A small-town veterinarian is faced with the ultimate dilemma when her alcohlic father contracts terminal cancer and insists she end his life. Her father knows she has the tools and training to euthanize him, so why is she saying no when she ends the misery of suffering animals? The daughter believes all life is precious. She only destroys an animal in her care after all known remedies or treatments have been exhausted. But fearful of her father, even hating him at times, the young veterinarian finds herself torn between letting her father suffer and committing a crime that could send her to prison. Does she obey him one last time? While the question keeps readers turning pages, BRUTE HEART keeps them entertained with many warm and humorous scenes involving three best friends, family pets, and the animals she treats as a veterinarian. Some of the animal roles are played by a dog named Sonofabitch, Cleo the rabbit, a Black Angus bull that falls out of a horse trailer, and a cat named Dead. BRUTE HEART is an unusual blend of delightful James Herriot tales and the dark poem, Daddy by Sylvia Plath. Animal lovers will enjoy this novel, and so will fans of hardship to recovery stories and family dramas.

Brute Heart

Literature & Fiction

Dehlinger, Ginger

Genre Fiction

Ginger Dehlinger

Clara, &#8203;14, and Geneva, &#8203;16, are close friends until Geneva secretly marries Clara's widowed father. Feeling betrayed by her pa and a girl she idolizes, Clara wants nothing to do with her new young stepmother. Geneva retaliates, beginning a clash of wills that lasts from 1884 to the flu epidemic of 1918. Years go by without them speaking to one another. Geneva, bolder of the two, lives a life of ease in elegant homes with piped water and domestic help. She shops for the latest in women's fashions and plays pinochle with lady friends. For spite, Clara marries a handsome cowboy Geneva fancies, but ends up living in a freezing cold cabin and a house infested with bugs. She takes in ironing and feeds miners to make ends meet, discovering love and purpose in the process. It takes a tragedy to bring her and her family together again. Can she and Geneva see this as an opportunity to put aside the past? Can they salvage a relationship that was once the center of their world?

Never Done

Romance

Historical

The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (Cactus Rose)

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