Recent Reads {Hope}

Hope by Lori Copeland - Hope Kallahan is a sweet-natured but slightly scatterbrained mail-order bride on a stagecoach trip to meet the man she will marry. As it happens, she is on the same stagecoach as the daughter of a senator, which means that they've been targeted by outlaws planning to rob the stage and hold the senator's daughter for ransom. However, the daughter and her companion had not resumed their journey at the last stop, so the gang takes Hope instead, convinced that she is Senator Ferry's daughter. Hope is terrified and appalled at the outlaws' plans for her, and yet one of the men is different - somehow kind and gentlemanly, despite the circumstances. Later she finds out that this outlaw is actually undercover agent Dan Sullivan, and his mission has been to find out how this gang is getting the information about which stagecoaches are carrying valuables. The mission is abandoned when Dan decides to get Hope to safety when she becomes very ill. He plans to deliver her to her husband-to-be, but their journey is rife with mishaps and delays, through which they grow to know and trust each other - and eventually love each other.

Way too many coincidences and outlandish storylines to be believable, but a funny and sweet romance all the same. I really enjoyed it, and was a little surprised to realize that it's the third in a set. Hope's two sisters each have a book telling their story as well.

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