Tried & True by Mary Connealy is about three sisters becoming homesteaders after serving in the Civil War disguised as men to fulfill their pa's dream. Kylie, Bailey and Shannon are the three sisters who have been made tough by war and have picked up some manly skills. Shannon loves animals and is happy raising sheep while the eldest sister, Bailey loves being independent and raising cattle. Kylie, however, prefers civilization, tea parties and bonnets and has agreed to homestead for just three years to claim ownership of the land and then sell it to her pa and move back east. When the land agent comes around and discovers she is a woman so can't get the 2-yr land exemption and has to live on the land five years to own it, she is devastated and her plans change.
I enjoyed this first book in the series which centers on Kylie and look forward to reading about the other two sisters in the next books of this series. Kylie's struggles to do manly jobs at her cabin, the efforts to try to get her to leave and the romance that developed between her and Aaron, the land agent, kept my interest.
(Karen's review, 5 stars)
Teaser from pg. 21:
Aaron Masterson had his arms around the prettiest little thing in the whole wide world. And considering she was soaking wet, freezing cold, and crying her head off, that was saying something.
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