Storing Up Trouble

Jen Turano writes romances about women who use their wits to stay ahead of their own machinations.  The shenanigans of these women are enough to make a mother superior say, "What do we do about a problem like (inset heroine's name here)?"  There is always a reason why these women act the way they do: they are not cut of the same cloth as every one else, their thought processes are not the usual empty-headed thoughts of debutantes, and they are too forward thinking for their times.

These reasons are exactly why Beatrix Waterbury was sent to stay with her Aunt Gladys in Chicago.  She wasn't precisely sure why she was being banished from New York society, but she was determined to make the best of the situation, until she was set upon by train robbers on the way to Chicago.   The robbers were really after some papers that Norman Nesbitt carried with him, but used the robbery as a ruse to get to those papers.  Beatrix and Norman are thrown together often after the train episode, and begin to see something in each other that others don't see.

Storing Up Trouble is a five star book,  two thumbs up, and something from the Bargain Basement at Marshall Fields.

Bethany House and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review.  The opinions expressed here are my own.