QUICK FACTS
Title: Chasing
the Horizon
Series: A
Western Light (Book 1)
Author: Mary
Connealy
Genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Western
& Frontier Romance
Publisher: Bethany
House Publishers (February 13, 2024)
Length: (304)
pages
Format: Hardcover,
Trade Paperback, eBook, & Audiobook
ISBN:
978-0764242656
Tour
Dates: February 12 – 26, 2024
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Upon uncovering her tyrannical father's malevolent plot to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge fabricates a plan of her own. She will rescue her mother, who had already been sent to the asylum, and escape together on a wagon train heading west. Posing as sisters, Beth and her mother travel with the pioneers in hopes of making it to Idaho before the others start asking too many questions.
Wagon-train scout Jake Holt senses that the mysterious women in his caravan are running from something. When rumors begin to spread of Pinkerton agents searching relentlessly for wanted criminals who match the description of those on his wagon train, including Beth, she begins to open up to him, and he learns something more sinister is at hand. Can they risk trusting each other with their lives--and their hearts--when danger threatens their every step?
BOOK REVIEW
This
story was a ride. While set in a slow moving wagon train, the sense of danger
and suspense was palpable. I was thoroughly engrossed. The viewpoint changed
from Ginnie and Beth to Jake and also to our antagonist. This gave us the
perspective of multiple characters and served to increase the suspense factor.
I also
enjoyed the imagery created in the descriptions. I was able to picture the
people and the places and be on the trail with them without the physical
challenges. Mary Connealy has a masterful way of telling this story and evoking
many emotions, including fear, love, determination, exhaustion, and even grief.
I felt along with each of our characters and found myself pulling for the
happily ever after.
This
book was an intriguing beginning to a series, with a few characters that have
questions surrounding them that could certainly have and deserve their own
stories.
Jake and
Beth's love story didn't seem like it at first, it was a quiet and welcome
addition to this story. This is really a story of determination and what the
meaning of freedom is to different people.
I received an early copy of this story from the publisher via netgalley and this is my honest review.
PRAISE FOR CHASING THE HORIZON
"Mary Connealy’s Inspirational
Western Romances have long been on my radar to try, but the new Western Lights
series opener, Chasing the Horizon, was my first opportunity. Imagine my
chagrin when I started reading and didn’t want to stop. Oh yes, dear friends,
I’d waited too long to discover a gem of a writer."— Sophia Rose, The
Reading Frenzy
5 STARS "What an incredible book! It kept
me on the edge of my seat the entire time I read it.” — Camille Dayton, Fostering
Literacy
5 STARS “Loved this story! I was intrigued
right from the beginning.”— Melissa Goss, Christian Books and Coffee
PURCHASE LINKS
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& NOBLE | PUBLISHER | BOOKSHOP
| BOOKBUB | GOODREADS
AUTHOR BIO
Mary
Connealy writes
romantic comedies with cowboys. She is independently publishing a contemporary
romantic suspense series called Garrison’s Law, book one is Loving the Texas
Lawman. Her new historical series, High Sierra Sweethearts begins with The
Accidental Guardian. She is also the author of these series: Kincaid
Brides, Trouble in Texas, Wild at Heart, Cimarron Legacy, Lassoed in Texas,
Montana Marriages, and Sophie's daughters, and has many other books.
She is a
two-time Carol Award winner and has been a finalist for the Rita and Christy
Awards. She’s a lifelong Nebraskan and lives with her very own romantic cowboy
hero. She’s got four grown daughters and four spectacular grandchildren.
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