Lawman (Zebra Splendor Historical Romances)

Rating:
Summary: Wish I could rate this a 10*. It deserves it!
Review: I read this book in one evening (stifling giggles at 5 a.m. so I wouldn't wake my sleeping hubby). It was funnier than all get out with a different plot, likeable characters and great dialogue. A pinkerton agent (gabriel winter) heads to a stage station in arizona to arrest a thief. Instead he encounters the alleged thief's high spirited, devoted, full of hell daughter who not only does not believe her papa's guilty but does everything she can contrive to prevent gabe from finding and arresting him. Gabriel is a "facts" and "by the book" lawman who doesn't "believe" in people so megan's loyalty is perplexing to him. Especially since her papa had stolen her hard saved nest egg
and gone off to gamble it away already. Megan, at 28, is a tough on the outside, vulnerable on the inside gal who no one has ever loved....except her papa. And she will do anything to help him.
The story is simple and cute (although both characters eventually share their very traumatizing youth which gives you pause)but the predicaments Megan gets herself into and the craziness gabe goes through to undo her many plots is truly funny. I absolutely enjoyed every minute. I had started by reading lisa plumley's "the outlaw" and never finished it because I didn't care for it, but am so glad I gave this author a second chance. The lawman is plain fun. (oh, the one thing I hated.....which the authors have no say in, is that the guy on the cover doesn't look like gabe...don't you hate it when the publishers don't take an extra minute to at least match hair color with the characters!!!!) Perhaps if we mention it enough, some one will catch on...