Jace muttered something.

Reba turned the mare, tried to ignore him, and shut out the whole world.

Jace shouted through the storm. “I think we just got offered a job.”

“On our own ranch.” Reba spit the words out. Growing rage tromped up her spine like steel. “I should have asked him where Grandma Pearl is. He seems to know much more than anyone what’s going on around here.”

She tried to settle the mare as lightning snapped again over the canyon. She clutched the horse’s mane as hard, muddy raindrops pelted her face. The storm flare outside matched her inward churn.

“Shouldn’t we head home?” Jace hollered into the downpour.

Home?

Where was home?

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Beneath a Camperdown Elm, Book 3, Trails of Reba Cahill Series REVIEWS

” … a page turner all the way thru! … I was glad to see good ole Stuart Brannon was remembered again. You do (backstory) in a way that blends into dialogue and situation so smooth it flows so much better (than other authors) .  I’ve been just reliving years with Stephen and Janet Bly and their fantastic abilities with series books, which I have about all in paper or stored in my Kindle.” Vernon Waldrip, Colorado Springs

“Janet Bly takes the reader on a poignant, sometimes heartwrenching journey … This story wraps up the series in a sweet and most satisfying way.” Shannon McNear, novella collection author and The Cumberland Bride, http://www.shannonmcnear.com/

“So glad that we got to become better acquainted with Hanna Jo! Had a great time reading Beneath A Camperdown Elm. I know so little about horses or any kind of livestock that I am always impressed by those who do. (Also noticed you had some pretty good advisors.) … loved the story and the witness to God’s goodness.” Judy W., California

Amazon Reviewers

“This is the best book in the series. The first two are really good, this one is great. The twists and turns in this book will keep you reading … fascinating book …” Anna M Gregory, Amazon reviewer

“I have to shake my head in amazement and a bit of amusement at the tangled webs in the Cahill and Runcie families. Well, hang on to those cowboy hats because the wild ride is just getting started. At times things get so crazy that it’s downright hilarious and other times, the reader may be on the verge of tears … Hard to put this one down.” Grandaddy A, Amazon reviewer

“It was so well worth the wait. Janet Chester Bly has a way with having intrigue, mystery, love, betrayal and family ties come together in a ‘can’t put it down’ novel. All the answers to very questions I could think of (and some I had not thought of!) were answered in this brilliantly written book. All of the characters are so real and the life challenges are real. A 5 star book!!!!” Connie Sue Larson, Amazon Reviewer

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REBA CAHILL SERIES FREE SAMPLE CHAPTERS HERE:

Wind in the Wires, Book 1, in Paperback, EBook, Audio or free Sample Chapters HERE: WIND IN THE WIRES, Book 1

Down Squash Blossom Road, Book 2, in Paperback, EBook, Audio or free Sample Chapters HERE: DOWN SQUASH BLOSSOM ROAD, Book 2

Beneath a Camperdown Elm, Book 3, in Paperback or Ebook with Audio available soon. Sample Chapters HERE: BENEATH A CAMPERDOWN ELM

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