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Trail Blazers #6
Gold Rush Groom
A search for gold…Jack Snow has learned the hard way that the only person he can rely on is himself. With his family fortune gone, he'll don his best jacket and reel out the charm to bag himself an heiress bride!…could lead to something more preciousThe last person with whom he expects to travel across the Yukon is an outspoken, impoverished daughter of an Irish immigrant. Their social standing is miles apart. But Lily Shanahan proves resourceful and dauntless in the face of raging rivers and icy mountain passes, and Jack is forced to admit her passion for life is enough to tempt him from his course…
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2011
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Jenna Kernan
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Publishers Weekly bestselling author, Jenna Kernan has written over forty novels, most recently penning domestic thrillers. Her debut thriller, A Killer's Daughter, won the bronze medal in popular fiction from the Florida Book Awards in 2021. Jenna’s 2022 domestic thriller, The Ex-Wives, won the gold medal in the same category. The Nurse, was released in 2023, The Patient's Daughter released in 2024, and The Fake Mother in 2025. Her thrillers are intense, unsettling, and gripping with unexpected twists and turns.
Jenna began her writing journey penning historical romance, paranormal romance and romantic suspense. Find them here: https://www.jennakernan.com/books-1
A member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Florida Mystery Writers and Novelists, Inc. and a natural redhead living with her husband on Florida’s Gulf Coast, Jenna has recently increased her sunblock to SPF 50.
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March 30, 2021
Two strangers (singer-heroine Lily Shanahan and inventor-hero Jack Snow) team up as partners and travel to Dawson City for gold during the Yukon Gold Rush. Both had trouble in their pasts and want to start fresh. Along the way they find themselves attracted to each other.
This was a very entertaining, lively, and captivating read. I really liked Lily. She was a terrific heroine. She was capable, feisty and headstrong at times, but practical and smart. She seemed to know what she was doing on the trail. Jack was a bit more naïve and Lily had to teach him a lot of things. Sometimes I got frustrated with Jack. He came from a well-to-do family in New York and he (and Lily) knew she wouldn’t fit in his world since she was poor. But he still pursued her and wanted to sleep with her even though (since he was going back home to New York) he knew they didn’t have a future together. I really enjoyed the adventures Lily and Jack had as they traveled to Dawson City. I also liked Lily’s dog, Nala, and the book's setting.
An enjoyable Harlequin Historical romance.
This was a very entertaining, lively, and captivating read. I really liked Lily. She was a terrific heroine. She was capable, feisty and headstrong at times, but practical and smart. She seemed to know what she was doing on the trail. Jack was a bit more naïve and Lily had to teach him a lot of things. Sometimes I got frustrated with Jack. He came from a well-to-do family in New York and he (and Lily) knew she wouldn’t fit in his world since she was poor. But he still pursued her and wanted to sleep with her even though (since he was going back home to New York) he knew they didn’t have a future together. I really enjoyed the adventures Lily and Jack had as they traveled to Dawson City. I also liked Lily’s dog, Nala, and the book's setting.
An enjoyable Harlequin Historical romance.
January 8, 2018
leído en Enero 2013
Me gustó... buena historia y buenos personajes
Me gustó... buena historia y buenos personajes
October 3, 2011
Jenna Kernan offers up another rousing western historical romance adventure in 'Gold Rush Groom.'
Lily Shanahan is a real pistol and she wears one on her hip. Lily wants adventure more than anything, and the perfect place is the Yukon during the gold rush. Earning money anyway she can. she provides hauling services in Dyea Alaska. Lily is immediately struck breathless when a tall, handsome Jack Snow steps off the boat from Seattle.
Jack Snow looks every inch the greenhorn. Lily needs a partner for the periolous trip to the Yukon and tall strapping Jack could fit the role. With her Newfoundland mix dog Nala, she offers Jack an offer he can't refuse.
Jack in his gentleman finery and his New England accent is also eager to make his fortune. Jack is very young only twenty and handsome as sin, Lily is certainly affected. She is twenty years of age as well.
Jack is trying to restore his family's fortune that his father lost. Lily is the daughter of an impoverished Irish immigrant. They are from totally different worlds, but decide to partner up for the dangerous journey to Dawson.
The attraction between them is immediate, especially when Lily catches Jack shirtless, washing up. With just a slight touch, the flame is ignited. However attraction takes a back seat while the pair start out on their journey.
The journey is great, I felt I was right along with them. Lily makes biscuits and sells coffe for extra money on the way. Night after night of sharing the same tent is taking its toll, the attraction is getting harder to ignore.
