Tag: 3 stars

Books that were “just okay”. The kind of book that you read once and not again. Or doesn’t make you want to read another one by the author.

Beneath the Bending Skies by Jane Kirkpatrick

by LyndaP

A demanding father and a dutiful daughter. No matter how hard Mollie Sheehan tries she never seems to meet his criteria. Not a lot of options are available to a girl in 1860s Montana. Her father is gone for long periods of time and her stepmother keeps the family together by doing what must be done.

When Peter Ronan and Mollie fall in love, her father forbids the marriage and moves the family to California forbidding them to have *any* contact. But love prevails despite her father’s determination to control her life — for the rest of her life.

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Yesterday’s Gone by Cindy Woodsmall & Erin Woodsmall

by LyndaP

A Hatfield & McCoy’s kind of Amish story except the tale concerns a curse. The Amish community believes marriage between a Bontrager and an Ebersol is cursed. Yet no one seems to know what the curse is.

Just before the ceremony, Eliza’s great-aunt gifts her with a family heirloom quilt. AND … and … tells her that the quilt can be used to change one event in the past. Eliza thanks her but doesn’t buy the strange story.

Eliza Bontrager and Jesse Ebersol do not believe in the curse and marry anyway. And a few years later, mourning again the loss of their third baby, Eliza learns there is a genetic issue with her delivering a living child. Distraught she uses the quilt to go back in time and “fix” the problem. But does her action resolve the problem? Or just create more?

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The Gunslinger’s Guide to Avoiding Matrimony by Michelle McLean

by LyndaP

Adam Brady, 28, lives by two rules: never get married, never get caught. A town called Desolation, provides people with a past and a place to live *if* they get married or have a job. Adam rides into town and without realizing it ends up married to a feisty, sassy woman named Nora. Can he get out of the marriage? Why does he keep getting fired from one job after another? Why does she want to be married but not really?

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Rebekah’s Riches by Sara Harris

by LyndaP

Rebekah and Joseph are a content couple with a sweet baby boy. However, sadly Rebekah’s father is again seriously ill.

A bad summer storm hits their homestead. Rebekah was already facing the loss of her father. Now her husband is severely injured. Will she lose both?

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Beyond the Desert Sands by Tracie Peterson

by LyndaP

Isabella Garcia, 25, has lived with her aunt in opulence and is not happy to return to the mining town of Silver Veil to celebrate Christmas with her parents. Her beau, Diego Morales, is left behind in California. And her father sent a railroad businessman, Aaron Bailey, to escort her home who finds her to be spoiled and selfish.

Upon arrival, she finds the town has grown considerably, and sadly her father’s health is failing, A visitor makes a surprise visit with news that turns everything upside down. Brewing — trouble, changes. Can she rise to meet them or expect others to solve them?

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Twyla’s Choice

by LyndaP

My blurb… The Year-1880. Twyla is not like her mother or her two sisters. Society men are bores. A socialite from Providence, RI, she cheerfully volunteers to go to her widowed great-aunt in Lovington, CO who is “sick”.

To her surprise upon arrival, her aunt Beverly is just fine. The town’s postmistress & part of ladies’ who are importing young women in hopes a Lovington man will court & marry one of them. The women don’t match them — they just get them to town, put the word out, and see what happens.

And that explains why men were stumbling over themselves when Twyla arrived at the train depot.

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