Tried & True
September 23rd, 2014. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.Tried & True
By Mary Connealy
Saddle up for a wildly fun ride with the Wilde sisters!
Kylie Wilde is the youngest sister—and the most civilized. Her older sisters might be happy dressing in trousers and posing as men, but Kylie has grown her hair long and wears skirts every chance she gets. It’s a risk—they are homesteading using the special exemptions they earned serving in the Civil War as “boys”—but Kylie plans to make the most of the years before she can sell her property and return to the luxuries of life back East.
Local land agent Aaron Masterson is fascinated with Kylie from the moment her long hair falls from her cap. But now that he knows her secret, can he in good conscience defraud the U.S. government? And when someone tries to force Kylie off her land, does he have any hope of convincing her that marrying him and settling on the frontier is the better option for her future?
ISLAND BREEZES
The Wilde sisters are wild enough to pass as men and fight in the Civil War. Can they continue that act as they homestead using the special exemptions they received as war veterans?
Shannon and Bailey were comfortable wearing britches and homesteading. Kylie was not. She started letting her hair grow and wearing skirts when she was alone. She just wanted to put in her time, sell her place to her father and find someplace civilized to live.
Unfortunately she got caught in skirts by Aaron, the land agent. Then she had to make up that cockamamie story about her brother Kyle doing the homesteading. Things seem to only go downhill from there.
Complications abound from there. A brute of a man wants her land, as does her father. She and Aaron become quite fond of each other, but he can’t help her keep up the pretense of being a man. It might cut two years off the time before the land belonged to Kylie free and clear, but Aaron couldn’t lie to the U.S. government. He just wants to do his job and settle out on the frontier. Can that possibly work out with a woman who wants the big city life?
Mary Connealy’s books always leave me wanting more. I’m looking forward to Now and Forever, the second book in the Wild at Heart series.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
Mary Connealy writes fun and lively “romantic comedy with cowboys” for the inspirational market. She is the author of the successful Kincaid Brides, Lassoed in Texas, Montana Marriages, and Sophie’s Daughters series, and she has been a finalist for a Rita and Christy Award and a two time winner of the Carol Award. She lives on a ranch in eastern Nebraska with her husband, Ivan, and has four grown daughters.