The Wishing Tree (The Texas Brides, Book I)

by Catherine Snodgrass

Series:The Texas Brides (Book 1)

Description

Winner of the 2002 ERA Award for Best Historical Romance 3rd Place in the 2002 Laurel Wreath Awards Jake Tanner goes to collect on a debt and comes back with a bride he doesn't want and can't resist. Grace Marshall is determined to honor her marriage vows, but one step forward with Jake always leads to two steps back. When Jake's past shows up on the doorstep in the form of a wife he thought was dead, Grace has had enough. Now Jake has to figure out how to keep the wife he wants and shed show more himself of the wife he doesn't want. And one of those wives wants him dead. *** Jennifer Macaire of WordWeaving says: "Very highly recommended Catherine Snodgrass introduces one of the most endearing casts of characters in THE WISHING TREE...but she gives them terrible odds to overcome in order to find true happiness. Grace and Jake's story is a wonderful, funny, heart-warming one that will make you laugh, cry, and wish you lived in the same town, could hitch up your buggy, and go visit a while with Grace on her ranch. You'll want to sit under the spreading branches of the wishing tree and make your own wish-that Catherine Snodgrass writes more stories about this wonderful family." Historical Romance] show less