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REVIEW of Fancy Pants (Only in Gooding #1) by Cathy Marie Hake
Lady Sydney Hathwell has traveled all the way to America to meet her betrothed–only to to discover that he is a self-important, womanizing cad whom she could never love. Orphaned and alone, she disappears to the only place she can think of, the Texas ranch of her mother’s American brother, an uncle whom she has…
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REVIEW of The Blue Cloak by Shannon McNear
Rachel Taylor is a little jealous that her friend Sally is the one getting married, not her. But when rumors of newlywed Wiley Harpe’s brutality begin to spread through the Tennessee frontier, Rachel begins to realize how much Sally is to be pitied. Soon Rachel finds herself trying desperately to extricate Sally from the situation…
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REVIEW of An Uncommon Woman by Laura Frantz
Raised in the wilds of the Virginia frontier, Tessa Swan yearns for flounced petticoats, imported spices, and all the trappings of civilization in far-off Philadelphia. Cooking and cleaning for five brothers seems to be her lot in life, however, and ever since the Indian raid that killed her father, the Swan siblings have kept one…
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REVIEW of Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau
When Peggy Batternberg’s family bids her drop her plebeian job at a bookshop and join them for a summer holiday at the Oriental Hotel, she fumes at the idea. But wealthy Jewish financiers are not used to being denied, and out of consideration for her younger sister’s feelings, Peggy bows to the decree. The aristocratic…
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REVIEW of The Captive Heart by Michelle Griep
When governess Eleanor Morgan rejects the advances of an English duke, she must take on an indenture to obtain hurried passage to the colonies. But when she arrives in Charles Town, she discovers that the backwoodsman who has paid for her passage is more interested in having a wife than a governess. Entrapped into a…
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REVIEW of Bethlehem by Karen Kelly
A working-class girl married into an elite industrial family, Joanna Collier must bring her young children to live at her husband’s family home in the steel-town of Bethlehem. Lonely and losing herself into a listless existence, Joanna struggles to connect with her children’s grandmother, Susannah, and great-grandmother, Helen. Meanwhile, having taken over his father’s company,…
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REVIEW of The King’s Mercy by Lori Benton
Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, a tall Scotsman named Alex MacKinnon is given the merciful sentence of indentured servitude in the New World. Bound to Edmund Carey, a plantation owner, he learns the trade of blacksmith, nursing a bitterness against both God and his circumstances. Even the itinerant preacher, Reverend Pauling, can’t convince the…
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REVIEW of A Silken Thread by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Laurel Millard dreams of a husband and family of her own, but her older siblings have decided it will be her lot to take care of their mother. Hoping to find a man who’ll agree to take on that responsibility, Laurel interviews for a position at the International Cotton Exposition in 1881 Atlanta. In the…
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REVIEW of The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
In the small Mormon settlement of Junction, Deborah has been waiting months for her husband Samuel to return. A traveling wheelwright, he has been delayed far into the winter, and she fears the worst. Samuel’s stepbrother Nels tells her of a rockslide on the road to their isolated town, but there is no confirmation of…
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REVIEW of A Desperate Hope (Empire State #3) by Elizabeth Camden
Alex Duval is the mayor of a town that’s received its death sentence. The residents will all receive compensation from the government and then their homes will be demolished to make way for a large reservoir to support the city of 1908 New York. Having lost his lawsuit against the government, Alex is prepared to…
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