Wednesday, June 25, 2008

CFBA Presents Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing Calico Canyon Barbour Publishing, Inc (July 1, 2008)
by Mary Connealy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
MARY CONNEALY is an award-winning author and playwright, married to Ivan a farmer, and the mother of four beautiful daughters, Joslyn, Wendy, Shelly and Katy. They live in Decatur, Nebraska. Mary is a GED Instructor by day and an author by night. And there is always a cape involved in her transformation. Mary has also written Petticoat Ranch, Golden Days, and her latest, Alaska Brides that will debut in August.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutches of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's - widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons. When a marriage is forced upon this hapless pair - two people who couldn't dislike each other more - an avalanche isn't the only potential danger lurking amid the shadows of Calico Canyon. Will they make it out alive? Or end up killing each other in the process? Running from her Abusive foster-father, a man intent on revenge, the prim and perfectly proper Grace Calhoun takes on the job of schoolmarm in Mosqueros, Texas.As if being a wanted woman isn't bad enough, Grace has her hands full with the five rowdy and rambunctious Reeves boys─tough Texan tormentors who seem intent on making her life miserable. When, in an attempt to escape from the clutches of her pursuer, Grace is forced to marry widower Daniel Reeves, father of the miniature monsters, she thinks things couldn't get any worse. Or could they? Daniel Reeves, happy in his all-male world, is doing the best he can, raising his five boys─rascals, each and every one. Since his wife's death in childbirth, Daniel has been determined never to risk marriage again.When God throws Grace and Daniel together─two people who couldn't detest each other more─the trouble is only beginning.Will this hapless pair find the courage to face life together in the isolated Calico Canyon? Or are their differences too broad a chasm to bridge?

Blogger's Note:
Many of you know my pet peeve is slow, humdrum beginnings. I've certainly complained enough about books that meander from the first word until the last. Not so with Calico Canyon. I just received my review copy, so I haven't had a chance to delve into Connealy's book, but looking at the first line, then the next and the next, I'm snagged. Mary Connealy knows how to grab a reader.
Read the first chapter HERE.

2 comments:

Erica Vetsch said...

Love, love, LOVE this book!

Marcia Gruver said...

I see what you mean, Jess. I just read the first chapter and I'm hooked! What a rowdy band of rascals!

Mary, if you're listening, I need a review copy too!

(Actually that's a ruse to get my hands on a copy so I can see what happens to that poor defenseless teacher. Okay, I suppose I can wait and order my copy from Amazon.com.)