… The year is 1914; the location is the town of Holiday in Eastern Oregon. Zach Coleman is a repairman located in Holiday. Zach loves what he does and loves his family (introduced in Holiday Hope, book 1). Lorna Lennox has just moved to Holiday and is the daughter of a railroad tycoon. Zach saves her and …
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Calder Grit
The year is 1909; the location is Montana. Janet Dailey’s readers are familiar with the surname Calder. The setting is two Dollarhide brothers, same father, different mothers. Cattle are the main “crop” in fictious Blue Moon, Montana. Until emigrant farmers began homesteading. … Only a 3 star read for this reviewer.
Life Flight by Lynette Eason
You know how people say that a book was so good you couldn’t put it down? Well, I tried. I definitely tried. “Life Flight” is a page turner from the very beginning. Just about the time you think Penny and members of her life flight team are safe…then they’re not. I had to keep reading or something might happen to her or someone else. That killer is relentless. I definitely recommend this book. Turns out laundry can be done another day. Be aware, nail biting may occur while reading.
Holiday Hope
I’d give this book six stars if I could. Holiday Hope is not your typical mail-order-bride story. The story has several twists that keep you reading — even if you *should* be doing something else. The characters are introduced so well that you never have a problem keeping straight who is who. The pacing of the book is spot on from beginning to end.
A Heart Adrift
A Heart Adrift by Laura Frantz Review Based on the history of the period and dialogue in the vernacular of the period, Laura Frantz has employed considerable research into this book as well as others she has written set in this period of history. The dialogue takes a bit of getting used to, but I…
A Match for Althia by Linda Carroll-Bradd
The year is 1874. It is April in Chicago. Instantly you will be on Miss Althia Heathley’s side & hoping her father’s new wife trips herself — any place, anywhere but preferably at the top of a long flight of stairs. Her life has been miserable since her father remarried and it only took four months. And when she isn’t miserable, she is bored. Oh, she makes up stories in her head for the novel she wants to write, but her life is a “prison”. Which is why she secretly responded to an advertisement in her father’s discarded newspaper.