Wishful Thinking

by Shannah Biondine

After losing their teaching positions at an Eastern academy for young girls, Effie Scarsmore and Coralee Nye travel west to Silver City, Idaho, where Effie's intended is building their future home. Or so his letters claimed. In reality, the scoundrel has mounting gambling debts and is staging a raffle of the unfinished homestead to placate his creditors. But who will placate Effie? Furious and burning for revenge, Effie rashly offers her hand in marriage as part of the raffle prize. Coralee and the whole town become caught up in a knotty tangle that will require a big dose of divine intervention. Luckily for the two ladies, Silver City is a special western town, complete with its own hovering guardian angels.

Genres: Historical

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2006

About the author

Shannah Biondine is a native of Southern California. Shannah relocated with her husband and two children to Colorado in 2005 and now lives near the Arkansas River and Sangre De Cristo Mountains.

Shannah won an Eppie in 2002 for Best Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, and has had works final in the Aspen Gold, PRISM, and Dream Realm Awards.

Before turning to fiction, Shannah was a business writer and publisher's assistant for a national trade magazine. She now writes full time. Her interests include tarot, creative visualization, needlecrafts, astrology, and avid fiction reading.

Shannah's the author of numerous works of fiction, from traditional historical romance to paranormal romances, and two novellas of fantasy. She's published with LTDBooks, Double Dragon Publishing, and Whiskey Creek Press.