Jenna certainly did her research, great detail throughout the book. Jack and Lily give in to their passion during the journey which complicates things. The trip through the rapids was exciting and by the time the couple reach Dawson you are solidly behind them and hoping for a happy ending. Jack and Lily are such opposites but endearingly appealing,
Once they reach Dawson Jack becomes involved in an invention of his own making and how to sell it. Lily takes a job singing and life moves on. Not for long, a whole new set of adventures crop up drawing in Jack and Lily and drawing them back to each other. Jack is a fine hero, he maybe a young gentleman who went to Princeton, but he is more than up to every adventure that comes his way. Lily is a more than a match for Jack, she may come across as crusty on the outside, but inside is a soft heart. Great characters.
A solid romance/adventure, I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Lily Shanahan is a real pistol and she wears one on her hip. Lily wants adventure more than anything, and the perfect place is the Yukon during the gold rush. Earning money anyway she can. she provides hauling services in Dyea Alaska. Lily is immediately struck breathless when a tall, handsome Jack Snow steps off the boat from Seattle.
Jack Snow looks every inch the greenhorn. Lily needs a partner for the periolous trip to the Yukon and tall strapping Jack could fit the role. With her Newfoundland mix dog Nala, she offers Jack an offer he can't refuse.
Jack in his gentleman finery and his New England accent is also eager to make his fortune. Jack is very young only twenty and handsome as sin, Lily is certainly affected. She is twenty years of age as well.
Jack is trying to restore his family's fortune that his father lost. Lily is the daughter of an impoverished Irish immigrant. They are from totally different worlds, but decide to partner up for the dangerous journey to Dawson.
The attraction between them is immediate, especially when Lily catches Jack shirtless, washing up. With just a slight touch, the flame is ignited. However attraction takes a back seat while the pair start out on their journey.
The journey is great, I felt I was right along with them. Lily makes biscuits and sells coffe for extra money on the way. Night after night of sharing the same tent is taking its toll, the attraction is getting harder to ignore.
Jenna certainly did her research, great detail throughout the book. Jack and Lily give in to their passion during the journey which complicates things. The trip through the rapids was exciting and by the time the couple reach Dawson you are solidly behind them and hoping for a happy ending. Jack and Lily are such opposites but endearingly appealing,
Once they reach Dawson Jack becomes involved in an invention of his own making and how to sell it. Lily takes a job singing and life moves on. Not for long, a whole new set of adventures crop up drawing in Jack and Lily and drawing them back to each other. Jack is a fine hero, he maybe a young gentleman who went to Princeton, but he is more than up to every adventure that comes his way. Lily is a more than a match for Jack, she may come across as crusty on the outside, but inside is a soft heart. Great characters.
A solid romance/adventure, I thoroughly enjoyed this.
November 19, 2014
Lily Shanahan, first generation Irish immigrant, has made it to the coast of Alaska and is looking for a partner to make the 500 mile trek across the Yukon to the Dawson gold fields. She is looking for adventure and a new life. She can sew, cook and sing and hopes people will pay. She has a Newfoundland dog and sled and is looking for an unprepared greenhorn willing to partner a woman. Jack Snow's father has lost his fortune and died leaving his family destitute. His fiance has dropped him and his mother and sister are living on family charity. Jack has an invention that he thinks will make his fortune in the gold mines and restore him to his former life. However, he has to haul all his equipment to Dawson. Despite his concerns he agrees to partner with Lily. They are instantly attracted but with different agendas.
The bulk of the story is the hard trek to Dawson. The Mounties require a 1000 pounds of provisions along with clothing and tools before starting out. Jack has boxes of metal parts besides. Much of the trail requires carrying loads a distance within sight to avoid thievery, then returning for another load, etc, etc. Making the trek many times longer in actual steps. They have to build a boat at Lake Bennett and navigate the Yukon River when the ice breaks, through several sets of rapids. Many died or lost all their provisions and had to head back. The Mounties made men paint a serial number on their boats and give next of kin contact information; then after each rapids they had to check in. Women and children had to walk around the rapids. This was an amazing story for a category romance.
The bulk of the story is the hard trek to Dawson. The Mounties require a 1000 pounds of provisions along with clothing and tools before starting out. Jack has boxes of metal parts besides. Much of the trail requires carrying loads a distance within sight to avoid thievery, then returning for another load, etc, etc. Making the trek many times longer in actual steps. They have to build a boat at Lake Bennett and navigate the Yukon River when the ice breaks, through several sets of rapids. Many died or lost all their provisions and had to head back. The Mounties made men paint a serial number on their boats and give next of kin contact information; then after each rapids they had to check in. Women and children had to walk around the rapids. This was an amazing story for a category romance.
