COWBOY CHARM SCHOOL
HAYWIRE BRIDES, #1
by
MARGARET BROWNLEY
Sub-genre: Western / Clean Romance
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Date of Publication: September 4, 2018
Number of Pages: 384
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When Texas Ranger Brett Tucker accidentally derails a wedding, he's determined to bring the estranged couple back together...but he never dreamed he'd start falling for the bride!
Texas Ranger Brett Tucker hates to break up a wedding, but the groom—notorious criminal Frank Foster—is a danger to any woman. So he busts into the church, guns blazing...only to find he has the wrong man.
STOP THAT WEDDING!
Bride-to-be Kate Denver is appalled by her fiancé's over-the-top reaction to the innocent mistake and calls off the wedding—for good. Guilt-ridden, Brett's desperate to get them back on track. But the more time he spends with Kate, the harder he falls...and the more he yearns to prove that he's her true match in every way.
"Light and airy as cotton candy, this tale charms."
-- Publishers Weekly
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Those Gutsy Women of the Old West
Never underestimate a woman doing a man’s job!
Guest Post by Margaret Brownley
My passion is writing
about the old west and the fabulous women who helped settle it. Western movies helped establish the male hero,
but depicting women mainly as bonnet saints, soiled doves and schoolmarms did
them a terrible disservice.
The westward
migration freed women in ways never before imagined. Women abandoned Victorian
traditions, rigid manners and confining clothes and that’s not all; they
brought churches, schools and newspapers to frontier towns and helped build
communities.
Women today may still
be banging against glass ceilings, but those brave souls of yesteryear had to
break down doors. One newspaper reporter complained that “Women dared to lay
hands on man’s most sacred implements—the razor and strop—and shave him to the
very face.”
Ah, yes, women were barbers, doctors, firefighters
and saloon keepers. Women even disguised themselves as men to fight in the
Civil War. In my new book Cowboy Charm School, the
protagonist Kate Denver is a candy maker.
In the 1800s, that was definitely considered to be a man’s job.
With little more than
their faith to guide them, women also owned cattle ranches and gold mines and
fought for women’s rights.
In 1860
Julia Shannon of San Francisco took the family portrait to new heights when she
shockingly advertised herself as a daguerreotypist and midwife. Cameras were bulky, chemicals dangerous and
photo labs blew up with alarming regularity. It was a hard profession for a man
let alone a woman.
Forty
years before women were allowed to join a police department, Kate Warne worked for the Pinkerton
National Detective agency as an undercover agent from 1856 to her death in 1868.
Not only did she run the female detective division, she saved president-elect
Abraham Lincoln from a planned assassination by wrapping him in a blanket and
pretending he was her invalid brother. Her story became the inspiration behind
my Undercover Ladies series in which
the heroines were—you guessed it—Pinkerton detectives working undercover.
It took strong and
courageous women to bury children along the trail; barter with Indians and make
homes out of sticks and mud. It’s
estimated that about twelve percent of homesteaders in Colorado, Wyoming,
Montana, the Dakotas and Utah were single women. And yep, women even took part in the Oklahoma
land runs.
An article in the San
Francisco Examiner published in 1896 says it all: “People have stopped
wondering what women will do next, for keeping up with what she is doing now
takes all the public energies.”
These are the heroines
for whom we like to cheer. It must have
been a shock to the male ego to have to deal with such strong and
unconventional women—and that’s at the very heart of my stories. The gun may have
won the west, but praise the Lord for the gusty and courageous women who tamed
it.
New York Times bestselling author MARGARET BROWNLEY has penned more than forty-five novels and novellas. She's a two-time Romance Writers of American RITA® finalist and has written for a TV soap. She is also a recipient of the Romantic Times Pioneer Award.
Her story, A Pony Express Christmas, will appear this fall in the Old West Christmas Brides collection, and book two of her Haywire Brides series will be published May 2019. Not bad for someone who flunked eighth-grade English. Just don't ask her to diagram a sentence.
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