The Accidental Guardian


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 lacking in social graces and not knowing how to interact with woman, let alone children, we are in for a fast paced, sometimes comical, and always exciting book that will leave you on the edge of your seat and hoping that the cowboy gets the girl.

I loved learning Trace's story and past, and my heart melted for this grown man who still had a lonely, scared boy hidden deep inside of him. This book left off on a wonderful starting point for the next installment in the series that comes out in October, that I am eagerly looking forward to.

This was the first book of Mary Connealy's that I had ever read, and now I know that I will need to remedy that. She did such a wonderful job capturing the heart of a western, and really made her readers fall in love with, and even relate to her characters.

"The Accidental Guardian" was a wonderful book and one I would highly reccommend. Now I just have to wait until October when I can revisit these wonderful characters and see where their story will go. I know I will not be disappointed.

*I received this book for free from Bethany House Publishing, but my opinion is all my own.

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