October 5, 2011
This is actually a 4 1/2 star book, but that isn't a choice here. The only reason it's not a 5 star is that Lily rescues Jack one too many times as far as I was concerned, and Jack wasn't quicker to see that he was nothing in the Yukon without her.
All that being said, the descriptions of the passage from Dyea to Dawson City were spectacular, just enough to give the flavor of how hard the journey was without wallowing in it. Lily's wilderness knowledge and her quick thinking made the book for me. I love self-confident, kick-ass heroines, ones that quietly broadcast these qualities and the author doesn't need to tell the reader that these are character traits.
All that being said, the descriptions of the passage from Dyea to Dawson City were spectacular, just enough to give the flavor of how hard the journey was without wallowing in it. Lily's wilderness knowledge and her quick thinking made the book for me. I love self-confident, kick-ass heroines, ones that quietly broadcast these qualities and the author doesn't need to tell the reader that these are character traits.
January 24, 2012
This was a super book. I adored the detail in the writing, in the way in which both the minor and main characters were described. I also was fascinated by the way in which the rush to get to the gold in Dawson Creek was described. The tragedy of the people who died or lost everything they had scrimped and saved to have was so moving, and very sympathetically described, but it also made Lily and Jack's success all the sweeter. I found this a very unexpected gem, I am definitely going to be reading more of Kernan's work. This book has convinced me that she is a good writer with a keen eye for detail, a flare for adventure and a love for her subject.
April 13, 2013
I won this on first-reads.
This book is lovely. The main character is someone I would love to be friends with, she is loyal, proud, and independent. Then Jack Snow is the character you love to hate, every time he says anything I scream "are you stupid!" In my head, but then again he is a guy so you can't blame him. By the end his endearing dumbness seems more tolerable and you begin to realize he is just trying to express himself in a way he had never been exposed to growing up in his own family. The setting is perfect and stays true to the time period except maybe all the bacon they eat. Overall a steamy, well developed romance story perfect for an afternoon read.
This book is lovely. The main character is someone I would love to be friends with, she is loyal, proud, and independent. Then Jack Snow is the character you love to hate, every time he says anything I scream "are you stupid!" In my head, but then again he is a guy so you can't blame him. By the end his endearing dumbness seems more tolerable and you begin to realize he is just trying to express himself in a way he had never been exposed to growing up in his own family. The setting is perfect and stays true to the time period except maybe all the bacon they eat. Overall a steamy, well developed romance story perfect for an afternoon read.
February 12, 2014
I love reading stories set in this time period. 1897, Yukon Gold Rush, the excitement of discovering the unknown, the perilous journey to claim your land. All this with an underlying romance! I found Lily to be a wonderful character filled with spirit, courage and determination. Jack was the perfect compliment to her. Together they find their adventure in Dawson City...and a little something extra on the side!
February 24, 2016
This is the kind of book I read and I'm glad I did regardless of the unusual (for me) theme, otherwise I'd have missed out on a very good love story. Jack and Lily were real people with real hang-ups. The progression of their feelings and their actions were human and believable. I'm not big on adventure but this one worked excellently, so much so that I'd like to read more books on the Yukon Gold rush. Jenna Keenan, well done!
March 18, 2013
This was a good story about the gold rush in the Yukon. One man's need to make money to restore his family's good name, and one woman needing to make a good life for herself. The two meet and help each other across the rugged land, rivers, and all sorts of dangers. Another fine story by Jenna Kernan.
June 21, 2013
Lily Shanahan was a singer who wanted to go to Dawson to start a new life. She met Jack Snow who had been a wealthy man from New York but lost everything and wanted to get rich by going to the Yukon Gold Rush. They were partners through the rough waters and the the long nights.
This was a quick and easy road. Also a very interesting quest for love and wealth.
This was a quick and easy road. Also a very interesting quest for love and wealth.
July 26, 2014
Jack is out seeking his fortune to help support his mother and sister since his father lost all their money and then killed himself. He heads to the Yukon where he partners up with Lily, an irish immigrant. Even though they are miles apart in station they fall in love but will that be enough?
November 8, 2011
Jenna Kernan never fails to provide a grand adventure and a lovely romance! A page turner as love blossoms between two very different people.
December 2, 2012
Una novela que se aparta de lo normal y por eso es tan interesante.
December 3, 2011
5 STARS
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