The Telegraph Proposal

Gina Welborn and Becca Whitham have teemed up to write a great historical romance.  It has all the parts and moving pieces of an entertaining read--the hero and heroine, the support cast, and the surprising bad guy to give it some intrigue to hold the reader's attention.  Beyond that, it wasn't a formulaic romance. 

Yancey has signed up for a marriage matching service.  She feels she's about to be on the shelf, and the man she has loved for years wants nothing to do with her.  Hale Adams has been asked to step in as a candidate for mayor and Yancey has been asked to help out with his campaign.  Yancey has been over-exuberant in her pursuit of his affections.  When she overhears him saying something about her being a pest, she decides to leave him alone and concentrate on the man the matching service has provided to her.

In the meantime, a search is on for a counterfeiter who is spending fake $5 bills in nearby towns, but trying to keep them out of Helena, Montana, to throw suspicion off of him.  The only problem is that the counterfeiter is Hale's uncle and the judge for the area. 

This is an appealing book worth five stars, two thumbs up, and a proposal by telegraph. 

My thanks go to NetGalley.com and Kensington Books for providing the galley I read for this review.