Laurie Kingery

Tess Hennessy is a rancher's daughter, living in the Rio Grande Valley, in Texas in the year 1880. She is not your traditional young lady who is searching for a husband, but rather her interests lie in being the best photographer she can be and hopefully someday going to New York and becoming famous. But she is suddenly kidnapped by the famous gang leader Delgado and taken to his hideout so she can capture him in pictures, so he will forever be remembered. What Tess doesn't realize is that show more Delgado's right hand man, Sandoval Parrish, is really a Texas rancher working to bring down Delgado.

I enjoyed the action and adventure of the story, even though you know how it will end. Tess had a lot of determination and spunk, even when she was frightened and scared. It also showed Sandoval, a man torn between his desire for revenge and his growing love for the lady he put in harm's way. show less

Lawman in Disguise (Brides of Simpson Creek #7) by Laurie Kingery
Read 9/4/16 Reviewed 9/15/16

Lawman in Disguise is the seventh book in the Brides of Simpson Creek series. You will meet some new characters and visit with a few of the characters from previous books. My only real complaint about the book is that it has been so long since the last book I couldn’t remember some of the people and their stories. This story deals with Daisy Henderson, a member of the community, and her son and the show more stranger that her son finds injured in the barn, Thorn Dawson. She knows he is an outlaw and send for a doctor and the sheriff but there is just something about him that tells her he isn’t really a bad guy. That feeling in confirmed when the sheriff doesn’t arrest Thorn and lets him stay at the barn to heal. Thorn is undercover and has become part of an outlaw gang. The character are well developed and the story moves at a good pace. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes clean historical romances. show less

4 STARS
Simpson Creek, Texas—July 7, 1868 is the setting. Brides of Simpson creek book 6. This is the only of the series I have read and would love to go back and read them. I look forward to reading more from Laurie in the future.

Hill Country Cattleman is a cute old fashion western romance. It has a innocent Violet being escorted by her older brother to Texas where a different brother and his wife live.

Violet loves a older man Gerald the Earl of Lullington and was going to elope with him show more when her brother Edward, Viscount Greyshaw stopped her. Gerald was wanting to marry for her dowry. Violet does not believe her fiancé will forget her. She plans to use this time to write a western romance, till she is allowed to return back home to England.

When Edward and Violet finally get to Simpson Creek they found themselves stuck their and was not sure how to get them and all their trunks to the ranch. Violet sees a cowboy about to enter a store and asked him for help getting to the ranch.

Raleigh was going into a store to buy a new shirt than planned to get a bath and haircut when Violet stopped him. Raleigh had just gone on a trail ride and her brother was their too. He worked on the ranch next door to Nicholas's ranch. He would be glad to escort them and make arrangements so they can load all the luggage.

Edward and Violet went into the restaurant and was having a meal. The waitress Ella overheard them talking and thought she was a snob.
She was also jealous and over the next few days she tried to stir others to ignore Violet.

Raleigh was attracted to the beautiful Violet and he realized that one of his own two horses would be perfect for her to ride while she was visiting.

Violet thought Raleigh would make a good hero in her book and wanted to spend time asking him questions to help her. Violet told Raleigh that she was in love with a man back home in England.

Raleigh only owned two horses. He was forman but lived in the bunkhouse. He had just turned to God after he was saved with a miracle on the trail drive. He dreamed someday to have his own ranch.

Of course this is still wild country so you have a another rancher that wants to marry Violet one way or another. He wants her social connections and her money. Some drama, action, horse racing. It is a fun uplifting book.

I was given this ebook to read and asked to give honest review of it when I was through by Netgalley.
05/07/2013 PUB Harlequin Imprint Harlequin Love Inspired Historical 288 pages ISBN-10: 0373829655 show less

Historical Western. Her fiancée died of influenza, so Caroline throws her energy into being a schoolteacher. But when widowed Jack comes into town with his two girls on his way to Montana - and then stays for the winter, her heart starts to mend and make room for them