"Top Gun" Started It All

It is very rare that I read rom-coms and "The Theory of Happily Ever After" reminded me why that is. The book is about a young woman named Maggie, who was recently dumped by her fiance, and is now having trouble getting out of the funk she has spiraled into. Her two best friends, unbeknownst to her, sign her up to speak on a singles cruise to help her snap out of her mood. Maggie is an accomplished book writer and a scientist of happiness, and now she feels unqualified to speak on happiness and the perfect life when she is far from happy and her life has spiraled out of control. Onboard the cruise ship she will be forced to break out of her shell, and maybe forgive and forget her ex, and in the process maybe just find love again. Does that plot sound unique? The answer to that is, no. You can call from a mile away what this book is going to bring. Some adolescent like behavior is what is in store from the main character who wants to whine and wallow in the fact her life...

I love a historical fiction book set in the west and with handsome cowboys, and adventure around every turn, "The Accidental Guardian" has it all. Set in Nevada in the late fall of 1867 the book opens on two sisters, Deb and Gwen travelling to California with a wagon train. The wagon train gets attacked early one morning leaving the sisters and two children as the only survivors, all alone and stranded in the wilderness. They are saved by a knight riding in on a noble steed, or more like a handsome, lonely, cowboy named Trace on a horse named Black, and a pet wolf. This cowboy had been out in the mountains all alone for years after a wagon train he had headed west on, when he was 15, was attacked and left him as the only survivor. Trace holds one dark secret close to his heart, and he is out for vengeance, but now he must protect Deb, Gwen and the children first and foremost, with the outlaws who attacked the train still on the loose and winter closing in. With Trace lacki...