During the 1840s, Amelia Alden Chase is being raised on a small farm by her foster parents. An interest in an irrigation project, though, and a harrowing attack by local bandits drives her into town and into the company of two men; one could be the love of her life, while the other is her own long-lost cousin. Has she accidentally stumbled upon happiness? Amelia’s hope of a new family is dashed when she discovers the truth.

A complicated and tragic series of events have pitted Jonas Mayfield, a former missionary and Clayton Knight, a beloved and fair Sheriff, against each other. Both men have suffered many hardships in order to forget, before finding themselves in frontal attack, again. What could possibly cause such hatred between the two men?

Amelia has to unite the two sworn enemies and bring all their resources to bear against the forces of nature and of man’s most basic instincts. Love, life, everything is on the line for Amelia and her family. Will she be able to save her future, by solving the riddle of the mysterious past? Will she go as far as to put her own life at risk to save the family she's always dreamt of?

"Torn Between Love and Family" is a historical western romance novel of approximately 90,000 words. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

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Aurora Hanson was born in North Dakota where she spent her early years until she moved to San Antonio, where she currently lives.

Shes had been writing since she was a teenager, but only recently decided to break out of the shell and release her work to the public.

She is fascinated by the traditional western tales and gets her inspiration from stories from the Frontier Era.

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The plot line of this story was great; out of the ordinary. It really took you back to a wild time in American history. The characters were well developed. Sadly, there were some glaring errors in time and editing. The author usually had the year at the top of each chapter. Most of these dates ranged from 1837 to 1840. At least twice there were references to the civil war. However, the civil war wasn't until the 1860's. So this was confusing. Then there were several times when one of the 3 mens names: Marcus, Clayton and Jonas were used in the wrong place and the author was obviously talking about one of the others. Had this happened just once, it could be overlooked. But it happened often enough that it was distracting. If these distractions can be taken care of, then it would be a 5 star read.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Torn Between Love and Family tries to be epic, but it isn't. The book does have pulse-pounding action and a spunky protagonist, but the action is interspersed with clunky dialog and unnecessary gruesome details. The book reads like a first draft. It has great potential, but needs developmental editing to make it a good book. It could also use a bit of proofreading; for example, the cover blurb calls the love interest a former missionary, but in the text he is a former military sharpshooter.

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The book begins with a prologue designed to show the reader how terrible the antagonist is. The prologue introduces Tess, a young woman who has been kidnapped and is slaving for a gang of bandits. However, when the reader starts to care about pregnant and desperate Tess, Tess commits suicide, and the author describes the death with horrific details.

The book then shifts to the protagonists. Amelia Chase is smart and resourceful. Clayton Knight, Amelia's previously unknown cousin, has developed a feud with his childhood friend Jonas Mayfield. Amelia saves Jonas from Cheyenne who want to kill him, then realizes Jonas might be able to help her engineer an irrigation system. However, she wants her new-found cousin to accept her partnership with his enemy.

The whole conflict between love and family seems forced. The backstory includes another young woman's suicide. Couldn't the author think of another way to have childhood friends turn against each other?

There are several problematic areas including gory details and dreadful dialog. Although the story is set in Wyoming in 1840, a romance reader shouldn't have to read a lengthy detailed description of butchering a wild cougar. The internal dialog of all of the protagonists tends to drag on. Amelia muses about being respectful to her patriarch and her role in her family. Clayton spends a lot of time pondering his father's life as sheriff. The spoken dialog is unrealistic. Everyone uses a level of language that doesn't seem realistic for persons of that level of education in that time period. And the dialog seems inappropriate in places, the most glaring example occurs when Amelia's ranch and irrigation project is attacked by bandits. She is defending herself and injures one of the bandits. Rather than kill the bandit, she spares his life while reciting a lengthy quotation from the Old Testament. Realistically, a heroine might spare a life, but standing there quoting scripture instead of getting to safety is unlikely.

This could be a great story if someone made extensive edits.

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Lilacs & Roses

1.0 out of 5 stars This is supposed to be taking place in Wyoming in 1837 & 1840. In the first place, there were no white women around yet, even the army didn't have a post there yet. In this book, there are thriving towns & 20-somethings growing up together there??? Andrew Jackson wasn't out on any battlefield in 1837, so how did the thought of joining up with him & possibly becoming friends with him even become a thought in his mind? There was no gold coming down from the Black Hills yet, so again, the talk of a bank opening up is stupid. Since white folk aren't there yet, there is no need for any irrigation systems to be installed, let alone being the idea & directed by a white woman. I won't even get into the heart attack scene & the actions he did to save him! I have no trouble suspending accuracy a couple of times for a good story, but this was not one. The book bounced around so much between the 2 timelines & then jumping over to the few paragraphs about the bad guys here & there...ugh. She was portrayed as a superhero, being the only one smart enough to rescue the man in the hole... I just couldn't take it anymore. I've read 77% of it & the Kindle says I still have 2 1/2 hrs to go! Way too long a story. I'm done reading. I almost stopped reading in the beginning after the graphic suicide scene. Wish I had.

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Carole

2.0 out of 5 stars The very beginning which was dreadfully gruesome and totally unnecessary. The continuation of that storyline for no real purpose. The jumping backwards and forwards in years. The ostracism of one of the characters through no fault of their own. The very sad unacceptable ending of one delightful person's life by dropping in the line I always thought there was something mentally odd (or words to that effect). In fact I skip read half of the book and still picked up the plot. With so many Christian references there sure was a lot of killing. Sorry this book is just not worth reading.

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Sarah White

4.0 out of 5 stars Amelia Alden Chase lived with foster parents after the death of her parents. Unfortunately her foster mother was murdered by local bandits but Amelia and her foster father tried to interest people in the nearby town to pursue an irrigation project by offering those participating in the project an ownership share in money earned.

Her foster parents encouraged her interest in irrigation of the land which was too dry to farm without a way to get water to the fields. It would take many people working together to bring water to the fields and the project would bring a percentage of the profit to each worker. After being hesitant they gladly joined the project. A long lost cousin and the man who became the love of her life got the project going.

Read this book to learn about all the things that happened. There were good things and bad things happening. I enjoyed this book and hope you do also.

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A very enjoyable read with many exciting ups and downs and made one realise how brave any woman had to be to
live in the wilds with many disasters many deaths with little law and order. Personally without spoiling the story I
would like the author to dot the i's and cross the t's as I am still worrying about the woman and children kept prisoner
in the camp so maybe the extended epilogue could be extended.

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Mrs J M M Mead

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved the intricate storyline, all the twists and turns. Gave real insight into life in America in 1830's, shown from several different perspectives, the Native American, outlaws, women and law abiding men. I know I'm reading a good book when I have to stop reading, for example to make dinner, and find myself thinking about the characters and what could happen next. This is what happened when reading this. That's why I gave this book a 5 star rating.

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Tanyawriter

5.0 out of 5 stars She is adopted and she is happy until bandits send her into town. She is soon caught between love and family as they are enemies. She needs them to make peace of they are to defeat the bandits which are coming to them. See how it will go
I received an advanced copy and I enjoyed it so much that I want to review

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susan shelton

5.0 out of 5 stars The story, plot and writing were very good. The characters were likeable or not depending on who they were. Unfortunately there were some editing errors that spoiled some of the book eg wrong dates and wrong names used.
The story was good and kept me interested.

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