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Eliza Woodpen has been living a
lie in Banjo for the past three years. Running from her
past, she has made a life of sorts for herself as a
schoolteacher in the small Texas town. The townsfolk
welcome her and she is just getting comfortable when a
newspaper headline lets her know the past is going to catch
up with her and her lies are about to be uncovered. It
doesn’t help matters much when two of her students bring a
wounded man to her door, a man who could be the one to
unlock her closely guarded secrets.
Copper Reeves is a Texas
Ranger. He is after an escaped murderer named Jake Nolan
and his search leads him to the man’s brother, Tabor Nolan,
in the town of Banjo. When his stake-out on Tabor’s place
gets him shot in the butt by a six-year-old kid, he is taken
to the home of the prim and proper schoolteacher that
intrigued him in town. Though she agrees to nurse him back
to health he feels she is hiding something other than his
presence in her home. What will happen when danger darkens
her door? What will happen when he must go after the outlaw
whose brother saved his hide?
Banjo, Texas is the setting for
a western tale of intrigue and romance. Set in the 1870s,
author Ciara Gold brings the lawless frontier to life in
Eliza’s Copper Penny.
Copper is a Texas Ranger who intrigued me from the outset of
the book; his freckles and red hair are a constant drawback
to looking like a tough bounty hunter, and the sparkle in
his eye as he deals with Eliza make him all the more
personable. When he flirts with the schoolteacher in town,
it suddenly makes Eliza aware of herself as a desirable
woman and though she must hide her true identity she cannot
help but be drawn to Copper’s openly devilish ways. The
pair has a chemistry that sizzles whenever they are together
and the attraction is a believable one. The lawless Texas
landscape is brought to vivid life by author Ciara Gold and
made this reader a part of the story. The action keeps pace
as the story progresses, with enough twists and turns to
keep this reader guessing till the climax. If you are a fan
of western romance, you will thoroughly enjoy Eliza’s
Copper Penny. I enjoyed it so much I purchased the
author’s backlist right away. |
