An Uncommon Protector by Shelley Gray

An uncommon Protector is book 2 in the Lone Star Hero series which centers around a brotherhood of men who became friends while prisoners of war during the War of Norther Aggression. These brotherhood of friends make a vow to be there for each other if every help is needed. This book features Thomas Baker one of the men. Thomas Baker has no family, his dying when he was just a lad. After the war was over he landed in jail because of gambling debt that he could not pay. He's hired on at Laurel Tracey's farm for a day. There is an instant attraction there between him and Laurel. He still has to go back to jail but when he is put up for sale Laurel purchases his release and he becomes an indentured servant for a year. He immediately goes into protective mode to protect her from all those wanting to harm her. There is no mystery as to who the bad guys are. You find out pretty early in the book. Thomas comes to realize that he has to call on the brotherhood of friends to help him confront the villains who want to harm Laurel and drive her off her farm.

I enjoyed reading this book better than the first one in the series. I think the characters and the storyline was developed better. I look forward to reading more stories in this series. Thanks to Netgalley and Zondervan for providing me a digital copy of this book to review. An Uncommon Protector is due to be released on February 7, 2017.