Sweetwater

Sweetwater Saga #1

by Mickey Minner

The "respectable" world of an Eastern woman in the late 1800's, marrying and caring for a family, holds no appeal for Jennifer Kensington. She seeks a life of adventure and challenge. When her request to work in the family business is refused by her father, she leaves for the West, where she is certain she will find a new life in a society where a woman's options are not so restricted. Jesse Branson has built a good life for herself in Sweetwater, Montana. Skill in a poker game made her the owner of The Silver Slipper, a one time bordello, now a successful restaurant and rooming house. The profits from that business made it possible for her to achieve her biggest dream, to own her own ranch. Jesse is a respected member of the community, but someone is plotting to destroy all of her dreams as well as take her life. Jennifer and Jesse's attraction for each other grows as intrigue swirls around them. Will their chance for happiness survive as the danger to Jesse unfolds? As they struggle to save Jesse's life, they also try to save their future.

Genres: Historical Fiction

236 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2006

About the author

Mickey Minner is a very popular author of many published and online novels, novellas and short stories. Her Sweetwater Saga was the Royal Academy of Bards 2006 Hall of Fame Story. Mickey Minner is the Royal Academy of Bards 2011 Hall of Fame Author.

Reviews

[Therese · Rating 4 out of 5]

Life in the wild west wasn't easy for women, especially women who weren't willing to let those cowboys take care of them! But have you ever thought that it wasn't just those cowboys who took advantage of the freedom out west to pursue the life they wanted?

Jennifer Kensington wants more than the socially expected arranged marriage in the safety of her eastern city. She flees out west to teach school and find her destiny--and love--with Jesse Branson.
I look forward to the rest of the Sweetwater Saga. Jennifer and Jesse are characters to care about, living their own way and enduring the trials of the rough frontier together.

[Jo Fothergill · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this book - looking forward to the sequel

[JT · Rating 2 out of 5]

The most unrealistic western.