A Sensible Arrangement

A Sensible Arrangement by Tracie Peterson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When an ex-Texas rancher, now wealthy Denver, Colorado banker, Jake Wythe advertises for a Lone Star bride, widower and sharpshooter Marty Dandridge takes up the challenge to put behind her a million memories of her rancher husband being gored to death by a bull. Marty knows the arrangement is a marriage of convenience and is fine with that as she can't imagine loving another man. Marty can no longer make sense of a loving God and turns from her faith. The banking industry will soon be dealt a blow as the economy collapses and silver prices fall. The Wythe's may soon lose their fancy home, "fancy" friends, and servants. Even worse, the many city's orphanages could possibly turn the children out into the streets if things became worse.

A nice easy, inspirational read with historical details thrown in...

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Over the Edge

Over the Edge by Mary Connealy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another comical, historical romance about the Kinkade brothers - The Kinkade Brides #3, Over the Edge is just a hoot as was the first and second. This time the main character is youngest bro #3 Seth, the on-the-edge, blue-eyed civil war veteran, who has horrendous nightmares of the war and the accident in the caves. Because of this Seth has lost big chunks of time, including the fact that at some point he had gotten married. The book opens with Seth's Texan wife riding into town in the stagecoach, with their child, trying to hold off several robbers with her Colt in her left hand and a Winchester in her right. Tough as Texas, Callie has come to claim help from Seth and his brothers. Little does she know what she is letting herself in for with joining the Kinkade clan.

As I've said before, Mary Connealy makes me giggle with her ornery characters, their thoughts, and sayings. I hate to set this series down - I might have to reread them.

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