Stuck Together

Stuck Together by Mary Connealy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Stuck Together ends the Trouble in Texas series, another historical romantic comedy by Mary Connealy. The budding romance between Tina Cahill and "Invincible" Vince Yates heats up like their Texas surroundings as does the quick courtship between Jonas Cahill and Vince's new to town stepsister, Melissa. But with all the sparks flying, real gunshots ring out threatening the little town's Regulators and those they love. With trouble at his door and an abandoned mother showing symptons of dementia to shelter, Invincible Vince puts his love life on the back burner.

Mary Connealy always makes me giggle throughout her books - her main characters are always good guys and gals with hilarious quirks and thoughts. In this series, I believe my favorite was the first: Swept Away.

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A Christmas Hope: A Novel

A Christmas Hope: A Novel by Anne Perry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Number 11 in Anne Perry's Christmas novellas, A Christmas Hope finds us back in 1868, not so merry, old Victorian England, during the Christmas season. Claudine Burroughs is tired of the empty round of social engagements and tepid conversations and tired of the emptiness found in her own marriage of convenience. When a popular poet is accused of murder at the latest party attended, Claudine does not go with the consensus of his guilt and attempts to discover the true culprit. Knowing her husband would be horrified with her inquiries and stop her attempts, courageous Claudine must do so in secret and therefore pulls in an unwilling helper.

Perry's Christmas novellas are tiny gems - I look forward to reading them at every Yuletide season.

For a list of books in the series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4063...

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A Most Unsuitable Match

A Most Unsuitable Match by Stephanie Grace Whitson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It's 1869 and eighteen-year-old Fannie Rousseau has just lost her mother - and her father, just three years earlier. Fannie's small, privileged world has come crashing down on her until she discovers that she has an aunt, possibly living out west, that she has never met. Bravely hopping a steamboat with her beloved Hannah, up the Missouri, Fannie sets off in hopes of meeting her mother's twin sister, Edie. Along the way a quiet, young man named Samuel Beck and his friend Lamar extend their help, especially after Hannah dies in the steamboat accident and they continue the journey out west. Fannie finds that Sam has a secret of his own, for he has been trying to find his younger sister who ran away from their abusive father. The trip, rough arrangements, and unusual, hard events force Fannie to grow up and strengthen her faith. Will the end result and secrets unwrapped be worth the trip and trouble? As Fannie says, "I guess it's time I grew into the life I've been handed."


I really enjoy works of historical fiction and love learning about our country, especially when America was in its infancy. Wrapped around a good plot of fiction makes for good reading.

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