“Holding the Fort” by Regina Jennings is a spirited novel, very humorous at times, which kept my interest throughout. Louisa Bell is a songstress at the Cat-Eye Saloon, or was until she was replaced by a younger, blonder warbler. She is desperate to find work, but she really isn’t prepared to do anything but sing. She and her brother were always destitute and had to scrounge for a living. Now her brother is a cavalry soldier in Indian Territory and she decides to find him.
When she finds her brother at Fort Reno, he has gotten into trouble with his commander. Major Daniel Adams is having trouble with this soldier, with his motherless girls, with his mother-in-law and just about everything. He thinks that Louisa is the governess that he has hired to tend his precocious daughters, but Louisa knows nothing about being a governess and having never gone to school herself is in a quandary about how to teach school subjects to these girls at the Major’s request. All Louisa wants is to be respectable and to help her wayward brother. Can she accomplish this while working for Daniel?
I enjoy reading Ms. Jennings’ works and found that this novel was entertaining and inviting as are her other offerings.
I was sent a complimentary print copy of this book by Bethany House in return for my honest review.
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