A sweet historical romance set in 1886.Angus Reagan grew up fascinated with trains and has done everything from stoking engines to applying the car brakes. Now, after being a train detective for years, he’s thinking about heading home to Clear Creek, Kansas. He misses his family and community.Daisy Clancy spent her childhood in the family-run café in Clear Creek, Kansas, but she left home to work … she left home to work in a big city when she came of age. Still single and finally lonely for family, Daisy decides to return home and open her own business.
Fate puts the two childhood friends on the same train and sparks of memories cause each to think of their future, maybe even together. But a train robbery sets them on another journey they hadn’t planned on.
This book series, Grooms with Honor, showcases the six sons of Pastor and Kaitlyn Reagan, first featured in the 1873 year-based Brides with Grit series.
“Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health; and forsaking all others, be faithful unto her as long as you both shall live?”
The young men have heard Pastor Reagan say these words to many couples over the years, and they vow to treat all women this way as they walk through life.
Besides the Reagan brothers, the series will feature other men in their community.
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This book was hard to put down.
THIS COULD BE OUR ‘FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE.’
I enjoyed this story of Angus Reagan and Daisy Clancy. The story will nicely tie into other books by Ms. Hubalek but will read as a standalone. Angus is the oldest son of Pastor Patrick and Kaitlyn Reagan. Kaitlyn is not his birth mother, who died when he was young, but she has raised him as her own, along with his brothers. Daisy Clancy has been raised by her grandparents, Dan and Edna Clancy, after the death of her parents. Angus and Daisy met at school, and she was considered a tomboy.
The tale will start on a train, and two childhood sweethearts will meet again, after nearly eight years apart and the story will take on a life and death situation, along with endurance and fortitude to survive and move forward. Angus has worked as a railroad detective traveling the rail lines and guarding shipments of gold and silver from the mines. Daisy left for Chicago after Angus moved away. They will find themselves injured, but lucky to be alive after a train robbery.
The plot will have two people reconnecting, realizing that the feelings they had for each other during childhood have not gone away. After a train robbery, which included the murder of several train employees, Angus will be without a job and purpose. Returning to Clear Creek, Kansas, it will be good to see his family and friends, but what is he to do now? Daisy Clancy has decided it is time to return to her family, with her grandparents aging, and has studied the pharmaceutical trade and has decided to open her own Pharmacy. She has never quit loving Angus and is hoping that he will be willing to settle down and maybe see what happens between them. Will the mystery of the train robbery be solved and Angus exonerated in the eyes of the mining company and railroad? With the railroad depot agent, Mr. Danel’s wanting to retire, will Angus be content in that job that Mr. Daniel’s trained him in when he was younger? “Mr. Daniels always told me when working with passengers and telegrams, ‘You don’t snoop, you don’t gossip, and you don’t decide the law.’ I’ve always lived by those rules.”
I have enjoyed her books
Nice love story, and I appreciated that the romance was clean.
Could not finish this book. I assume the author is a teenager or new to writing. A very big disappointment as this is book one in the series. I fear each book will be as juvenile as the first. Too bad. Sounded interesting but too elementary for me. At least try and make your conversations sound authentic. Your attempt to stress proper English ruined the story. Cowboys and Indians don’t talk that way. Too bad. So sad. Does anyone talk that way???
Quick read, can not say anything bad or good.
I just couldn’t get into the writing style. I thought maybe I had ordered a teen book by mistake