The Trouble with Patience
February 27th, 2015. Filed under: This & That.The Trouble with Patience
By Maggie Brendan
Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope in romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with restoring a dilapidated boardinghouse in order to support herself.
Despite Patience’s desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local marshal with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life. It seems like such a simple arrangement: She needs someone with a strong back to help her fix up the boardinghouse. He needs a dependable source of food for himself and his prisoners. But as she gets to know this “hanging lawman,” Patience finds there is far more to him than meets the eye–and it could destroy their tenuous relationship forever.
With a keen eye for historical detail and a deft hand at romantic tension, Maggie Brendan invites you to a Montana gold rush boomtown, where vices and virtues are on full display and love is lying in wait.
ISLAND BREEZES
Ms Brendan has molded many intertwining lines of deceit and anger just waiting to merge and break out into the open. It’s difficult to figure out just who the bad guys are. I don’t know how many times I thought I had it figured out.
Patience’s almost fiance’ is dead, so now she is trying to restore and run Granny’s boarding house. It needs so many repairs that she can neither handle nor afford. Fortunately, two men, one an apparent drifter and the other the local sheriff, are willing to help. It seems they both are interested in Patience as well as the boarding house. Actually, the boarding house is secondary on their list. But will Patience want anything to do with them when she finds out the secrets they’re hiding?
Ms Brendan has taken me through seven historical romances now. I don’t want her to ever quit. Any time I see her name as author, I know there’s a book I want to read.
***A special thank you to Lanette Haskins for providing a review copy.***
Maggie Brendan is the bestselling author of the Heart of the West and The Blue Willow Brides series. Winner of the 2014 Book Buyers Best Award (OCC/RWA) for inspirational fiction and the 2013 Laurel Wreath Award, she was a finalist for the 2013 Published Maggie Award of Excellence and the 2013 Heart of Excellence Readers’ Choice Award. To learn more, visit www.MaggieBrendan.com.