Review: A Progressive Woman in Old Wyoming
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
Sheriff Quinn Riley doesn't know what to make of Ciara Morrissey when she arrives in his town, valiantly driving the runaway team of her stagecoach after it's been robbed.  He's a practical man, who likes all the pieces to fit in their places, but he's never known a woman like Ciara and he can't quite make her fit.  Quinn is also a man who looks after those under his charge.  And Ciara, an independent female who is not only beautiful but has a mind of her own, isn't prepared to let any man take charge of her.Ciara isn't expecting Quinn, either.  She's come to Bull City, Wyoming in answer to her mother's dying wish and she's not about to tell anyone why she's there till her business is done.  She's not prepared for the handsome sheriff whose brown eyes make her melt and whose touch affects her so intensely.  But she finds herself thrown into his company, stranded and with most of her possessions lost in the robbery.  What's a determined woman to do?Quinn and Ciara both have their own agendas - Riley has only taken the post of Sheriff in order to seek justice for the townsfolk who have invested their life's savings with a shyster.  Ciara's looking for a kind of justice too, and searching for a part of her past.  Could it be they're both really looking for the same man?This is a spirited story peopled with believable characters driven by understandable motives.  I particularly liked the fact that Ciara is what would have been known as a progressive woman of her time.  She has many facets, from a penchant for reading Tarot cards to an interest in woman's suffrage, which she brings to the quiet, little town much to the infuriation of the town's men folk.No need to worry about lurid love scenes in this story.  Though the attraction between the hero and heroine is tangible, there's nothing that will make you blush.  Just a lot of verbal sparring and two people who must learn to come together on their own terms.  Enjoyable!