Teaser Tuesday/First Chapter First Paragraph - Priscilla's Reveille

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. To play along, just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title and author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers! 

 Three months was a long time. A lot could happen in that span. She might give up and go home before then, or she might even discard some of her ridiculous notions about the army and accept the suit of some eager officer or enlisted man. Not him, of course, but she'd get offers, of that he had no doubt.

~My Heart Belongs in Fort Bliss, Texas: Priscilla’s Reveille by Erica Vetsch, page 74

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First Chapter/First Paragraph/Tuesday Intros is a weekly link-up hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea. To participate, share the first paragraph (or two) of a book you're reading, or thinking about reading.

Trans-Pecos Territory of West Texas, 1874

Only the army would think a place like this worth defending.

   Priscilla Hutchens clamped her teeth together to keep them from rattling right out of her head. Grabbing the wagon bow, she sought to find an anchor as the converted military ambulance jounced up a slight rise. The howling wind, which a cheerful enlisted man called a "freshening breeze," tore at the canvas cover overhead. That same enlisted man had rolled up the stained fabric along the sides of the ambulance, and as a result, Priscilla had an unfettered view of . . . pretty much nothing.

   She'd had no idea when embarking on this rescue mission that so much "empty" existed anywhere. Miles and miles of brush, sparse clumps of grass, cacti, and bare ground stretched away to the edge of the world. In the distance, a humpbacked ridge of mountains poked up from the desert--a dusty, purplish lump on the otherwise flat expanse. The small company of soldiers, horses, and wagons she traveled with could be the last inhabitants on earth.

Here's the blurb:

A Custody Battle Brings 

Two Stubborn Individuals Together 

at a Remote Texas Fort

Fashion artist Priscilla Hutchens has a grudge against the army that has ruined her family and taken the people she holds most dear. When her niece and nephew are left orphaned at Fort Bliss, Texas, she seeks custody of them immediately. There is just one thing standing in her way -- the post surgeon, Major Elliot Ryder, who also has a claim to the children. Priscilla and Elliot will cross swords, but each will have to lay down arms if they are to find a lasting peace on which to form the family both are longing for.

Journey now to Fort Bliss in West Texas of 1874, where a battle is about to be waged between hearts.

What do you think? Would you continue reading?
If this one appeals to you, I just found out that it's free today for Kindle - don't know how long that will last!

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